One day it will happen. As millions of people living in Southern California go about their daily lives, a cataclysmic earthquake will suddenly strike. The geography of the California coastline will be permanently changed, and the ground on the western side of the San Andreas fault will drop by several feet. Since much of Southern ... Read more The post Nearly 400 Earthquakes Rock Southern California – Will A Cataclysmic Seismic Event Soon Rip The San Andreas Fault Wide Open? appeared first on The Economic Collapse.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has created a global supply chain nightmare that is unlike anything that we have seen before. As existing inventories and reserves of various resources are depleted, the consequences of this global supply chain nightmare will become more apparent. Asia is being hit the hardest, because Asia is much ... Read more The post The Crisis In The Strait Of Hormuz Is Causing A Shortage Of Diet Coke In India appeared first on The Economic Collapse.

January, February and March were insanely dry. In fact, in all of U.S. history conditions have never been so dry during the first three months of the year. Just think about that for a moment. Not even during the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s were conditions this dry. Many were hoping that 2026 would ... Read more The post Megadrought: We Just Experienced The Driest First Three Months Of A Year In U.S. History appeared first on The Economic Collapse.

Decades of economic decline have brought this country to a breaking point. The vast majority of the population is barely scraping by from month to month as prices continue to rise, thousands of stores and restaurants close, foreclosures spike to alarming levels and the middle class continues to shrink. Now the crisis in the Strait ... Read more The post More Than 80% Of Young Adults Believe That The Economy Is “Bad” Or “Terrible” And We Are Seeing The Consequences All Over America appeared first on The Economic Collapse.

Would you pay 8 dollars for a gallon of gasoline? I know that may sound crazy to many of you, but that is what some residents of Los Angeles are paying right now. Sadly, the west coast is more dependent on oil from the Persian Gulf than anywhere else in the continental United States, and ... Read more The post California Is Facing A “Fuelmaggedon” As Fighting Erupts In The Middle East And The Strait Of Hormuz Remains Closed appeared first on The Economic Collapse.