One year from the tsunami

[Bobo]

Today it's been one full year since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Asia, killing 283106 people and changing the lives of millions. I can only guess how it must feel to lose the whole family and be the only one who survived, and the disaster is full of such stories. Even this small city where I live lost one family, both parents and two young kids. It's truly amazing how the local people in Asia have managed to rebuild everything and continue with their lives, it blows my mind how those people can manage something like that... I'd still be on my knees. I feel very high respect towards all the survivors and all who helped to clean up and rebuild after the disaster. The pain will never go away, and if I were religious I'd pray for those sad suffering souls who survived, but without prayers my heart is with them anyway.

I just saw an documentary on TV of the subject and I wish I wouldn't have watched it. Just seeing all that horror again on TV made me throw up and cry like a child, makes me really wonder how much pain those who lost their loved ones there must be feeling. I wish them all strength and I hope they will find a way to continue with their lives, it must be really hard. The power of nature never seizes to amaze me, and something like that tsunami was something I didn't even know could be possible. I hope we don't have to see something like that ever again.

Here's a candle to all who died, survived or were touched by the disaster in any way. My heart is with You all! :cry:

http://www.deathbyhmo.com/images/animated_candle.gif

[MagnumXL]

I will play the song i for the lost ones (math joke yes im a nerd)

[Clockers]

Yea' I see it again on the news today, it was a sad. :(

[G-Spot19]

I watched that as well. It was followed up with a second documentary about that America could be next! :shock:

[The Big Banana]

The worst part is that many bodies werent recovered, meaning that many families cant get true closure.

I saw a documentary that was talking about how life still hasnt returned to the depths of the ocean at epicentre where the earthquake occurred. Very unusual. Also the earthquake was apparently so huge it affected the rotation of the earth. Scary stuff.

[Clockers]

I watched that as well. It was followed up with a second documentary about that America could be next! :shock:


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[wern]

I've read about the void-of-life sea there TBB. Wierd stuff. And it screwed the rotation, but by a miniscule fraction. Hopefully there aren't any significant negative long term effects.

Shit happens all over the world. It should make us cherish what we have. I know I do.

[The Big Banana]

Yeah, its not like we could do anything even if there are consequences arising from the change in rotation. Its probably best not to worry. Its not like we've seen anything unusual so far... *cough*hottest year ever (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1532198.htm)*Cough*

If I was a yank, I would be watching out for Yellowstone going up though, rather than a tsunami.

[Bobo]

I have this weird feeling that the next large earthquake will be at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is located at the northwestern region of the USA and southwestern region of Canada, with for example San Francisco being at danger zone. A subduction zone means an area at the edges of two plates, where the other one is pushed under the other one. In the NW region of the USA Juan de Fuca plate is being pushed under the North America plate, causing intense tensions between the two plates. This was the case in Asia too, a similar subduction zone caused the 9.0 richter earthquake and the tsunami. The last known big earthquake in that NW USA region was in January 1700, so the tension between the plates have been piling up for the last 300 years. Geological evidence shows that there has been seven major earthquakes in that region during the last 3500 years leaving about 400-600 years between them. Some scientists have estimated that the tension between those plates has increased meaning the next major quake could happen sooner than estimated. Big cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are in that region and they haven't gone through any major quakes. The buildings have been built to survive earthquakes, but in those subduction zones the quakes are usually major ones that last for several minutes and the magnitude could exceed 9.0 in richter scale and I doubt it very much that the buildings could survive something like that! Those zones are also in high risk for volcanic activity erupting between the plates, so the movie "Volcano" starring Tommy Lee Jones where a volcano appears in the center of Los Angeles could easily be reality in the next 100 years or something. That may sound funny but it is possible.

http://www.pnsn.org/HAZARDS/CASCADIA/assets/EQHAZARDS.Subductionzone%28where%29.jpg

http://www.pnsn.org/HAZARDS/CASCADIA/assets/EQHAZARDS.Subductionzone%28wh.jpg

(pics are from http://www.pnsn.org/)

[Spike]

There's also that mountain in the Canaries about to slide into the Atlantic and swamp the Eastern USA with the resulting tsunami.

SEISMIC ACTIVITY DETECTED ON LA PALMA

Seismologists have detected an increased amount of seismic activity on the island of La Palma in the eastern Atlantic ocean. The USGS believes that this is the first warning of an imminent collapse of its north-western landmass. This will trigger a "mega-tsunami" of approximately 60-150 feet in height, traveling at approximately 560 miles per hour, continuing for approximately 15 minutes, hitting the entire length of the continental United States eastern coastline. The entire east coast will be flooded for fifty to one hundred miles inland, depending upon elevation. Port cities will be hardest hit, as harbors will channel the wave. We will have nine to twelve hours between the collapse of La Palma and the initial arrival of the mega-tsunami on the American coast, an insufficient time to evacuate the approximately 100 million citizens who will be affected by the disaster.

USGS estimates the likelihood of La Palma collapse within the next two weeks to be 35%, increasing to a 75% chance by 2016.

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001043.html

[Bobo]

True, there are several danger zones around the globe. Earthquakes and tsunamis have been more or less frequent all through earth history, so that Asian tsunami wasn't really a surprise at all... or shouldn't have been.

[Caveman]

Want to talk about a scary earthquake idea....

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/usa/1964_03_28_iso.gif

Magnitude 9.2 Earthquake in 1964 right near where I live :shock:
right near anchorage.....

And heres a pic showing worldwide damage by such a quake

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/web_tsus/19640328/traveltime.gif

wow who chose the color scheme for that pic.....

[Spike]

I can't see England, Finland or the Netherlands on that map. :lol: