Mega-thrust earthquakes like the ones that recently struck Chile and the Fukushima region of Northern Japan, can cause the magnetic field to flip. If a quake is strong enough there is evidence it may even set off a geological pole shift tossing the Earth off its current axis and killing billions of people within a matter of minutes.
This the grim picture painted by decades of research and evidence strewn from the peaks of the Andes to the volcanic shards lying off the Pacific islands of Hawaii.
Enormous earthquakes cause enormous damage. The threat is real and growing, as world renown physicist and popular science author, Dr.Michio Kaku , recently explained on ABC's "Good Morning America."
According to Dr. Kaku, some of the world's most important and populated cities could be swept away in the blink of an eye. "In our life time, we could very well see one of these cities destroyed," Kaku claimed. "Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico City, Tehran, and Tokyo."
It is actually Mankind and not nature that has placed up to one billion people at risk. "We are creating mega cities where there used to be fishing villages," the scientist explained.
Mega quakes, once thought to be rare events, are beginning to occur with increasing frequency. The reasons are several and among them are the changes in the sun, the region of unknown space the solar system has entered, the fluctuating changes in the geomagnetic field, and the disturbing changes in the Earth's spinning core that some scientists are racing to understand.
Mega quakes not only change the region they occur in, but the entire planet as well. "Look at the Chilean earthquake," Kaku said. "You realize it was so big it actually rocked the planet Earth. The axis of the earth shifted three inches as a result of that 8.8 earthquake. The day is no longer 24 hours; it's been shortened by one micro-second. That's how big that earthquake was."
The mega-quake that struck Japan was bigger, more powerful, and more destructive.
Mega quakes and supervolcanoes
Yet some geologists warn that larger quakes than those can and will happen. They point to the largest known quake in the North American geological record. The quake was a theoretical 12 magnitude. That's theoretical because no one has ever experienced a quake like that in recorded history. That superquake hit what is now Manhattan Island about 20,000 years ago. It changed the configuration of northern North America, the level of the Atlantic Ocean, and the entire eastern continental shelf.
Yellowstone supervolcano could destroy the USA
Larger, more deadly quakes accompanied the mega-eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano that destroyed more than one-third of what's now the United States. If another eruption of that magnitude happened today for all intents and purposes the US would cease to exist. Burning volcanic ash would cover more than half the country and be as deep as 12 feet as far as western Iowa.
Yellowstone supervolcano 'footprint of death'
Quakes can strike that are so large many geologists call them planet killers—yet that's an exaggeration. The Earth would still exist, only much of humanity would disappear.
Such mega quakes in the past have created the mighty Andes mountain range in a mere matter of days. Seashells and the fossils of sea creatures found on the bottom of oceans have been found near the range's mountain peaks. *
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