When I was 23 months old, in 1946, the M7.3 Forbidden Plateau Earthquake was my personal first. My second, just three years later in 1949, Canada's,biggest ON RECORD, an M8.1.
That was NOT WESTERN NORTH AMERICA'S BIGGEST. Those have happened repeatedly, 40 times in the last 10,000 years. The last great quake, an M8.8-9.3, happened on January 26, 1700 AD, 9PM. Every First Nation, all up and down the entire west coast of North America have the same story. Everybody. The Japanese have written records going back thousands of years. The geologic scientific evidence is complete. As the strain builds up from when the North American Tectonic just waiting the next event
Trying to predict an unpredictable volcano is a MUGS game. If you're right about a volcano being dormant, no one will care. If you're wrong about it, and eruption occurs, you'll kill a lot of of flora and fauna, including people, all around.
https://youtu.be/hmAE-Ty6ciE [0:53 seconds]
When I was growing up in Minto, in the Bridge River Valley, BC, we talked about seismic events, a lot. When I was three years old, Frenchie, an old prospector, my friend, mentor and teacher explained that all of the gold lying all around was a result of volcanic activity, forced up in quartz-gold veins along fault lines. Frenchie was building a beautiful 30 x 40 foot log cabin on the north side of the main road. He often invited us Minto kids in for cookies, tea and a visit.
Frenchie began teaching me about gold mining. He put a bead of mercury into my right palm and showed me how to use it to form an amalgam with gold, to pull the gold out of the black sand in a placer operation or out of crushed gold-quartz in a hard-rock operation.
In the winter Frenchie put the pointy end of a shotgun under his chin. I miss him still.
That was NOT WESTERN NORTH AMERICA'S BIGGEST. Those have happened repeatedly, 40 times in the last 10,000 years. The last great quake, an M8.8-9.3, happened on January 26, 1700 AD, 9PM. Every First Nation, all up and down the entire west coast of North America have the same story. Everybody. The Japanese have written records going back thousands of years. The geologic scientific evidence is complete. As the strain builds up from when the North American Tectonic just waiting the next event
Trying to predict an unpredictable volcano is a MUGS game. If you're right about a volcano being dormant, no one will care. If you're wrong about it, and eruption occurs, you'll kill a lot of of flora and fauna, including people, all around.
https://youtu.be/hmAE-Ty6ciE [0:53 seconds]
When I was growing up in Minto, in the Bridge River Valley, BC, we talked about seismic events, a lot. When I was three years old, Frenchie, an old prospector, my friend, mentor and teacher explained that all of the gold lying all around was a result of volcanic activity, forced up in quartz-gold veins along fault lines. Frenchie was building a beautiful 30 x 40 foot log cabin on the north side of the main road. He often invited us Minto kids in for cookies, tea and a visit.
Frenchie began teaching me about gold mining. He put a bead of mercury into my right palm and showed me how to use it to form an amalgam with gold, to pull the gold out of the black sand in a placer operation or out of crushed gold-quartz in a hard-rock operation.
In the winter Frenchie put the pointy end of a shotgun under his chin. I miss him still.
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