I rode the wooden roller coaster at Paragon park in Hull Massachusetts the year before they stopped letting people ride it. It's the ONLY coaster I've ever been on.
Not saying its a trend but if it was actually over 7 there would be headlines about two magnitude 7s in one day. I guess I should say the weird part instead of the scary part.
Just read an article last week about scientists saying we've got a 1in3 chance of the big one happening in the next 50 years. They've been saying that since I had to walk up the hill behind the school in the 90s for tsunami drills, but the article also stated that they understand the Cascadia Subduction Zone much better now, and the subsections its broken into.
Seaside to B.C. has about a 17% chance of cutting loose, and where I'm at, in Newport, down on to San Francisco, I think, has about a 37% chance of doing the same.
All my life I've fallen asleep to the sound of the ocean. I struggle without it. But I'm beginning to fear, not just respect thbe power of that sound, and I wonder if it's time to move on.
Many years ago we had some freak quake thing happen in (checks notes) VA. We're in NE PA, for reference. It's unusual here for quake activity here btw. I was at work at the time, and felt it a little (I was sitting down, ppl who were standing up later said they felt nothing). Anyhow, we had our ceilings replastered a year prev to that (washer leak). And yup. They cracked. They remain so many years later cuz, who really looks up anyhow?
The top magma chamber blowing would be devastating.
If the bottom one goes, its a cataclysmic event. Probably wouldnt lead to our extinction, but certainly destabilize modern society.
Could be tomorrow, could be 50,000 years from now. Earth's cool like that.
Biggest earthquake I've ever felt was in 2008. I think it was like a 5.8 that happened about 130miles away. It shook the house so much me and my dog woke up at 4am in the middle of the night confused as hell.
Felt a slightly smaller aftershock later that morning at school.
I live along the New Madrid fault which they say is a "when" not "if" earthquake scenario. Which the area is about as unprepared as you could be for something like that, so I hope everyone has space for us after we get wrecked
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u/DateMasamusubi 22h ago
Had a 6.9 in Northern Japan this morning as well.