Earthquakes And Volcano Activity On The Rise

Have You Noticed That Seismic Activity Has Been Going Nuts All Over The Globe This Month?

Michael Snyder

Historic volcanic eruptions and enormous earthquakes are happening on an almost daily basis now, but they have become so common that most of them barely even make a blip in the news cycle. The natural disasters that do tend to make a lot of headlines are the ones that cause a lot of deaths. But even those are quickly forgotten. For example, nobody really talks about the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that hit Myanmar on March 28th and killed thousands of people anymore. We literally have become numb to the death and destruction which is constantly going on all around us. But the truth is that what is happening to our planet right now is not normal.

Perhaps you think that I am exaggerating.

Well, it is certainly not normal to have 100 earthquakes in central Idaho in a two week period.

But that is precisely what has just happened…

Idaho Central Mountains had numerous earthquakes occur Friday, all in connection to the ongoing earthquake swarm in the area. Several of Friday’s quakes registered above magnitude 3, with one topping magnitude 4.

More than 100 small earthquakes have rattled Central Idaho in the past two weeks, creating an earthquake swarm near the town of Stanley.
Earthquake swarms are clusters of small quakes, typically smaller in magnitude but occurring more frequently. The U.S. Geological Survey defines it as a sequence of earthquakes occurring in a local area over a short period of time, without a single mainshock.

There have been hundreds of earthquakes in California and Nevada within the past seven days, and scientists continue to warn us that “the Big One” is coming.  For example, the following comes from a USA Today article entitled “The Big One: Is California ‘overdue’ for a devastating major earthquake?”…

It’s the unavoidable series of questions Christine Goulet gets every time she’s asked what she does for a living.

“When is the next big earthquake coming? Do you know where? When should we get ready?” Goulet, director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Science Center in Los Angeles, told USA TODAY. “It’s almost without fail once they know I study earthquakes. If I received a dollar every time I’m asked, I’d be rich.”

Goulet has answers, but she can’t predict the future.

The ominous truth: The Big One could happen any time, and there’s more than one possible “Big One.”

In addition to the quake off the coast of northern California, there was also a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that really rattled the capital of Colombia on Sunday…

A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Colombia on Sunday, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). The tremors jolted the country’s capital, Bogota, shortly after 2pm UK time. The quake was reportedly shallow, at a depth of 10km (6.21 miles), which intensified its impact. No immediate casualties or large-scale damage have been reported, yet the natural event plunged the city into a state of panic.

The tremors from the earthquake caused one of Colombia’s gondola lift systems to be evacuated. TransMicable, located in the city of Bogota, provides a luxury transportation service and has capacity to carry some 7,000 people per hour. However, customers were ushered away from the attraction after the earthquake. Writing on their page on X, the company said at 8:17am local time (2:17pm BST): “Evacuation of TransMiCable begins due to a strong earthquake that occurred in Bogotá.”

Nothing to see here.

Everything is perfectly fine.

Or at least that is what they would like us to believe.

On Friday, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit a radio station in Chile during a live broadcast involving a potential presidential candidate…

Presidential pre-candidate Carolina Toha was speaking with two journalists about her campaign proposals when the studio began to shake. The interviewers and Toha interrupted the broadcast, immediately got up from their chairs, and left the studio.

According to the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) the earthquake struck off the coast of the Northern Chile region. The quake was at a depth of 64.62 miles (104 kilometers), GFZ said.

In addition to earthquakes, there have been lots of volcanoes popping off lately too.

In fact, a massive eruption of Guatemala’s “Volcano of Fire” has prompted sudden evacuations…

Guatemala began evacuating some residents from the slopes the Volcano of Fire Thursday after a new eruption spewed hot gas and ash high into the sky.

Juan Laureano, spokesperson for the National Disaster Reduction Coordinator, said that at least 594 people were moved to shelters from five communities in Chimaltenango, Escuintla and Sacatepequez departments.

Laureano said that given the volcano’s activity the number of evacuees was expected to rise.

Over the past several weeks, we have witnessed all sorts of shaking all over the globe…

* Yellowstone’s Black Diamond Pool has erupted
* Mt. St. Helens had a volcanic landslide
* Mexico City’s Volcano is going off
* Mt. Etna is going off
* The Axial Seamount is due to blow in the Pacific Ocean
* The Three Sisters in Oregon State are coming to life
* The South side of Mt. Rainier in Washington State is uplifting
* Mt. Adams is waking up in Washington State
* Sakurajima in Japan is going off
* The super volcano Campi Flegrei is waking up
* Mount Kanlaon in the Philippines
* Mount Spurr in Alaska is due to blow at any time
* Kilauea in Hawaii is cycling
* Klyuchevskoy is sending ash plumes 20,000 feet in Russia

What we are witnessing is certainly unusual.

...we have experienced so far is only the beginning…