These things in the 10th
generation shall come to pass. The earth shall be shaken by a great earth quake
that throws many cities into the sea. There shall be war. Fire shall come
flashing forth from the heavens and many cities burn. Black ashes shall fill
the great sky. Then know the anger of the gods.
-The
Sybilline Oracles.
The Mayan, Indian and
Chinese calendars talk about it. Nostradamus, the Greek prophecies and oracles
have all mentioned it. Even our modern day scientists and computer softwares
have predicted it. So the question remains, when will we be facing doomsday or
rather the bigger question, how is it going to happen? Over the past years,
speculations have risen on the many ways our world may end. Ranging from a
virus out break to an asteroid collision or even an alien invasion, many
scientists and speculators have come up with plausible and implausible ways to
our demise.
I had started this
research and completed it over the course of one year and have gotten it
validated by the various scientific communities out there. As we go along, we
will see that these events, although being three separate events, could
actually turn out to be a chain reaction of one single event.
Let us first start by
looking at the earth. The earth’s land masses are made and separated by
tectonic plates. These tectonic plates
are constantly moving and colliding with each other which form the earth’s
landscape.
For example, the Himalayan
mountain range is formed by the collision of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian
Plate. It is this continuous collision between these two plates that has been
causing the mountain range to be growing over time. It is the same movements of
these plates that also cause earthquakes. When the earth plates move against
each other, the plate with more solidity tends to move downwards while the
other is forced to move upwards. It is this friction caused by the forced
movement that causes tremors and if forceful enough, earthquakes. But
occasionally certain glitches occur.
About 200-300 years ago, the Indo-Australian
Plate (the subducting plate) which was colliding with the Burma Sub-plate
(over-riding plate), part of the Eurasian Plate got stuck to each other due to
high amounts of friction. The part of the plate which got stuck started moving
inwards with the other plate while the major portion of it was still moving
against it. This had caused a “spring like” effect on this plate. Just as how a
spring lets go with such force after being tightly wound to its maximum point,
the Burma Sub-plate had popped back up, raising the sea bed to about 41ft along the coast of Sumatra for about
3100 miles, causing the Dec 24th, 2004 tsunami. So you may ask, why
should we worry about something which has already passed? Well, around the same
time the previously mentioned plates got stuck, there were two other plates
which did the same. This “sister” plate is located in the west coast of the
Americas where the Pacific and North American plates meet. The problem is, not
only is this plate still stuck, it has a larger land mass and is also situated
in the Pacific ocean. When these plates let go, not only would it take 15
minutes for giant waves to wipe out North and South America, but it would
generate waves that would travel across the Pacific and hit the Asian region
too, creating a global catastrophe. These waves would be much larger than those
of 2004 because of the volume of water it would travel through, the Pacific
Ocean and the South China Sea.
Another
problem which would arise from this earthquake is massive shockwaves. Shock
waves travel in a circular direction. When these shock waves travel downward,
they would cause tremors in magma chambers, causing the magma rivers to rise,
triggering active volcanoes. Conveniently enough, the Ring of Fire, the region
in which the largest portion of the world’s active volcanoes are situated in
and connected by magma streams sits right under the collision point of the
Pacific and North American Plates.
So, large enough
shockwaves would cause these streams in the Ring of Fire to activate.
A similar incident had occurred back in August
26th, 1883 in the islands of Indonesia. When two colliding plates
sent shockwaves to the magma streams, it had caused the magma to rise with
immense force through a volcano called Krakatoa that it exploded with the force
of 200 megatons of TNT, eventually blowing the whole island off the face of the
earth. The explosion had also generated waves which were 120ft in height which
raced across the globe even as far as the English Channel. Dr. George Pararas,
a geologist, had stated that the eruption had produced ashes and smoke which
blocked out the sun for 3 years and sent shock wave to travel the earth thrice.
But these are not even
close to what scientists and geologists fear might happen when the current mega
volcanoes were to erupt. The current most volatile mega volcanoes are currently
situated in the same place
– the Yellowstone National Park. Geologist Dr.
Bob Christiansen, who has been researching the Yellowstone National Park for
decades has noticed that since a major earthquake in August 17th,
1959, Yellowstone National Park has recorded an average of 25 earthquakes a
week, showing great signs of seismic activity. Geologist Dr. Bob Smith and
leading volcano expert Dr. Bill McGuire, when trying to measure the size of the
magma chambers were flabbergasted by their find.
The first magma chamber
was 50 miles long and 25miles across while the second magma chamber was 60
miles long and 30 miles wide. To help up visualize the devastation these would
create, Dr. McGuire compares it to the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in the US.
When St. Helens erupted in May 1980, it had
spewed 7billion tons of rock and enough debris to cover Manhattan in 55ft of
ash. And the force of the explosion was 500 times greater than the atomic bomb
dropped on Hiroshima. Dr. McGuire, after spending months calculating, said that
when these mega volcanoes erupt, the first would erupt with a force 1000 times
greater than St.Helens while the second chamber would erupt with a force 2500
times greater than St. Helens. Prof. Mike Rempino of New York University had
stated that when the Tambora volcano in East Java, the only thing which was
remotely close to a mega volcano ever recorded, blew in 1815 the ashes which
had clouded the Stratosphere blocked the sunlight sending US and Europe into a
mini ice age right up to 1816. Dr. Rempino went on to say, that calculating the
amount of ash and debris from the Yellowstone eruption would not only cover
half the US with ash but would send enough ash and debris to the stratosphere
to block out the sun and plunge us into an actual ice age killing billions of
people.
If the ice age doesn’t reek enough havoc,
scientists at Harvard University have discovered that the debris from volcanic
ash, which is made of rocks and glass shards, which is easily carried by winds,
would cause something called the Maurice’s disease. When living beings breathe
in the ash and debris, it would cause their lungs to bleed and as a natural
reaction, the body would tend to grow new bones on top of the old ones, which
translates to a slow and very painful death.
Besides these two death
threats, the increase in seismic activity, which would cause shock waves to
travel through the earth would cause huge land masses to collapse. When the
vibration travels through solid masses, it would vibrate it causing to have internal
shifts and if it shifts enough, it could dislodge a huge mass. Prof. Derek
Elsworth of Pennsylvania State University demonstrated that when there is water
trapped between two huge masses,
the water would tend to act like a lubricant.
And this could make it easier for land masses to fall apart. This had happened
in Alaska in July 9th 1958 at Latuya Bay, when a small earthquake
had caused a part of the mountain to fall into the waters. What scientists in
Switzerland discovered, having built the most advanced model in testing the
effects of landslides found out that when a huge mass of land thrusts itself
into a body of water, the water would be displaced by the same amount of land
mass causing what scientist now call a mega tsunami. When the mountain had
collapsed in Alaska, it had cause huge waves which were almost 150ft in height,
destroying quite a prominent amount of the surrounding landscape. Now, the
problem is, volcanoes have a common property of being able to trap water within
their walls. Dr. Elsworth states that
when this water trapped within the volcanic walls heats up, it produces steam
which would cause pressure to act within the walls. So now, these walls would
be lubricated and would have immense pressure working within forcing this already
volatile chunk of land to collapse. And one particular volcanic island has
caught the attention of scientists - The island Le’ Palma in the Canary
Islands.
Le’ Palma is made of
two volcanoes, one dormant and the other active called the Cumbre Vieja. An
eruption in 1949 had caused the dormant portion of the volcano to slide 13ft
away from the Cumbre Vieja. Following this slide, scientists and geologists
have swarmed the island to find out what would happen to this island in the
long run. What they found was that the volcanoes were separated by walls of
water stored in tank like columns within. If there were to be a substantial
eruption, it would heat up the water, causing pressure to rise, which would
dislodge a part of the island measuring
13miles in length and weighing ½ trillion tons into the Atlantic. This would
cause such displacement in the water that the initial wave would be 12200 ft in
height and 98000 to 130000 miles in length, racing across the Atlantic at
speeds of 480mph towards the east coast of America. This wave would destroy
everything from New York right up to Miami traveling 13miles inland. And this would take 8 hours to reach the USA.
So when is all of these
going to happen? It could be today, tomorrow maybe a few thousand years from
now. Or it could very well be Dec 21st 2012, a date which has become
synonymous to global apocalypse. Why did
the many ancient civilizations, prophets and oracles predict not just the same
date but almost the same events which were going to happen on this day? Could
it be mere coincidence that they all predicted the same things when they hardly
had any means of corresponding with one another or the fact that most of their
predictions had come true along the course of time?
The Mayans had
calculated that on this very day, the Sun, the moon, the earth, the planets and
the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way (our galaxy) would be in a
perfect alignment. Something which
Albert Einstein in 1955 further confirmed. Princeton University, which further
undertook this study to further understand how this would affect the earth were
mortified when they found out that during this alignment, the magnetic fields
would be so strong that it would literally shift the earth’s mantle plate in
just a matter of days. This event had been predicted to occur only every
800,000 years. True enough; 800,000 years ago, the earth’s mantels had shifted,
altering the earth’s north and south poles. To give a clearer picture, scientists
said that before the shift, Alaska was at the Earth’s equator. This will cause
the poles to shift which could shift the earth’s rotation, possibly pushing the
earth off its axis.
So, it is not a matter
of whether these things are going to happen or not. They are going to happen.
They question is, when?
By,
Ashveen Chakravarthy Sekaran
Dec 21, 2009
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