During an eruption, if the wind is from the east at 10,000 feet (outflow), the tephra will fall on Vancouver, Canada in about an hour. This Page Hyperlinked [click on] Mount Baker Stratovolcano (background)© ™ ®/ Kulshan Stratovolcano© ™ ®, Simon Fraser University (foreground)© ™ ® ~ Image by Stan G. Webb - In Retirement© ™ ®, An Intelligent Grandfather's Guides© ™ ® next, The Man From Minto© ™ ® - A Prospector Who Knows His Rocks And Stuff© ™ ®
Learn more about the Cascadia Volcanic Arc© ™ ® (Part of Pacific Ring of Fire) Cascadia Volcanoes© ™ ® and the currently active Mount Meager Massif© ™ ®, part of the Cascadia Volcanic Arc© ™ ® [ash flow, debris flows, fumaroles and hot springs], just northwest of Pemberton and Whistler, Canada ~ My personal interest in the Mount Meager Massif© is that the last volcanic vent blew north, into the Bridge River Valley [The Bridge River Valley Community Association (BRVCA), [formerly Bridge River Valley Economic Development Society], near my hometown. I am the Man From Minto© ™ ® - A Prospector Who Knows His Rocks And Stuff© ™ ® The 2010 Mount Meager landslide was a large catastrophic debris avalanche that flowed to the south, into the Lillooet Valley British Columbia, Canada, on August 6 at 3:27 a.m. PDT (UTC-7). More than 45,000,000 m3 (1.6×109 cu ft) of debris slid down Mount Meager, temporarily blocking Meager Creek and destroying local bridges, roads and equipment. It was one of the largest landslides in Canadian history and one of over 20 landslides to have occurred from the Mount Meager massif in the last 10,000 years. Although voluminous, there were no fatalities caused by the event due in part to its remote and uninhabited location. The landslide was large enough to send seismic waves more than 2,000 km (1,200 mi) away into the neighboring U.S. states of Alaska and Washington and beyond. Multiple factors led to the slide: Mount Meager's weak slopes have left it in a constant state of instability. The massif has been a source of large volcanic debris flows for the last 8,000 years, many of which have reached several tens of kilometres downstream in the Lillooet River valley., to the south. It is arguably the most unstable mountain massif in Canada and may also be its most active landslide area. And on the north side lies Downton Lake Hydro Reservoir, impounded by the La Joi Dam, the uppermost of the Bridge River Project dams. The earliest identified Holocene landslide was in 7900 BP (before the present, or read it as the number of years ago). Further landslides occurred in 6250 BP, 5250 BP, 4400 BP, 2600 BP, 2400 BP, 2240. BP BP, 2170 BP, 1920 BP, 1860 BP, 870 BP, 800 BP, 630 BP, 370 BP, 210 BP, 150 BP and in 1931, 1947, 1972, 1975, 1984, 1986 and 1998. These events were attributed to structurally weak volcanic rocks, glacial unloading, recent explosive volcanism and glacial activity. Those who dance with earthquakes and volcanoes are considered mad by those who cannot smell the sulfur. We begin to deal with BIG (MEGA) EARTHQUAKES at Simon Fraser University (foreground) Kulshan Stratovolcano© / Mount Baker Stratovolcano (background)©New Cascadia Dawn© - Cascadia Rising - M9 to M10+, An Intelligent Grandfather's Guide© next, ~ Images by Stan G. Webb - In Retirement©, An Intelligent Grandfather's Guides©Countdown to Earthquake Drill - International Great ShakeOut Day is on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 10:20AM, and annually on the 3rd Thursday in October thereafter - - I grew up in small towns and in the North where the rule is share and share alike. So, I'm a Creative Commons type of guy. Copy and paste ANY OF MY MATERIAL anywhere you want. Hyperlinks to your own Social Media are at the bottom of each post. Creative Commons License
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Saturday, August 20, 2022

Cascadian Megaquake 2 of 5

Cascadian Megaquake 2 of 5

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26,422 views Apr 1, 2009 I wanted to upload this series because I've had some really nasty "premonitions" about the Cascadia subduction zone. Specifically during the months of June-July 2009. We need to remember and learn about our local regions. If you live in an earthquake zone, a tsunami region, a flood plain, etc. These are important lessons from nature that many of us have forgotten. Stay safe. Disclosure now http://wakinggiant.org/ http://nworesistance.com/ http://stj911.org/ http://www.disclosureproject.org/ http://www.operationmindseed.com/ http://legionoftruth.org/ http://wakeupwinnipeg.ca http://integratethis.ca http://neutrality.ca http://stopc51.com http://noii-van.resist.ca http://winnipegcopwatch.org coalition government ciel avion traînées traînée chimique chimiques géoingénérie Indigenous rights 2010 olympics 2010 vancouver convergence 2010 pesticides pollution police brutality critical mass CSIS NAU North American Union International solidarity justice freedom freeman peaceful demonstration dangerous cult winnipeg canada Stephen Harper President Bush Occult illuminati aerosol crimes weather modification covert ops black ops federal government international conspiracy environmental manhattan project environmentalism greenpeace stephen harper criminal HAARP H.A.A.R.P. aerosols cloud seeding,spraying contrail contrails new world order NWO SPP security and prosperity partnership clouds of death haarp aerosol crimes morgellons biology chemistry freeman justice elite revolution resistance grassroots activism chemtrails chemtrail geoengineering canada winnipeg anonymous activism justice NWO lie technology environment pollution CFR power energy crisis oil gas war important hoax fraud fight illegal how to scam Vote Exposed iran weapons bush keith olberman liberty debate political gold silver standard sixties movie 2012 federal reserve new york ca canada california uk london SPP CIA FBI NAU NAFTA open borders Mexico Canada demonization jordan maxwell zeitgeist david icke jeff king david ray griffin North American Union IRS patriot act democracy FEMA nazi concentration camp bilderberg group militia new false flag terror attack fake National ID card sylph pwning chemtrail sky UFO clouds cloudship sky elemental elementals health politics obama mccain birds funny scary horror reality matrix neo wake up sleeping dreams consciousness critical awareness ufo ovni conspiracy love 2012 mayan calendar male female divine healing promise america chaos toxic dragon crisis maya nation state sick chakras greenpeace global warming olympics stargazing astrology atmospheric research brown dwarf solar flare family guy simpsons hologram project bluebeam election 2008 martial law disaster rapture the great deception galactic federation we want you to expose the truth lucht wolken zon sky plane vliegtuig wind clouds poison gif bende Conspiracy, New world order Freemasonry Al Dajjal Anti Christ Abdullah Hashem Illuminati Bilderberg Fema Cia Skull and Bones Bohemian grove Media cover-ups Lucifer Satanism Israel Washington Federal reserve bank 9/11 Money masters Nato Coca cola G8 European Union America Holland Turkiy Turkey Israel England Jewish Muslim Christian Army Chemtrails Alex Jones David Icke Al dajjal Anti Christ Fight Politics Bush Marines CBS Allah Tora Bible Koran aliens ufo war military middle east aryan turan Jezus Mozes Mohammed George bush Ron paul Clinton Reptilian Shape shifter Hollywood Neo nazi Hitler Obama Clinton Ron paul media fraud election fraud satanism 911 inside job Kite clouds basketball Sun Cloud game young old news NWO EDF JFK War 911 William Cooper Rebel freedom Wow warcraft secret life terror obama sex girl Ron Paul God WW3 2008 end war georgia mercenaries combat fight attacked nuclear tanks planes latest breaking development Bush Putin conference under fire America president FBI kinky prisoner NATO EU New World Order Death of legend Christ Lord Dead Soldiers Iraq Iran China Global Universe magic power storm bluebeam Agenda 21 American idol south park Comedy Evolution Dance UFO Alien UFO NASA ufos disclosure life string theory illuminati ovni physics reality real world spheres 2012 alien fleets space sacred geometry internet the golden mean fibunocci sequence multiverse awakening love forgiveness unity collectivity spirituality ET exopolitics truth mayan sumeria egypt spirit wall street TSX financial collapse rescue bailout congress USA Canada International system recession love federal reserve zeitgeist addendum venus project futurism emancipation sustainable development ecological resource economy revolution evolution peace justice diet scary nice pretty anime governor general NDP Liberal Conservative Harper Martial law organic food home schooling headlines oprah tom cruise britney spears miley cyrus the simpsons funny kitten cats new world order federal reserve economic crisis



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Cascadian Megaquake 1 of 5

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Cascadia Megaquake 1 of 5

https://youtu.be/NP8cDXsvH8A [10:02]

57,250 views Apr 1, 2009 I wanted to upload this series because I've had some really nasty "premonitions" about the Cascadia subduction zone. Specifically during the months of June-July 2009. We need to remember and learn about our local regions. If you live in an earthquake zone, a tsunami region, a flood plain, etc. These are important lessons from nature that many of us have forgotten. Stay safe. Disclosure now http://wakinggiant.org/ http://nworesistance.com/ http://stj911.org/ http://www.disclosureproject.org/ http://www.operationmindseed.com/ http://legionoftruth.org/ http://wakeupwinnipeg.ca http://integratethis.ca http://neutrality.ca http://stopc51.com http://noii-van.resist.ca http://winnipegcopwatch.org coalition government ciel avion traînées traînée chimique chimiques géoingénérie Indigenous rights 2010 olympics 2010 vancouver convergence 2010 pesticides pollution police brutality critical mass CSIS NAU North American Union International solidarity justice freedom freeman peaceful demonstration dangerous cult winnipeg canada Stephen Harper President Bush Occult illuminati aerosol crimes weather modification covert ops black ops federal government international conspiracy environmental manhattan project environmentalism greenpeace stephen harper criminal HAARP H.A.A.R.P. aerosols cloud seeding,spraying contrail contrails new world order NWO SPP security and prosperity partnership clouds of death haarp aerosol crimes morgellons biology chemistry freeman justice elite revolution resistance grassroots activism chemtrails chemtrail geoengineering canada winnipeg anonymous activism justice NWO lie technology environment pollution CFR power energy crisis oil gas war important hoax fraud fight illegal how to scam Vote Exposed iran weapons bush keith olberman liberty debate political gold silver standard sixties movie 2012 federal reserve new york ca canada california uk london SPP CIA FBI NAU NAFTA open borders Mexico Canada demonization jordan maxwell zeitgeist david icke jeff king david ray griffin North American Union IRS patriot act democracy FEMA nazi concentration camp bilderberg group militia new false flag terror attack fake National ID card sylph pwning chemtrail sky UFO clouds cloudship sky elemental elementals health politics obama mccain birds funny scary horror reality matrix neo wake up sleeping dreams consciousness critical awareness ufo ovni conspiracy love 2012 mayan calendar male female divine healing promise america chaos toxic dragon crisis maya nation state sick chakras greenpeace global warming olympics stargazing astrology atmospheric research brown dwarf solar flare family guy simpsons hologram project bluebeam election 2008 martial law disaster rapture the great deception galactic federation we want you to expose the truth lucht wolken zon sky plane vliegtuig wind clouds poison gif bende Conspiracy, New world order Freemasonry Al Dajjal Anti Christ Abdullah Hashem Illuminati Bilderberg Fema Cia Skull and Bones Bohemian grove Media cover-ups Lucifer Satanism Israel Washington Federal reserve bank 9/11 Money masters Nato Coca cola G8 European Union America Holland Turkiy Turkey Israel England Jewish Muslim Christian Army Chemtrails Alex Jones David Icke Al dajjal Anti Christ Fight Politics Bush Marines CBS Allah Tora Bible Koran aliens ufo war military middle east aryan turan Jezus Mozes Mohammed George bush Ron paul Clinton Reptilian Shape shifter Hollywood Neo nazi Hitler Obama Clinton Ron paul media fraud election fraud satanism 911 inside job Kite clouds basketball Sun Cloud game young old news NWO EDF JFK War 911 William Cooper Rebel freedom Wow warcraft secret life terror obama sex girl Ron Paul God WW3 2008 end war georgia mercenaries combat fight attacked nuclear tanks planes latest breaking development Bush Putin conference under fire America president FBI kinky prisoner NATO EU New World Order Death of legend Christ Lord Dead Soldiers Iraq Iran China Global Universe magic power storm bluebeam Agenda 21 American idol south park Comedy Evolution Dance UFO Alien UFO NASA ufos disclosure life string theory illuminati ovni physics reality real world spheres 2012 alien fleets space sacred geometry internet the golden mean fibunocci sequence multiverse awakening love forgiveness unity collectivity spirituality ET exopolitics truth mayan sumeria egypt spirit wall street TSX financial collapse rescue bailout congress USA Canada International system recession love federal reserve zeitgeist addendum venus project futurism emancipation sustainable development ecological resource economy revolution evolution peace justice diet scary nice pretty anime governor general NDP Liberal Conservative Harper Martial law organic food home schooling headlines oprah tom cruise britney spears miley cyrus the simpsons funny kitten cats new world order federal reserve economic crisis bloopers hilarious comedy






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Thursday, August 11, 2022

5 Powerful Earthquakes Caught On Camera

https://youtu.be/EPGnB3gqTYw [11:56 minutes]

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Friday, July 29, 2022

Reconstruction of a Cascadia Subduction Zone Megaquake

45,563 views May 2, 2012 Learn more about the Portland Earthquake Project at http://www.facebook.com/PortlandEarth... and see more relevant quake videos at http://www.youtube.com/PDXEarthquakeP.... This is a clip from the BBC documentary "The Next Megaquake" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/progr.... Watch the entire 45-minute BBC documentary here: http://goo.gl/y3ULB


Saturday, February 12, 2022

Flying a small airplane over the San Andreas fault

Mount Baker Stratovolcano© ™ ® / Kulshan Stratovolcano© ™ ®, part of the Cascadia Volcanic Arc © ™ ® ~ Photograph by Kulshan Grandfather Stan G. Webb - In Retirement © ™ ®

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Flying a small airplane over the San Andreas fault

https://youtu.be/Go9SnkFl_WA [6:40 minutes]




886,757 views • Jul 30, 2020 • One of the largest earthquakes in United States history happened here in 1857. Fly a small air plane over the San Andreas Fault and learn about one of the most infamous earthquake faults in the world. Follow along in my Grumman Tiger as we explore the Carrizo Plain and see from a unique perspective how this deadly earthquake fault has changed over thousands of years. The 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake measured 7.9 on the Richter scale. California is long overdue for another "Big One" from this massive fault. See an the UNCUT FLYOVER of the San Andreas fault here:
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Sunday, January 9, 2022

Questions and Answers on Megathrust Earthquakes

Simon Fraser University, foreground; in the background is Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan / Mount Baker, a 10,781 ft (3,286 m) active glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount St. Helens.  United States Geological Survey rate this a high risk volcano, second only to Mount St. Helens.

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Questions and Answers on Megathrust Earthquakes Questions and Answers on Megathrust Earthquakes What is a megathrust earthquake? A megathrust earthquake is a very large earthquake that occurs in a subduction zone, a region where one of the earth's tectonic plates is thrust under another. The Cascadia subduction zone is located off the west coast of North America. From mid Vancouver Island to northern California the Juan de Fuca Plate is subducting beneath the North American Plate. The two plates are continually moving towards one another, yet become "stuck" where they are in contact. Eventually the build-up of strain exceeds the friction between the two plates and a huge megathrust earthquake occurs. How often do megathrust earthquakes occur? The recurrence time varies from subduction zone to subduction zone. In the Cascadia subduction zone 13 megathrust events have been identified in the last 6000 years, an average one every 500 to 600 years. However, they have not happened regularly. Some have been as close together as 200 years and some have been as far apart as 800 years. The last one was 300 years ago. How big can they be? Megathrust earthquake are the world's largest earthquakes. The last Cascadia earthquake is estimated at magnitude 9. A megathrust earthquake in Chile in 1960 was magnitude 9.5, and one in Alaska in 1964 was magnitude 9.2. Where do megathrust earthquakes occur? The Cascadia fault, on which megathrust earthquakes occur, is located mostly offshore, west of Vancouver Island, Washington, and Oregon, although it does extend some distance beneath the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. The large distance between the Cascadia fault and the urban centres limits the level of shaking that the urban areas are exposed to. How do we know that megathrust earthquakes have occurred? The sudden submergence of the outer coast when a megathrust earthquake occurs kills vegetation which can be dated. Megathrust earthquakes also cause underwater landslides off the continental shelf into the deep ocean. The landslide deposits can be recognized in core samples taken from the ocean floor. How do we know that we are going to have one in the future? The deformation of the crust in a predictable pattern can be detected by very careful geodetic measurements using Global Positioning Satellites, precise levelling, micro-gravity measurements and changing distance measurements using laser technology. If the shaking of a magnitude 7 is 10 times greater than a magnitude 6 and 100 times greater than a magnitude 5, is the shaking from a magnitude 9 100 times greater than a magnitude 7? No. Earthquake shaking, in the frequencies that damage buildings, increases to a maximum between a magnitude 7 and 8 earthquake, then the shaking simply involves a bigger area. However, the duration of shaking for a megathrust earthquake is much longer. It can be several minutes. This long duration can result in damage to some types of buildings that might not be damaged at the same strength of shaking produced by a smaller earthquake. If a magnitude 6.9 earthquake can devastate Kobe, Japan, what would a magnitude 9 megathrust earthquake do to Vancouver? The Kobe earthquake was right beneath the city and the megathrust earthquake will be about 150 kilometres from Vancouver. The damage pattern would be very different. We can get a good example of the kinds of damage Vancouver can expect to experience if we look at what happened to Anchorage, Alaska, during the 1964 magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake. Anchorage is about the same distance from the Alaska subduction fault. Small buildings generally had little or no damage, unless they were affected by landsliding. Almost all the damage involved large buildings or large structures such as bridges. Are megathrust earthquakes our biggest earthquake hazard? No. Inland earthquakes, which are not as big but can be much closer to our urban areas and occur much more frequently, are our biggest earthquake hazard. Why do megathrust earthquakes cause tsunamis? The thrusting motion of megathrust earthquake causes large vertical movement on the sea floor and this displaces a large volume of water which travels away from the undersea motion as a tsunami. Will Vancouver Island sink when a megathrust earthquake occurs? No. Vancouver Island is part of the North American plate. The fact that there is water between Vancouver Island and the mainland is function of the current position of sea level. However, the west coast of Vancouver Island will drop as much as a metre or two when the next megathrust earthquake occurs. Is all of coastal BC vulnerable to tsunamis from a megathrust earthquake? No. Just the coast exposed to the open Pacific is vulnerable to damaging tsunamis waves. The areas vulnerable to tsunamis are indicated in the red-tabbed pages of the telephone books published for the coastal communities of British Columbia If we have lots of little earthquakes will they relieve the stress building up for a megathrust earthquake? No. It takes many, many small earthquakes to release the amount of energy equivalent to a large earthquake. The amount of energy released increases about 40 times every time there is an increase of one unit on the magnitude scale. Thus, if we consider a small earthquake at the felt level, about magnitude 2, there would have to be 40x40x40x40x40x40x40 of these earthquakes to release the amount of energy as one magnitude 9 event. That is about one million small earthquakes a day, every day, for 500 years. That level of earthquake activity is not observed.

Sunday, August 29, 2021

ICELAND VOLCANOES SHOOT LAVA 🌋 60 min +

So, where is all of the material coming from on the east side on the North American Seismic Plate that is coming to the west-southwest and running up against the Pacific Plates, including the subducting Explorer, Gordo and Juan de Fuca and along all of the strike-slip faults (like the San Andreas Fault), X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay / X̱aayda gwaay, literally "Islands of the Haida people") and in Alaska ? How about 5,864 km away, along the mid-Atlantic Ridge which runs through  Iceland.  A point of clarification ~ some old white guys still call the Haida Gwaii Fault (a prior name given by some white colonials was Queen Charlotte ~ but no one know who she was ~ and, no one even cares.  The archipelago was re-gazetted in 2010, finally acknowledging the true owners, for 10,000+ years - The Haida).  It remains a part of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the islands were known from 1787 until 2010 as the Queen Charlotte Islands, and colloquially as "the Charlottes".[5] On June 3, 2010, the Haida Gwaii Reconciliation Act formally renamed the archipelago as part of the Kunst'aa guu – Kunst'aayah Reconciliation Protocol[6] between British Columbia and the Haida people.[2][7][8]

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ICELAND VOLCANOES SHOOT LAVA ? 79 minutes

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores. With an area of 76 million km2 (29 million sq mi), it is the Earth's second largest tectonic plate, behind the Pacific Plate (which borders the plate to the west).

It extends eastward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and westward to the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia. The plate includes both continental and oceanic crust. The interior of the main continental landmass includes an extensive granitic core called a craton. Along most of the edges of this craton are fragments of crustal material called terranes, which are accreted to the craton by tectonic actions over a long span of time. It is thought that much of North America west of the Rocky Mountains is composed of such terranes.

Boundaries[edit]

The southern boundary with the Cocos Plate to the west and the Caribbean Plate to the east is a transform fault, represented by the Swan Islands Transform Fault under the Caribbean Sea and the Motagua Fault through Guatemala. The parallel Septentrional and Enriquillo–Plantain Garden faults, which run through the island of Hispaniola and bound the Gonâve Microplate, are also a part of the boundary. The rest of the southerly margin which extends east to the Mid Atlantic Ridge and marks the boundary between the North American Plate and the South American Plate is vague but located near the Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone around 16°N.

On the northerly boundary is a continuation of the Mid-Atlantic ridge called the Gakkel Ridge. The rest of the boundary in the far northwestern part of the plate extends into Siberia. This boundary continues from the end of the Gakkel Ridge as the Laptev Sea Rift, on to a transitional deformation zone in the Chersky Range, then the Ulakhan Fault between it and the Okhotsk Plate, and finally the Aleutian Trench to the end of the Queen Charlotte Fault system.

The westerly boundary is the Queen Charlotte Fault running offshore along the coast of Alaska and the Cascadia subduction zone to the north, the San Andreas Fault through California, the East Pacific Rise in the Gulf of California, and the Middle America Trench to the south.

On its western edge, the Farallon Plate has been subducting under the North American Plate since the Jurassic Period. The Farallon Plate has almost completely subducted beneath the western portion of the North American Plate leaving that part of the North American Plate in contact with the Pacific Plate as the San Andreas Fault. The Juan de Fuca, Explorer, Gorda, Rivera, Cocos and Nazca plates are remnants of the Farallon Plate.

The boundary along the Gulf of California is complex. The Gulf is underlain by the Gulf of California Rift Zone, a series of rift basins and transform fault segments between the northern end of the East Pacific Rise in the mouth of the gulf to the San Andreas Fault system in the vicinity of the Salton Trough rift/Brawley seismic zone.[2][3]

It is generally accepted that a piece of the North American Plate was broken off and transported north as the East Pacific Rise propagated northward, creating the Gulf of California. However, it is as yet unclear whether the oceanic crust between the Rise and the mainland coast of Mexico is actually a new plate beginning to converge with the North American Plate, consistent with the standard model of rift zone spreading centers generally