(End of the American Dream)—Have you noticed that there has been a tremendous amount of shaking along the Ring of Fire lately? If you have not been keeping up with it, I am going to provide numerous examples in this article.
For those of us that live in the United States, the seemingly endless shaking that we have been witnessing in California this year has been quite alarming. Within the past 7 days alone, there have been 836 earthquakes in California and Nevada.
Southern California has been particularly active in recent days. From Friday night to Saturday morning, a swarm of “more than 80 quakes” shook the region…
Dozens of small earthquakes have struck across Southern California within the past 24 hours, including more than 80 quakes occurring in Los Angeles County, local officials say.
The region was hit by six earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater during this time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The strongest of these quakes was a 3.4-magnitude recorded off the coast of Catalina Island early Saturday morning.
The quakes started Friday with a 2.5-magnitude earthquake, which struck 3.7 miles southwest of Ojai in Ventura County at 10:46 p.m. Hours later, a 2.7-magnitude earthquake shook the Los Angeles neighborhood of Westmont, east of LAX, at 12:34 a.m. Saturday.
At 4:03 a.m., a 2.6-magnitude earthquake struck roughly 17 miles southeast of Avalon. A 3.0 hit the same area at 4:11 a.m. The two quakes were followed by the larger 3.4-magnitude quake that struck near Catalina Island at 4:13 a.m.
The good news is that none of these earthquakes was particularly large.
But could the constant shaking that we have witnessed in recent months be building up to some sort of a crescendo?
Northern California has been getting hit by a lot of quakes too.
Very early on Saturday, a magnitude 3.4 earthquake rattled the East Bay area…
A 3.4 magnitude earthquake shook the East Bay early Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Just before 12:30 a.m., an earthquake recorded at about 11 miles deep stuck about 5.5 miles northeast of Brentwood.
People between Stockton, Pittsburg and Pleasanton reported feeling the effects.
Most Californians are not concerned about all of this shaking at all.
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For years they have been hearing the warnings that “the Big One” is coming, but it has not materialized yet.
So year after year they just keep getting even more apathetic.
But scientists assure us that one of these days it will suddenly arrive.
Of course it isn’t just California that has been getting rattled lately.
In the middle of last week, the Pacific Ring of Fire was suddenly shaken by over a dozen quakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater…
In the latest burst of seismic activity, more than a dozen earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or higher have rattled the Pacific Ring of Fire.
13 earthquakes rattled cities across 8 countries between Wednesday and Thursday, with some minor seismic activity happening in the very center of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Since the beginning of the summer, it has been a constant barrage of earthquakes.
South America has been getting hit particularly hard.
Could the North American portion of the Pacific Ring of Fire be next?
On the western side of the Pacific Ring of Fire, volcanic eruptions have been the big story in recent days.
On September 4th, a 25 hour eruption of Anak Krakatau began.
That eruption sent volcanic ash 15 kilometers into the air, and it caused quite a bit of havoc all over the region…
A truly nightmarish night lit up the Indonesian sky in early September, as Anak Krakatau, the ‘Child of Krakatoa’, delivered a jaw-dropping volcanic show that stunned both scientists and anyone unlucky enough to be in the vicinity. With thunderous explosions, torrents of lava, and ash clouds that reached airline-crisis-inducing heights, this eruption added a dramatic new page to Krakatau’s already legendary history.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the end of it.
On Friday, three more large volcanoes in Indonesia suddenly erupted…
Three volcanoes erupted around the country on Friday, spewing ash into the sky and underscoring heightened volcanic activity across the archipelago, following the eruptions of Mount Sinabung and Mount Anak Krakatau earlier this month.
The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation’s (PVMG) MAGMA site reported on Friday that the eruptions involved Mount Semeru in East Java, Mount Ili Lewotolok in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and Mount Ibu in North Maluku.
The eruptions occurred at different times and lasted from 41 to 187 seconds, detik.com reported.
Why have so many volcanoes in Indonesia suddenly roared to life?
I wish that I had an answer to that question.
Also on Friday, Indonesia was hit by a magnitude 6.6 earthquake…
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Teluknaga in Indonesia’s Northeastern Java province on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
The earthquake occurred at 4.23 a.m. local time (2123GMT Friday) at a depth of approximately 358.6 kilometers (222.8 miles).
All of this seismic activity is causing quite a bit of panic in Indonesia.
But most people in the western world have no idea what is going on over there.
Meanwhile, we just witnessed a very violent eruption of Japan’s Sakurajima volcano…
A strong eruption occurred at Japan’s Sakurajima volcano, one of the country’s most active volcanoes, located on Kyushu Island in southwestern Japan.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) maintained a Level 3 volcanic alert for Sakurajima, restricting access around the crater area due to the risk of volcanic rocks and other hazards.
Authorities have banned entry within a 2-kilometer radius of the crater due to the risk of lava flows and falling volcanic rocks, while closely monitoring volcanic activity.
That eruption certainly surprised a lot of people.
And just yesterday, the alert level for Mount Tokachidake in Hokkaido was raised to Level 3 for the first time ever…
Japan’s Meteorological Agency raised the eruption alert level for Mount Tokachidake in Hokkaido to Level 3 on Saturday morning, banning entry to the 2,077-meter mountain.
This is the first time that Level 3 has been issued for the mountain since the alert system was introduced in 2008. Level 2 restricts access to areas around the craters.
Volcanic activity has intensified, raising the possibility of an eruption, the agency said, warning of large volcanic rocks within about 3 kilometers of the crater.
It isn’t just one area of the Pacific Ring of Fire that has been very active this year.
You would think that this would be getting more attention from the mainstream media.
But it isn’t.
Here in the United States, a mile-wide underwater volcano that is located not too far off the coast of Oregon is expected to erupt before the end of 2026…
An active underwater volcano off the Oregon Coast that was predicted to erupt in 2025 is now expected to erupt mid-to-late 2026.
The Axial Seamount volcano is located nearly a mile beneath the sea, approximately 300 miles off the Oregon Coast, just west of Astoria and along the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean.
The good news is that this underwater volcano is not supposed to pose a threat to the west coast.
Hopefully the experts are correct about that.
Our world is filled with so much chaos right now, and we certainly don’t need another major crisis to add to the list.
Sadly, it is undeniable that millions of people that reside along the west coast are living on borrowed time.
Scientists keep telling us that the San Andreas fault is way overdue for a very large earthquake.
We should be very thankful that it hasn’t happened already, but the clock is ticking and eventually a historic disaster will strike.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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