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4 Earthquakes Hit Off Oregon Coast – Is Cascadia Heating Up?

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 Strange Sounds

Within the last 12 hours, 4 earthquakes hit off Oregon’s Coast – 2 along the Blanco fracture zone and 2 on the Gorda Plate.

Cascadia is heating up!

4 earthquakes hit off Oregon Coast on December 28, 2019. Map via USGS
The Cascadia subduction Zone is currently releasing lots of pressure on its upper end. And now, quakes start quicking off near the lower end of the same Cascadia along the Blanco Fracture Zone and on the Gorda Plate.
The Gorda Plate and the Juan de Fuca Plate are two oceanic plates, subducting underneath the North American Plate in what is known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
The Blanco Fracture Zone is a nice transform fault zone that’s a bit like the San Andreas, only underwater. It forms the boundary between the Juan de Fuca and Pacific plates, and is around 200 kilometers west of the Cascadia subduction zone… Not so far…
As shown on the map above, within the last 12 hours, the Blanco Fracture Zone and the Gorda Plate were hit by 2 very shallow earthquakes, respectively:

• M3.7 – Off the coast of Oregon
  
  
• M4.3 – 145km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon
  
  
• M3.9 – 142km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon
  
  
• M3.0 – 212km W of Bandon, Oregon
  
  

Animation of Cascadia Earthquakes from 1979 to 2019

The widely-felt M6.3 earthquake of August 29, 2019 on the Blanco Fracture Zone was only the most recent of many moderate-size earthquakes to strike this region off of the Oregon coast.
As this animation shows, such earthquakes are common along the boundaries of the Juan de Fuca plate with the Pacific Plate, which also includes the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the Gorda Ridge, and the Mendocino Fracture Zone.
Fortunately these events rarely pose a tsunami hazard since the largest of these earthquakes tend to have strike-slip mechanisms that move the seafloor mostly sideways with little disruption to the ocean above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAJcLtBhNEM



The Juan de Fuca Plate meets the North American Plate, however, with a very different sort of plate boundary: a subduction zone.
This plate boundary can produce megathrust earthquakes with large vertical motions that cause devastating tsunamis.
It has been more than 300 years since the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone generated such destruction, on January 26, 1700.
This subduction zone also created the volcanoes of the High Cascades, stretching from northern California into southern British Columbia.
To put the recent earthquake in context this animation begins 40 years earlier, in 1979. In that time frame 10 earthquake of M6.0 or larger occurred on the Blanco FZ and more than a dozen along the Mendocino FZ, some with M7.0 or larger.
The fracture zones off of Vancouver Island have also produced numerous earthquakes larger the M6.0, with one as large at M6.8.
The largest earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the last 40 years was the M6.8 Nisqually Earthquake in southern Puget Sound on February 28, 2001.
The volcanic activity of Mt. St. Helens is also visible in 1980-1982 and 2004-2008.
As the area covered by the animation extends over North America, it also includes activity unrelated to Cascadia, such as the October 28, 1983, M6.9 southern Idaho earthquake and numerous small events associated with the Yellowstone Caldera.
This animation shows every earthquake in the USGS/NEIC catalog for the Cascadia region. As the animation approaches the present day, seismometer networks are able to detect smaller and smaller earthquakes, creating the illusion of increasing activity. In reality these smaller earthquakes have always been there, but the technology has only recently been able to detect them. [Youtube]

[size=16]Recent Earthquakes Near Puerto Rico:18 earthquakes in the past 24 hours 95 earthquakes in the past 7 days 373 earthquakes in the past 30 days [/size]

Recent Earthquakes Near Puerto Rico


 

 

Puerto Rico has had: [size=14](M1.5 or greater)[/size]

• 19 earthquakes in the past 24 hours
  
• 95 earthquakes in the past 7 days
  
• 375 earthquakes in the past 30 days
  
• 3,454 earthquakes in the past 365 days
  

The largest earthquake in Puerto Rico:

• today: 5.1 in Guánica, Guanica, Puerto Rico
  
• this week: 5.1 in Guánica, Guanica, Puerto Rico
  
• this month: 5.1 in Guánica, Guanica, Puerto Rico
  
• this year: 6.0 in San Antonio, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  

 

 






















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10 mi
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19 minutes ago 5.1 magnitude, 2 km depth
Guánica, Guanica, Puerto Rico

about 4 hours ago 2.8 magnitude, 8 km depth
Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

about 6 hours ago 2.7 magnitude, 12 km depth
Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

about 8 hours ago 2.2 magnitude, 27 km depth
La Parguera, Lajas, Puerto Rico

about 9 hours ago 2.4 magnitude, 11 km depth
Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

about 10 hours ago 2.1 magnitude, 8 km depth
Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

about 10 hours ago 2.0 magnitude, 7 km depth
Potala Pastillo, Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico

about 10 hours ago 2.7 magnitude, 11 km depth
Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

about 11 hours ago 2.6 magnitude, 11 km depth
Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

about 12 hours ago 1.6 magnitude, 19 km depth
San Germán, San German, Puerto Rico




 

 






















50 km
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about 12 hours ago 2.8 magnitude, 34 km depth
Carrizales, Hatillo, Puerto Rico

about 12 hours ago 3.7 magnitude, 49 km depth
Tortola, British Virgin Islands

about 14 hours ago 2.9 magnitude, 15 km depth
Luquillo, Luquillo, Puerto Rico

about 16 hours ago 4.4 magnitude, 17 km depth
Culebra, Culebra, Puerto Rico

about 17 hours ago 2.2 magnitude, 23 km depth
Palmarejo, Lajas, Puerto Rico

about 18 hours ago 3.2 magnitude, 14 km depth
Carrizales, Hatillo, Puerto Rico

about 21 hours ago 2.1 magnitude, 10 km depth
Potala Pastillo, Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico

about 23 hours ago 2.1 magnitude, 36 km depth
Hatillo, Hatillo, Puerto Rico

about 23 hours ago 2.7 magnitude, 5 km depth
Jauca, Santa Isabel Municipio, Puerto Rico

a day ago 2.1 magnitude, 20 km depth
Hatillo, Hatillo, Puerto Rico




 

 






















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a day ago 2.4 magnitude, 16 km depth
Aguilita, Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico

a day ago 2.1 magnitude, 9 km depth
Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

a day ago 2.3 magnitude, 11 km depth
Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

a day ago 2.6 magnitude, 12 km depth
Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

a day ago 2.9 magnitude, 14 km depth
San Antonio, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

a day ago 3.1 magnitude, 44 km depth
San Antonio, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

2 days ago 3.6 magnitude, 44 km depth
Boca de Yuma, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic

2 days ago 2.3 magnitude, 8 km depth
Salinas, Salinas, Puerto Rico

2 days ago 2.3 magnitude, 74 km depth
Guayanilla, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico

2 days ago 2.8 magnitude, 49 km depth
Punta Cana, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic

Did you see this on 'strange sounds'?  Looks like a Q to me.  Whatsa matter with them.  Don't they know their alphabet??   
https://strangesounds.org/2019/12/circular-chemtrail-contrail-colorado-sky-picture.html#comment-474828