Latest Earth Changes: Not!
I’ve received numerous queries regarding the recent earthquakes and volcanoes, from people concerned that they are signs of “earth changes” leading up to 2012…
We humans have a tendency to assign more importance to what is happening right now – from a sports commentator stating that this is the “best game in years”, to gasoline has never been so scarce, to “we’ve never had so much human-to-human violence worldwide”. The reality is that every week there is a “best game in years”, in the 70s we had genuine gasoline rationing, and our nastiest era for humans being violent towards their fellow man was WW2.
And so it is with earthquakes. If we have learned anything from quakes of recent weeks, it is that they have a tendency to cluster. Either one sparks another, or an outside force sparks many.
Here’s a list of the recent quakes above 7.0:
January 3, 2010 Solomon Islands 7.1
January 12, 2010 Haiti 7.0
February 26, 2010 Japan 7.0
February 27, 2010 Chile 8.8
April 4, 2010 Mexico 7.2
April 6, 2010 Indonesia 7.8
Compare it with this list from 6 years ago:
September 5, 2004 Japan 7.2
September 5, 2004 Japan 7.4
October 9, 2004 Nicaragua 7.0
November 11, 2004 East Timor 7.5
November 15, 2004 Colombia 7.2
November 26, 2004 Indonesia 7.1
November 28, 2004 Japan 7.0
December 23, 2004 Macquarie Island 8.1
December 26, 2004 Indonesia 9.1
A complete history can be seen at Wikipedia.
I’m constantly on the lookout for any signs of a impending disaster in 2012, and an increase in earthquakes could be an indicator. However, I’d need to see a lot more than the recent quakes to convince me that we are in for a rocky ride, as opposed to our planet shuddering within the limits of statistical predictability.
The Iceland volcano is obviously nothing extra-ordinary. What makes it interesting is how such a minor eruption can cause so much chaos. It is worth remembering that with volcanic ash in the air, planes, trains and automobiles cannot operate. This is a tragedy for anyone requiring emergency assistance. On top of that, if the ash mixes with water you cannot drink it, and if you breathe it in, your lungs will be wrecked.
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I have found that the earthquakes have increased worldwide in the last two years. I personally counted the number of earthquakes worldwide over 2.5 listed on the USGS website. Two years ago the number worldwide averaged 135 (number of over 2.5 worldwide in the past two weeks) per two week period. In 2009 I figured the average to be 270. Lately, they are showing over 300 per two week period. And I have counted more volcanoes going off lately than in the past two years. For instance, four were going off last week on in one area alone, the Kamchatka Peninsula (north of Japan) . It is not in the news as the Iceland volcano is, but still putting out a lot of plumes of ash. I wonder if not all the rain and snow in Washington state and Montana is not possibly caused by the extra particles in the air from the Kamchatka eruptions . Regardless, I hope it all quiets down. Whatever the statistics, I sure don’t remember in the past 40 years, hearing about deadly earthquake like now, on almost a weekly basis.
Keep in mind, especially with quakes as tiny as 2.5 (you wouldn’t feel it), that increases in monitoring means many more are being recorded, even in the space of a year. This has been the case for decades. A better example for be comparing quakes above 6.0 or 7.0, but even with those, improved monitoring still needs to be taken into account.
The biggest year for Earthquakes was 2004, the very year this dis-info guy just happens to compare…. By April of 2010, we already had almost as many deaths as the whole of 2004. So Mr. downplay, idiot, scientist is not warning the people as he should, he is collecting a paycheck from the establishment which has a vested interest in business as usual.
Meanwhile, the earth continues to get hotter from within, Lake Superior proves this beyond any doubt. The sun is set to erupt, NASA is terrified of this, and any big blast from the sun that hits the earth’s magnetic dipole will flip that dipole. Then the rotation will reverse, and then you have 2012. Pretty simple really.