What's next?

[smudgeoffudge]

There are many signs out there. A little earthquake here, a little earthquake there. Mt. St Helen's sending up a plume, even a volcano and earthquake in another part of the world...
All of this is related though. If they have an earthquake on one part of the world, sooner or later we have one here. It all is connected, earthquakes and volcanos.

I've been reading a lot lately and now I get the feeling the earth is building up to something big like we've never seen before.

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050913_slip.html
http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/ap_050906_sisters_bulge.html
http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/ap_050726_montana_quake.html
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

[Asthaloth]

Not a Geology major?
"those in the know" (ie: anyone who can recognise patterns) have been fearing the next supervolcanoe eruption, they occure every few thousand years to varying degree's.
we're overdue one, (i think that its yellowstone park due to go off, but dont qoute me on that)

the power of one of them?
well. supposedly Atlantis was built over one of them.
Atlantis is now gone, Probably strewn across the world as rubble.
that was a minor detonation.
the last major eruption heralded an Ice-age.
the most powerful one we know of?
occured at the end of the Cambrian (i think)
98% of all species were destroyed.

sleep well.

[smudgeoffudge]

Yeah, well there isn't anything anyone can do about it, But I wouldn't live too close to yellowstone or Calafornia. And I have seen some earthquakes even in the central U. S. I guess no one is safe really.

[Paulisacretin]

You're still on about the end of the world? Good thing you havent heard about the misalignments in the dating of jesus' birth, which pinpoints the ACTUAL millenium, and the end of the world, to the end of 2005.

[smudgeoffudge]

Well I don't really think the end of the millinium has anything to do with the end of the world. Time is a human invention anyway. One day isn't really any more special than the next for something to happen. But I do believe people have a lot of influence on the world and if we wanted we could bring about our own end and probably will.

I do believe in God and I think a lot of things haven't happened yet that are are said to happen before the world ends. So I don't think it is all going to be this year unless it happens virtually overnight and very quickly. I guess it could do that, people do move a lot more quickly these days and get a lot of things done.

[Asthaloth]

You're still on about the end of the world? Good thing you havent heard about the misalignments in the dating of jesus' birth, which pinpoints the ACTUAL millenium, and the end of the world, to the end of 2005.

actually "the end of days" was predicted.
the end of an age of man
(aload of Zodiac nonsense really, im waiting for 2012 for my Ragnorok)

and the dates were off by six years anyway.
still, hopefully the super volcanoe will erupt in 2012.
even excluding the mayan prediction it has a nice symmetry to it.

[Christopher]

(aload of Zodiac nonsense really, im waiting for 2012 for my Ragnorok)

Ragnarok sucks, the gods get eaten =/

Anyway, wouldn't lots of smaller events infact release preasure and thus lessen the chance?

[Dragonfire]

Actually, the yellowstone thing is right, as there was an article in Popular Science about a volcano lying underneath Yellowstone, and that's why there are geysers there. It also said that if it erupts, the area that would be inhabitable would be from northen Mexico to mid-Canada, and from California to I think the eastern borders of Kansas, Nebraska, etc.

I could find the article, but I don't want to dig through the magazines.

[Asthaloth]

it depends how bad the explosion is as for how much would be uninhabitable.
like i say, the last major explosion wiped out 98% of species on the earth, and set evolution back some way.

[Bangel]

*shrug* Chass and I already know we're going to die in a huge earthquake here. I forgot what the statistics were but in the next fifty years apparently we're getting one of at least a 7.0 magnitude or something.

[DiscordantNote]

Not a Geology major?
"those in the know" (ie: anyone who can recognise patterns) have been fearing the next supervolcanoe eruption, they occure every few thousand years to varying degree's.
we're overdue one, (i think that its yellowstone park due to go off, but dont qoute me on that)

the power of one of them?
well. supposedly Atlantis was built over one of them.
Atlantis is now gone, Probably strewn across the world as rubble.
that was a minor detonation.
the last major eruption heralded an Ice-age.
the most powerful one we know of?
occured at the end of the Cambrian (i think)
98% of all species were destroyed.

sleep well.

Yep, Yellowstone is a supervolcano. It's 40,000 years overdue, apparantly has enough magma for a supereruption, and has after effects that remind me of what happens when we're hit by a large asteriod (specifically, the debris blowing over the whole world and blocking out the sun for awhile bit). I never knew the Atlantis bit though, quite interesting.

[Amethyst]

Actually, the yellowstone thing is right, as there was an article in Popular Science about a volcano lying underneath Yellowstone, and that's why there are geysers there. It also said that if it erupts, the area that would be inhabitable would be from northen Mexico to mid-Canada, and from California to I think the eastern borders of Kansas, Nebraska, etc.

I could find the article, but I don't want to dig through the magazines.

Thank goodness I live in Ohio, then...

[Dragonfire]

Actually, the yellowstone thing is right, as there was an article in Popular Science about a volcano lying underneath Yellowstone, and that's why there are geysers there. It also said that if it erupts, the area that would be inhabitable would be from northen Mexico to mid-Canada, and from California to I think the eastern borders of Kansas, Nebraska, etc.

I could find the article, but I don't want to dig through the magazines.

Thank goodness I live in Ohio, then...

Well, the ash would spread all over the world, it's just that the western and central parts of the US would be the most affected. And if the jet stream is over it when it blows, then you can say bye-bye to parts of the eastern US.

[alien]

Not a Geology major?
"those in the know" (ie: anyone who can recognise patterns) have been fearing the next supervolcanoe eruption, they occure every few thousand years to varying degree's.
we're overdue one, (i think that its yellowstone park due to go off, but dont qoute me on that)

the power of one of them?
well. supposedly Atlantis was built over one of them.
Atlantis is now gone, Probably strewn across the world as rubble.
that was a minor detonation.
the last major eruption heralded an Ice-age.
the most powerful one we know of?
occured at the end of the Cambrian (i think)
98% of all species were destroyed.

sleep well.

actually, it is yellowstone, its built over a huge chanber of magma and any day/month/year/whatever it will erupt blowing a huge hole in the world and destroying the usa complelty.... mayby mexico and canada do.... but thats just what my paranoid science teacher says.. but there is huge chmaber of magma under yellowstone..

[Christopher]

Suck out the magma and launch it into space =O