Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

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Looks like the 6' wave that hit Midway took all the steam out of what was due to hit Hawaii.
 
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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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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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For a few years now I have watched a lot of videos on the Electric Universe YT channel. Then a few months ago I came across the Space Weather News Twitter channel, and then another one that I can't remember the name of now that does similar work. All related to how the entire solar system is going through some sort of a periodic (6000 year cycle or so, IIRC) shift. Starting to get the feeling that these guys might actually be on to something. The entire north-western part of the Ring of Fire seems to have gone haywire after that earthquake - three volcanic eruptions, thereof one that has not erupted in 600 years. In my part of the planet, we are also seeing strange things afoot geologically speaking. Going to be interesting seeing how things go forth, and as mentioned above, we might be entering into a very active volcanic and earthquake phase. Fun times ahead!
 
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