EXCELLENT OBSERVATION, imho.
It seems to be getting more and more cocked to fire.
I was going to look for such gaps but missed it. Thanks.
Certainly the scientists are also wary of that stretch.
Thanks. Last night as I was in bed, before falling asleep I was flipping through cable channels just to see what was on (a bad habit that I have...) and I came across one of the "apocalyptic prophecy"-type shows on History Channel. They were describing various possible events in the modern world that could match to events described in the Revelation. One of the topics was massive earthquakes, and specifically they talked about the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It struck me as being a case of... not quite serendipity, but the odd kind of coincidence that probably doesn't mean anything but seems ominous.
I don't know if you're familiar with the
Cascadia Subduction Zone (I wasn't) but it's a fault that lies off the West coast of North America, running from just off North Vancouver Island down to offshore of Northern California. Research has found that it's the type of fault that is given to regular, 8.0-and-greater subduction earthquakes every few hundred years. Because it lies underwater, and the type of earthquake, these great earthquakes are always followed by a tsunami. The researchers have determined that the last great earthquake on this fault was in 1700, and it caused a tsunami that was still 16 feet high when it hit Honshu Japan ten hours later (that's how they can date it so precisely, the tsunami is recorded in the Japanese written history.)
The 1700 quake is estimated to have had a magnitude of 8.7-9.2. Estimates of the frequency of great quakes on this fault vary from every 250 years to every 500 years, so 316 years is not overly long. All that's known for certain is that one will happen, eventually.
