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.

The Gods are angry. More to come.

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...

... just sayin'

So who's been bombing the fault lines again?

Those were some fun threads.

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

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

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.

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.

Thanks for sharing!!! LOL

Takes all kinds, right? SMH...

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.

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My grandmother would say he's been eating too much fruitcake. There's no evidence that interplanetary magnetic fields have an effect 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.

... I need a good chuckle!

...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.

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

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.

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

Seismologist that I heard interviewed this morning said that the one quake would have barely concluded by the time the other was starting so she wasn't sure it wasn't more properly termed one long earthquake.

In which case it would be a single 7.5 magnitude on whatever modified scale they're using these days.

14.7 would basically have the Earth's crust shredded. Venezuela would, at the very best, be a rather large pool of magma with bits of Venezuela waiting to submerge or melt. With the rest of the hemisphere being rifted all over the place with magmatic upwellings in the rifts. (Igel checks to make sure he's not hallucinating that phrase ... no, it's actually used)

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

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.

That 5.6 in Redwood valley is somewhat unusual

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...

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.

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.

I was raised in Napa.

I lived in East Bay for ten years before that. But when it came time to actually purchase a home, we had to bounce north for more reasonable prices. This was just before Covid when the house prices all jumped 30%, because of course they did.

I actually just finished doing a clinical psych rotation this spring at the state hospital. I never knew about the peacocks!

When I was checking out different careers. The psych ward where they took me to a group therapy session of murders scared the ** out of me! They put us in long white jackets like doctor. I was skinny with really long hair the patients would try to touch it.

That was in 1972. So I lived there before any tourists came. Moved over to Santa Rosa for long time then retired first to WA in mountains there here in Medford winters easier.

We have friends in their 50s who are already laying their plans for that Washington/Oregon retirement journey.

I'm angling for Pacifica eventually. I am not a heat person. I come from gloomy Celtic stock. When we moved here, it was in December, and I didn't realize just how hot the summers in North Bay could get. "It's 115 again?!" Ugh.

I want it cold and overcast and pointlessly depressing. Like my Catholic forebears intended.

In the 60’s & 70’s. Cool breezes would come in had to wear a sweater at night. Tell your friends to change license plate and say they are from any state but Cali people in both OR & WA very upset at people retiring here with money from Cali and driving prices up.

I say Napa, but I'm more ten minutes away in a valley. Even now in June, it's dipping down into the low 50s at night. We get those delta winds barreling through all the time that puts small animals and most patio furniture in danger. It's only during the afternoon that everything starts to rapidly bake. I had to work up in Vacaville last summer and forget it. Every day was miserable.

Here in Santa Rosa

Neither do I.

For visibility

The cited Twitter poster is a fabulist.

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

Easily my favorite bit of nonsense in these tweets.

Electing Antichrist as President was the first warning sign,

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.

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.

Or the fault line where the Yellowstone Caldera is located.

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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.

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

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

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

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.