OK, Portland and Seattle Wonkers, this is a public service announcement. We are going to need you to find buddies in the comments section (which does not exist), and beg them to let you crash on their couch, because you guys are going to have a REALLY BIG EARTHQUAKE. Yeah, maybe you already knew that, but the rest of America is finding out now, thanks to a
Growing up on the edge of a continent has had it's drawbacks, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. Growing up Catholic during the nuclear/cold war era made me think the world was going to end in my lifetime anyway so no bigs.
And when those evacuees come knockin', I'ma just be all, "remember those weekend barbecues you didn't invite me to, Seattle? Remember my dinner party you flaked on half an hour before because 'something came up'?" Yeah.
Yet nobody mentions this event causing the collapse of the rotten western flank of Mt Rainier... literally burying everything in it's path by a 30 foot high Lahar, all the way to Puget Sound... Nice...
How did I miss this article? This is geology, my schtick!One thing to bear in mind is that this is something impending in geological time, so it could happen right this moment or decades down the road. It also may not happen at all, given the composition of the rocks in that area, they may be low-enough friction that they're allowing gentle progressive release of the stress over time.Unfortunately, tectonic activity still isn't something we have the ability to monitor and predict. Nonetheless, there's enough room for speculation that the History Channel could write a fear-mongering special about how all of the PNW is doomed to die RIGHT NOW!! or just more inane shit about space-alien Nazis in pawn shops.
NOBODY has apparently caught that the image is from "2012," not "San Andreas" (AKA Plains, Trains and Automobiles meet 2012). Seriously, as a geologist, the Cascadia thing is a big deal and the quotes are all accurate. All the coastal highways up there have tsunami evacuation signs (get your butt to high ground and we'll sort it out once everything settles down).
Pretty much all volcanoes are rotten inside. After Mount St. Helens, vulcanologists began wondering how often stuff like that happens. Real often. Something over 200 collapses now known. You slap together a mound of alternating lava and mudflows, like painting a board, slathering mud on it, repainting, etc., then you circulate acidic fluids through it. It's pretty fragile. Very scenic, but pretty fragile. Take I-5 north past Mount Shasta and you get a great overview of huge isolated hills. Those were part of Mount Shasta until it collapsed 300,000 years ago.
Juan De Fuca translates to "Wandering Fucker" As in "This WANDERING FUCKER of a tectonic plate is going to goddamn KILL US ALL!!" Oh well, I've seen Seattle; it was nice, as will be all that new beach front property in Spokane...
I'm in the Philly area. You can all come stay with me. We have a guest room, but I hope you don't like cats (we don't really hate cats, it's just a thing for the Internets).
But the quake was being caused by the pressure in the chamber. I mean the mountain was bulging. It wasn't like, a random earth quake and it randomly made the volcano go off.
If I were a conservative, I would "prove" you wrong by holding up a can of soda, saying it represents an volcano, shaking it vigorously (representing a earthquake, KEEP UP WILLYA!), then popping the top, sploding soda/lava all over the place. Then I'd smirk at you smugly and go "Derp" because that's how Republicans do the science all commonsense-like.
Growing up on the edge of a continent has had it's drawbacks, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. Growing up Catholic during the nuclear/cold war era made me think the world was going to end in my lifetime anyway so no bigs.
And when those evacuees come knockin', I'ma just be all, "remember those weekend barbecues you didn't invite me to, Seattle? Remember my dinner party you flaked on half an hour before because 'something came up'?" Yeah.
Yet nobody mentions this event causing the collapse of the rotten western flank of Mt Rainier... literally burying everything in it's path by a 30 foot high Lahar, all the way to Puget Sound... Nice...
How did I miss this article? This is geology, my schtick!One thing to bear in mind is that this is something impending in geological time, so it could happen right this moment or decades down the road. It also may not happen at all, given the composition of the rocks in that area, they may be low-enough friction that they're allowing gentle progressive release of the stress over time.Unfortunately, tectonic activity still isn't something we have the ability to monitor and predict. Nonetheless, there's enough room for speculation that the History Channel could write a fear-mongering special about how all of the PNW is doomed to die RIGHT NOW!! or just more inane shit about space-alien Nazis in pawn shops.
NOBODY has apparently caught that the image is from "2012," not "San Andreas" (AKA Plains, Trains and Automobiles meet 2012). Seriously, as a geologist, the Cascadia thing is a big deal and the quotes are all accurate. All the coastal highways up there have tsunami evacuation signs (get your butt to high ground and we'll sort it out once everything settles down).
Pretty much all volcanoes are rotten inside. After Mount St. Helens, vulcanologists began wondering how often stuff like that happens. Real often. Something over 200 collapses now known. You slap together a mound of alternating lava and mudflows, like painting a board, slathering mud on it, repainting, etc., then you circulate acidic fluids through it. It's pretty fragile. Very scenic, but pretty fragile. Take I-5 north past Mount Shasta and you get a great overview of huge isolated hills. Those were part of Mount Shasta until it collapsed 300,000 years ago.
Hi,
I see this type disaster only in movie not in real and never hear about this
Regards Linda
I'm not worried, my insurance is paid up.
Oh no! The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee (Google it, you will thank me) is doomed!
You can come stay on my couch, but I live in GA...and...well...ok, you may just want to take your chances with the earthquake.
Would it have killed the New Yorker to give us the standard deviation?
Wanda Fuca, we hardly knew ye
Juan De Fuca translates to "Wandering Fucker" As in "This WANDERING FUCKER of a tectonic plate is going to goddamn KILL US ALL!!" Oh well, I've seen Seattle; it was nice, as will be all that new beach front property in Spokane...
I'm in the Philly area. You can all come stay with me. We have a guest room, but I hope you don't like cats (we don't really hate cats, it's just a thing for the Internets).
But the quake was being caused by the pressure in the chamber. I mean the mountain was bulging. It wasn't like, a random earth quake and it randomly made the volcano go off.
If I were a conservative, I would "prove" you wrong by holding up a can of soda, saying it represents an volcano, shaking it vigorously (representing a earthquake, KEEP UP WILLYA!), then popping the top, sploding soda/lava all over the place. Then I'd smirk at you smugly and go "Derp" because that's how Republicans do the science all commonsense-like.