Oregon coast hit with 24 Earthquakes over 4.0 in scale in 24 hours. This is not good.

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[–]Vulptex 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

A pole shift can't cause earthquakes. The only complications are a temporarily weakened atmosphere making solar flares more dangerous, and magnetic direction systems (compasses, instincts) being messed up. Only the magnetic poles move, not the crust. It's happened several times before, and the world didn't end.

In fact, the poles have already been starting to shift for years now. The magnetic north pole is already south of the geographic one and continues to inch further south.

What it will do though is let a lot more people see the northern lights.

[–]AXXA 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Historically, the North Pole has moved at about 15 kilometres per year. But since the 1990s it has sped up, and now is moving at about 55 kilometres per year towards Siberia.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/earth-magnetic-field/

[–]fatman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thought it was more like 50 inches a year, that's wild!

[–]Noam_Chomsky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and now is moving at about 55 kilometres per year towards Siberia.

The magnetic South Pole is also headed in the same direction. It's moving north, but slower.

The convergence thought to be near Indonesia.

The veil is lifting.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This does seem unusual though. Considering where Oregon is, there's another culprit which is unfortunately likely: Yellowstone.

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

A Yellowstone supervolcano eruption would be very bad. But magma takes a long time to percolate to the surface and it hasn't been doing that. So it won't happen instantly. News and media hype and movies aside, it takes a while. Mt. St. Helens in 1980 took about 2 months to go from no activity to a big eruption... they had lots of warning. And Mt. St. Helens had been dormant only since the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition. So it wasn't really dormant at all... just on a pause. Yellowstone is many orders of magnitude bigger than that, and will take a lot more time to become active.

Also, these quakes are like 600 miles away from there and are on the rim of the Pacific subduction zone (on the edge of the North American plate). So they are very unrelated events.

[–]BravoVictor 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I mean, that's a good tv show, but I hardly think it's ground breaking enough to cause literal earthquakes.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Volcanoes cause earthquakes all the time, and increasingly so before an eruption. Yellowstone is a supervolcano, and you can probably count on all of the americas being covered in ash if it blows.

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    [–]BravoVictor 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    But if the headline doesn't tell me, how am I supposed to tell if an earthquake is good or bad?

    [–]Questionable[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Do you know how many earth quakes are normal? I sure don't.

    [–]BravoVictor 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    It's not the quantity but the quality that matters.

    The ideal earthquake is vine ripened and aged to perfection.

    [–]Questionable[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Ahg yes. I think I read that in a magazine once.

    [–]sproketboy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    It's good since most victims are leftists.

    [–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Fracking.

    [–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    I feel sorry for them. Even the blue lefty shitholes.

    [–]Questionable[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    If you follow the link in the thread, you will see it's much worse than just West Coast cities.

    https://twitter.com/mxdondevivo/status/1447163640545689603?t=C1SDbLVBZoeT7ZHAUNliTA&s=19

    There is a potential for most Asian countries to simply disappear.

    [–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Damn. That would be both convenient and inconvenient at the same time.

    [–]BravoVictor 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Great. So it'll cancel itself out and everything will feel the same.

    [–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    dont worry its just california getting ready to sink into the pacific