Geo Journal week 12

This area is just off the coast of Washington where I am currently living. This is really cool because I never really considered the geography of the ocean since that isnt something we can really see or interact with unless with the aid of satellite imaging. In this image I was able to capture a couple of cool structures on the ocean floor, one in particular that I think is really cool is the Nitnat fan. I am really glad we got to go over this because I would have never considered this to be something to ever cross my mind!

Geo Journal Week 11 Plate Tectonics

This Wednesday morning in Utah there was a 5.7 earthquake that damaged property and power lines causing blackouts for hundreds of people. This literally hit close to home since my family lives in Heber and my wife and I recently just moved from there to be up here in Washington. This event is greatly affected by plate tectonics due to the wasatch front colliding with other land causing the earthquake to take place in Utah today.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/us/utah-earthquake/index.html

Week 10 Geo-Journal

Here is the location where I live. I zoomed it out just a tad in order to be able to see the area and the different boundaries and what not. To be specific, I live in South Hill which is inbetween Seattle and MT. Rainier. There appears to be very little activity in terms of earthquakes for some time in this location. 

Week 9 Geo Journal

 

So here is this really cool water fall that is like 20 minutes from where I live. The rocks at this water fall differ from large rocks to smaller pebbles. The reason is that this isnt to far from MT Rainier so the material coming down the waterfall hasnt been eroded enough to be smaller. For refference of this water fall the rock in the bottom middle of the photo is twice my size. This waterfall was super loud and very cold.