There is a huge “techtonic shift” happening …in more ways that one…IMHO we have reached peak Cretin …and They are now crumbling before our eyes…The Earth is belching them up …It’s a metaphor …but isn’t this amazing

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from JC

Over the weekend, earthquake reports tumbled in from what felt like a whole lot of places: the Philippines (7.6 magnitude); Indonesia (6.3); northwest Turkey (5.1); Pakistan (4.8): Iceland (which is still waiting for that volcano to blow); Madison, Ohio (2.3); southern Utah (3.9); Bangladesh, India (5.5); Imperial County at the California-Mexico border (4.8); and Banning, California (3.2).

I may have missed some. And, someone else will have to say whether that’s really a lot of reports, since I’m just a lawyer, not a geologist or whatever. Coincidentally, there was also some pretty significant solar activity over the weekend too, featuring giant coronal holes in the Sun, which are not the same as sunspots (although I can see why you’d confuse the two. Not me. I didn’t confuse them. That is not why I looked it up. You can’t prove that.):

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Coronal holes are dark, irregularly shaped areas on the Sun that are cooler than surrounding areas, or at least, less super-hot. Don’t ask why. These ‘holes’ occur where the Sun’s magnetic field temporarily tears wide open, allowing supercharged particles from the Sun’s corona to stream into space.

Right now they’re streaming towards the Earth, which if you live in Portland, is the planet that we all live on. Plus resident aliens.

Despite the dramatic photos, space watchers don’t appear to be more than usually excited about the weekend’s glorious corona holes. News reports suggest that, because of the holes and the particles and such, auroras may be visible tonight or tomorrow in many locations far south of where they’re ever normally seen. So keep an eye out.

Anyway, the reason I mentioned the space weather is that some credible-sounding independent observers have been claiming this kind of solar activity can cause earthquakes. Again, don’t ask how. It’s complicated. To be fair and balanced, the U.S. Geological Survey says there’s ‘no evidence’ of any link between the Sun’s supercharged magnetic particles and earthquakes.

I’ll let you decide whether you’d rather believe random twitter accounts on the Internet or the official government earthquake agency. As for me, I’m still thinking it over.

Have a marvelous Monday! I’ll have a great new roundup for you tomorrow morning somewhere around the regular time. See you then.