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As Above So Below
While I don't care for the publishing source of this report I thought of posting since 2018 is a breath away and already here for some....
END OF THE WORLD: KILLER quakes and volcanoes to rip Earth apart in 2018 as rotation slows
MASSIVE earthquakes and raging volcanoes which could kill off life on the planet are expected to soar in 2018 as the earth’s molten core puts the brakes on the planet’s rotation.
The planet is entering a five-year period of slow-down where the movement of the molten iron core slows the Earth’s spin.
But the slowdown reduces the centrifugal force and shrinks and tightens the equator, crushing tectonic plates together with unimaginable force.
Anyone living on the planet’s major fault lines - which run though western USA, southern Europe, the Middle East, South America and the so-called Ring of Fire in the Far East – is in serious danger, experts warn.
In the ‘slow-spin’ years, like 2018, the number of major earthquakes more than doubles.
On average the planet sees about 15 major quakes per year, however next year as many as 35 quakes higher than magnitude 7 are predicted.
But movement of tectonic plates also triggers volcanoes – or supervolanoes. And supervolcanoes have been known to devastate life on Earth.
Researchers at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America produced evidence that periods of slow rotation over the last 100 years have coincided with substantially more earthquakes than average.
NASA tracks the planets spin-speed to fractions of a second and have confirmed the Earth is entering a period of prolonged slower rotation
Mr Bilham said: "Even though the rotation rate changes so little, the size of the mass of the Earth and the inertia are so great, you don't need a huge change in rotation to have a change in stress.
END OF THE WORLD: KILLER quakes and volcanoes to rip Earth apart in 2018 as rotation slows
MASSIVE earthquakes and raging volcanoes which could kill off life on the planet are expected to soar in 2018 as the earth’s molten core puts the brakes on the planet’s rotation.
The planet is entering a five-year period of slow-down where the movement of the molten iron core slows the Earth’s spin.
But the slowdown reduces the centrifugal force and shrinks and tightens the equator, crushing tectonic plates together with unimaginable force.
Anyone living on the planet’s major fault lines - which run though western USA, southern Europe, the Middle East, South America and the so-called Ring of Fire in the Far East – is in serious danger, experts warn.
In the ‘slow-spin’ years, like 2018, the number of major earthquakes more than doubles.
On average the planet sees about 15 major quakes per year, however next year as many as 35 quakes higher than magnitude 7 are predicted.
But movement of tectonic plates also triggers volcanoes – or supervolanoes. And supervolcanoes have been known to devastate life on Earth.
Researchers at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America produced evidence that periods of slow rotation over the last 100 years have coincided with substantially more earthquakes than average.
NASA tracks the planets spin-speed to fractions of a second and have confirmed the Earth is entering a period of prolonged slower rotation
Mr Bilham said: "Even though the rotation rate changes so little, the size of the mass of the Earth and the inertia are so great, you don't need a huge change in rotation to have a change in stress.
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