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El Hierro volcano (Canary Islands): continuing earthquakes, volcanic tremor and eruption warning
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| jun 26 2012
Posted on 06/27/2012 2:05:32 PM PDT by djf
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Is this the island that, if it collapses, we can kiss the east coast of the US goodbye?
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:05:41 PM PDT
by
djf
To: djf
>>Is this the island that, if it collapses, we can kiss the east coast of the US goodbye?<<
Any chance we can direct it to Manhattan?
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:07:08 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Guns Walked -- People Died -- Holder Lied -- Obama Golfed (thanks, Secret Agent Man))
To: freedumb2003
I was thinking more along the lines of up the Potomac. I suppose both would work...
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:10:11 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1254 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: freedumb2003; All
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:13:20 PM PDT
by
djf
("There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin)
To: djf
It could produce a tsunami but I think the threat is overblown. The island is a tiny speck on the far side of the atlantic and I can’t see it producing a wave of more than a couple of feet on this side of the ocean.
Damaging and expensive yes, but I don’t believe its the catastrophic killer hyped on the disaster shows.
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:17:50 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: djf
From a look at the quake activity using EARTHQUAKE 3D, it seems the magma is moving N / NE
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:23:30 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: djf
1) This is a different Canary Island than the one with the hyped tsunami collapse threat.
2) Most scientists in the field do not buy the huge East coast tsunami threat from a collapse of La Palma. Bad documentaries do a poor job of presenting all views on the subject.
To: djf
The one you’re thinking of is Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma.
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:31:10 PM PDT
by
Vinnie
(A)
To: Strategerist; Vinnie
Correct. Watching the video goes into more detail.
La Palma is the threat.
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:33:22 PM PDT
by
djf
("There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin)
To: freedumb2003
No, this isn't the one, but maybe someone could get another uninformed quote from Obama on how he would save us.
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:38:29 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: djf; All
Can anyone tell me how many miles inland it might go?
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:40:09 PM PDT
by
blueyon
(The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
To: discostu
magma at about 20 km depth flew from underneath the El Golfo areaGrammar, schmammar.
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:41:50 PM PDT
by
Romulus
(The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
To: Romulus
I’d have used spewed, but we know what he meant, came out with force. So the sentence was successful, if not necessarily awesome.
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:54:25 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Listen, do you smell something?)
To: cripplecreek
I don’t mean to sound nasty, but it would work like a hydraulic pump, not a pebble in the pond.
If the land slide is significant in size and kinetic energy, it would be horrible for the east coast.
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:56:52 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(I just hate our government. All of them. Republican and Democrat.)
To: freedumb2003
Any chance we can direct it to Manhattan? Hey, Hey, Hey!
There are FReepers here.
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posted on
06/27/2012 2:58:45 PM PDT
by
JohnG45
To: Vermont Lt
"If the land slide is significant in size and kinetic energy, it would be horrible for the east coast."
The simulations I have seen show about the Western third of La Palma separating along an existing fault line and sliding into the Atlantic. It generates a huge Tsunami that pretty much destroys the Atlantic coastal US.
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posted on
06/27/2012 3:11:41 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: Vermont Lt
We’re still talking about a tiny amount of energy compared to the recent Japan quake and tsunami or the Indonesian one a few years ago. Plus it would be energy spread and dissapated over a huge area.
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posted on
06/27/2012 3:15:28 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
That is exactly where you are incorrect. This happened before. Hey have found evidence of large tsunami’s in the Carolina’s and Virginia.
The Indonesia tsunami was deep and far away. This would be closer to the surface, and relatively, not as far away.
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posted on
06/27/2012 3:19:18 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(I just hate our government. All of them. Republican and Democrat.)
To: Strategerist
Most scientists in the field do not buy the huge East coast tsunami threat from a collapse of La Palma. Bad documentaries do a poor job of presenting all views on the subject.
Such a landslide simply doesn't impart the same energy as an entire seafloor movement. That's not to say that it couldn't cause a tsunami, only that the scale is overblown. A truly big ocean wide tsunami takes a big movement. A landslide can cause a big tsunami over a relatively small area. There's a man living in Alaska who found himself some 300 feet up the side of a mountain due to a landslide into a fjord. It was a relatively small landslide but it was in a contained area.
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posted on
06/27/2012 3:39:21 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: JohnG45
>>Hey, Hey, Hey!
There are FReepers here.<<
With advance notice, of course!
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posted on
06/27/2012 3:40:38 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Guns Walked -- People Died -- Holder Lied -- Obama Golfed (thanks, Secret Agent Man))
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