Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

Aaron

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I've known some earthquakes in my day, the largest being in the 6 range. They all lasted something like 2-5 seconds, maybe 15 seconds for the largest. 3 fucking minutes of this is insane.

 
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Borzak

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When I was in AK the only thing I did in Anchorage was look at some of the 1964 earthquake damage. They had a lot of signs and displays of stuff that happened due to the quake all over the world. It was a 9.2 or so.

Some barges were knocked loose of the dock at Dow Chemical on the Mississippi river between Baton Rouge and New Orleans Louisiana. I knew Tsuanamis are bad but never once thought it would have an impact (though very small) from the gulf.

I can't imagine having to deal with Tsunamis. From videos I've seen it looks like it might top out but it just keeps coming and coming and getting deeper.
 
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Gravel

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Aaron said:
I've known some earthquakes in my day, the largest being in the 6 range. They all lasted something like 2-5 seconds, maybe 15 seconds for the largest. 3 fucking minutes of this is insane.

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Our 7.1 lasted close to a minute. It was terrifying.

Magnitudes are crazy though. 8.8 is about 50x larger, and 350x as much energy release than the one we had. I can't even imagine.
 
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Borzak

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Been wondering if Mt. Rainier is going to be the next Mt. St. Helens since apparently a lot of earthquakes in the area lately.
 
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