January 21, 2010
San Diego, California
Photographer states :: The water was rising fast! This driver abandoned the car very quickly.
Storms in California (click here)
acquired January 20, 2010A tornado-like storm that, according to eyewitness reports, flipped a sport utility vehicle in Sunset Beach and lifted boats out of the water along the Pacific Coast Highway was just part of the excitement in California on January 19, 2010. Forecasters warned that residents were in for several days of severe storms that would bring high winds and heavy rains....
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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USGS World Earthquake Map (click here)
I am about to make a statement no one is going to believe, but, I am going to make it anyway and I doubt I will repeat it. This is NOT quackery either.
USGS M 2.5+ Earthquakes (Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past day - click here)
There are 33 recorded earthquakes over the magnitude of 2.5 that occurred between January 21, 2010 at 03:23 AM and January 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM. 33 recorded quakes at the USGS. Twenty-one of those quakes involved THE NORTH AMERICA PLATE. That is a disproportionate number of quakes compared to the distribution around the globe. In examining the map above it is easy to discern there are more quakes occurring in regard to the North America Plate than any other globally. Especially along the west coast of that plate.
The distribution of the quakes with a magnitude of 2.5 or greater along and within the North America Plate is below:
Alaska, including the Aleutian Islands - 7
Puerto Rico Region - 5
Nevada - 1
Baja Peninsula and Southern California - 3
Yellowstone National Park - Wyoming - 4 (Yellowstone is believed to have the nature of a Caldera)
Haiti - 1
That is a total of 21 quakes within and along the North American Plate out of 33. I believe there are several factors related to human induced global warming that can be contributed to these quakes.
The North American Plate is known to have had (And I said 'have had') heavy ice deposits along its northern border with the Arctic Ocean. Those ice deposits literally press down on that region of the plate. It has been a long held view of the geological community that these plates move along a magma layer of Earth. It has also been a long held view that when there are significant ice deposits on a continent that borders the poles of Earth that Plate will lie at an 'attitude' within that region of the magma.
In other words, the North America Plate at its northern border is deeper into the magma layer than at its southern border.
We know there is gross deterioration of the Arctic Ocean, loss of Polar Bear habitat and a reduction of perma frost. We also know there is a northern 'sea' passage over the pole now. We also know there is no OLD ICE in the Arctic Ocean. It is all new ice and far less dense than the old ice that once existed there.
I propose that the North America Plate is losing 'its attitude' within Earth's magma layer and is rising in the north and settling deeper in the south, thus, producing a multitude of quakes in a short period of time. This attitude change is due to the profound loss of dense sea ice and land ice that acted as an anchor to 'slow' the movement of the North America Plate.
I also propose that human induced global warming with its vortexes in high numbers resulting in high velocity winds in its 'surface troposphere' SUSTAINED over years now, also acts as a pushing force against the exposed land mass both in air dynamics and water dynamics. It can be stated that erosional force winds against the Rocky Mountains will not only cause deterioration of the mountain rock, but, also prove to be a 'torque' strength FORCE that with a changing of the Plate in its magma layer also provides incentive for movement of the San Andres Fault.
Realizing also, the 'air-surface interface' characteristics of the ocean tides and movements will create 'surface layer' torque FORCE as well that exerts its dynamics against the land mass of which it collides. That air surface interface will provide a 'ratio of torque force' as the upper winds translate to the water surface.
I do not believe any one of these forces acting alone can produce these effects, however, in a 'perfect storm' if you will, those dynamics are possible. If this is even remotely possible, which I strongly believe it is, there is absolutely no predicting the cessation of the quakes in the Gulf and Atlantic Ocean of the West and Northern Hemisphere.
I do not view the 'aftershocks' as they are reported as being 'aftershocks' at all, but, repeated 'quaking' of the North American Plate as it settles into a new attitude in its magma layer, IF, that is possible now.
L.A.'s latest storm brings heavy flooding (click here)
Traffic is a nightmare, with portions of the 710 and 405 freeways inundated by several feet of water and the Grapevine and Cajon Pass closed by snow. Evacuations are ordered for more than 1,000 homes.
A bulldozer clears mud near homes in La Canada Flintridge, Los Angeles January 20, 2010. Authorities on Wednesday ordered the evacuation of 750 homes in the foothills around Los Angeles, fearing that the third in a series of powerful storms would trigger flash flooding and mudslides.
Credit: REUTERS/Gus Ruelas
Tornado warning in California as storm hits (click here)
Tornado warning in California as storm hitsPosted: 20 January 2010 0531 hrs
LOS ANGELES – A rare tornado warning was issued for Los Angeles Tuesday as a storm slammed into southern California, dumping heavy rain and snow across the region and leaving thousands of homes without power.
National Weather Service meteorologist Ryan Kittell said a strong storm moving in from the Pacific Ocean and packing winds of around 60 miles per hour had triggered the tornado alert.
“We don’t have any physical evidence of a tornado, but our radars indicated it is spinning rapidly so there’s a good chance of a tornado at the surface,” Kittell told AFP.
Powerful storm fronts developing at sea often weakened by the time they made landfall, Kittell cautioned, admitting that tornado alerts in sun-baked California were “pretty rare.”
“We do get them from time to time but they are pretty rare,” he said.
The storm rolling into southern California on Tuesday followed a similar weather front which deluged the region 24 hours earlier.
Authorities placed hillside communities on alert for flash flooding and mudslides, a major concern in regions affected by raging wildfires last year.
Tuesday’s storm was one of a series of wet weather fronts forecast to hit southern California this week, which are expected to drop as much as 16 inches of rain in some areas.
Local power companies reported Tuesday that engineers were working to restore power to nearly 17,000 customers suffering outages because of the weather.
