Posted on 04/11/2008 7:12:46 PM PDT by CedarDave
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off the central Oregon Coast.
Scientists don't know what the earthquakes mean, but they could be the result of magma rumbling underneath the Juan de Fuca Plate - away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon, said geophysicist Robert Dziak of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore.
They hope to send out the OSU research ship, Wecoma, to take water samples, looking for evidence that sediment on the ocean bottom has been stirred up and chemicals in the water that would indicate magma is moving up through the crust, Dziak said.
There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport. The biggest was magnitude 5.4 and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, OSU reported. They have not followed the typical pattern of a major shock followed by a series of diminishing aftershocks, and few have been strong enough to be felt on shore.
It looks like what happens before a volcanic eruption, except there are no volcanoes in the area, Dziak said.
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God has finally had enough of the dang liberals! lol. I wish!
Hey stranger, very well said about the lib’s lol
On the hydrophones, the quakes sound like low rumbling thunder and are unlike anything scientists have heard in 17 years of listening, Dziak said ...
The hydrophones are leftover from a network the Navy used to listen for submarines during the Cold War. They routinely detect passing ships, earthquakes on the ocean bottom and whales calling to each other.
Anyone remember the sonarman from "The Hunt from Red October" who heard a similar rumbling that the hydrophone classified as magma movement? Turned out it was a new Soviet sub with a silent caterpillar drive.
So you’re saying it could be Putin? :-)
Hey stranger back. Thanks :-) I knew I was probably not alone in my thoughts.
Probably a bunch of underwater UFO’s!
Didn’t that sonarman grew up to be the DA on Law & Order: CI ?
How does that song go ?
I'd much rather Bush would sing it, than sign it. LOL
” It’s about time we North westerners get nailed, it’s our turn on that whole Rim Of Fire Thingy “
OK, when did this turn into a gay porn site?
LOL
Cool stuff
Whale farts. Definitely whale farts.
LMAO!!!!!!
There is a town in eastern Washington named Zilla. The Church of God had a softball team and on their shirts it said
Church of God
Zilla
These don’t have anything to do with the subduction zone; it’s near the Juan De Fuca-Pacific Plate boundary.
I live in Oregon, and I want us kept free from earthquakes!
Ed
On the afternoon of February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido, a farmer in the Mexican state of Michoacán, was readying his fields for spring sowing when the ground nearby opened in a fissure about 150 fee long. "I then felt a thunder," he recalled later, "the trees trembled, and is was then I saw how, in the hole, the ground swelled and raised it self 2 or 21/2 meters high, and a kind of smoke or fine dust–gray, like ashes–began to rise, with a hiss or whistle, loud and continuous; and there was a smell of sulphur. I then became greatly frightened and tried to help unyoke one of the ox teams."Virtually under the farmer's feet, a volcano was being born. Pulido and the handful of other witnesses fled. By the next morning, when he returned, the cone had grown to a height of 30 feet and was "hurling out rocks with great violence." During the day, the come grew another 120 feet. That night, incandescent bombs blew more than 1,000 feet up into the darkness, and a slaglike mass of lava rolled over Pulido's cornfields.
The scientific world was almost as stunned as the hapless farmer himself by the volcano's sudden appearance. Around the world, volcanic eruptions are commonplace, but the birth of an entirely new volcano, marked by the arrival at the earth's surface of a distinct vent from the magma chamber, is genuinely rare. In North America, only two new volcanoes have appeared in historic times. One of them was western Mexico's Jorullo, born in 1759 some 50 miles southeast of Dionisio Pulido's property. The second, born about 183 years later in Pulido's field, was named Paricutín for a nearby village that it eventually destroyed.
New volcanic phenomena and processes were sometimes obliterated almost as soon as they were recorded, especially during Paricutín's first year of violent, explosive growth and change. In that year, the cone topped 1,100 feet, four-fifths of its final height; explosions echoed all over the state of Michoacan; ash snowed on faraway Mexico City; and almost all of the vegetation for miles around the crater was destroyed.
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"Keeeeeeeeeey -oto, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain ..." That one? Well, if he must sing it, he must. :)
Then, what you should do is go to the Portland City Council and have them declare Portland an earthquake free zone.
I'm sure the governor and the legislature will follow suit. ;o)
Or Krakatoa?
We’re just climbing out of one of the longest, coldest winters for some time - I sure wouldn’t like to go through a summer following a Krakatoa type incident, let alone a winter after...
1884, the summer after Krakatoa blew it’s top half a world away, here in New England, it was called “the summer that wasn’t” = farmers, back then, would drive (like in walk) their turkeys to market in Boston - and the turkeys feet were freezing off - in JULY.
“God has finally had enough of the dang liberals!”
The coast of Oregon is mostly Red. Lincoln County (Newport) is the exception.
I wouldn’t be so fast to condemn Oregon. A lot of good people live there. My family lives in Salem and I will be going back after I graduate so please don’t wish for catastrophe. Thanks.
I live in the Free part of Oregon, in the Southwest, where Pubbies, loggers and gun owners far outnumber the liberal whackos in the northern three-county Metro area!
I’m a good five hours and fifty years away from the Portland hellhole...
Ed
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