Earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis
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Felt it in Taupo, she was a beauty.
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I'm in Auckland and was surprised that it woke me up. I usually sleep through or don't notice any quakes. Had to delete so many duplicate posts on r/NZ half-two in the morning
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ohhhh, that shook bad.
I was playing GTA Online, and I can just feel a slight rumbling as I sat on the bed. I thought oh...a small quake. But it kept rumbling...and rumbling.
THEN FRACKING SHAKING BAD. I was about out the door of my apartment for real. I called mom to see if she's ok. She said the light pole by her building was swaying bad
6.1 earthquake located around Sutton, Alaska
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2021/05/31/large-earthquake-shakes-southcentral-alaska/
I was playing GTA Online, and I can just feel a slight rumbling as I sat on the bed. I thought oh...a small quake. But it kept rumbling...and rumbling.
THEN FRACKING SHAKING BAD. I was about out the door of my apartment for real. I called mom to see if she's ok. She said the light pole by her building was swaying bad
6.1 earthquake located around Sutton, Alaska
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2021/05/31/large-earthquake-shakes-southcentral-alaska/
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Dotini
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Yellowstone has been rattled by a swarm of quakes, much larger in magnitude than usual, mostly centered under the lake, according to this report:
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/national/article252835908.html
Since that report was published, I believe there have been many more, including a magnitude 3.6. Reportedly, the temperature of the lake has recently doubled, and the magma pushing up from a few miles down is responsible for the quakes.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/national/article252835908.html
Since that report was published, I believe there have been many more, including a magnitude 3.6. Reportedly, the temperature of the lake has recently doubled, and the magma pushing up from a few miles down is responsible for the quakes.
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I've taken the liberty of changing the thread title to make it a bit broader and more generally about seismic activity and their consequences.
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The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries is currently erupting, and this volcano has been the subject of several studies as it poses a risk of generating a megatsunami that could devastate vast coastal regions with massive waves, particularly in the other Canary Islands (where wave heights could be as high as 2000 ft) and the coast of Africa (where waves could still be hundreds of feet high). A landslide created by the collapse of the volcano could also potentially impact the Western seaboard of the USA, as well as Europe, though this scenario is believed to be extremely unlikely:
en.wikipedia.org
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The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries is currently erupting, and this volcano has been the subject of several studies as it poses a risk of generating a megatsunami that could devastate vast coastal regions with massive waves, particularly in the other Canary Islands (where wave heights could be as high as 2000 ft) and the coast of Africa (where waves could still be hundreds of feet high). A landslide created by the collapse of the volcano could also potentially impact the Western seaboard of the USA, as well as Europe, though this scenario is believed to be extremely unlikely:
Cumbre Vieja tsunami hazard - Wikipedia
Joey D
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I can't even comprehend a wall of water this high. I mean the tallest structure I've been in is the CN Tower in Toronto and that wall of water is still 200ft higher than that.
Dotini
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Yeah, I think that was in the 60's. There was a quake and a tsunami, and when it ran into a fjord in Alaska, the narrow passage magnified the height of the tsunami to over 1000', if I recall correctly. I vaguely remember some lucky soul rode the thing out in a row boat. Imagine being on the crest of a 1000' wave and surviving!!
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A massive underwater volcano in Tonga has erupted, audible in New Zealand and triggering tsunami alerts across the region.
The plume was captured by various satellites, but the above gifs shows the enormous scale of it... you know it's big when you can add the comment 'Australia shown for scale'
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CodeRedR51
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The whole US west coast is under Tsunami warning.
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This is what the island looked like before hours before the eruption
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Conspiracy theorists on social media are saying its a man made tsunami 🤣🤣
Somebody tell these people to look up the Ring of Fire.
Dotini
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I have seen mainstream news stories that say the Tonga eruption could actually cause the Earth to cool for a few years, reversing the general annual warming.
See the graph they show at about 3:03
Their chart goes back to Krakatau in 1880. But in 1815 there was Tambora, "The Year Without a Summer".
See the graph they show at about 3:03
Their chart goes back to Krakatau in 1880. But in 1815 there was Tambora, "The Year Without a Summer".
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And not the Johnny Cash version.
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minor quake today, there was a quick jolt followed by a little shaking. I thought the shaking was going to continue and was almost out of my bed
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