If there are the greater activities in the Vesuvius, or Pelee, then the southern coast of California - and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada - may expect, within the three months following same, an inundation by the earthquakes.

But these, as we find, are to be more in the southern than in the northern hemisphere.

(270-35; January 21, 1936)

The activity on February 11 was related mainly to a collapse of the volcano dome on Montserrat.  But this collapse was produced by the extreme activities of the vulcanian eruptions of the day.  What produced them?  Deeper magma-flow activities.  What could such deeper flows imply? That Earth's crust at the eastern edge of the Caribbean tectonic plate is beginning to respond to deep magma flow, and that such flow there might lead to deep magma flows and earthquakes along weak spots in the crust elsewhere. Thus, this volcano may be a sign for the reactivation of Earth's magma surge channels, as discussed on pages 98-102 of our book, Earth's Catastrophic Past and Future, Universal Publishers, 2004.

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