{"id":36866,"date":"2018-08-20T08:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36866"},"modified":"2018-08-20T08:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:43:55","slug":"watch-out-california-53-major-earthquakes-including-a-magnitude-8-2-just-hit-the-ring-of-fire-in-a-24-hour-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36866","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out California! 53 Major Earthquakes (Including A Magnitude 8.2) Just Hit The Ring Of Fire In A 24 Hour Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/watch-out-california-53-major-earthquakes-including-a-magnitude-8-2-just-hit-the-ring-of-fire-within-a-24-hour-period\">Watch Out California! 53 Major Earthquakes (Including A Magnitude 8.2) Just Hit The Ring Of Fire In A 24 Hour Period<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/watch-out-california-53-major-earthquakes-including-a-magnitude-8-2-just-hit-the-ring-of-fire-within-a-24-hour-period\/the-ring-of-fire-public-domain#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14124\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14124\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Ring-Of-Fire-Public-Domain-540x401.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Ring-Of-Fire-Public-Domain-540x401.jpg 540w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Ring-Of-Fire-Public-Domain-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Ring-Of-Fire-Public-Domain.jpg 590w\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a>Is something unusual starting to happen to the crust of our planet?\u00a0 The USGS defines any earthquake of at least magnitude 4.5 as \u201csignificant\u201d, and there were 53 earthquakes that met that criteria along the Ring of Fire on Sunday alone.\u00a0 If you would like to verify that information for yourself, you can so do <a title=\"right here\" href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/map\/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%227day_all%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-58.07787626787517%2C-263.671875%5D%2C%5B82.33238201413792%2C73.828125%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22list%22%2C%22map%22%2C%22settings%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3A%22us1000gdgb%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">right here<\/a>.\u00a0 Not too long ago, I wrote about how \u201cEarth changes\u201d <a title=\"seem to be accelerating\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/earth-changes-accelerate-what-is-causing-these-record-heatwaves-massive-firenadoes-giant-dust-storms-and-large-earthquakes\">seem to be accelerating<\/a> all over the world, but even I was stunned by the ferocity of the seismic activity that we witnessed over the weekend.\u00a0 Because none of the earthquakes happened in the United States, the mainstream media almost entirely ignored this story, but that is a huge mistake.\u00a0 The entire west coast of the U.S. falls along the \u201cRing of Fire\u201d, and experts assure us that it is only a matter of time before the seismic tension that is building up along the tectonic plates in that area is released.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the seismic activity on Sunday was near the small island nation of Fiji, and it is true that Fiji often experiences earthquakes because it sits directly inside <a title=\"the Ring of Fire\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1005411\/fiji-earthquake-map-where-8-2-quake-hit-is-there-tsunami-warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Ring of Fire<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fiji falls in the Pacific Ring Of Fire \u2013 a massive horseshoe-shaped area in the Pacific basin.<\/p>\n<p>The ring is formed of a string of 452 volcanoes and sites of seismic activity (earthquakes), which encircle the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 90 percent of all earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, and 75 percent of the world\u2019s active volcanoes are dotted along the expansive ring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It certainly is not unusual to see earthquakes happen along the Ring of Fire, but what was unusual about the activity on Sunday was the size of the earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Out California! 53 Major Earthquakes (Including A Magnitude 8.2) Just Hit The Ring Of Fire In A 24 Hour Period Is something unusual starting to happen to the crust of our planet?\u00a0 The USGS defines any earthquake of at least magnitude 4.5 as \u201csignificant\u201d, and there were 53 earthquakes that met that criteria along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,13970,222,21330,4901,21331,17790,21332,7452,14081],"class_list":["post-36866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-disasters","tag-earthquakes","tag-earthquakes-increasing","tag-michael-snyder","tag-quakes","tag-seismic-activity","tag-seismic-activity-increasing","tag-the-economic-collapse-blog","tag-the-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36867,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36866\/revisions\/36867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}