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Asia & Pacific Rim
The primitive lifestyle of the majority of the people, who have learned to adapt stoically to harsh conditions both economic and political while living in what is essentially mud and straw houses or tents, will allow most to survive the pole shift and to adjust to difficult growing seasons afterwards.
China as all of Asia will be in the long
night side of the Earth during the week of rotation stoppage. This
situation tends to create huddling and talking activities, as the
thought of being in perpetual darkness creates high anxiety, and
thus the week passes.
China’s greatest worry comes from rain, the continuous deluges that will occur during the days that follow the pole shift. Denuded of forest during centuries of overpopulation, and having cultivated the wetlands so they no longer act as a sponge, inland China will find itself washed away into flooded and raging rivers. The water will spill over, creating vast moving bodies of water which will carry away all but stone structures, and cover those in wave after wave of muddy water.
Few will survive these floods, leaving
only those who have managed to cling to hill tops to survive not
only these floods but also the high winds that occur during the
shift itself. Starvation, already a problem China struggles with,
will decimate survivors, but due to the tenacity of the Chinese
people, those who survive these times will from communities that
will participate in the transformation of the Earth into better
times in the future
Look to the devastation in India or Afghanistan or Turkey to see how easily such structures crumble. The stunned residents of Beijing will spend weeks simply sorting out the dead from the living and coming to grips with what has occurred. Of course, the powers in the seat of government will be ineffectual, and frankly will not be sought out by the populace nor conferred with.
The military arm tends to disappear
during such times, the arrogant generals looking behind them and
finding their ranks decimated, the foot soldiers gone home,
abandoning a structure that they sense will be ineffectual.
Communications will be nonexistent, with the residents left to
arrive at their own conclusions. Being in the highlands, those
surviving the shift in Beijing will be able to migrate into the
country side and ally with survivors there, who will be many.
Hong Kong is an ideal place to live at present due to its many bays and inlets - a city on the water. However, during the coming cataclysms this city will not fare well, as the shortening Pacific will force the water up rather than down the shores, and with the melting poles following only months later, this city will soon be unlivable.
High land is advised, for safety sake,
but plans for long term living in Hong Kong, unless in a boat, will
be met with repeated short term emergencies.
Taiwan, though an island, has high land an will survive as land even after the poles have melted. The shortening Pacific will push some land masses upward, and Taiwan fares well in this regard.
Proximity to violent volcanic eruptions
in Japan and the Philippines, Taiwan’s neighbors, will create gloom
in this part of the world for some decades.
Japan does not fare well during pole shifts that exacerbate continental drift, the tendency of the continents to equalize around the globe. It sits on the edge of plates that will experience compression and plate movement, disastrous for Japan during this coming severe pole shift. Riddled with active and inactive volcanoes, Japan will find that tidal waves are the least of her worries, as volcanoes that violently explode will eradicate almost all life on these islands.
Prior to the pole shift, Japan will experience her share of the increasingly severe earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that occur as the 12th Planet approaches. Due to Japan’s position on fault lines that lie under the ocean as well as land, tidal waves will result on occasion from these increasingly severe plate adjustments.
Those living in coastal cities will thus
find tidal waves resulting from earthquakes increasing in severity
as well as the earthquakes themselves, leading up to the pole shift
itself. The relatively narrow land will be battered and shaken,
leaving the populace with few places to go.
So much is unpredictable. It could be
assumed that some spots, high up so that tidal bore does not force
water up ravines to high places, or to the side of volcanoes, so
that hot gases and dropping rocks do not descend upon one, might be
safe. But with the air and sea in turmoil, this would be
unpredictable.
Tokyo is situated on the ocean side of Japan, an unfortunate setting that will ensures the almost total demise of anyone in the city at the time of the coming pole shift. Cities such as Tokyo, trapped between mountains and tidal waves, will find themselves under deep water such that all will drown. The tidal waves will first wash over the city, and when reaching the mountains will turn around, creating a backwash.
This backwash, meeting the tidal wave,
will have no where to go! Thus the water will climb higher as this
process continues, until even the tops of tall buildings are under
water. Those who would escape to the mountains will have exploding
volcanoes and earth-quake ravaged bridges to deal with, so should
not anticipate a late exit from a doomed city. Best to move to
safety well ahead of the pole shift, by boat if panic has crowded
the road and air ways.
Korea stands as a peninsula, sticking out into the ocean along the Pacific rim. As such, it is dealt a double blow during the coming shift, as ocean waters can assault it from several sides. Those along coast lines that have only one flank to worry about can to some degree conclude where the water will come from, which angle, and what cliffs the water will climb due to tidal bore.
But those with 3 flanks to worry about may find themselves in the same crunch that those inland with major rivers on more than one side will experience, as in the area in France where waves from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic will meet in the middle, forcing water higher in the center of that land than would ever be expected if a wave from only one side, at a time, was experienced.
Thus, Korea will experience ravaging
quakes from the compression the Pacific will be going under, and
awash with water that may be higher inland than imaginable. Few, if
any, will survive there.
Seoul, South Korea, will find itself in a migration dilemma. Given the assaults from water that the peninsula of Korea will experience, a low expectation of survival, those who would survive should consider migrating before the hour of the shift.
Tensions between North and South Korea are notorious, and due to get worse, not better, during the forthcoming tense year. Japan will be devastated, and migrating there more like moving into the mouth of the lion than away.
Land across the Yellow Sea in China will be flooded, utterly, and in any case China is so overpopulated that survivors will be contemplating eating each other after the shift when crops will be essentially nonexistent. Thus, migrating into what is now considered the colder reaches of China, into Manchuria, and into the bordering lands of Russia, would be the best option.
These lands will have a more temper-ate
climate in the Aftertime, and are less populated now due to the long
winters than land in southern China. Moving toward Manchuria and
Russia also is moving away from what will become the new South Pole,
India, and into land that will have a better climate in the
Aftertime.
Vietnam is low land, facing the Pacific oceans which will compress and force water under great pressure to move toward the Indian Ocean. Thus, there is a doubling effect of the water that will assault the coasts, in that was sloshing inland into Vietnam during the flood tides that occurs during the shift and the hours following will not be a passive flow, but a scouring flow.
As with Thailand, none remaining in
Vietnam are expected to live. Boats and hapless humans dragged along
with a scouring tide will find themselves dragged under, unable to
resist the flow, until long past the drowning point. After the
shift, Vietnam will quickly go under water in any case, being low
land, as the existing poles melt and the oceans rise some 675 feet
above the current sea level. Like the Philippines, Vietnam will not
BE a country after the shift.
Thailand will drown, not only during the two years following the pole shift, but during the shift itself. The elevation in this low land bordering several oceans is not high enough to buffer any of it’s lands from the onslaught that will occur, first from one side and then another, and often in concert so that the waters clash and rise up in the center of this narrow land, to the horror of those trying to escape the waves.
The forces driving the water, during the shift, include not only a shortening Pacific, which will bring water from that direction, but also the suction that a subducting India and western Australia will bring. As this land dives, it creates an opening for waters else-where to seek a lower level, and rush in, from all directions, it will!
This will not only pull the water from
the Pacific across Thailand, even across the highlands tucked into
the mainland, but will also result in violent sloshing when the
water from all directions clashes over the bowl the former India
occupied, pushing this water back over Thailand and the other
countries in the vicinity. Those afloat, in boats, who hoped to ride
out the shift in this manner, will be dashed about, their craft in
pieces, and drown.
Malaysia stands in the path of rushing water, which will drown even the mainland country of Thailand during the pole shift. Several factors will create a rush of water over the Malaysian peninsula. When the crust of the Earth stops its slide and the plates begin to slam into each other, the Pacific will shorten and the India/Australia plate will subduct violently into the Himalayas.
As this occurs, there will be a drop in sea level over India, the waters about India rushing in to fill the gap. Likewise, the Pacific will compress, so the sea level there is relatively higher, and as water seeks an even level this water will rush into the gap over the hapless and drowning India.
The Malaysian peninsula stands in the path of this rush, and once water begins to move, it creates it’s own force, such that there is a press of water moving in the direction of India, and this pressure will be great enough to create tidal bore that will go up and over any mountains in it’s path.
Malaysia, and other countries in the path of this flood, will
utterly drown.
Indonesia fares poorly during the coming pole shift, but most of the residents will already be dealing with disasters by the time the shift arrives. As low-lying land, in the main, the steadily softening polar ice will create inundation that the country is poorly prepared to deal with. Now and then a hurricane ravages a coastline and dumps rain inland; now and then a volcano goes into an active burping stage; but overall, most of Indonesia during these times - functions.
With low-lying land consistently flooded throughout Indonesia, there will be an impact on the industries in the country, and migrations of displaced citizens to the cities remaining above water. Indonesia is run by the wealthy elite, who rape the poor and the land without government oversight. With industries shut down, the wealthy will attempt to escape to Australia or any other country that will have them.
They will be running from what they will view to be a sinking ship, leaving the poor behind them with scarcely a backward glance. The government will become even less responsive to the poor, who will be allowed to crowd into the cities but be kept in camps where disease will run rampant and starvation be the norm. Increasing activity in the many volcanoes that dot the region will only increase these migrations to the death camps.
Thus, by the time the shift hits, most citizens of Indonesia will already be in a desperate live-and-death struggle. Those living on high ground away from volcanoes will be washed over by the large floodtides that will move from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, and back again, during the shortening of the Pacific and subducting of the Indio-Australian plate under the Himalayas.
Survival will occur for a small
percentage, but only because the islands are many and cover a vast
area. Survival will be by accident, in these cases, not by design.
Singapore is unfortunately located from several standpoints, and will suffer both during the pole shift and during the years after the pole shift. Being on low land and along a coast, with the potential of tidal waves from almost all sides due to its prominent location on the tip of a peninsula, it will surely be wracked by high tides which will wash most of the city away.
Any survivors will find themselves in
near-freezing temperatures, as the pole shift will place them closer
to the new South Pole than the equator. The land will then be
subject to inundation during polar melt, with the only escape route
along an increasingly narrow peninsula.
New Guinea has high mountains which will remain above water even during the worst of the sloshing that the Pacific can inflict, including the rush of water from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean during the compression of the Pacific basin. New Guinea rides on the Indio-Australian plate, which will tip strongly thrusting India under the Himalayas during the shift, and thus pushing the far portion of the plate up.
Just as Australia and New Zealand can count on gaining sea level elevation due to this, New Guinea will to a lesser extent also rise above the ocean level by 250 feet. However, since all volcanoes will become highly active during the hour of the shift, there will be few spots where survivors can cling without worry. Plate thrusting during the shift will drive the plate New Guinea rides on over plates coming in from the Pacific, so as with New Zealand, volcanic activity will be lessened by having magma fresh just under the volcanoes.
Nevertheless, any volcano giving
evidence of having erupted during the past ten thousand years should
be considered a candidate to be reactivated. After the shift, the
climate will be temperate, not tropical, and survivors will find
ocean fishing a good source of food in their ash covered land.
Port Moresby in New Guinea will find water rushing by on its way from the Pacific, which will be compressing, and the South Pole, where it has pooled during the week of rotation stoppage, during the hour of the shift.
This will not be simply rapidly moving
water, it will be a high tide scouring all along its edges, and
thus, being at the turn of where the water must turn to go through
narrows between New Guinea and Australia, Port Moresby will find
itself under higher water, roiling. None of this city will survive.
The Philippines are in an unfortunate position for the forthcoming pole shift. They are riddled with active and inactive volcanoes which will erupt simultaneously when the Pacific shortens. Being a series of islands, they will be subject to over-wash when the oceans slosh back and forth.
Since the land is mostly low lying, it will disappear under the rising waters from melting poles so that only the mountain tops are sticking out of the water. Unfortunately, many of these mountain tops will also be oozing lava. The effect of the tipping of the plate shared by both India and Australia is that eastern Australia and New Zealand will pop up a bit out of the water.
This raising plate will encourage the
press from the plates the Philippines rest upon to subduct or
crumple. No altogether a promising place to be during the coming
cataclysms.
Guam is a low lying island that will be inundated long before the shift, and disappear afterwards in the rising sea level when the current poles melt. Such islands will get little help from the governments of the world, regardless of commitments due to its strategic location. Starving countries and lands disappearing under the rising waters will be ignored.
Thus, those on Guam who would survive
the coming earth changes need to help themselves, and make
aggressive plans to do so.
Fiji lies close to a plate boundary, and is surrounded by the Pacific. Thus it will suffer numerous earthquake jolts during the shift, and not being a large island, not particularly high, it will find itself washed over, repeatedly, during the pole shift.
Afterwards, any life still remaining on
the island will find itself inundated by the melting poles. Not a
good option for survival.
The Solomon Islands are low lying and face the Pacific, which will have water to lose during the hour of the shift due to the compression of the Pacific. Thus, the peoples of these islands can expect flood tide that will utterly cover these islands to rise and not drop for some hours, effectively drowning all.
Migrating to the coastline of Australia
or to New Zealand is their best hope.
Where one would expect that the Hawaiian Islands would be awash with tidal waves and under the threat of nearby volcanic eruptions, there is a bright spot for these islanders in that the Pacific will be shortening, tightening, and all shores that represent plates above subducting plates will benefit from this.
During the rotation stoppage, the waters
of the Pacific will flow towards the poles, and during the shift
will rush from one side of the Pacific to the next. However, due to
the shortening of the Pacific, there will be slightly more water to
deal with overall. The highest altitudes will be the safest, with a
tie-down to survive the hurricane force winds. Due to proximity to
the oceans bounty afterwards, the volcanic gloom can be offset.
Thus, the least resistance is up a ravine. In the case of islands like those in Hawaii, there is wiggle room. Even though the islands are large, the wave approaching the island starts to move around the island long before it starts rolling up the land mass toward the beaches.
The water on either side of the island
has a lot of options, can move sideways, and does so. Thus, the
advise to move inland 100 miles and upland 200 feet is not that far
afield. Clearly, one should move as high as possible, staying out of
the hurricane force winds, and not hang about near the beaches even
if on high ground.
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