Earthquakes on my mind again. Lots of movement along the edge of the North American Craton and nearby plates lately. Swarms of mild quakes in Yellowstone, southern Colorado, and the Salton Sea. Even up in the St. Lawrence Valley.
Around here there have been a series of them up around Mt. Hood that have been on the television news. The giant plates of the earth are seemingly on the move, grinding against each other. Maybe the quake off the coast of Eureka is part of larger phenomenon going on. If so, I hope it's just a little slippage going on, with nothing major building up.
Portland---I pray this place is spared the Big One, but if it ever befalls this area to suffer that kind of huge-scale seismic event in the near future, I hope it is not during rains like this. There would a hundred landslides like the one that happened up in Washington, that just killed a hundred people when the soil turned to liquid. If it must happen, let it be not any time very soon at all, and also during a prolonged severe drought. Amen.
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