Ring Around the Ring of Fire

 Everybody who lives around the RoF, is going to get something in their lifetime.  Might just be a 50 foot tsunami.  Next is Japan.

You can't get prettier subduction zones than here (very active).  

Zooming in to 'nuclear land' Fukoshima (whatever), you see a wonder of the ages (very active subduction zone).  We know from Japanese records how often these things go.  A big M9+ just tends to rip on the smooth arc, and doesn't want to take the S-bend.  The next place on the list (same odds as anywhere else) is Tokyo with a fine M9.  

Like Phil, there is a captured basin in the middle, where the action is slower.  Doesn't mean anything, a devastating earthquake was under Kobe, the black spot in the middle.  Since the whole area is being squeezed and pulled, we can get earthquakes anywhere.  Kobe suffered from a shallow M7, like Ven, with high pgv.  I never saw the charts for that, but it must have been above 40 cm/s.  Since they tend to make their houses out of paper, with open fire pots, the fires were something.

The Japanese don't talk much, but I can usually get charts.  I have no idea how they are doing with the state of earthquake building, so we'll find out with the next earthquake.

- next Middle Earth

El Santa is Coming to Town

 On July 1, we will celebrate 'El Santa Day'.  or some country's day.  This is maximum sun over the N hemi, and should be the hottest.  Only if there are no ocean breezes.  Then it sets up a 'heat lock' which has the same physics as an 'Ice Lock'.  All due to stagnant air, which is caused by having no energy in the Pacific.

I hate to tell the kiddies this, but El Santa isn't real.  It's a made-up construction to support the weather and anxiety industry.  No need to buy toys, just take pictures of hot people.  

What they thought was the 'Coming of the Hot Sled' was just a left-over blob that is breaking up.  Hardly anything left of it now.

This is the definitive indicator of a heating event.  There is nothing else.  It's going down.

Very sad to report the tropics are falling like trumpy's popularity.

The good news is that it doesn't matter in July.  Always hot everywhere.  Stagnant air forms a big Death Valley, and doesn't tell us anything.  

ps lots of popularity today, but no coffees.

ps I mucked up the graphics.  The above is the tropics, and this is the world.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is On Fire - Part 1

 

Nothing better for attracting coffees is to start the myth that the Ring of Fire is a living entity.  We will have a grand tour, with my expansive, interesting voice.  Physics is relegated to brackets.

We start with the magnificent spectacle of Alaska, with it's clean, giant tear in the Earth (subduction zone).  All of these zones must produce M9's every 300 years or so to maintain their bright, shiny appearances (clean trenches).

We haven't had much action in the past hundred years, so we are 'due' (random clustering).  The M9's are thousands of kilometres long and must always stay on a smooth section of the railway track. Unlike other myths, these faults are weakness zones, and do not 'produce' earthquakes.  They just go with the flow of the stresses around them (strain accumulators).

Looking closely, we have the beautiful clean cliffs of the subduction zone.

And here is the muck of the Cascadia zone.  (sediment).  They always go 'Big Bad Cascadia' but they are full of it (probably 1000 years).

Moving on over, we have the Tsunami Shotgun.  This is over by Russia, and when it shoots its load, it drowns the whole Pacific (large tsunami).  This is what really happened in 1700, not Cascadia.  Both sides go at the same time, and I don't know what happens.  Honestly, when this blows, forget the high land, it isn't high enough.  

- next is Japan