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Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Our Tour of the Greatest National Park I Never Once Set Foot In. 

The western slope of the Cascades Range is green. Very green. There are trees, shrubs, mosses, grasses, just about every kind photosynthesizing plant there is. This is due of course to the mountains themselves. They provide a barrier to incoming Pacific storms, causing the moist masses of air to rise and condense, with copious amounts of rain and snow falling to the ground. We were still in

Texas earthquake M3.6 

A 3.6 is worth reporting.  This is nowhere near Azle, but near Mineral Wells. Nobody there but cows. I don't know why it would suddenly start with a 3.6.  Must be injection into a highly stressed zone.  I have hopes for this one to break the 4

Texas earthquake - M3.6 

Texas and OK are having a race to the top.  Texas has the advantage of increasing faster, but OK has been at it a long time.  Who will crack the 4 barrier?  I've totally lost track of the megathrusts down by Texas, but they must have a hanging wall there, or there would be no major injection.  Many injection sites go into the Cambrian sandstone, but that is dribs and drabs.  To make real

M4.0 earthquake Virgin Islands 

For the two big clusters, Alaska and here, I'm only interested in earthquakes that crack the 4 barrier.  This map shows the last 30