(End of the American Dream)—Will “the Big One” soon hit the west coast? While most people are fixated on the political drama that is currently unfolding in Washington, very important events are happening elsewhere too. Within the past 7 days, California and Nevada have been hit by more than 900 earthquakes. And just within the past 24 hours, there have been four notable earthquakes in southern California. We are being told that these quakes are “raising fears of a serious seismic incident on the San Andreas fault”…
Another earthquake has hit California – the fourth in the space of just 24 hours.
The latest – a Magnitude 2.6 quake – hit 28 km SSW of Los Banos. It comes after a third earthquake rocked San Bernardino and the area was hit by two others, raising fears of a serious seismic incident on the San Andreas fault.
I have been one of the leading voices in warning about what will happen when the San Andreas fault finally “unzips” all at once.
Today, I asked Google AI about the potential danger the west coast is facing, and this is the answer that I received…
According to scientific research, while not guaranteed, the San Andreas Fault could potentially rupture all at once, causing a massive earthquake sometimes called “The Big One,” potentially reaching a magnitude 8.3 if the entire fault from the Mexico border to Northern California breaks simultaneously; however, this scenario is still under debate among scientists and depends on complex geological factors.
If the San Andreas Fault does “rupture all at once”, scientists have warned us that it could produce an earthquake that would be powerful enough to cause the ground on the western side of the San Andreas fault to suddenly drop several feet. Since most of southern California is just barely above sea level, that would allow water from the Pacific Ocean to come rushing in.
Of course the San Andreas Fault is not the only fault line that we need to be watching. In fact, the latest earthquake swarm in southern California occurred in an area that has a number of very dangerous fault lines running through it…
Though these quakes happened on the San Andreas fault line, San Bernadino is near a number of fault lines running through California that frequently cause earthquakes, including the Arrowhead fault, the Waterman Canyon fault, the San Jacinto fault, the Santa Ana fault, the Cleghorn fault, and the Tunnel Ridge fault.
And let’s not forget the Puente Hills thrust fault.
According to seismologist Lucy Jones, that is the most dangerous fault in the entire region…
The quake ruptured on a small section of a fault associated with the Puente Hills thrust fault system, which has long been cited as a major seismic hazard for Southern California because it runs through heavily populated areas and is capable of a huge quake.
“It’s a reminder that this is actually our most dangerous fault,” earthquake expert Lucy Jones said, surpassing the San Andreas.
The Puente Hills thrust fault is considered to be exceptionally dangerous because it sits directly under heavily populated residential neighborhoods in northeast Los Angeles.
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If you live in southern California, it so important for you to understand that it is just a matter of time before “the Big One” strikes.
And as I have extensively documented, seismic activity along the west coast also has the potential to create a gigantic tsunami.
So many people have had dreams and visions of tsunamis hitting coastal cities in the United States. Here is a recent example from Perry Stone…
In this recent vision, Stone was in a U.S. coastal city attending a ministers’ conference with friends like Jentezen Franklin, Tony Scott and his wife, Pam. While walking across a bridge, Stone overheard a young girl say, “Daddy, did you hear about the big earthquake that happened?” Moments later, a massive tsunami appeared in the distance.
“I said, ‘Tony, oh my goodness, there’s a tsunami coming this way,’” Stone recounts. He describes how they clung to metal bars on the bridge as the wave crashed into the city, sweeping away buses and cars. The scene shifted to knee-deep water flooding the streets, with people in shock and disbelief.
Stone did not specifically see that this would take place in southern California.
But many others have been shown that the California coastline is in great danger.
I don’t understand why anyone would still want to live in the state anyway.
California has the highest state income tax rate in the entire nation, California has the highest state-level sales tax rate in the entire nation, and California also has the highest gasoline tax rate in the entire nation.
If you want to be taxed into oblivion, live in California.
Meanwhile, California is ranked 47th in number of hospitals per capita, it has the highest homeless population of any state in the country, crime is wildly out of control, and businesses are fleeing the state left and right.
One of the only things that is keeping the population of California relatively stable at this point is the tremendous influx of migrants that has been pouring into the state in recent years, but the state does not have the resources to take care of all of them.
Perhaps California would have some hope of turning things around if they had some solid leadership, but unfortunately the vast majority of the politicians in the state are pushing agendas that are so “anti-American” that it is absolutely frightening.
On top of everything else, there is the constant threat of wildfires, mudslides and earthquakes.
In fact, the fires that ripped through southern California during the month of January were collectively the costliest natural disaster in the entire history of the United States.
Before I end this article, there is one last thing that I wanted to mention today.
It is being reported that Costco and Trader Joe’s have started to ration the number of eggs that their customers can purchase…
An egg shortage triggered by avian flu has prompted several grocery stores, including Costco, and Trader Joe’s, to limit purchases.
Trader Joe’s, with about 600 stores across the U.S., has a one-dozen eggs per day limit.
“We hope these limits will help to ensure that as many of our customers who need eggs are able to purchase them when they visit Trader Joe’s,” a Trader Joe’s representative said Monday, CNN reported.
This is a story that I am going to be watching very closely.
I am convinced that pestilences will continue to be a major theme throughout the rest of 2025.
Of course I am also convinced that major natural disasters will continue to be a major theme throughout the rest of 2025.
We really are living in perilous times, and the months that are in front of us will be filled with lots and lots of surprises.
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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.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.