Plate tectonics

[Doggy Styles]

I think we should be more worried about the one that runs through the middle of Iceland. Especially as Iceland is now a poor country and can no longer afford all the blue tack and gaffer tape to hold the Eurasian and Carribean plates together.

Didn't they have their turn last year with a volcano?

[shaunbhoy]

Didn't they have their turn last year with a volcano?

Nahhhhhhh!!!!! That was just a smokescreen. So they could pinch more of our Cod I expect!

[Ignis Fatuus]

The panic on financial markets is another matter; that's all about airheads worrying that clever people can't solve problems.

First I laughed, because the comment is so apropos. Then I got depressed, for the same reason.

[Ignis Fatuus]

I think we should be more worried about the one that runs through the middle of Iceland. Especially as Iceland is now a poor country and can no longer afford all the blue tack and gaffer tape to hold the Eurasian and Carribean plates together.

The one? The one? What "one" that runs through Iceland? If you mean a tectonic subduction zone, that's new since I did Geology. If you mean a cool guy with dark glasses, he wouldn't run, he'd just fly. If you mean a divergent boundary, that's not going to give us 8.9 quakes and a 10m tsunami.

[doodab]

The one? The one? What "one" that runs through Iceland? If you mean a tectonic subduction zone, that's new since I did Geology. If you mean a cool guy with dark glasses, he wouldn't run, he'd just fly. If you mean a divergent boundary, that's not going to give us 8.9 quakes and a 10m tsunami.

Please stop being so sensible and panic blindly like the rest of us.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Please stop being so sensible and panic blindly like the rest of us.

Apologies.

OK, have you all heard about the La Palma Megatsunami? A huge block of rock, about half the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, will drop into the sea sometime, causing mega tsunamis all round the Atlantic coasts. We're doomed.

[TheFaQQer]

The one? The one? What "one" that runs through Iceland? If you mean a tectonic subduction zone, that's new since I did Geology. If you mean a cool guy with dark glasses, he wouldn't run, he'd just fly. If you mean a divergent boundary, that's not going to give us 8.9 quakes and a 10m tsunami.

WHS - a rift isn't going to give massive earthquakes. But, over the course of a few millennia, it could be a good property investment since it's growing every year.

That said, having walked to the end of Chain of Craters Road, that might not be a totally sensible thing