Posted on 07/03/2012 10:25:13 AM PDT by Errant
“The island has now been elevated by 9 cm due to the magma pressure. Last night there was one quake of 4.4 on the Richter scale, at a depth of 18km, which was also felt on the neighbouring island of La Palma.”
(Excerpt) Read more at iceagenow.info ...
the latest with video on the bubblin bayou!...lol
I can relate. :) He's probably right though, mostly oil store in the domes in that area IIRC.
I’ve seen it. It’s a pretty dumb story but has some great effects. It’s kinda like “Cartoons for adults”.
Well, it’s controversial. I’m as glued to this right now as I am FR. Here are a couple of good links to follow what’s going on for those who are interested. (It’s the comments more than the blog posts themselves.)
(Elvis stands for “Effusive Lava Vent In The Sea”)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/small-glacial-outburst-flood-spurr-alaska/
(other comments on previous & latest posts)
Anyway, if I remember right (from around the Merapi eruption), a couple of guys (at least) commenting on the Wired blog are govt (FEMA?). It is the alarm expressed by them that concerns me. They’re looking at it from a financial pov (cost compared to say, Katrina) not just the human tragedy aspect.
Hope this helps.
Don’t disagree the perplexing part is the ground shift and microquakes.
OH, MAN!
I can just see Obama taking advantage of this if a catastrophe occurrs.
That was my confusion: El Hierro has already done this once; it’s the model for La Palma’s future... or something like that. I’m no seismologist/vulcanologist/geologist, but I watch the Discovery channel.
Yeah, but I'm not dead yet.
However more than enough evidence suggests that it was a huge displacement caused by El Hierro that produced our last known giant tsunami.
Thanks martin_fierro.
Canary Islands ping?
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You’ve got to ask yourself how the nice coastal valley and plain came to be. There must have been a massive landslide because all that land had to go somewhere.
Is there some new Yellowstone activity you refer to, or what has been happening for several years. I do worry about landslides and tsunamis, especially as I am considering going to the Atlantic beaches this summer. Does anyone know how fast a tsunami would travel across the Atlantic?
Nope, just what's been happening over the last couple of years.
Some of the past stories about what is actually happening seem to conflict at times which tells me they're not sure about too much.
Guess it all depends on what the magma chamber is really doing and how fast it's doing it.
Note: this topic is from 07/03/2012. Thanks Errant.
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