by Tanada » Wed 26 Aug 2020, 21:30:30
jedrider wrote:The Biblical Flood That Will Drown Californiahttps://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/08/california-flood-arkstorm-farmland-climate-change/I didn't know that this was also something to worry about, basically, too much rainfall in too short a time span. It has happened before.
I'm thinking that we have been getting less rainfall rather than too much, so I don't know what to make of this. I don't live in a flood zone,
but this could also be problematic for living on hillsides that give in after the rain saturates the hillside. Rain plus earthquake, now that would be devastating.
So much fun stuff to worry about, maybe, too much. We're all here by chance anyway and we can go anytime by chance, too.
The thing about an "arkstorm" in a place like California so many folks forget is the massive weight it loads on all the tectonic slip zones state wide. A lot of these zones are already primed for small quakes that relieve stress gradually and in a relatively un-damaging manner, but such a sudden shift in mass loading can tip off a much bigger event like the 1989 Oakland quake or the 1906 San Fransisco quake. Note I am not saying those two events were caused by an arkstorm, just that in the event of an arkstorm the consequences could include a major series of large energy earthquakes going off in a relatively short period of time.
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