Reply to: Plate tectonics

[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

[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.

[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]

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.

[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.

[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!

[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]

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.

[PAH]

You are Alistair MacLean and I claim my 5 pounds.

Maybe that was the inspiration for Bill Hicks to daydream about Arizona Bay. Seeing as that was over 20 years ago, my popcorn's gone soggy waiting.

[doodab]

I think some Bond type villian planted a nuke on the sea bed to trigger the earthquake.

NZ never paid the ransom, neither did Japan, if the States does not pay up California will be next.

You are Alistair MacLean and I claim my 5 pounds.

[minestrone]

I think some Bond type villian planted a nuke on the sea bed to trigger the earthquake.

NZ never paid the ransom, neither did Japan, if the States does not pay up California will be next.

[gingerjedi]

San Andreas is mainly two plates rubbing past each other, rather than one being subducted (plus all sorts of other geological nastiness and cross faults etc.). Earthquakes in Japan and the Pacific shouldn't impact the likelihood of an earthquake in California one way or the other.

Juan de Fuca Plate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Was that really his name? Nice bloke??

[TheFaQQer]

I don't think the age of the plates has anything to do with it. But the San Andreas fault it basically the same two plates moving against each other isn't it. Although their are separate fault zones so there is probably no correlation. I just thought if the pacific plate were suddenly moving a lot for some reason, e.g. a great big lump of molten rock ascending in the mantle, that this might not be the last of it.

And of course, Godzilla might still be hungry.

San Andreas is mainly two plates rubbing past each other, rather than one being subducted (plus all sorts of other geological nastiness and cross faults etc.). Earthquakes in Japan and the Pacific shouldn't impact the likelihood of an earthquake in California one way or the other.

[doodab]

I'm no expert, I only did this stuff at school, but I am sure that the plates are not recent creations so the chances of the US West Coast shaking are no more or less likely than they were last week.

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I don't think the age of the plates has anything to do with it. But the San Andreas fault it basically the same two plates moving against each other isn't it. Although their are separate fault zones so there is probably no correlation. I just thought if the pacific plate were suddenly moving a lot for some reason, e.g. a great big lump of molten rock ascending in the mantle, that this might not be the last of it.

And of course, Godzilla might still be hungry.

[Gonzo]

According to Wikipedia, this particular earthquake was not caused by movement in tectonic plates.

While on one hand that is in bad taste, insensitive and should not be condoned, on the other hand I find it hilarious.




This is from someone that now lives in a risk zone and doesn't expect anyone's pity should the inevitable happen during my lifetime.