JUST IN🚨: Six powerful earthquakes happened in less than 24 hours

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JUST IN🚨: Six powerful earthquakes happened in less than 24 hours

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[marble falls]

1. The Ring of Fire. The Pacific Rim. Get ready for a period of 'adjustment'.

[thomski64]

14. As predicted by Johnny Cash..

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. Except the two Sout American quakes were nowhere near the ring of fire. Nt

[marble falls]

20. Oh noes! About 300 miles away a 10,000+ mile ring. Difference without distinction.

[Fiendish Thingy]

38. See post #28 Nt

[JT45242]

28. They appear to be near the caribbean plate boundary -- so different tectonic source than the others -- terms matter

Same general process but not the ring of fire.

Same problem with the "charges attraction causing it" -- nope. These quakes are the result of convection currents moving tectonic plates over the Earth's mantle. Heat and density and not electrostatics.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. We need seismic activity all right /nt

[cachukis]

3. The world is in unrest.

[Give Peace A Chance]

44. Earth in Upheaval

The Gods are angry. More to come.

[haele]

48. Apparently we're in the middle of a Magnetic Pole shift.

Expect plate movement.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earths-magnetic-north-pole-is-shifting-toward-siberia-and-raising-questions-about-unusual-movement-180985892/

No problem, perfectly natural. We should be just fine.
Just hope it's not also occuring during a time of major climatic change...
Oh wait...

[ZDU]

4. Waiting for Earth to swallow him

... just sayin'

[surfered]

5. Something's up! What has Trump done now?

[Sympthsical]

6. Well, Cheney's dead

So who's been bombing the fault lines again?

[fujiyamasan]

8. Were you here like twenty years ago?

Those were some fun threads.

[Sympthsical]

11. I am versed in the lore

I'm still stuck on the chicken wire and charcoal fluid, though.

[hamsterjill]

24. I must've missed that one.

I don't think I should ask, right? LOL

[Sympthsical]

33. It's amazing

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x56836

[ShazzieB]

39. Wow, that was something!

Thanks for posting that. I read just enough of it to get the general idea of what the controversy was, but decided I knew way too little (basicallly nothing) about the issues in question to even form an opinion and climbed back out of the rabbit hole before I could get lost in there.

[Sympthsical]

46. There's also a legendary incident about bombing the moon

Despite my best efforts, I've never been able to find it in the histories.

Dumb that is so dumb it circles around to being fantastically entertaining is one of my favorite Internet genres. Sun tornadoes causing earthquakes has to be up there.

[fujiyamasan]

54. That was a classic

[hamsterjill]

45. Oh good lord!!!

Thanks for sharing!!! LOL

Takes all kinds, right? SMH...

[mwmisses4289]

7. When i lived in Seattle, I had noticed that if a quake of more than five tended

to set off a chain reaction around the ring of fire. I've been through two major ones, most notably the Nisqually Quake in 2001.

[surfered]

9. USGS - latest earthquakes

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-20.7972,-127.96875&extent=71.69129,-62.05078&map=false

[Cheezoholic]

10. The big brained ape has spoken and the Universe no likey very much ;) n/t

[nilram]

12. Delong Chi is on the outer, outer fringe of science, if he's there at all.

My grandmother would say he's been eating too much fruitcake. There's no evidence that interplanetary magnetic fields have an affect on earthquakes. Scanning his twitter feed, he also believes the 1969 moon landing was a movie, and that there's lava flow on the moon. I wouldn't look to him for explanations about yesterday's quakes.

[marble falls]

23. I would ...

... I need a good chuckle!

[LudwigPastorius]

29. ...and he believes black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs don't exist.

...and that the general theory of relativity is wrong, and that gravity is caused by "tiny charged particles" originating within planets.

In short, he's a pseudo-science nutball.

[Jilly_in_VA]

13. Do you ever get the feeling

that Mother Earth is trying to tell us something? Maybe we should all stop fighting, shut up, and LISTEN to her!

[hamsterjill]

47. Yes.

I think Mother Earth (which in my personal belief generally equates to God - no one need believe as I do and I'm not trying to convert anyone) has had enough of our shit and is reminding us who actually has the power.

She is tired of our bullshit and stupidity. She is sad and hurting. Anyone with any ounce of empathy should be able to understand that in my opinion, and most of us, I dare say, can feel it happening.

Just my take and no one need worry if they don't agree, as all opinions are about the same since no one knows for sure.

[yellow dahlia]

55. Yes - Mother Earth is angry, with good reason.

Do we think any of this could be related to oil drilling and fracking?

[Srkdqltr]

15. Im not being disrespectful. Just that a 7.5 + 7.2 that close together might be classed as 14.7? Which is horrifying.

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. As someone who survived the Loma Prieta quake

I don’t consider anything under 6.0 to be a “major quake”

[marble falls]

25. The movie: 'Earthquaknado'.

[haele]

51. We had a Hurriquake in California...

August 31, 2023.
Hurricane Hillary hit West Coast California, and when the disintegrating eye was over the LA basin, they had a 5.1 quake in Ojai, about 50 miles north.

[marble falls]

56. What a great drive-in movie triple feature.

[Unwind Your Mind]

27. Agreed but

That 5.6 in Redwood valley is somewhat unusual

[RockRaven]

18. The location dot for the CA earthquake in the first image is like 600 miles off.

They put the dot down around San Diego/the US-Mexico border.

If you can't get stuff like that right on your infographic, who knows what else you screwed up...

[Tree Lady]

57. I know north of Ukiah

What’s really funny is I got an earthquake warning here in Medford 200 miles away.

My kids in Santa Rosa much closer didn’t even mention it so couldn’t be too bad.

[Sympthsical]

58. Didn't feel it around Napa

Got the phone alert. Waited and waited. Nada. And it wasn't that, that far away. Figured we'd at least get a little something.

But geology does funny things with how seismic waves travel.

[Tree Lady]

59. How long you lived there?

I was raised in Napa.

[Unwind Your Mind]

60. We got alerts

Here in Santa Rosa

[Sneederbunk]

19. Do you know what this means?

Neither do I.

[malaise]

21. K & R

For visibility

[Prairie Gates]

22. That's great it starts with an earthquake birds snakes and airplanes...

[dave99]

26. Wonder how solar radiation tied into it ?

[LudwigPastorius]

30. It doesn't.

The cited Twitter poster is a fabulist.

[Sympthsical]

32. When you're plagiarizing a Roland Emmerich film

It's literally the plot of 2012. The neutrinos are destabilizing the tectonic plates!

Easily my favorite bit of nonsense in these tweets.

[Cheezoholic]

50. They get this crap from that moron on utube with the spinny globe lol n/t

[AverageOldGuy]

31. The End Times

Electing Antichrist as President was the first warning sign,

[AllaN01Bear]

34. thanks for the information.

[DFW]

35. In 1994

We had just landed in San Francisco for the start of a very strenuous (we didn't understand HOW strenuous) summer vacation. We got into SFO late, and plopped into bed. At about 3:30 AM, the bed started shaking violently, and my wife, still groggy from the air travel and the 9 hour time difference, said, oh no, the washing machine is going crazy again! I reminded her, relax, we're in San Francisco, so it's probably just an earthquake. NOW she was wide awake, saying whaddya mean JUST an earthquake? Are you being serious? I said, yes, they have them all the time here. Go back to sleep. The shaking stopped and so she was soon fast asleep again. The next morning, she told me, she had the weirdest dream last night, that there was an earthquake, and I told her that whatever her dream was about, the earthquake was real. She was not amused.

[Zackzzzz]

43. I worked as a secretary for company near the Berkeley campus,

and the building was on a cement slab.
Sitting at my desk,
I would feel the movement of the Hayward Fault through the floor.
Often, more than you would think,
there were small tremors going on everyday, rating 2 to 3.

[Emile]

36. Thankfully the New Madrid fault Line was not on the list.

Or the fault line where the Yellowstone Caldera is located.

[LeftInTX]

40. Gotta wonder when New Madrid will act up?

[Dr. T]

37. MAGAts will cry "fake news".

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They didn't feel an earthquake in bumfuck nowhereville so it didn't happen.

With some luck, the Christo-fascist faction of the MAGAt cult will be sucked up into the clouds any minute now. Good riddance.

[Dem_in_Nebr.]

42. You have no idea

How much I pray for that to happen!!
Or be sucked down into hell. Of whatever . . .

[msfiddlestix]

41. I'm not a geologist, but that's sort of looks like the ring of fire to me. Wonder what geologists have to say about that

[dickthegrouch]

49. The "myshake" app on iPhones is very useful.

You can filter against all quakes up to 14 days in the past, and set a minimum magnitude to look at.
Looking at the last 14 days with a minimum magnitude of 3, there are many more than these pics are showing all around the ring of fire.
The app also lets you report whether you felt anything and how extensive any damage you can see is.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myshake-earthquake-alerts/id1467058529

[C_U_L8R]

52. Can't we just have one very precisely-aimed lightning bolt?

Or even just a space rock, down from the heavens to make the most joyful squish the world has ever heard.

[muriel_volestrangler]

53. Why does this thread get 68 recs, when the threads about the effects of the Venezuela quakes

with hundreds of dead, and it's feared many more, get under 20?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143684265
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221327919
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132174665

The author of the later tweets is a loon.