Not again ...

[veronica_rich]

Updated tsunami warning system in action - Chile earthquake- msnbc.com

As my sister texted to me this morning, "I think the Earth didn't get the memo that it's not supposed to try to kill us until 2012." Those poor people (and the ones who have tsunamis to look for, still) ...

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[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

I heard the tsunami already hit B.C. - it was half a metre (about 2 feet). I gather that Hawaii's wavefront was twice that (about 3 feet). So not a really big wave. On the other hand, I've just come in from watching a few minutes of news and I think I heard them say that people in Buenos Aires felt the quake, on the other side of the continent.

The Earth has been trying to kill us off since before we existed. This is nothing new - although we have gotten much better at helping.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I think the tsunami warnings were all for naught worldwide - in a good way. This is one of the few instances I can think of in life where it's good to cry "wolf!" even if nothing ends up happening. You never know when it could.

[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

Very true. Better to over-prepare than to have another 2006 tsunami.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Well, I know people do not want to hear this, but before the giant earthquake in Indonesia, we have been in what is terms a relatively "aseismic" period for the last 100 years. :(

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

The Earth goes through cycles and has been, on its own, for literally billions of years - cycles of seismic activity, cycles of ice ages, and yes, cycles of global warming. We're just kind of incidental because we break easily.

[finding-neo.livejournal.com]

Next year is the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid fault earthquake (#1 actually, there was a second a few months later the next year, yes 200 years before 2012). I dare say we're in for a wild ride the next 2 years. Anyone who thought Katrina was bad - that was just practice and we failed our own people.

Take a look at this map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/NMSZ_Vergleich.jpg

The magnitude for the damage range shown in the graphic is only 6.8 - the 1811 quake is estimated to have been near or over 8 - which is 120 TIMES stronger than 6.8

Scared yet?

I find song lyrics comforting.

"God's got a sick sense of humor and I expect to find him laughing," "Blasphemous Rumours" - Depeche Mode

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Dee thinks these things are more organized than I do. She says she knows the planet has been doing its own thing regardless of life on its surface for a LONG time, but she also only half-jokingly says that she thinks God is like a scientist in a white lab coat, getting tired of his latest experiment - and that one day he's just going to get rid of us and start over with something new and even more exciting, like he cleared out the dinosaurs when he got bored with them.

As for New Madrid - I said that to my sister this morning, in fact. Do you remember that guy back in 1990 who said it was going to happen on Dec. 3, I think it was?

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

I remember that. *snorts* Was just another excuse for a party at then-NMSU. And nothing happened. And didn't the guy base his prediction on the way the numbers of the date fell?