What was the first topic that ever caught your attention to want to know more about our planet?
This is a personal piece today relating to the first topic that ever caught my attention with Nature. The topic that hooked me and got me interested in Nature is about volcanoes and earthquakes.
When I was a child, I remember hounding my mother about the volcano Mount Saint Helens. I still remember that on May 18, 1980, Mount Saint Helens roared and surprised the heck out of all scientists.
It wasn’t long after that growing up, that I wanted everything there was to learn about this volcano. I remember that I did at least three science projects, in papier-mâché, that got better each time with eruption qualities. Ha! I also remember my mother introducing me to the other aspects of what was (and is still discovered) about tectonic plates, fault lines, and volcanoes. I was even introduced to the San Andreas Fault Line.
Through the years, my mother and I have gone back and forth on the increased activity of the low and hardly felt earthquakes. Literally, your gardening variety of “it looks like it is going in a circle,” followed up with, “why are they saying it is a aftershock from five years ago – when it is a new earthquake?” Nothing on this planet has ever stayed the same for any length of time. The pole shifts, which are greatly attributed to earthquakes, prove that.
Note: Pole shifts are where the positive and negative energies – flip. Ah. Magnetic north isn’t really north. It is more in and towards the Hudson Bay, in Canada.
Since our planet has known magnetic fields, how is it not possibly caused by something we at least hear, feel, or see everyday? (Take into account that Earth is pounded on by energy from space too…..)
There are no effective ways to measure or know when an earthquake will happen or volcano will erupt. The best technique that comes with studying this area is following the lines and dots where they happen.
For example —
The San Andreas Fault line has started its tall tale signs to something going on beneath the earths crust. What followed up right behind it two days after it was reported? The earthquake in China – that has displaced 400,000 people.
Is this a stretch? Not scientifically speaking really. Everything is a hypothesis till it just happens and then it becomes fact. Check out where the tectonic plates meet up and then look at the fault lines, followed by what I like to call possible “sub” fault lines.
There is always energy moving around the Earth. We see the energy in our storms and other such avenues. Now, think of the energy beneath us,that is so raw and untamed that even now, still, (sorry for the repeat) we cannot track the next event(s).
Earthquakes and volcanoes is such a fascinating subject because there is one day nothing and then someday something. It is constantly looking at the past events while maintaining the possible future event.
There are studies in Middle America of the earthquake that rang the bells in Maine – from 1912.
There are studies in Alaska all the time about the earthquake that moved a rock 6 to 8 feet – straight out of the ground – from 1908 or 1918. (I always misspeak that date.)
There are studies ongoing in Hawaii and Washington State related to volcanoes.
There are still studies about Jakarta blowing itself off the map and now cresting sea level again in Indonesia.
It is a huge topic that is intriguing, with many avenues for science to split off in study.
