IN the NEWS - In the Pacific: What MIGHT the Future Hold?

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. Mark 13:8

"For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time. The study, published in the scientific journal Science Advances, was conducted by scientists from Louisiana State University.

The observed rupture occurred on the Juan de Fuca plate, located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate, near California and British Columbia.
This recent study revealed that the Explorer microplate is detaching from what remains of the ancient Farallon oceanic plate, in a process called " slab tearing ." Furthermore, this type of rupture alters the Earth's internal movement. It may, in the future, impact the occurrence of earthquakes and volcanic activity in the North Pacific.
"There is a very large fault that is actively fracturing the plate. It's not 100% broken yet, but it's close," said Brandon Shuck.
According to scientists, when a segment breaks completely, it ceases to generate earthquakes, since the rocks are no longer joined together." msn

"Earthquake swarm in San Francisco at a fault line that is close to the

San Andreas fault. And we have learned that side faults or parallel faults are capable of triggering the San Andreas fault.
We have over 45 earthquakes already in just 48 hours at this fault line. It's called the Cala Veras fault." 

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