This
just in from Yahoo. Apparently they found the spot I have been
describing since last September, a new fault line right in the heart of
Seattle. This confirms the vision and Public Prediction going back to
earlier this year.
WASHINGTON
— Using sophisticated seismometers and GPS devices, scientists have
been able to track minute movements along two massive tectonic plates colliding 25 miles or so underneath Washington state's Puget Sound
basin. Their early findings suggest that a mega-earthquake could strike
closer to the Seattle - Tacoma area, home to some 3.6 million people,
than was thought earlier
Whereas the scientists once predicted that a mega-earthquake would
be centered just off the Northwest coast, now — using data from the
tremors research — they say that it could be 30 miles or more inland,
under the Olympic Peninsula , which lies to the west of Seattle and Tacoma across Puget Sound ..
"People are aware of the possibility," said John Vidale , a professor of geophysics
at the University of Washington and the state's seismologist. "We
haven't exactly calculated the impact, but bringing the fault closer
(to metropolitan areas) could increase the shaking."
Scientists have spent years studying what's known as the Cascadia subduction zone, an area where the two tectonic plants collide that stretches roughly 600 miles off the coast of Northern California to southern British Columbia, Canada .
Since the deep tremors were first detected 15 years ago, scientists
have been trying to determine what was causing them along the Cascadia
subduction zone. Eventually, they concluded that the tremors reflected
the slippage of the Juan de Fuca plate under the North American plate.
What's unique about the deep tremors, which occur in an area stretching roughly from Olympia, Wash. , to Canada's Vancouver Island
, is that they reappear about every 15 months. While tremors have been
detected elsewhere along the Cascadia subduction zone, none is as
regular or as prolonged as those in the Puget Sound basin, Dragert said.."
According to the timetable, episodic tremor and slip should be going
on just about now. Instead, it came last spring, catching scientists by
surprise. Malone said that some tremors were detected southwest of
Olympia last week, but that it was too soon to determine whether they
were part of a new episode or just isolated ones.
If all the energy associated with tremors over two weeks were
released in 10 seconds, Vidale said, it would equal a 7.0 earthquake.
Similar deep tremors are being tracked at other subduction zones around the globe, including in Alaska , Japan , Mexico and Chile .