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Idaho Earthquake Swarm

Yep, that's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on.

Monitoring Stations Detect Small Magnitude Earthquakes At Mt. Rainier in July 2025

This swarm consists of hundreds of very small earthquakes with the largest so far being a magnitude 2.4 at 12:23 p.m. PDT (19:23 UTC) on July 11, 2025.
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After 27 years of living 50 miles from the most seismically active place in California, I find it difficult to worry about quakes below 5.0, unless they are so close to the surface of the ground that you could dig a hole and hit the epicenter. The quake listed about was in fact very shallow, only 1.6 mi down. But no damage was reported. My bed probably shakes that hard just from me getting up. :ROFLMAO:

My point is, yes that is a lot of quakes, but since the largest one this year was 4.5 with no reported damage, I think they're nothing to worry about.
 
I doubt many people are taking such information as a signal to begin digging holes to hide in or stocking up on dry beans and ammunition. Anyone with such an inclination is probably already doing just that. 😂

The scale of such a disaster is probably beyond any conventional preparation. Even "safe" areas might end up looking like the grim 2009 movie "The Road."

 
Don Alaska said:
I got the title slightly wrong. It is Deep Winter (not Deep Midwinter) and is by Thomas Sherry. There are 4 books in the series, but only the first and maybe the second are worth reading IMHO. Here is the link.
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Okay, I found it and 3 of the series are on Kindle Unlimited, so I just borrowed the first book, and will see how I like it.
 
Don Alaska said:
I got the title slightly wrong. It is Deep Winter (not Deep Midwinter) and is by Thomas Sherry. There are 4 books in the series, but only the first and maybe the second are worth reading IMHO. Here is the link.
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I really have been enjoying these books, @Don Alaska ! Since i lived in and around Spokane for many years, most of the places he talks about are familiar to me. I am on the second book, and just skimming though some of the parts that are too technical for me, but enjoying the story a lot. Will probably read the third one, too !
 
Yvonne Smith said:
I really have been enjoying these books, @Don Alaska ! Since i lived in and around Spokane for many years, most of the places he talks about are familiar to me. I am on the second book, and just skimming though some of the parts that are too technical for me, but enjoying the story a lot. Will probably read the third one, too !
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Glad you enjoyed them @Yvonne Smith. Just like the "One Second After" series, I found the books got a little weird as they went along. I got the first three as PDF files. I think they came from a friend whose son knows the author. I think we got the 4th book from somewhere else.
 
There was an earthquake measuring 8.7 just off the coast of Russia today. This is a very large quake, and follows after a string of smaller quakes along the string of islands between Alaska and Russia.
There are now tsunami warnings all along the West Coast of the United States.
Did you feel this quake, @Don Alaska , and are you okay ?

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We have not seen @Don Alaska yet today. As far as I have been able to read, there was not a lot of damage in Alaska from the quake, and I do not remember what part Don and his family live in, but it is somewhere inland on not along the ocean, so any tsunami should not be an issue for them.
Hoping that he is okay and just busy !

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I remember he said that he and his wife were traveling to Washington State around now, so they might be on the road, is why we have not heard from Don Alaska.
 
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Like I always say... Don't live in places where flooding is common. That was one of the first things I thought of when we were house hunting in Eureka. A minimum of 150 feet above sea level...
 
Two powerful M6+Geophysicist earthquakes back-to-back on each side of the Pacific Plate call into consideration the possibility that the entire Pacific Plate is undergoing a larger tectonic shift, and the M8.8 Megaquake might just be the prelude to the show. Just before the M6.4 and M6.8 earthquake doublet hit the Pacific, a M3.0 earthquake hit New York City, NY, gosh!

Geophysicist Stefan Burns Reports.
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Are Powerful Sun-Earth Currents Causing the Entire Pacific Plate to Mobilize? M3.0 EQ Hits NYC
 
There is talk on X that the Russian earthquake may have been engineered, form how the information is looking. If that is true, we will probably never hear that spoken of publicly. In any case, it does appear that (from whatever causes) we are having more earthquakes and active volcanoes happening than usual.
They are still having the quake activity near Mr. Rainier, and new hot water pools are opening up in Yellowstone. I watched a short video where someone had set their bottle of water on the ground in Yellowstone, and you could see the bottle shaking; so it is definitely being affected also.

I emailed Don Alaska, and have not heard back from him, so I am getting more concerned; but hoping that they are just traveling and visiting family and he has not had a chance to write back.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
We have not seen @Don Alaska yet today. As far as I have been able to read, there was not a lot of damage in Alaska from the quake, and I do not remember what part Don and his family live in, but it is somewhere inland on not along the ocean, so any tsunami should not be an issue for them.
Hoping that he is okay and just busy !

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I remember he said that he and his wife were traveling to Washington State around now, so they might be on the road, is why we have not heard from Don Alaska.
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I have been on vacation and not in touch. We were not harmed in any way. Thanks for caring, @Yvonne Smith.
 
There is some kind of anomaly that is underneath the Appalachian mountains , and they are calling it a “blob” that is headed for the area of New York. It won’t get there for another fifteen million years, according to the news article, so it is not an impending threat, although it might be having some kind of effect on the recent earthquakes in the northeast.
This article explains it, and has a map showing the areas where the anomaly is at.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Ancient 250-mile mystery blob is headed straight for New York City

A gigantic blob under the Earth's surface is headed for New York and could be changing the landscape of the East Coast forever.
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Sounds like maybe a stream of hotter magma material that broke up into a cooler layer and began to pool there, pushed along by the streaming due to pressure from the cooler/denser layer above?
 
From the map, it was all the way under Greenland. I read the article, and it said this usually happens around where there is a volcano, but this one is just from the earth’s plates, apparently.
 
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