TSUNAMI!!

[Ruedii-X]

<!--QuoteBegin-Ozymandias+Dec 29 2004, 12:50 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ozymandias @ Dec 29 2004, 12:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> The sea bed moved 10m, so that's closer to 30 feet... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Hey, maybe it will reduce global warming a little. Have they calculated the result weather patterns yet?<br><br>10 meters shouldn't take but a few days on NASA's supercomputers, so long as Bush hasn't devoted them to some idiotic military job like decrypting more cell-phone conversations than we could ever listen to without mistaking discussions about video games for bomb threats. (See weird news section)

[Muninn]

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[Zaaphod]

Indeed. Well said Bill Watterson.

[Supersmoke]

Jacob believes in survival of the fittest, I would wager.

[Supersmoke]

And the rotation of the earth was disturbed. The day of the quake was 3 microseconds shorter than a normal day, which may have an impact on future daytime.<br><br>I saw some pictures of the island before and after.<br><br>Literally, more than half of the island is under water now.

[GhostWay]

Here's a <a href='http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html' target='_blank'>gallery of damage pictures</a>, for those interested.

[Muninn]

Supersmoke I don't know much about it, but I doubt it's as prevailent as it used to be.

[Supersmoke]

<!--QuoteBegin-Jacob+Jan 2 2005, 04:39 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Jacob @ Jan 2 2005, 04:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Supersmoke I don't know much about it, but I doubt it's as prevailent as it used to be. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>What is?

[Muninn]

Survival of the fittest.

[Ozymandias]

I gave some money through Join Me. It's the sort of thing we're there for.

[Ankaris]

What is it now, over 125,000 dead? Ye gads.<br><br>Did you know that by the Canary Islands is another Tsunami risk? Supposedly, there's a 12-mile long piece of rock that's on the edge of a volcano, and if it erupts, the whole thing slides into the the ocean. UK and the Republic of Ireland get the equivalent of this Tsunami to their south coasts, and the Eastern Seaboard of the US is pretty much obliterated (164ft waves by the time it reached those shores). And the people studying it say it's a case of not if, but when.<br><br><a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3963563.stm' target='_blank'>(Link)</a><br><br>Of course there are those who disagree with these people, as that link shows. It's a worst case scenario.

[dragonranpu]

You know this reminds me that you have to respect mother nature or get kicked in the posterior. But seriously the raw for of nature is something to be respected. SO remeber that next time you cut down a tree.

[Muninn]

I'd heard of the mega-tsunami on the BBC programme Horizon.

[Phoenix]

Talking of other natural disasters, has anyone heard of super-volcanoes? Apparently, the entire Yellowstone national park in america (Is it america? My geography's fuzzy) is actually the crater of a volcano so big it can be seen clearly from space. If the ash thrown from, say, Mt. Etna's eruption was scaled down to a cube with sides the size of drinks coasters, the ash from a supervolcano would be a cube the size of a <i>desk</i> <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> and it's powerful enough to blanket the entire world. From sediment deposits in the park, they've calculated that it erupts roughly once per 60,000 years. And yes, you've guessed it, the last eruption was roughly 60,000 years ago... <br><br> 'Verneshots' are another kind of supervolcano, but much more concentrated. These ones are shotgun blasts on a geological scale, and so powerful they can blast a country into high orbit. I kid you not.

[Muninn]

I don't know if Yellowstone is a super-volcano, but if it is, then is it still active?