TomAiello 26 #26 October 31, 2003 California has four seasons: Riots, Fires, Earthquakes and Mudslides. Sometimes, they overlap...-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #27 October 31, 2003 Quotewas watching the discovery channel program about tsunamis. The Kilaua (?) volcano is building a large shelf that will eventually break off and cause a huge tsunami. The wall of water will hit all along the coast. At least it would put out the fires Dont sweat it too much ...yet. http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/1998/98_07_16.html And more current information http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2001/01_10_04.html Another fact is that the seafloor topography around each Hawaiian island reflects large-scale underwater landslides in the geologic past. The seafloor is complex off the Hilina fault system, showing in places evidence for landslides and in other places evidence for huge, almost horizontal faults. We do not know if any submarine fault is currently moving, though a long-term GPS experiment by Scripps Institution of Oceanography may resolve this issue in a year or two. Kilauea has had no massive landslide in the last 100,000 years, nor is there evidence for a huge landslide anywhere in Hawai`i in that time. The chances of the south side of Kilauea suddenly peeling away into the sea are, in Dizzy Dean's famous words, "slim and none." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #28 October 31, 2003 QuoteDang! First fires and now earthquakes! 3.7 prelim. Keep an eye out for the locusts - isn't that what comes next?_________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #29 October 31, 2003 QuoteQuotewas watching the discovery channel program about tsunamis. The Kilaua (?) volcano is building a large shelf that will eventually break off and cause a huge tsunami. The wall of water will hit all along the coast. At least it would put out the fires Dont sweat it too much ...yet. http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/1998/98_07_16.html And more current information http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2001/01_10_04.html Another fact is that the seafloor topography around each Hawaiian island reflects large-scale underwater landslides in the geologic past. The seafloor is complex off the Hilina fault system, showing in places evidence for landslides and in other places evidence for huge, almost horizontal faults. We do not know if any submarine fault is currently moving, though a long-term GPS experiment by Scripps Institution of Oceanography may resolve this issue in a year or two. Kilauea has had no massive landslide in the last 100,000 years, nor is there evidence for a huge landslide anywhere in Hawai`i in that time. The chances of the south side of Kilauea suddenly peeling away into the sea are, in Dizzy Dean's famous words, "slim and none." Eh, no worries - the Yellowstone Caldera Volcano will probably happen first._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #30 October 31, 2003 QuoteEh, no worries - the Yellowstone Caldera Volcano will probably happen first. ANY of the caldera eruptions that could happen in the western states just scare the begeezus outta me... I mean we are talking apocolyptic shit here... and its bulging.. spilling water from the lake into the surrounding countryside.. that means the magma is on the move.... and when it pops... it will change the face of the earth as we know it. http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Yellowstone/description_yellowstone.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #31 October 31, 2003 QuoteQuoteEh, no worries - the Yellowstone Caldera Volcano will probably happen first. ANY of the caldera eruptions that could happen in the western states just scare the begeezus outta me... I mean we are talking apocolyptic shit here... and its bulging.. spilling water from the lake into the surrounding countryside.. that means the magma is on the move.... and when it pops... it will change the face of the earth as we know it. http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Yellowstone/description_yellowstone.html I was watching some program on Discovery, or one of those stations, about caldera's.....there is a scholar that spends his time trying to find connections between seperate scientific studies (he connects the dots). Supposedly he discovered a direct connection to the decrease in the human genome and the last caldera eruption. I'm not sure which worries me more: the massive eruption that could happen and the ash it would spew or the collapse of the ground that was above that bubble of escaping magma and the resulting earthquakes. It's interesting reading studies on the Yellowstone caldera - and the variance in opinions on how to handle it. I read one suggestion that put forth the idea to proactively vent it, the only drawback could be the triggering of the eruption! Guess it doesn't matter if it happens, most of us wouldn't be around for long to worry about it if it did._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #32 October 31, 2003 There are ash layers on the floor of the Atlantic ocean... severl inches thick from these things... They are found in cores in the deep ocean.... When they pop they pop in a BIG way.. with that much ash in the atmosphere worldwide conditions are affected.. the thing you were talking about was the near extinction of the human race.. hence the very small variation in mitochondrial DNA found in ALL humans worldwide.. and its not been very many generations since it happened. http://www.archaeology.org/9609/abstracts/dna.html 1498 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,148 #33 October 31, 2003 QuoteThe weekend is over, Dr. Kallend... Which one?... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RkyMtnHigh 0 #34 October 31, 2003 Ah..that bites! But the "four seasons" are predictable at least..you know to expect one of them most of the time. _________________________________________ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skycurlycat 0 #35 October 31, 2003 3.7...humm...not a big deal to me...usually 5.5 or up gets me nervous...been in a few especially after the big Northridge earthquake back in 94...so glad I wasn't there for that big one though...plenty stories from my friends who were survivers from that one! looked like a bomb had hit the town all over. I've felt the aftershocks and some tend to get little scary cuz some have been for more than 10-15 seconds and get stronger each second... sending good vibes to CA, rain rain rain please! but not too much to prevent mudslides...PMS #113 PMTS #19 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #36 November 1, 2003 Quotesending good vibes to CA, rain rain rain please! but not too much to prevent mudslides... the ODDs are that when the rain starts.. with all the dead burned vegetation.. the MUDSLIDES will be epic...Its going to be a LONG winter in CA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
