Sky May Be Falling

Disaster

…or in this case, the ground may be moving:

An underwater fault line along the US West Coast could trigger a megaquake that would be more devastating than California’s ‘Big One,’ a new study suggests.
Using underwater mapping techniques, scientists have mapped the Cascadia Subduction Zone — a 600-mile fault line extending from southern Canada to northern California — in never-before seen detail.
It has revealed that the fault splits into four segments instead of being one continuous strip like most fault lines. The discovery could prove more catastrophic because the tectonic plates can slide under each other, creating more pressure and more severe earthquakes.
The researchers concluded the Cascadia Subduction Zone has the potential to unleash a nine-plus magnitude quake.

I know:  Chicken Little, sky falling, “studies suggest” etc. etc.  That doesn’t mean that catastrophe isn’t going to strike at some point in the near future — the law of averages says it must — and I’m sure my Readers will all join me in expressing support for the citizens of Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and San Francisco, the cities most likely to be horribly damaged by this earth shift, with the concomitant massive loss of life.

15 comments

  1. The subduction zone ends at Cape Mendecino, about 200 miles north of San Francisco. San Francisco may feel it, but not in the way that northern California, Oregon, Washington, and southern British Columbia will.

    Last major quake was January 26, 1700, approximately 9pm Pacific time, date determined by correlating Japanese records of an orphan tsunami with tree ring and other evidence from coastal salt marshes in Washington and Oregon. Offshore sediment cores show quake-caused underwater landslides which occur every few hundred years.

    1. “San Francisco may feel it, but not in the way that northern California, Oregon, Washington, and southern British Columbia will.”

      One can but hope, though.

      1. my thought exactly. We can hope. Of course the useful idiots will blame said earthquak on global warming climate cooling change, and then whine about the environmental destruction of all the concrete, cars, and plastic that ended up in the “pristine ocean environment” due to the flooding.

  2. My response to this horrible news: (Big YAWN!) So what? And you can quote me on that. It’s hard for me to put on my sad face when I know there could be simultaneous disastrous destruction to so many Liberal sh*tholes.

    Bot Murphy! But Murphy! The northern half of the Left Coast could crumble into the ocean!

    Be still, my happy feet! Idaho or Nevada could end up with a beach. I’m hard pressed to see a downside here, except, maybe, the swell of refugees that would result. What difference does THAT make? From the south or the northwest, they’ll just add to the numbers of people with their hand out for freebies.

    Besides, any minute now the Yellowstone Super Volcano is about to blow half the planet away, so we’re all doomed anyway. Pour yourself (another) double and wait for the fireworks to start.

    1. I’m with you on the Yawn factor.

      The only disappointing part is the loss of farmland in California and the loss of the oil fields off the coast of Californica

  3. As a resident of the state of Colorado might I politely inform residents of Seattle, Portland, and California that we are currently all full up and have no additional room for refugees from your locales. Should you fear this news and desire to move, I’m told there is plenty of room in Illinois and New York that are far better for your earthquake-related relocation needs.

    Repeat – DO NOT COME TO COLORADO! We simply don’t have the room for you.

    1. We have the New Madrid here in Illinois, so they can stay where they are….in fact, we’ll ship ’em some.

      1. And tornadoes. Don’t forget Illinois gets tornadoes too. Some are even powerful enough that they could pick up and move Gov. Pritzger!

  6. Subduction is a myth as much as is Global Warming/Climate Change. Less dense floating plates don’t dive under other floating plates into a more dense medium. The earth is expanding and has been for at least 180 million years. Google the expanding earth hypothesis.
    Dan Kurt

  7. I for one will be utterly devastated by the deaths and destruction paid to the liberal bastions on the left coast. I hope their government taxes them even harder to find some way to blame this on global warming and the evils of capitalism.

  8. It won’t happen in my lifetime and I doubt it’ll happen in yours. I don’t see why a Tsunami Tax wouldn’t work along with reparations to all minority victims of historical earthquakes.

  9. We couldn’t possibly get lucky enough to have SoCal fall into the pacific & take 1/2 this woke crap with it. I do love Larry Nivens’ take on it.

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