Mt. St. Helens Quakes w/Steam Explosion

St Helen's is going to blow again, soon. I've been watching the small quakes around there for weeks... they are also happening on the fault line that is connected to St. Helen's.

Unlike the California quakes, when small ones have little meaning, and relative silence means trouble. Small rumblings off St. Helen's will go on for a few weeks or months, and then it will go silent for about a week before it blows...

California is constantly releasing stress on it's fault lines.. the small quakes are just that, stress release. When California fault lines go silent, the stress is building. And the longer it goes, the bigger the quake that is required to release the built up stress on that line... The San Francisco quake of 1906, the quake in the bay area in 1989, and the Northridge Quake of 1994 were all preceded by several weeks of siesmological calm...

Did you know that there are nearly 200 falut lines in California?

 

In all truth, California COULD in theory disconnect from the rest of the contiguous US. The fact is, there is a fault line that runs from south to north along the area of the 395... however, if it split on that line, not all of California would disconnect. There would still be vast areas that would be left connected. But the vast majority would not be. That line has been mostly inactive for over 200 years. I say "mostly" because there was a major earthquake on that line about 10 years ago that measured 7.9 and was centered at Hector Mine. Since the epicenter was in a very rural area, there were little damages, no injuries, and *only* 2 killed.

 

Please note that I wrote "only" the way I did because I roll my eyes and sigh every time I hear that in reference to those who were killed. Any loss of life in such circumstances is senseless.

 

No, it wouldn't actually sink into the ocean.. but it could, in theory, break off.

 

Hot air RISES; it CAN'T sink! LOL!