Is the San Andreas Fault starting to wake up? On Monday, a ‘swarm’ of 10 significant earthquakes struck Monterey County, California. The largest was a magnitude 4.6 earthquake that could be felt all the way over in San Francisco. Of course this comes at a time when other portions of ‘the Ring of Fire’ are starting to awaken as well. For example, just yesterday I wrote about the alarming eruption of Mt. Popocatepetl that just took place down in Mexico. For decades the west coast of North America has been relatively stable compared to the rest of the Ring of Fire, but now that is changing.
So should those living along the west coast be on alert? Without a doubt, the shaking that happened on Monday definitely got a lot of attention…
A 4.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Monterey County on Monday and was felt more than 90 miles away in San Francisco, officials said.
The quake hit at 11:31 a.m. about 13 miles northeast of Gonzales, near Salinas, and was followed by nine smaller aftershocks, with the largest measuring magnitude 2.8, said Annemarie Baltay, a seismologist with the U. S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
Some experts are trying to assure us that we have nothing to be concerned about, but others are claiming that an earthquake swarm such as this ‘dramatically increases the likelihood of a major quake in California’. And not too long ago, the director of the Southern California Earthquake Center did admit the following…
This post was published at The Economic Collapse Blog on November 14th, 2017.
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