Major Earthquake in North America Imminent

[Soon]

THIS WAS POSTED ON THE RAPTUREREADY SITE - VERY INTERESTING. ANYONE LIVING ON THE WEST COAST SHOULD READ THIS!!

A Major Earthquake in North America Imminent? - FOXBusiness.com

A Major Earthquake in North America Imminent? | Cavuto

With: Neil Cavuto

Special Guests | Jim Berkland - Former USGS Geologist

NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Boy oh, boy, just what Japan does not need. An imminent earthquake warning just issued for several regions of the country. On edge there, on edge here, because it really didn't start with Japan. Take a look at what experts are increasingly calling the so-called ring of fire that is encircling the entire Pacific Ocean. You remember Chile's massive earthquake about a year ago. Then we had that big one in New Zealand just last month. Then of course Japan.

If this clockwise trend continues, my next guest says North America looks to be on tap next. Don't laugh. Geologist Jim Berkland is worried. When he worries, you should worry too. Jim accurately predicted, get this, the 1989 so-called World Series earthquake four days before it shook the San Francisco Bay Area. And Jim says this month is of particular concern. Why, Jim?

JIM BERKLAND, GEOLOGIST: The month of October, March, and April are the three most devastating earthquakes in terms of damage in the San Francisco Bay Area in history. And we are having on the 19th of this month not only the full moon, but within an hour the closest approach of the moon to the earth until the year 2016. The next day is the equinoctial tides. So you're bringing together three of the maximum tide raising forces. We know about the ocean tides. But there is also an Earth tide. And there is a tide in the ground water. All of these help to release sudden, built up strain, and cause earthquakes.

CAVUTO: But that would seem to imply that we could be looking at a very imminent event in the United States within the next week or two? Is that right?

BERKLAND: Yes. My -- what I call a seismic window, this top seismic window in years is developing between the 19th and 26th of this month. And this was 7.0 monster and it says geologist had warned about it. And a week earlier, the they were talking about the tides, not to worry about the really tides coming up. I think there is worry here too.

CAVUTO: So let me just understand. You're a genius. I'm not. I want to follow your fine brain on this.

BERKLAND: Not a genius.

CAVUTO: What you're saying is that there is certain order to this, even though it doesn't appear like order? For a lot of folks, it just seems like random events. But you're saying there is a process unfolding here? For California --

BERKLAND: Absolutely.

CAVUTO: California, Oregon or whatever, would that mean? What type of quake or disturbance or disruption would that be?

BERKLAND: Well, if it was, one in the northwest, in the Cascadia Trench, like we had in 1700, that would be a nine magnitude quake. I'm not predicting that. But I'm saying we just had a massive fish kill. Maybe a million fish died in Redondo Beach. They had a massive fish sweep in Mexico. We just had a bunch of whales come in close to San Diego.

CAVUTO: What does that presage? When you have events like that, what does that generally mean? What's going on in the waters?

BERKLAND: Changes -- changes in the magnetic field that off then precede larger earthquakes. Most animals have the mineral magnetite in their bodies, including people. But it causes homing pigeons to enable them to get home. Just before big quakes, they often can't get home. There is the delay factor. So we look for those kinds of things.

Just before the World Series quake there was very unusual beaching of rare whales in the Ocean Beach, in San Francisco. Just after that, a equally rare pigmy sperm whale washed up at Santa Cruz, within about five miles of the epicenter of the World Series quake. That kind of beaching had never occurred before nor since. So we're looking for strange fish coming into from deepwater to the shallow water, wild animals coming into cities.

I used to just scoff at these kinds of things, because I was a mainstream geologist until I found out that earthquakes are fitting a pattern. The big earthquake in the Indian Ocean followed massive beachings of whales in Taiwan -- not Taiwan, but New Zealand and Australia and Tasmania. And then within couple of days, they had a 8.3 in south of New Zealand, and then came the 9.1 in the Indian Ocean, with the big tsunami, on the very day of the fool moon.

CAVUTO: Wow.

BERKLAND: The previous big quake and tsunami was in Alaska, which is a 9.2 magnitude event, on the day off the full moon, on the 27th of March.

CAVUTO: Jim, bottom line, we have a lot to watch. Believe me, you're track record compels us to watch it. Jim, thank you very much. I hope you're wrong, buddy. I really hope your wrong but your record --

BERKLAND: Especially at this time, world history, not good.

CAVUTO: All right, sir. Thank you very much. Jim Berkland in San Francisco, pretty good geologist.

[Meg]

Nothing like an unfounded paranoid rumor to liven up the approaching weekend.

[Sean Osborne]

Soon,

Thanks for posting this very important heads-up warning. I believe Jim Berkland is correct in his prediction based upon all of the data points he mentioned.

BERKLAND: ... And we are having on the 19th of this month not only the full moon, but within an hour the closest approach of the moon to the earth until the year 2016. The next day is the equinoctial tides. So you're bringing together three of the maximum tide raising forces. We know about the ocean tides. But there is also an Earth tide. And there is a tide in the ground water. All of these help to release sudden, built up strain, and cause earthquakes.

CAVUTO: But that would seem to imply that we could be looking at a very imminent event in the United States within the next week or two? Is that right?

BERKLAND: Yes.

[Robert]

Major Earthquake in North America Imminent?


Only if Charlie Sheen's ego grows any bigger and it tips the continent.

[arapahoepark]

Well we are overdue....that doesn't mean it will or will not happen...I am guessing it would be near the Washington area.

[Soon]

Nothing like an unfounded paranoid rumor to liven up the approaching weekend.

Hopefully the week passes uneventfully and it turns out to be an "unfounded paranoid rumor". After all, past patterns don't always accurately predict the future.

Nonetheless, this geologist has pointed out enough of a pattern that I feel it was worth posting on this site. Obviously, the folks running RaptureReady.com must also have agreed with this conclusion (this is where I attained the link from).

[Meg]

Major Earthquake in North America Imminent?


Only if Charlie Sheen's ego grows any bigger and it tips the continent.

Oh God help us all, that really could happen!!!

[Meg]

The credibility of Fox "News" just took another dive. If you want to know what scientists who know what they're doing are really worrying about, keep your eyes open and your TV tuned elsewhere...

The Scariest Earthquake Is Yet to Come - Newsweek

Now there have been catastrophic events at three corners of the Pacific Plate—one in the northwest, on Friday; one in the southwest, last month; one in the southeast, last year.
That leaves just one corner unaffected—the northeast. And the fault line in the northeast of the Pacific Plate is the San Andreas Fault, underpinning the city of San Francisco.
All of which makes the geological community very apprehensive. All know that the San Andreas Fault is due to rupture one day—it last did so in 1906, and strains have built beneath it to a barely tolerable level. To rupture again, with unimaginable consequences for the millions who live above it, some triggering event has to occur. Now three events have occurred that might all be regarded as triggering events. There are in consequence a lot of thoughtful people in the American West who are very nervous indeed—wondering, as they often must do, whether the consent that permits them to inhabit so pleasant a place might be about to be withdrawn, sooner than they have supposed.

[Soon]

Soon,

Thanks for posting this very important heads-up warning. I believe Jim Berkland is correct in his prediction based upon all of the data points he mentioned.

My pleasure. I am usually not one to give credence to these types of predictions, but this one seemed logical enough to note. Plus it helps that the person making the prediction has applicable credentials.

[Robert]

I'm going to check the USGS and see what they are saying....

Update: this is what I found at their site:

Old Japanese Documents Confirm Warnings of Future North American Earthquakes


Guided by Japanese writings from an era of shoguns, an international team of scientists today reported new evidence that an earthquake of magnitude 9 struck the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada three centuries ago. The findings are likely to affect the region’s precautions against future earthquakes and tsunamis.

Writing this week in the American Geophysical Union’s Journal of Geophysical Research, scientists from Japan, Canada and the United States summarize old reports of flooding and damage by a tsunami in 1700 on the Pacific coast of Japan. With the aid of computer simulations, they conclude this tsunami required a North American earthquake close to magnitude 9. Such an earthquake, in a few minutes, would release about as much energy as the United States now consumes in a month.

The report’s authors are Kenji Satake, of the Geological Survey of Japan; Kelin Wang, of the Geological Survey of Canada; and Brian Atwater, of the United States Geological Survey based at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The earthquake apparently ruptured the full length of an enormous fault, the Cascadia subduction zone, which extends more than 600 miles along the Pacific coast from southern British Columbia to northern California.

Until the early 1980s, this fault was thought benign by most scientists, said USGS’s Atwater. But then a swift series of discoveries in North America showed that the fault produces earthquakes of magnitude 8 or larger at irregular intervals averaging about 500 years. The most recent of the earthquakes, dated approximately by radiocarbon methods, occurred between 1680 and 1720.

These discoveries raised a further question: Can the fault produce earthquakes of magnitude 9? Such a giant earthquake would produce minutes of low-frequency shaking that might threaten tall buildings from Vancouver, British Columbia, to northern California. A giant Cascadia earthquake would also warp large areas of seafloor, thereby setting off a train of ocean waves — a tsunami — that could prove destructive even on the far side of the Pacific Ocean.


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http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article_pf.asp?ID=150


I would like to state that while the report says these old writings helped them to confirm future NA quakes, it did not say they were in the immediate future. Now, I'm not saying they aren't; no one knows the future but the Lord. But aside from making preparations as best we can, there is no sense obsessing over it.

[Sean Osborne]

Jim Berkland is a very credible geologist. He correctly predicted the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake four days in advance. Some of the 63 deaths, 3,757 wounded (400 severely) and $11 billion (current values) in damages which included the destruction of 12,000 homes and 2,600 businesses, might have been avoided if his forewarning had been heeded.

He needs to be listened to. Ignoring or poh-poohing Jim Berkland is just plain ignorant.

Neil Cavuto would NOT place a special report on his program of this nature just to make a fool of himself in front of millions of people.

What Jim Berkland is saying is an extremely prescient warning. I've made sure a wider audience is now aware of it.

[Sean Osborne]

Guided by Japanese writings from an era of shoguns, an international team of scientists today reported new evidence that an earthquake of magnitude 9 struck the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada three centuries ago. The findings are likely to affect the region’s precautions against future earthquakes and tsunamis.

This is the 1700 M9 quake that Jim Berkland referenced in his interview with Neil Cavuto.

[mattfivefour]

Jim Berkland runs a website that focuses on earthquake prediction— SyzygyJob - Home. You can find a thorough biography of him on that site. It outlines all of his credentials. He is, indeed, a respected scientist in his field.

Therefore, I agree, in this case, that his warnings should be heeded ... within reason. I do not think people on the Pacific coast, living over that fault line, should be running screaming for the hills. But I do believe that wise and prudent people there should have a clear emergency plan in place and sufficient supplies to deal with the aftermath of a massive quake ... which could come within the next few months.

[Sean Osborne]

The USGS National Seismic Hazard probability levels map. (Too big to post here)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/p...phic2pct50.jpg

"The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Seismic Hazard Maps display earthquake ground motions for various probability levels across the United States and are applied in seismic provisions of building codes, insurance rate structures, risk assessments, and other public policy. This update of the maps incorporates new findings on earthquake ground shaking, faults, seismicity, and geodesy. The resulting maps are derived from seismic hazard curves calculated on a grid of sites across the United States that describe the frequency of exceeding a set of ground motions."

[momoffaith]

My goodness. A lot to ponder

We know ( not exactly when ) but we know things are going to get worse.

[Soon]

Get out your binoculars and telescopes. The moon will be closer to earth tonight than it has been in over 20 years. Scientists call it an "Extreme Supermoon". It will be 15% closer and 30% brighter than an ordinary full moon.

This astronomical spectacle coincides with the Jewish celebration of Purim, where in they celebrate Esther saving them from the diabolical plot of Haman. Wouldn't it be something if God used an earthquake in Iran to wipe out their nuclear facilities? Surely that would make the Jewish people sit up and take notice (along with the rest of the world). Of course, they would say it is "coincidence". Coincidence is something God uses to tell believers He's there while allowing non-believers to continue to be lost.

"Purim is a festive Jewish holiday recounting the deliverance of the Jewish people from extermination plot by Haman the Agagite. It is an annual celebration held every 14th of Adar, or Adar II in leap years, which is a month in the Hebrew calendar. In walled cities that existed during the time of Joshua, like Shushan and Jerusalem, it is celebrated on the 15th and is called Shushan Purim."

Hopefully the light of the moon will help more of the world see the only True Light, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May He come for us "soon".

[YeuEmMaiMai]

The credibility of Fox "News" just took another dive. If you want to know what scientists who know what they're doing are really worrying about, keep your eyes open and your TV tuned elsewhere...

The Scariest Earthquake Is Yet to Come - Newsweek

Gotta love it when people dismiss something.........because it is on Fox News......I'm willing to bet that NPR is more to your liking.......


BTW if you were an objective person, you would realise that Fox news is pretty much centered on their programming but the "right" is by far more popular of their programming.... every other news organization on the planet is pretty much centered left or worse....

MSNBC is not news, neither is CNN or BBC (although they seem to have gotten the message and are moving more center) Won't even mention ABC CBS or NBC lol as they are so far left.........

[Robert]

Gotta love it when people dismiss something.........because it is on Fox News......I'm willing to bet that NPR is more to your liking.......


BTW if you were an objective person, you would realise that Fox news is pretty much centered on their programming but the "right" is by far more popular of their programming.... every other news organization on the planet is pretty much centered left or worse....

MSNBC is not news, neither is CNN or BBC (although they seem to have gotten the message and are moving more center) Won't even mention ABC CBS or NBC lol as they are so far left.........

Are you willing to include Jpost, Ynetnews and Arutz Sheva as well?

[GlennO]

A EARTHQUAKE in USA this week, warning from Russian Institute of physics and a geologist
Posted on March 19, 2011 by admin


A new report released today in the Kremlin prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Institute of Physics of the Earth, in Moscow, is warning that the America’s are in danger of suffering a mega-quake of catastrophic proportions during the next fortnight (14 days) with a specific emphasis being placed on the United States, Mexico, Central America and South American west coast regions along with the New Madrid Fault Zone region.

This report further warns that catastrophic earthquakes in Asia and the sub-continent are, also, “more than likely to occur” with the 7.3 magnitude quake in Japan today being “one of at least 4 of this intensity” to occur during this same time period.

Raising the concerns of a mega-quake occurring, this report says, are the increasing subtle electromagnetic signals that are being detected in the Earth’s upper atmosphere over many regions of the World, with the most intense being over the US Western coastal and Midwest regions.

Important to note are that Russian and British scientists are at the forefront of predicting earthquakes based on these subtle electromagnetic signals and have joined in an effort to put satellites in space to detect more of them.

More ominously in this report are Russian scientists confirming the independent analysis of New Zealand mathematician and long-range weather forecaster, Ken Ring, who predicted the deadly Christchurch quake and this week issued another warning of a quake to hit on or about March 20th.

Ring explains his methodology for predicting earthquakes as follows:

“The planets very much affect the earth, indirectly, by having an effect on the Sun. Some planets are very large. If the Sun was a basketball the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn would be the size of grapefruits, and the Earth would be, on that scale, the size of a peppercorn.

Jupiter and Saturn cause extra tides on the Sun when they get on either side of the Sun (as with Moon – Earth-Sun when the moon is full) and when these gas giants get on the same side as the Sun, (as with Earth -Moon – Sun when the moon is new). These greater solar tides become sunspot activity and solar flares and can be understood as akin to the increase in tides caused by the Moon when it too gets alongside Earth or opposite Earth.

At the moment we have Jupiter and Saturn on either side of the Sun and creating a tug of war with Earth in the middle. That started last September and will continue until about May. In September the Earth was right in line with Jupiter, Saturn and the Sun too.

That’s why there were several 7+ earthquakes around, it wasn’t just us. For instance there was one in Pakistan on the same day as Christchurch. This Jupiter/Saturn alignment continues until about May, and the Earth comes back into line as well in March. It is why there may be an extreme event, perhaps a large earthquake, around 20 March, which is when the Moon may be again in a trigger position.”

According to this report, however, where Ring is correct in assessing blame for our Earth’s earthquakes on the Sun and Planets, his substituting of Perigean Spring Tides (also known as King Tides) for the low pressure systems associated with them may be incorrect.

The mention in this report of massive low pressure systems being associated with catastrophic earthquakes is especially dire to the United States Midwestern region, which even today is continuing to be pounded by horrific rainfall amounts, and most especially impacting the New Madrid Fault Zone State of Arkansas which has suffered over 800 earthquakes in the past 6 months alone.

Equally in danger, this report continues, is the South American Nation of Bolivia which has, likewise, suffered catastrophic low pressure system storms that in the past week have killed over 52 people.

Most ominous in this report, though, is its warning that the fault-riddled State of California may be about to suffer its most catastrophic earthquake in decades as new reports for this region show the mass death of millions of fish [photo bottom left] is now occurring, and just like the mass stranding of whales on New Zealand beaches days prior to the February 22nd destruction of Christchurch.

Making the situation for our Planet even grimmer are the reports that our Sun is continuing to spew forth massive solar flares, the latest warned to hit our Earth today or tomorrow thus prompting the Hermanus Space Weather Warning Centre (SWWC) to issue a Solar Flare warning for the Southern Hemisphere.

Interesting to note in all of these events is the United States Army announcing this week that it is holding a rare training event involving the US Military, the CIA, Canadian officers, US Treasury and State departments, the US Agency for International Development, the Defense Threat Readiness Agency and the International Red Cross between March 21-25 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and which should the worst happen they will certainly be prepared for it.

As this report concludes, that as of yet, “no firmly reliable” method for predicting earthquakes has been scientifically recognized, it is well worth noting the too many to be ignored anomalous coincidences leading up to catastrophic mega-quakes are breaking out all over the World and should only be ignored at ones peril.

‘Top Seismic Window’, full moon, equinoctial tide, fish and animal behavior may predict earthquakes.

Geologist Jim Berkland Predicts Quake for US West Coast Between March 19 to 26th

Jim Berkland is a former USGS geologist who, unlike seismologists and the USGS, believes he can predict when an earthquake will occur. Berkland’s track record, Berkland predicted the 1989 World Series Earthquake. He was also the first County Geologist for Santa Clara County (in northern California) and was in that position for twenty-one years. He has published over fifty scientific papers.

If a strong quake strikes the west coast between March 19 and the 26th during Berkland’s ‘Seismic Window’, Berkland will get credit from us for predicting the quake.

Berkland predicted, based on several factors, an earthquake will strike the West Coast sometime between March 19 and the 26th. Berkland focused on the massive fish kill at Redondo Beach in California which occurred on March 8 and the ‘massive fish sweep’ in Mexico, and the recent sighting of whales ‘close to San Diego’.

Berkland, appearing on FOX Business News Neil Cavuto show:

‘The months of October, March, and April are the three most devastating earthquakes in terms of damage in the San Francisco Bay area, in history. And, we’re having on the 19th of this month not only the full moon, but within an hour the closest approach of the moon until the year 2016. And the next day is the equinoctial tide bringing together three of the maximum tide raising forces and we know about the ocean tides but there’s also an earth tide and there’s a tide in the groundwater and all of these help to release built up strain and cause earthquakes.

LINK: A EARTHQUAKE in USA this week, warning from Russian Institute of physics and a geologist | Blog Photo Video

Some pretty harsh stuff said here on this thread about an experienced professional geologist. West coast mega-quake is ripe for Cascadia (subduc) = 9.0 San Andreas (strike/slip - locked) = 8.0 Mendicino triple junction (Juan de Fuca) tectonic plate (subduc) = 7.0

All earthquakes release AND transfer energy to related fault systems !

If Mr. Berkland were a Christian(? anyone know him?) would we be trash talking? Nobody at CalTech has called a Loma Prieta size event. True, a broken clock is right twice daily. Then again he is not speaking for God in danger of stoning for being wrong.

[GlennO]