Earthquake! - Israel

[void_false 1]

Avon is going crazy! she talks to herself

[theavonlady 2]

Darn! Just had another little quake!

Me and my 2 youngest under the kitchen table.

Back to dinner!

[DarkLight 0]

Yip. I know what thats like. New Zealand is one big fault line. I was in a minor earthquake when I was in the school dentist as a kid...

Glad you and your property is ok Avon. Wonder if "the wall" fell over...

School dentist? You have a dentist in your school? Are you serious

Never heard of something like that before...

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

Ah, the joys of earthquakes

Best thing to do is to get a tent and go somewhere where no trees or houses can fall on you.

[ralphwiggum 6]

oops..made a major mistake. my apologies.

[Balschoiw 0]

Quote[/b] ]Ah, the joys of earthquakes

Best thing to do is to get a tent and go somewhere where no trees or houses can fall on you.

There´s always the sky

that can fall upon you, remember ?

Glad to hear that Avon is back from under the table

[hellfish6 7]

I read that they just had an earthquake in Missouri and Iowa recently. There's a huge but mostly inactive faultline running along the Mississippi, but it's so rare that anything happens that to hear that it did is still a shock.

[bn880 5]

Quote[/b] ]Ah, the joys of earthquakes

Best thing to do is to get a tent and go somewhere where no trees or houses can fall on you.

There´s always the sky

that can fall upon you, remember ?

http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h95b/h9550821/mis/majestix.jpg

Glad to hear that Avon is back from under the table

You need one of those space ship watchmacallits.

Except then you have hte asteroids and space debris, oh shit, no way out, everything is out to get ya.

[Schoeler 0]

I read that they just had an earthquake in Missouri and Iowa recently. There's a huge but mostly inactive faultline running along the Mississippi, but it's so rare that anything happens that to hear that it did is still a shock.  

The largest earthquake in recorded history happened in Missouri, or so I read once.  I'll have to find a source on that.

Edit:  Oops!  The 5th largest:

Biggest U.S. Earthquakes Ever.

10 Largest in 20th Century Worldwide

[Akira 0]

Texas has a huge fault line also. Walked across the street once in biology to examine part of it.

I'll start worryin' when there are tornados in LA and New York is flooded.

[walker 0]

Hi All

I would worry more about the magma bubble under yelowstone. The last time that blew most of the US disapeared and it is overdue for a big one but recently there has been a bulge growing beneath the lake.

Quote[/b] ]Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano

Ready to Erupt?

Over the past two million years, the Yellowstone supervolcano has erupted every 600,000 years. It was 640,000 years ago when it last exploded. Another eruption, geologically speaking, is therefore, threatening.

Five miles beneath Yellowstone, lies an immense pool of red hot magma. Fed from the Earth's mantle, it has been growing. This reservoir of magma and gas is now 31 miles long, 19 miles wide, and six miles deep. The building pressures must be enormous.

The Yellowstone "hot spot" is considered the foundation of a rare "supervolcano." It is estimated that a supervolcano would erupt with the power at least 1000 times greater than that of an 'ordinary' volcano.

The eruption 640,000 years ago created an extremely large crater - the caldera - that today comprises a major portion of the center of the park.

Signs of increased volcanic activity have recently been observed in and around Yellowstone National Park. The north part of Yellowstone Lake has bulged by nearly 170 feet over the past 50 years. The lake has spread into forest on one side of the lake as the surface beneath the water has inflated.

A massive eruption of the Yelowstone supervolcano would be catastophic for North America and would also result in years of freezing temperatures for the rest of the planet as volcanic dust and ash obscured the warmth of the sun.

http://www.earthside.com/yellowstone.html

Now that is scary.

Kind Regards Walker

[Mister Frag 0]

We get earthquakes every day, most of them minor. Most people don't take notice until they get to be in the ~4.5 range; the most recent quake above that was a 5.3 about three weeks ago. The building codes are so tough now that practically anything that won't stand up to a major quake has already fallen down.

We have a cool realtime website where you can view recent quakes and get more information -- click on the live image below to visit the site:

You can search for California seismic events (including nuclear blasts! ) on this page.

(Edit: Added seismic event search page link)

[theavonlady 2]

Is it safe?

[Mister Frag 0]

Is it safe?

You tell me...

(Click on map for more info on the quake)

[Schoeler 0]

Hi All

I would worry more about the magma bubble under yelowstone. The last time that blew most of the US disapeared and it is overdue for a big one but recently there has been a bulge growing beneath the lake.

Quote[/b] ]Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano

Ready to Erupt?

Over the past two million years, the Yellowstone supervolcano has erupted every 600,000 years. It was 640,000 years ago when it last exploded. Another eruption, geologically speaking, is therefore, threatening.

Five miles beneath Yellowstone, lies an immense pool of red hot magma. Fed from the Earth's mantle, it has been growing. This reservoir of magma and gas is now 31 miles long, 19 miles wide, and six miles deep. The building pressures must be enormous.

The Yellowstone "hot spot" is considered the foundation of a rare "supervolcano." It is estimated that a supervolcano would erupt with the power at least 1000 times greater than that of an 'ordinary' volcano.

The eruption 640,000 years ago created an extremely large crater - the caldera - that today comprises a major portion of the center of the park.

Signs of increased volcanic activity have recently been observed in and around Yellowstone National Park. The north part of Yellowstone Lake has bulged by nearly 170 feet over the past 50 years. The lake has spread into forest on one side of the lake as the surface beneath the water has inflated.

A massive eruption of the Yelowstone supervolcano would be catastophic for North America and would also result in years of freezing temperatures for the rest of the planet as volcanic dust and ash obscured the warmth of the sun.

http://www.earthside.com/yellowstone.html

Now that is scary.

Kind Regards Walker

Hi Walker,

I was in Yellowstone last August and there is indeed increased volcanic activity. When I was there, certain parts of the lake were boiling, new hotsprings and mudpots had cropped up in the parking lot at the falls, and geysers that haven't erupted in over 100 years were suddenly erupting again. It is fascinating, but the last time that volcano erupted, that entire valley was created. The whole park is actually a caldera.

[Asmodeus 0]

Hi All

I would worry more about the magma bubble under yelowstone. The last time that blew most of the US disapeared and it is overdue for a big one but recently there has been a bulge growing beneath the lake.

Quote[/b] ]Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano

Ready to Erupt?

Over the past two million years, the Yellowstone supervolcano has erupted every 600,000 years. It was 640,000 years ago when it last exploded. Another eruption, geologically speaking, is therefore, threatening.

Five miles beneath Yellowstone, lies an immense pool of red hot magma. Fed from the Earth's mantle, it has been growing. This reservoir of magma and gas is now 31 miles long, 19 miles wide, and six miles deep. The building pressures must be enormous.

The Yellowstone "hot spot" is considered the foundation of a rare "supervolcano." It is estimated that a supervolcano would erupt with the power at least 1000 times greater than that of an 'ordinary' volcano.

The eruption 640,000 years ago created an extremely large crater - the caldera - that today comprises a major portion of the center of the park.

Signs of increased volcanic activity have recently been observed in and around Yellowstone National Park. The north part of Yellowstone Lake has bulged by nearly 170 feet over the past 50 years. The lake has spread into forest on one side of the lake as the surface beneath the water has inflated.

A massive eruption of the Yelowstone supervolcano would be catastophic for North America and would also result in years of freezing temperatures for the rest of the planet as volcanic dust and ash obscured the warmth of the sun.

http://www.earthside.com/yellowstone.html

Now that is scary.

Kind Regards Walker

Interesting, very interesting!

If it's not this, it's ice caps melting, asteroids hitting, and resources running out.    

Picture this:  An alien surveyor finds evidence that an extinct race made movies featuring the elements of nature that caused their extinction.

If something that big happened in my lifetime, I'd consider it fate and watch the show.  (I live in Arizona, pretty close)  

Asmo

*Edit*  Whoops, didn't read the 2nd page early enough, Avon, I'm glad you and your family are ok, and also you void_false and also LCD.   *edit*

[blackdog~ 0]

Walker... I watched a huge special on that on the Discovery Channel and I regret sitting through it. I had bad dreams for weeks and you just brought them back.

Luckily it doesn't seem as if it'll reach Southern California, at least the main blast :] All the fallout will though :[

[Veovis 0]

That show said that if Yellowstone goes.... pretty much all of North America would go with it. Four inches of ash on the east coast! Agriculture would be completely shot. Keep in mind, though, that 'imminent' in geological terms means within the next 150,000 years.

[bn880 5]

Man, that would be a BLAST!

Edit; a 4.1 quake and there is a therad for it. LMAO

[cozza 24]

Well there goes America

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

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uh Now it stopped

ooohohohoho dammmnnnn nnnnowowowooow itttt sstttaaaarts allll ooovovoovover aaaaaagagggagaiiinnn  

[Veovis 0]

Lol Albert

Quote[/b] ]Well there goes America

Yeah, and we're all moving to, uh, Sweden! So make room, damnit!

[theavonlady 2]

Quote[/b] ]Well there goes America

Yeah, and we're all moving to, uh, Sweden! So make room, damnit!  

Don't forget to take off your shoes when you come in.

[bucket man 2]

Glad everyones okay that live there.

The biggest shaking I get where I live is from a big thunderstorm. I cant imagine how it would feel to be in a really big earthquake.

[Mister Frag 0]

Woohoo! We just had one 4.0 and one 4.1 in one day! Never a dull moment here in So Cal.

(See page 3 of this thread for a live map)