Ashes to ashes...

[The_Sparrow_]

NZ sits on the border of the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic plates, so we get a lot of earthquakes over here. Not where I live though, Auckland is to far north to get them (major ones at least), volcanoes are the danger up here, there used to be a hot spot right under Auckland (we have about 50 extinct volcanoes around the city because of it) but I think the last Eruption was over 200 years ago.

[Supersmoke]

I'm proud to say that <i>NOTHING</i> has ever awoken me from sleeping.<br>You name it, I've slept through it.<br>My mom has to practically shake me to wake me up.

[dobbs]

<!--QuoteBegin-Zaaphod+--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Zaaphod)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Natural disasters are rare in Washington state.  We don't get hurricanes, we get a tornado maybe once every five years (never a big one), and floods are rare too (at least in the East where I am).  Earthquakes happen on occasion (one hit Seattle a few years back, doing nearly a billion dollars worth of damage but miraculously not killing anyone) and forest fires occur nearly every year.  But that's still pretty minor compared to a lot of states.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Speak of the devil, Zaaphod...<br><br>I would argue that Washington <i>does</i> see its share of natural disasters, but we don't really make a big deal out of them. I mean, I didn't miss school because of Snohomish's (Western Washington) flood back in '92 (Or whenever, my memory is a bit fuzzy on the date) -- we just added fifteen miles to our commute. Of course, they did call it a twenty-year flood... I've personally experienced four noteable earthquakes in Washignton, including the one you mentioned. As for the last 'explosive' St. Helens erruption, I was too busy to notice, what with recently being born and all. <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--><br><br>And I love it all. Adds a bit of excitement to the mix. I'm happy to say I live in one of the areas to experience the recent tornados, but I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much if people made a regular habit of dieing.<br><br>To add to the Mt. St. Helens history, it did errupt in '85, but it was not an 'explosive' erruption. Apparently it alternates between 'explosive' and 'quiet'.

[simon]

Where I used to live in New Zealand, Wellingon, used to get many earthquakes. The city itself is built on the rim of a massive dead (hopefully) volcano. The Hutt river would flood every year too, and it snowed one year. It never snows there. <br><br>Here in Brisbane the worst we get are 5 minute storms in summer and weak hurricanes from the north, where they're been weakened.

[Zaaphod]

<!--QuoteBegin-dobbs+May 30 2004, 05:05 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dobbs @ May 30 2004, 05:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I'm happy to say I live in one of the areas to experience the recent tornados, but I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much if people made a regular habit of dieing. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Turned out I was wrong about tornado frequencies in Washington state. We average about one a year. This year we've had 2 or 3 already (including one that actually touched down outside Spokane, but didn't do any real damage), so it's a busy year for twisters.<br><br>And, of course, we should remember that Mt. Rainier is not an <i>extinct</i> volcano, but merely <i>dormant</i>. It could potentially erupt at some point.<br>

[Muninn]

Oh my God! Open the news, it's started small eruptions!!! <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Softpaw]

Are you serious...?

[Zaaphod]

<!--QuoteBegin-FelixLockhart+May 31 2004, 01:50 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (FelixLockhart @ May 31 2004, 01:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Are you serious...? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> No.<br><br>Nothing in the news anywhere about Rainier doing anything.<br>

[norsenerd]

We've been getting tordados here in Indiana a bit this past week. One of them grazed right by town while my romate and I were watching the news stiining right next to the window on the second floor of our building. It didn;t even rain where we were.