Same general process but not the ring of fire.

Same problem with the "charges attraction causing it" -- nope. These quakes are the result of convection currents moving tectonic plates over the Earth's mantle. Heat and density and not electrostatics.

The Gods are angry. More to come.

... just sayin'

So who's been bombing the fault lines again?

Those were some fun threads.

I'm still stuck on the chicken wire and charcoal fluid, though.

I don't think I should ask, right? LOL

Thanks for posting that. I read just enough of it to get the general idea of what the controversy was, but decided I knew way too little (basicallly nothing) about the issues in question to even form an opinion and climbed back out of the rabbit hole before I could get lost in there.

to set off a chain reaction around the ring of fire. I've been through two major ones, most notably the Nisqually Quake in 2001.

My grandmother would say he's been eating too much fruitcake. There's no evidence that interplanetary magnetic fields have an affect on earthquakes. Scanning his twitter feed, he also believes the 1969 moon landing was a movie, and that there's lava flow on the moon. I wouldn't look to him for explanations about yesterday's quakes.

... I need a good chuckle!

...and that the general theory of relativity is wrong, and that gravity is caused by "tiny charged particles" originating within planets.

In short, he's a pseudo-science nutball.

that Mother Earth is trying to tell us something? Maybe we should all stop fighting, shut up, and LISTEN to her!

I don’t consider anything under 6.0 to be a “major quake”

That 5.6 in Redwood valley is somewhat unusual

They put the dot down around San Diego/the US-Mexico border.

If you can't get stuff like that right on your infographic, who knows what else you screwed up...

Neither do I.

For visibility

The cited Twitter poster is a fabulist.

It's literally the plot of 2012. The neutrinos are destabilizing the tectonic plates!

Easily my favorite bit of nonsense in these tweets.

Electing Antichrist as President was the first warning sign,

We had just landed in San Francisco for the start of a very strenuous (we didn't understand HOW strenuous) summer vacation. We got into SFO late, and plopped into bed. At about 3:30 AM, the bed started shaking violently, and my wife, still groggy from the air travel and the 9 hour time difference, said, oh no, the washing machine is going crazy again! I reminded her, relax, we're in San Francisco, so it's probably just an earthquake. NOW she was wide awake, saying whaddya mean JUST an earthquake? Are you being serious? I said, yes, they have them all the time here. Go back to sleep. The shaking stopped and so she was soon fast asleep again. The next morning, she told me, she had the weirdest dream last night, that there was an earthquake, and I told her that whatever her dream was about, the earthquake was real. She was not amused.

and the building was on a cement slab.
Sitting at my desk,
I would feel the movement of the Hayward Fault through the floor.
Often, more than you would think,
there were small tremors going on everyday, rating 2 to 3.

Or the fault line where the Yellowstone Caldera is located.

They didn't feel an earthquake in bumfuck nowhereville so it didn't happen.

With some luck, the Christo-fascists faction of the MAGAt cult will be sucked up into the clouds any minute now. Good riddance.

How much I pray for that to happen!!
Or be sucked down into hell. Of whatever . . .