Why is our planet shaking so violently all of a sudden? There have
literally been dozens of significant earthquakes right along the Ring of
Fire within the past 30 days, and two giant ones made headlines all
over the globe on Thursday. First, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck off
the coast of Humboldt County, California, and that was followed later
in the day by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Solomon Islands. But of
course these latest earthquakes are just the latest examples of
increased shaking along the outer perimeter of the Pacific Ocean.
Experts are not quite sure what to make of all of this shaking, but they
are warning that “the Big One” could strike the west coast at literally
any time.
Let’s start by discussing the historic earthquake that just hit the Solomon Islands. According to the Washington Post, it was originally determined to be a magnitude 8.0 earthquake before being downgraded to a 7.8…
A massive earthquake erupted along a fault line near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean on Thursday. The quake was originally detected as a magnitude-8 by the U.S. Geological Service, but has since been reduced to a 7.8 on the Moment-Magnitude scale.
It was followed by a 5.5-magnitude quake, and aftershocks continue to roll through.
Subsequently, that earthquake was followed by 20 extremely large
aftershocks that all fell into a range between magnitude 4.8 and
magnitude 6.5. All of this violent seismic activity seems to have shook
the entire planet to at least some degree, because monitoring stations
all over the world were experiencing strange “vibrations” as aftershock
after aftershock shook the Solomon Islands.
Prior to all of this shaking in the Solomon Islands, a magnitude 6.5
earthquake off the coast of California rattled residents of Humboldt
County.
Fortunately the quake was far enough offshore that not a lot of
damage was done, but it is being reported that those living in the
region could feel the ground rolling… Activist Post
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