Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Hurricane Raymond Churns Stationary for now 3 Days off Mexico!!! MORE California Earthquakes???

Just made a note and saw that Hurricane Raymond initially arrived at the South West Coast of Mexico on October 20, 2013 at 18:00 UTC and it is STILL Churning stationary in basically that same position it's been in for now like 3 plus days!!! Biggest reason that is todays headline is due to the huge amount of wind and outflow from this huge windstorm that was for much of the time a Hurricane although it has just recently been downgraded to a Tropical Storm, it still looks like it has some major winds left there where they were at one time reported as high as 125, 120 and 115mph!!!

With that much wind holding stationary offshore there, I continue to have to ask what affect this will have on Plate Tectonics in that region. . . or anywhere along the boundary between the Pacific and North American Tectonic Plates. Thinking about it and I came up with NO examples of such huge storms holding stationary for this long, but did notice that the windspeeds were falling and it would be my guess it is because of contact with the Terra Firma along the shore or the actual tectonic plate. Therefore we should immediately watch places like Acapulco, Mexico City, Guatemala, Enseneda, Mexicali, and San Diego for anything! I suppose up into Texas and Oklahoma, too, and this WATCH will run for a few more days and like through this weekend and I've never actually seen one of these so we do not really know what to watch for. Could be one big earthquake as big as 7.3 Richters. . . . . or three days worth of small ones coming to match the "Footprint" of Hurricane Raymond churning for now 3 days there.

And there is still that 7.6 to 8.3 up in France, Italy and possibly Northern California, Cascadia, and Alaska (Perhaps now heading towards Japan, too) so everybody knows we still have a Major Earthquake to keep watching for!!! Thank-You Again for Reading!!! EQ Guy

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

2 3+ quakes just now at Mammoth Lakes again.

If you take a history back to the quakes in Mexico (the 4+) they seem to be moving up the baja into California.

Wonder if the plate shift down there along those faults initiates a slip in California or off-shore Eureka where the plates meet the Cascadian fault.