This week the news came out that a minute slowdown of earth’s spin will cause a massive spike in earthquake for 2018. What they didn’t tell you is why the earth’s spin is slowing. It’s not that they don’t have an opinion, it’s just that they have careers to protect. Well, being as how I’m happily retired, I’m perfectly free to fill this void. So what’s the cause? The moon.

Three billion years ago, the moon was spinning so fast and close to earth that ocean tides were 10,000 feet high and travelled 500 miles per hours. These giant tides scoured the land like jeans in a washing machine. The winds on earth were a thousand times stronger than now. Many think that this ocean/wind chaos worked like a blender to churn land minerals so severely that they recombined to form the first life forms.

When the moon tugs on our oceans, they form a bulge on the earth’s oceans at the equator. When the moon lines up between the sun and the earth, the combined gravitational pull on our equatorial oceans is enough to prematurely trigger volcanoes and earthquakes that are already set to blow, much like the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. Sea level rise is compounding this stress because most of this water was once locked up away from the equator as ice on the earth’s poles.

But it’s not only the poles. Glaciers, snow cover and groundwater are vanishing in places like the American midwest , the Andes and Himalayan mountains. In fact so much groundwater has been lost in the American midwest, the Grace satellites could detect the resulting weakness in gravitational pull. And, so much ice has been lost from Greenland, they could measure the corresponding weakness in gravitational pull there as well. All this water ends up at the equator drawn by the moon increasing the gravitational pull on the equator.

All this water collecting on the earth’s equator is making our planet appear fatter. And, acts just like when a spinning figure skater extends out her arms to slow down.

The earth is not 100% solid, it’s more like an apple. It has a thin skin, a big soft middle and a solid core. When the earth’s spin slows, it’s mostly the crust that’s affected. The solid core’s spin is not affected, and speeds up compared to the surface. Again think of the blender, the glass container is earth’s crust, the juice is the liquid magma and the blades are earth’s core. Many think the earth’s core is perfectly round. This may not be true, and it may well be shaped more like the fidget spinning blades in your blender than a marble.

Since I’m purely a bullshit artist, and not a scientist, I can’t prove any of this. I don’t have to because some ideas seem to make so much sense that proof is secondary. What interests me is the idea that this magma churning by earth’s core is aggravating the weakening of our protective magnetic field.

The only thing you need to remember is that snow, ice and groundwater are disappearing from our poles and heading to the equator. This is causing the earth’s polar crusts to rebound up and outwards compounding the stresses we already face by ice mass displacement towards the equator. In other words, there’s no telling what it all means.

Links Showing How Climate Heating Causes Earthquakes, Volcanos, Tsunamis and Orbital Pole Shift (Loki’s Revenge Blog WordPress)

Interactive Map of Active Volcanoes and recent Earthquakes world-wide

Which active volcanoes are likely to erupt next and how many are there across the globe? (Sun)

Fiery Mount Agung is just one of 127 active volcanoes in Indonesia (Independent)

List of large volcanic eruptions in the 21st century (Wikipedia)

Tiny Slowdown in Earth’s Rotation Could Unleash Major Earthquakes

As Earth’s rotation slows, 2018 could see a spike in large earthquakes (Quartz)