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Post by juju on May 8, 2016 10:45:27 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on May 10, 2016 0:25:52 GMT
Hmmm....It's difficult to tell. From my understanding, it means that the magma column underneath the mountain is shifting. That has happened a fair amount in the past with varying results. If we have clusters of quakes _and_ measureable bulging of the mountain, THEN it gets worrisome. Yes, Mt. St. Helens is visible from the high spots here in town.
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 10, 2016 10:32:37 GMT
A good friend of mine is moving to your neck of the woods this year too. Her fiancee got a position to head one of the biggest puppet or some such other movie related studios. I would like to visit, but not sure if that will happen as they will be there for about 3 years and there is a lot of other stuff happening during that time. We'll see.
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Post by whollygoats on May 10, 2016 14:23:10 GMT
A good friend of mine is moving to your neck of the woods this year too. Her fiancee got a position to head one of the biggest puppet or some such other movie related studios. I would like to visit, but not sure if that will happen as they will be there for about 3 years and there is a lot of other stuff happening during that time. We'll see. Hmmm...I'll guess it's what used to be Vinton Studios, the makers of the California Raisins and M&M promos, aka 'Claymation'. It was recently stolen from the originators by some filthy rich asshole. Around here, we live with the reality that several of the large peaks within visible distance from several major urban areas are dormant (or, not so dormant) volcanoes. Then, on top of that, there is a huge subduction zone off the coast which is the source of some majorly destructive earthquakes and there has not been such a major earthquake since the beginning of the 18th century...and another is now overdue. When a local references "The Big One", that is what they are talking about...an earthquake at or above 7.0 on the Richtor scale...possibly setting off volcanic activity.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 6, 2016 21:43:59 GMT
The bigger worry in this part of the country is 'THE BIG ONE'...an expected, and evidently 'overdue' major earthquake which could well devastate great swaths of the Pacific Northwest, not only through land movements and landslides, but attendant tsunami along the coasts. The last one has been dated to approximately 1700 and the typical time span of 'releases' of mounting tension along the fault line has been estimated to by 250 years, plus or minus some 50 years. We're past that on the time schedule....
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 6, 2016 21:47:14 GMT
Which could, of course, nudge one or more of the semi-dormant volcanoes back in to activity.....
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Post by Kye on Sept 6, 2016 23:46:22 GMT
I went to the Pompeii exhibition that they had at the museum here. There was some speculation about why the people, knowing that disaster was imminent, did not just leave...
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Post by Moose on Sept 7, 2016 0:24:45 GMT
There's also the threat of a supervolcano going up in Yellowstone, which would apparently affect the entire world. That is very very overdue - I think tens of thousands of years. I am not sure if that's reassuring or not.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 7, 2016 1:09:04 GMT
Yeah...It's all a matter of 'timing'.
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Post by tangent on Sept 7, 2016 6:40:23 GMT
There's also the threat of a supervolcano going up in Yellowstone, which would apparently affect the entire world. That is very very overdue - I think tens of thousands of years. I am not sure if that's reassuring or not. It depends on how it affects the whole world. Just enough and it will cure global warming, too much and nearly everyone dies.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Sept 8, 2016 8:50:28 GMT
Yay. I better get some more travelling done before that happens!
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