Tuesday July 17, 2012 07:55 A CDT
The Biggest Problem In the World
May not be financial... I don't claim to be a geologist but there is something going on which is just below the public perception level and it has to do with global cataclysm which may be coming to our earthly future. Not that you'll see this on the news tonight - in fact your grandchildren's grandchildren might not live long enough to see it, but this is THE event which could account for all the "global coastal" language and may be what drives from the on ongoing Niburu speculation. I'll leave that for you to discern...I'll just give you the data to ponder.
The background: Just about every month I get an email from a reader who is kind enough to hook into the USGS earthquake data online, hit the magic macros he's developed, and give us some clear insight as to trends in earthquakes over time.
The most "grabby" number is the Magnitude 7.0 (+) chart because people relate to big, scary stuff. Going back to 1973, then, here's what this chart currently looks like:
Each of those lines vertically is a one year period and you can see, with a simple 5th order polynomial that the data is trending upward in a serious way.
Now, that's bad, but averaging two big quakes a month is not a life-stopper, unless, of course, you happen to be in a poorly engineered building or something like that. But since we have a longage of humans (the opposite of a shortage, right?) there's a boo-hoo factor, but no one in the MSM gets all worked up about it until a "breaking news" event like the Chilean, Japanese, Banda Aceh, or Haiti quakes, come along.
Then it's a genuine Big Deal, except that global building standards for quake resistance are still pretty lame and people have short memories. In Chile, for example, a 9,5 earthquake resulted in a heaping side order of dead people, but until the recent Chilean quakes, "free enterprise" has managed to slowly erode the country's stringent quake standards.
No news there - that's just how things work over time.
Now the part that should scare the living crap out of people: Look at the data for Magnitude 3.0 quakes:
You do see what's happening, right? the total number of quakes has been collapsing. Which makes the "Big Worry" what?
Tectonic plate lockup.
Now let me drop the second scary view on you. I went back through the major quakes in history since 1900 in the USGS worldwide list and decided to toss them into a 20-year histogram. Bar chart...useful for seeing trends in statistics and quite revealing - the minimum size on these is 8.5:
Now, if you look at the right hand 20-year bit bucket which is showing 6 - the highest every recorded realize this: We still have 8-years to go in this one.
So is the CPI important? Oh sure...so is diddling around in markets and all, but what's really scary is this big Terra/Ma Nature stuff that goes on in background and against this perspective all the paper in the world doesn't change even one iota the idea that plate tectonics are looking kind of dicey. Helps put other stuff in perspective, doesn't it?
If you want to worry about Niburu/Planet X, or whatever, have fun. But the data here could be construed as somewhat worrisome and a fine reason to keep right on "prepping."
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Our data provider doesn't update his site very often, but when he does post, it's usually important stuff to be aware of.
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