(End of the American Dream)—In recent months, we have seen a tremendous amount of seismic activity occur along the Ring of Fire. Sizable earthquakes have been popping off like firecrackers, and volcanic activity has risen to very alarming levels. If you doubt this, just check out the eruption map on volcanodiscovery.com. As you can see from that map, volcanoes are erupting all around the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean. Of course this shouldn’t exactly shock any of us, because 75 percent of all of the active volcanoes in the world are located along the Ring of Fire…
Most people are shocked to learn that the Ring of Fire isn’t an actual “ring” you can see, but a massive horseshoe-shaped belt stretching over 40,000 kilometers around the Pacific Ocean. This region touches the coasts of North and South America, Asia, and Oceania.
It’s home to 75% of the world’s active volcanoes—over 450 in total. The numbers are staggering: about 90% of all earthquakes on Earth occur here each year.
For decades, the west coast of the United States has been one of the quietest stretches of the Ring of Fire. But now that is changing.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a magnitude 5.2 earthquake near San Diego, and the region has been rattled by literally hundreds of small earthquakes within the past 7 days.
The good news is that we haven’t seen a cataclysmic west coast earthquake yet, but one of these days time will finally run out.
This week, we learned that a team of researchers has determined that a large enough earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause the ground “to suddenly sink” in coastal areas of northern California, Oregon and Washington state…
Researchers warn that a “megaquake” — an exceptionally large earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 or higher — along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause the ground in some areas to suddenly sink. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault line that stretches from Northern California to British Columbia. This abrupt sinking, known as “sudden coastal subsidence,” would immediately raise local sea levels, inundate floodplains and leave entire coastal communities dangerously exposed to flooding.
So how much could some of these coastal areas sink?
Well, we are being told that a magnitude 8.0 earthquake could cause the ground to fall by up to six and a half feet in just 30 minutes…
A 700-mile-long fault line that runs along the West Coast is overdue for a massive earthquake that scientists warn could sink parts of the US.
New research found that a 8.0 magnitude or higher quake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, combined with rising sea levels, would cause coastal land to sink up to 6.5 feet within 30 minutes of a major tremor.
Wow. That would be quite dramatic.
The lead author of the study says that once this occurs, “all the sea level rise you expected by 2300 is going to happen in minutes”…
In such events, “all the sea level rise you expected by 2300 is going to happen in minutes,” Tina Dura, the study’s lead author and assistant professor of geosciences at Virginia Tech told the San Francisco Chronicle.
What do you think that would mean for the millions of people that live near the coast in northern California, Oregon and Washington state?
Needless to say, a lot of “oceanfront property” would suddenly be under the Pacific Ocean permanently.
I was curious, and so I asked Google AI if a similar thing could happen in southern California, and this is what I was told…
Yes, land east of the San Andreas Fault could experience significant subsidence, meaning the ground could sink by several feet, during a major earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is a strike-slip fault, where the Pacific Plate slides past the North American Plate. This movement can cause the ground to shift and drop, especially during earthquakes.
Because there have been so many earthquakes in southern California in 2025, there has been a lot of talk about “the Big One” recently. For example, the following comes from an article that was posted by Newsweek earlier this year…
Seismologists are closely monitoring California’s fault lines as concerns grow about the possibility that the “Big One” could happen soon.
The “Big One” refers to a massive earthquake that could occur along the San Andreas Fault, one of the state’s most significant and active fault lines. Scientists predict that this earthquake could reach a magnitude of 7.8 or higher, causing widespread destruction across Southern California or the San Francisco Bay Area depending on the rupture location.
I am convinced that when “the Big One” arrives, it will be far larger than magnitude 7.8. In my new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next”, I talk about a cataclysmic earthquake that will radically alter the geography of the California coast. Once that apocalyptic quake occurs, you won’t want to be living anywhere in the state of California.
Of course the entire southern coast of Alaska also sits directly along the Ring of Fire, and there have been signs that Mount Spurr could erupt very soon.
In fact, Mount Spurr has been getting rattled by dozens of significant earthquakes in recent days…
Mount Spurr in Alaska has experienced 66 earthquakes in just one week, signaling increased instability around the volcano.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) released a report late last week detailing the heightened seismic activity, noting that an eruption cannot be ruled out.
If it erupts, it could send volcanic ash tens of thousands of feet into the air. That would certainly cause quite a bit of chaos for all of the air traffic that comes through that region…
A massive cloud of ash billowing 50,000 feet into the air would force international hubs such as Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) and potentially Fairbanks International Airport (FAI) to shut down.
Halting all incoming and departing flights at these airports could have a ripple effect across the country, resulting in widespread delays and cancellations and even disrupting the global supply chain.
Hundreds of planes fly over Anchorage and Fairbanks per day, and it’s not just passenger flights that would be impacted. ANC is the fourth-busiest cargo airport in the world, with more than 8,000 cargo flights passing through each month.
Let us hope that Mount Spurr does not erupt any time soon.
But whether that happens or not, without a doubt our planet has entered a time of increasing instability.
On the other side of the world, scientists are telling us that the continent of Africa is slowly but surely dividing in half and a new ocean will eventually emerge…
Experts have long known that portions of the continent are separating by as much as 0.3 inches a year in some places. Volcanic and geologic evidence in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa indicates the existing oceans may one day spill into the growing rift, severing a small portion of the continent from the greater bulk of Africa, according to experts.
“The region encompassing the Afar Depression and Red Sea and Gulf of Aden spreading centers is thought to broadly be the final transition away from continental rifting to the development of true oceanic spreading in the eastern Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea,” scientists wrote in a 2024 study.
The giant space rock that we all live on is not as stable as most people think.
Tectonic plates are constantly shifting and moving, and scientists assure us that cataclysmic natural disasters are inevitable.
If you live on the west coast of the United States, you are living in one of the world’s worst danger zones, and I would encourage you to make preparations for what is coming while you still can.
Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
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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