IN the NEWS - "Reserved"? pt. 1

Which I have reserved for the time of trouble, Job 38:23 NLT

Q: Is this Geological mess below the surface of the Pacific Coast, due to the Global Flood, something that is "Reserved" as a coming calamity for the Time of Trouble?

"The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s

rotating clockwise at a pace too small for humans to feel, yet large enough to reshape how scientists understand earthquake risk across southwestern Europe and North Africa.

The slight rotation of the peninsula is due to the colossal and chaotic collision between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates. Where those plates meet, the crust does not behave as a single clean boundary. Instead, it bends, absorbs stress in some places, and transfers it in others, twisting all of Iberia in the process.

Africa and Eurasia are converging at a rate of about 4 to 6 millimeters per year. That’s roughly the speed fingernails grow. In the Atlantic Ocean and along the Algerian coast, the boundary between the plates is relatively clear. Near southern Spain and northern Morocco, it dissolves into a wide zone of interacting blocks, folded mountain belts, and hidden faults.

Key to this geological dynamic is the Alboran domain, a fragment of Earth’s crust beneath the western Mediterranean. This block is sliding westward and shaping the curved mountain chain known as the Gibraltar Arc, which links Spain’s Betic Cordillera to Morocco’s Rif Mountains.

East of the strait, the crust of the

Gibraltar Arc acts like a buffer. It absorbs much of the stress produced by the Africa–Eurasia collision. West of the strait, that buffer fades. There, Iberia runs headlong into Africa.

The peninsula is thus deforming and rotating clockwise, nudged from below and from the side by an asymmetric collision. At human speed, this motion feels irrelevant. At earthquake speed, it matters.

The most famous reminder came in 1755, when a massive earthquake offshore of Lisbon — estimated at magnitude 8.7 — devastated the city and sent tsunamis across the Atlantic."

ZMEScience