(OPINION) Have you noticed that there has been a lot of seismic activity on the West Coast recently?
According to the Southern California Earthquake Data Center at Caltech, there have been 906 earthquakes in California and Nevada just within the past 7 days.
Meanwhile, magma is on the move at Yellowstone, we are being warned that a gigantic volcano off the coast of Oregon could soon erupt, and houses in New England were just “shaking like crazy” after a very strange earthquake struck.
We have been witnessing unusual seismic activity all over the globe in recent months, and I fully expect this trend to intensify even more in the days ahead.
The good news is that the vast majority of the earthquakes that are occurring in California and Nevada right now are very small.
But over the past year, there have been far more mid-size earthquakes in the region than normal.
Seismologist Lucy Jones says that southern California normally experiences about 5 earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater each year, but by August 20th of last year the region had already been hit by 13…
According to Jones, there have been 13 earthquakes in Southern California with magnitudes of 4.0 or greater this year alone.
Compare that to the last 20 years, there have been about five earthquakes per year of 4.0 or greater in Southern California, she added.
And that was before a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck northern California on December 5th…
A magnitude 7 earthquake hit off the coast of northern California on Thursday (Dec. 5).
However, a tsunami warning that had initially been prompted by the earthquake has now been canceled, according to the U.S. Tsunami Warning System.
The earthquake hit at 10:44 a.m. PST (18:44 UTC) at a depth of about 0.4 mile (0.6 kilometers), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake occurred off the coast, about 39 miles (63 km) northwest of the city of Petrolia in Humboldt County.
Needless to say, this year is off to a very strong start as well.
Alarmingly, the San Andreas fault was hit by a swarm of 4 notable earthquakes in mid-January…
The four quakes occurred along the San Andreas fault – the volatile boundary between two tectonic plates: the Pacific plate and the North American plate. It runs 800 miles along the coast of California.
Scientists have said that the West Coast is overdue for a massive quake along the San Andreas fault, which would measure magnitude 8 or higher.
I will be watching activity along the San Andreas fault very carefully.
For years, I have been warning that it is just a matter of time before “the Big One” dramatically alters the geography of the California coastline on a permanent basis.
Of course Oregon and Washington have much to be concerned about as well.
Scientists are telling us that there is a “buildup of magma” at a 3,600-foot-tall volcano near the coast of Oregon…READ MORE
By the time the big one hits, it won’t matter. California will be burned off the map. So there’s a race to see who can destroy California first, God or man.