Is America Next on the Quake Hit List?
- Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:01pm by
Mike Opelka
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As Japan works to recover from the devastating earthquake of last week, many of us here in America have wondered:
Can it happen here? YES, it can happen here and probably very soon.
How well would our cities fare after a major quake? Not very well.
Newsweek magazine and MSNBC linked up to share the paranoia on the probability of a major quake hitting America – stories like this one peppered coverage on the network both Saturday and Sunday.
Newsweek contributor Simon Winchester cites a little seismic history for us and then basically handicaps the possibility of North America getting hit with a major quake in the near future.
Did you catch that? Based on statistics alone, he cites the chances that a big rumbler like the one that hit Japan will hit close to home:
The New Madrid Fault (St. Louis, Cincinnati, Memphis. . . basically the middle of America) – within the next century. An expert at St. Louis University claims the earthquake in Japan shook the planet so hard that halfway around the world, the city of St. Louis moved up and down a quarter of an inch.
Oakland, California – You’ve got 25 years of worry ahead.
The Cascadia Fault (Cascadia Subduction Zone, spanning 600 miles from British Columbia to Northern CA) - Possibly sonner than Oakland.
The law of averages says that anything will happen that can. (Unless you are a Chicago Cubs fan.) And many in the sports world talk about believing in something called ‘the concept of due.” Basically explained, if you believe in ‘due’ then you think the odds that something that has not happened is going to happen very soon. As in overdue to happen.
We have not had a major seismic event in this country for some time now. Let’s hope that Mother Nature does not watch MSNBC, does not read Newsweek and does not believe in ‘due.’ But just in case, maybe we should all do a little planning.




















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colonel33
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:47pmOur biggest threat is Yellowstone. It has erupted 3 times during the last 2 million years, at 630,000 year intervals. The last eruption was 630,000 years ago – it changed the climate on the entire planet back then. One end of the large lake in Yellowstone has rises over 3 feet since 1987. Something is pushing upward. Nat Geo says if it goes again, the path of chaos will be eastward and southward all the way to the Atlantic coast.
Report Post »HeReturnsSoon
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:10pmit would take a few mounths for the Yellowstone Super Volcano to become deadly.i can walk half way to Arizona in that time. (from Yellowstone)
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 12:10am@colonel33
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:47pm
Our biggest threat is Yellowstone. It has erupted 3 times during the last 2 million years, at 630,000 year intervals. The last eruption was 630,000 years ago – it changed the climate on the entire planet back then. One end of the large lake in Yellowstone has rises over 3 feet since 1987. Something is pushing upward. Nat Geo says if it goes again, the path of chaos will be eastward and southward all the way to the Atlantic coast.
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Report Post »I’d like to fact check that, did they keep good records back then (2 mill. yrs ago) or did nat geo just go sperlunking and check newpaper archives on the caves?
Stopit
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:18amColonel33 was there 2 million years ago and decided to enlighten us with his eternal, reincarnated wisdom.
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:08pmif Yellowstone(old faithful) erupts as it did approx 630,000 years ago, you need not concern yourself,as all you will be able to do is kiss yourself good bye.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:46pmIf it happens it happens. Ya just dont mess with mother nature. The sad part about all this the Global Climate Change fanatics will try to cash in on the backs of the folks that lost there lives in Japan. They will come up with another Hockey stick graphic and claim dooms day will such and such day if we dont get on board with one Global Government. WANNA BET??????????????
Report Post »exdem
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:46pmThis is why Congress and the Senate need to pass new energy legislation. We all know the only way to stop these horrible weather disasters is to pay higher taxes and recycle more.
Report Post »jarasan
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:45pmI don‘t know if anyone caught O’reilly (Friday?) but he said “we have experience drilling into the Earth‘s core and why can’t we predict these events?” I almost fell off the chair when he said that! This lack of understanding is astounding, I wish these talking heads would stick to politics or just shut up! for petes sake, when they have nary a clue of what they are talking about.
Report Post »hownowbrownmao
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:09pmat least glenn beck poops his pants to keep up ronald reagans legacy.
Report Post »MikeRaleighNC
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:45pmI think it’s time people start listening to this Russian guy and Pier Corbyn….
Arcady Tishkov: Moon and sun to blame for Japan quake
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=7382
http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=325&c=5
Report Post »hownowbrownmao
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:37pmYes we will be punished by God for glenn beck. A horrible tragic and devastating thing will happen for all the discord and fear he has sown. Fortunately, the good people, the liberals and union members will all survive the devastation and build a glorious New Jerusalem, where the lion shall lay down with the lamb, and unfortunately the lamb and the lion will also eat all the conservatives and republicans. Other than that it is gonna be great.
Report Post »QuantumVerp
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:06pmBut the liberals and union members will strike and soon be up to their necks in sh&@)t and eventually drown in it like we are now… crazy (liberal) and lazy people (union members) keep doing insane things and expect it to turn out differently each time…
“You mean I can’t make even more money than when I was working after I finish working?!&@(*
Report Post »How about almost as much?”
Tnredneck
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:21pmThe commie Mao seems to have a problem with truth and reality. Or maybe it likes wallowing in it’s own ignorance. ( the use of it was intended)
Report Post »hownowbrownmao
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:24pmbut can you fault them for at least trying?
Report Post »Tea-Bone
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:19pmwhy don’t you try and sow your seeds of destruction and malcontent somewhere that morons would agree with your commie nonsense? What, did they kick you off the HuffPo because you couldn’t toe the line with enough propaganda?
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 12:18amQMAO the HUN
Report Post »Your not original in the lies you tell. Jew boy Carl Marx and Lenin have already twisted Gods word to create murdering Commie Socialist. It is not strange when I see Geo. Soros another Reform-Jew in pursuit of destruction such as you do. You have no one smart enough on your socialist sites so you come here for fun but the joke is on you idiot
Jim from Maine
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 8:17amYou really need help … I can see a public high school education on display here .
Report Post »Messenger4God
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:36pmAbove all, we must be prepared for the 2nd coming of Christ. Without Him life is meaningless.
Boojer56
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:35pmHello, MSNBC anyone home? We have had our share of earthquakes California already Seems to me in 1906 there was a major earthquake in San Francisco. I remember the Candlestick park earthquake.
Report Post »Californians believe that every thing east of Nevada will slide off into the ocean
Psychosis
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:55pmwe could only hope
Report Post »chickenlittle
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:27pmEAST of Nevada? Which ocean would that be sliding into eaxctly/
Report Post »millefiore
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:09pmWhat about if the next “big earthquake is up the Mississippi River” dividing our land mass?
Report Post »The east coast wants the west coast to slide into the ocean and vice versa. Can’t we all just get along? Maybe not.
cthompson44
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:33pmim more worried about that asteroid comin at us.
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:01pmwould that be Dec 21,2012,as the Mayan calendar suggests,” an end of an age? ” Wonder what that might mean? Hmmmmmm
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:32pmSo true as I have suggested last cpl days. We all have been given a clear warning to be prepared.
Its not just the ring of fire that is a threat as far as quakes go. From what I understand the fault line in southern CA is WORSE than the one in the north by San Fran! Then there is Yellowstone which has been labeled a super volcano, many shows have been done about it on science channels like Discovery if that goes we all go. (It was the centerpiece for the movie “2012”.)
Gotta say im in 100% agreement with article, the US is way overdue for a major seismic event! Last one was in ‘94 Northridge quake, was bad but doesnt hold a candle to the quakes damage we have seen in other nations.
As for Japan let me say this, they got off easy with 8.9,/ 9.1 some have even claimed!!! Yea I said that, they got off easy you know why?! That quake had an epicenter at sea, imagine if that was land based! The entire country would probably been laid to waste!
Thus my first comment we have ALL been warned to prepare!
Report Post »Awakened One
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:31pmYa know, Japan is having a terrible crisis. Do we have to make this about us?
Report Post »Alan Kellogg
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 5:41amThe more we personalize an event, the more we’ll obsess about it.
Report Post »ISLAMICO
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:29pmI pray that the quake or a Tsunami never hits USA but I also know that if that happens praise will belong to Allah and the Islamophobes will have no one to blame but them selves.
Report Post »pdh42
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:01pmWe should praise God and the Son in All things…. Remember you should bow down to the Creator and not to a creation…..
Report Post »awall1231
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:03pmthanks for your support. Now go and beat your wife and rape some chldren just as Mohammad used to do. dont forget to murder them afterwards and call it an honor killing.
Report Post »pdh42
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:04pmCan anyone say Birth Pangs???? Could it be that a book that was written a couple of thousand years ago predicted these things to happen???? It predicted chaos, wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes and more before the Son of Man comes back for His bride…… The Church…..
Report Post »awall1231
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:05pmbetter yet just strap a bomb to yourself and go blow up a mosque or something to show us all.
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:16pmI believe it’s the nation of Islam that has the phobia against Christians and Jews. Rather than get along I believe your womanizing child molesting pervert profit advocates the killing of Christians and Jews. So go to the huff po troll where you will fit in.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:21pmPDH42, I’ll have to keep an eye out for your posts. They seem intelligent.
Report Post »Stopit
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:09amDon’t worship the moon god or his unprophetic “prophet”.
but speaking of the moon & earthquakes…
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/12/supermoon-cause-moonquakes-scientist-says/
Report Post »arx
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 8:14pm“praise will belong to Allah” for a hit against the United States….and I suppose you consider yourself a moderate mooslum. No true American would make such a statement.
Report Post »firex1204
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:27pmMaybe California could just break away from the mainland and float off into the Pacific ocean and all the Hollywood stars could float off with it. We won’t have to bail them out and a lot less libs in the country. That means less people trying to destroy our great country.
Report Post »pdh42
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:00pmCan we send Illinois and New York with them????
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:31pm“Maybe California could just break away from the mainland and float off into the Pacific ocean and all the Hollywood stars could float off with it.”
Or perhaps that portion of CA formerly known as Hollywood will be blown out into space, where it will orbit the earth. Once a day it will “moon,” and thereby showing disrespect for its audience as it did while a part of earth.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 8:42pmNot all of California, only the part left of the fault line. The rest of us are normal.
Report Post »NJProud
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:27pmAm I watching the local evening news? These are the types of headlines/teasers that they use to scare people to increase viewership.I expect better from The Blaze.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:57pm@NJProud
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:27pm
Am I watching the local evening news? These are the types of headlines/teasers that they use to scare people to increase viewership.I expect better from The Blaze.
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Report Post »Only scarey if you’ve never asked Jesus into your heart, if you have, He’s with you to assure you that “All’s well that ends well” (Check out Revelations) and to those of us who have, these are VERY exciting times, because since The Resurrection, and His acendency into Heaven ALL BELIEVERS have thought that it would happen in their life time! One things for sure, it’s not getting farther away as we see more and more prophecy come to headline! (( That happy ending is available for all races, nationalities, and even those born into any creed, or none at all, if they’ll but ask Him! )) My God is The God of Love and Mercy, just stand or sit still and call on Him!
Factorial Debt
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:25pmIt’s Biblical , birth pangs…..
Basic
Instructions
Before
Leaving
Earth
B-I-B-L-E Good Read….!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:36pmwell said … well said
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:37pm@FACTORIAL DEBT ~~~ #1 Best selling book of all time!
Now, if people will just open it and read….
By the way, the book of Revelation is the only book in the Bible that comes with …Well, read it for yourselves: the book of Revelation, chapter 1, verse 3.
GOD BLESS!
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:44pmAnyone who wants to read the world news in advance — Read The Bible!
Report Post »awall1231
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:00pmI thought it was
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chasbronson
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:11pmBiblical prophecy is coming to culmination rapidly.When Isreal as a nation had budded forth in 1948.“this generation shall not pass till the coming of the son of man shall be”.“Information will be greatly increased”.[it is the computer age].Their is fulfilment of many prophecies coming .It is ones best interest to know these things,if they do not already.It is better yet to trust Jesus Christ for your soul.Whether in life ,or death you are going to need him.Whether you like it,or not believe it ,or not.that is real Truth.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:46pmAnd never a subject it doesn’t fit!
Report Post »millefiore
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:54pm# 1 on the best sellers list if you value your life and where you want to spend eternity-
Report Post »Did those 10,000 people in Japan know it would be their last day or night on earth? We are not promised even the next hour. Don’t delay. Romans 10:9-10.
ilovetheusa1
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:23pmthis is california’s only way out of debt, being totally destroyed. hopefully the progressives will go too.
Report Post »Tea-Bone
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:00pmCalijohn must be a progressive/liberal, first tactic of rebuttal- immature name-calling. Don’t like it? Move the hell out of Cali.
Report Post »PimpBallWizard
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:20pmcome on now, I think CaliJohn was just poking fun.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:21pmI see that the Liberal Propaganda Scare ministers are hard at work. First it was the Ice Age and that didn’t work. Then it was the Ozone followed by a Meteor. When those failed as well, out came Al Gore and his global warming.
Now it is Earth quakes. Seriously…aren’t there better things to write about
Report Post »Uriel
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:42pmJust wait. They’ll use earthquakes to put a stop to more oil & gas drilling. Arkansas (home of the New Madrid fault) recently experienced a swarm of small earthquakes. The “fracking” that had been taking place there was forced to halt operations. Don’t be surprised to here fracking blamed for the Japan quake. After all, they’ve already blamed the earthquake on global warming, and their immunity to cognitive dissonance allows them to blame anything on any number of causes related to the free market.
Report Post »twofoot_trucker
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:57pmUriel, something like two wells shut down. The rest of the wells are running along just fine. I haul the sand they use for the fracking process and we are still as busy as we were before the quakes.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:21pmCould be Obama. OMG. They are right.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:21pmNot much we can do about it, is there?
Report Post »conservativeme
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:21pmWhat goes around, comes around . . . (is that appropriate here?)
Report Post »Proud American in Buffalo
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:00pmSure do. A certian religion refers to it as Karma.
Report Post »WISEPENNY
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:09pmSheesh. Where is Buddha just when you need him? Hey, BROKER, didn’t Beck say something about a major earthquake in Japan about a year ago? Seems like I remember something like that. Maybe not.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:21pmlol any planning i have in mind would be building a wall between california and the rest of the country, and only allowing presently registered republicans and independents to move across the border. let cali and the crazy left float off and create their own bankrupt utopia by themselves no tears shed here for them
Report Post »calijohn
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:07pmyour handle fits you quite well
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:41pmOnly work if princess nancy is there to set up the Utopian gvt. Maybe she can talk prince harry to help her, and I know the Puuuuuurrrrrfffffeeeeecct President.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:21pmYes, the earth is active and the plates are shifting. Expect more of the same with volcanoes adding to the mix.
Report Post »QuantumVerp
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:40pmand the volcanoes dust will shade Earth,
and She will cool down…
Anybody seen where that big blob of Uranium 235 went?
Report Post »(just kidding)
teahugger
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:46pmQuick…we need to band together to stop plate techtonics NOW! There has been too much time wasted by trying to stop global warming, and the real problem is getting out of control. Where are our legislators?!! Where are the activists?!!
Report Post »I-HATE-THE-WORD-DISENFRANCHISE
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:54pmGreat, now obamas going to take credit for speeding up the economy. Literally. Also, could someone go get jesse jackson he’s trying to get money from Japan claiming discrimination.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:36pm@QuantumVerp
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:40pm
and the volcanoes dust will shade Earth,
and She will cool down…
Anybody seen where that big blob of Uranium 235 went?
(just kidding)
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Report Post »That wasn’t Uranium 235 , that was Uranius, Mercury and Jupiter are playing in the Sun, and trying to keep it away from Mars & Jupiter. !!!!!!!!!DUCK HERE IT COMES AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
APatriotFirst
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:19pmAnd don’t forget reports of the Japan quake caused the earth to spin just a tiny little bit faster now.
Report Post »QuantumVerp
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:24pmThat‘s the part I don’t like!
Report Post »I’m having a hard time keeping my balance now!
APatriotFirst
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:29pmLOL Yepper, thought it was my bum legs and old age, but now know it is the earth spinning faster that makes me not be able to keep my balance. What a relief.
Report Post »awall1231
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:57pmI know right. this morning I woke up and it was a whole hour later in the day than yesterday. WEIRD!!!!!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:06pmSo now would be the time to buy that “beach front” land in Nevada?
Report Post »QuantumVerp
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:18pmCan I have a peek at the ‘Quake Hit List’?
Please! Oh! Come on! Please?
Report Post »QuantumVerp
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:31pmOh!
Yikes! Super-yikes!
ALL CAPS YIKES!
Oh My God! Is there anything we can do to ameliorate this, this? This hot mess of putty?
Write this down: Convert some of the hotter deep mines near the ‘ring of fire’ into refrigerant systems by filling them with refrigerant liquids and routing the refrigerant up to very large parabolic dishes so the heat can be radiated out into space each night… you can use them for radio telescopes if you want… you’re gonna need a lot of them… a few thousand… just to buy a few thousand years…
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:28pmWhat’s the Vegas line on America!
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:26pmWrite this down: Convert some of the hotter deep mines near the ‘ring of fire’ into refrigerant systems by filling them with refrigerant liquids and routing the refrigerant up to very large parabolic dishes so the heat can be radiated out into space each night… you can use them for radio telescopes if you want… you’re gonna need a lot of them… a few thousand… just to buy a few thousand years…
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Report Post »Not to worry; I believe GS and ALGORE are preparing a Richtor Swap exchange as we type. Every major city gets 4/5 on the scale, but if your population isn’t big enough to qualify for FEMA funds, several small states or densely populated states can bundle together, and drill for their own fault line, the major cities [Chicago, NY, San Fran} each get a 10.4 just to be prepared, then they’ll give Detroit a 12.5 so BO doesn’t have to use his HUD funds to bulldoze the neighborhoods. (Of course after the collapse of everything it’ll take a while to make a park for the rest of the country! )
COME ON PEOPLE, LET’S NOT PLAY CHICKEN LITTLE HERE! YES, BE PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES, BUT LET’S NOT BE OBSESSED! It’s time to pray for and help the people of Japan and thank God for His mercy to us. Not replace gw with great quaking!
QuantumVerp
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:28pmI think it‘s safe to say a ’major’ in one place lessens the odds in other places…
Hawii’s Kialuea Volcano has just subsided… Down Yellowstone Down!
2 to 1 or 1 to 2 (as usual)
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:18pmBye, bye Yellowstone!!!
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:29pmYeah, Yellowstone is hit and I will be driving south as fast as I can.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:42pm@mannax
Report Post »You have those that will run away …I for one will run toward to help where I can, like those that went into the towers on 9/11 not as a hero but as a human helping others.
NotaLemming
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:07pmWell you can watch live as we see Japan go bye bye then. LiveStream News for Japans News Agencies; coverage is in English: http://t.co/rSWjhz6 I thought Obama had sold Yellow Stone Park to the Russians?
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 1:21pmSad but true, however, right now it is the Pacific plate that is making the major moves, so that would lend to the San Andrea’s Fault being the next in line. So anywhere from Juneau to San Diego better be ready for self survival, the one plus for those on the left coast south of Washington state, at least it stays above freezing most nights.
Report Post »Billsocal
Posted on March 15, 2011 at 2:43pmYou need to be more wooried about Longs Valley Caldera in California. It is are country’s second super volcano. It located near the ski resort area of Mommoth Mtn. which is between Reno NV and Los Angeles. It the last few yeats there had beeb major swarms of earthquakes in the Reno area. No one ever links the earthquake swarm to Long Valley and they should.
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