Some very big quakes shook Indonesia yet again, the mega-quakes of this last decade have been astonishing and the ‘aftershocks’ are still quite strong. Meanwhile, in North America, the quakes at the far northern end and far southern end of the San Andreas continue to worsen. The time for the totally quiet middle section of the San Andreas fault line is very close to jerking violently with the western half ready to shoot northwards by around 30 feet in one second. This event will be a tragic disaster for many people in particular, the many who live right smack dab on top of this dangerous fault line.

IRIS Seismic Monitor – Recent Earthquakes

5.9 mag at 10.2km deep OFF COAST OF OREGON

4.1 mag at 10.0km deep GULF OF CALIFORNIA

The sad fact is, both ends of the plate that is rapidly and I may add, quite mysteriously (geologists still don’t know why, exactly!) moving towards Alaska as fast as geologically possible has been having frequent and increasingly stronger and stronger earthquakes. Meanwhile, the middle part running past Los Angeles is totally quiet with nary a tremor.

This is BAD NEWS. Everything around is shaking with increased intensity while the deadlocked middle section refuses to budge. It will suddenly spring forwards with great violence and we don’t know when but the day is sooner rather than later.

Using Google Maps, I decided to take a hike through the San Bernardino neighborhoods that were foolishly built right smack dap on top of the San Andreas fault. Not near. Right on top. This geological folly was permitted by lazy and stupid government officials.

We can see from this first example how the San Andreas runs right down the center of the street! It has the gutter in the center where the sleeping dragon lies.

We see from this picture that the west side of the street will shoot forwards at tremendous speed when the earth resets itself further northwards. The houses are less than 40 feet away from the edge of the two continental plates.

This is, of course, insanely dangerous! Every one of these homes should have been bought out several decades ago and all building on the fault line forbidden. Instead, all of these houses had huge mortgages plopped down on them as housing shot up in value during the housing bubble.

None of these houses can be insured against earthquakes because there is a 100% chance they will be destroyed in any particular time in the future and I speak of less than 20 years sort of future.

Many roads follow exactly the line of this hazardous geological feature.

Note how it skirts the large homes with swimming pools. Here, the danger is also landslides.

I took a shot of one road that follows the San Andreas. Note how the North American continent side is higher than the tectonic plate moving north side.

This is the biggest structure sitting right next to the San Andreas: a casino.

Here is the front entrance which is less than 50 feet from the San Andreas. The chances of this building collapsing is quite high. Of course, it is also virtually brand new. And shows that NO ONE in the government gave ANY regard to the proximity of the fault line when giving a building permit to the irresponsible idiots who built this thing.

All along the fault earth moving equipment sought to conceal the fault line.

This is so sad.

If this tank collapses, the houses below will be washed away.

Thanks for the San Andreas Fault Map – Zoom In on the Fault! – GEOLOGY.COM and Google Maps, we had a delightful stroll down many doomed lanes tonight.

Not one of these buildings are older than 60 years, most are not older than 30 years. We knew about plate tectonic movements and the San Andreas during this entire time span. Every single building on this tour should never have been built and it is criminal to keep them there passively waiting for the inevitable deaths.

These will also burn and there will be no water to put it out. All of LA will be cut off from electricity and water coming from the east across the San Andreas. Nothing reasonable is being set in motion to deal with the possibility that we will have no water and very little electricity when the big quake inevitably will happen.

And our navy will be too busy patrolling Australia and Japan to protect them from China and the other half of the navy is stuck in the Persian Gulf, making fools of themselves. There will be no naval rescue in time.

This all would be funny if it didn’t mean lots of people will die. I am puzzled as to why there is no sense of urgency in California. Or DC. We think we can ignore this? At least fix San Bernardino so it no longer sits on the San Andreas! That isn’t all that hard to do compared to digging out the bodies later.

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