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Now then, hear me out on this… The very same compression forces that formed the present hydrocarbons from the plant life hundreds of millions of years ago are still very much active today! The oil fields thus act as a “lubricant” so to speak amidst the very real ongoing tectonic interplays. The fault line underneath can move both horizontally and obliquely upwards as a thrust fault and sometimes also, at the same time; creating that upward pressure point at the very top. I sorry to give you the bad news at this time- the Dos Cuadras oil platforms can thus act as a “trigger mechanism” precipitating a major earthquake and perhaps magnifying the quake’s intensity 100-fold. There is no escape from these facts; try as you may to venture forth into the diaspora to dispel your fears. It’s not a question of “if” at this point; it’s simply a matter of “when.”
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Next, please Google: what fault lines are in the Santa Barbara Channel. Upon further analysis, one can see that there exists a major fault line running directly under the oil platforms situated on top of the anticlinal strata in the Dos Cuadras oil fields! In fact, one of those platforms, I believe it is Platform A, if my memory serves me correct, was the famous platform involved in the blowout of l969! Now herein lies an important ongoing metric in the oil fields–presently the fields have been pumped out of about approximately 75% of their volume. Only 25% of the volume of the pool remains. It has created a cavity, a void, so to speak!
Next, I cite this source: “Understanding the Controls of Earthquake Slip Vectors Along Mountain Range Fronts”: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AGUFM.T26A.05C/abstract
First, and most importantly, an earthquake is an “event.” It is neither a scalar nor a vector. Tsunami, however, is a vector quantity. In the best interests of brevity, please Google: what vectors are in play in an earthquake.
Let me just say this at the outset. We’re going to take a keen eye to the Dos Cuadras ongoing metrics interplay within these anticlinal strata.
Please bear with me. This is going to take an extensive amount of preparation for a proper presentation. Rest assured I shall return here in the most propitious of moments.
Now…finally! Let’s cut to the chase! Fast forward to the present!
On April 5, 2018, there occurred a magnitude 5.3 earthquake in the Santa Barbara Channel. Let me now attempt to explain to you in layman’s terms what the underlining dynamics are at play here.
It was at this time in 1996, that Michael wrote again to Marc McGinnes. Michael had in 1994 hired a private investigator to take photographs of the Haskell’s shoreline and environs. To his amazement, there still remained pilings with their concrete footings scattered along the shore. Along with that, signs had been posted stating “Submerged Objects, Use Caution.” Michael urged Marc to utilize some of his interns at the university to investigate this matter and queried whether he could file a lawsuit in Michael’s behalf in District Court asking for injunctive relief to finally ameliorate these issues-once and for all. Marc declined his offer. To this day, Michael feels that this was the wrong decision.
During the next twenty-plus years, Michael worked diligently, getting married to a girl named Catherine; having a beautiful baby boy named Dennis, while working at the regional headquarters of Xerox as a telephone settler in their bad debt department. He took a six-month trip to the Big Island of Hawaii and a had month’s stay on the Isle Tau in the Samoan South Pacific. He married his second wife, Marilyn, a Jewish girl from Brooklyn. After his second divorce, he eventually moved to Eugene, Oregon, where he spent his leisure time soaking up the healing lithium vapors among the Old Growth forests of Terwilliger Hot Springs in the Cascades some sixty miles east of Eugene.