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04 Sep 2005 08:30:33 PM |
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A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hit America |
A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hit America.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/megaquake_prog_summary.sh
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extremely scary considering it had much to do with global warming. A huge
portion of a glacial mountain somewhere near Iceland most likely will slip
into the sea causing a huge tsunami. Bye-bye east coast and portions of
Canada.
Scientists are measuring the glacial movement. Suffice to say it is slipping
gradually each year.
PBS Q & A
Q: How realistic is the threat of a "mega-tsunami" to the eastern seaboard
of North America?
A: Any place on the coast is at risk of tsunamis, and the East Coast is no
exception. In 1929, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Newfoundland triggered a
large underwater slump that ruptured the new transatlantic cable in 12
places. The slump also produced a tsunami that was recorded along the
eastern seaboard as far south as South Carolina and across the Atlantic
Ocean in Portugal. In Newfoundland, the tsunami reached heights of over 20
feet and claimed 29 lives. Earthquakes do occur along the east coast. The
1886 Charleston, South Carolina earthquake was felt as far away as New York
and Wisconsin, and it had a probable magnitude of about 6.8. It didn't
produce a tsunami but demonstrates that large earthquakes can happen on the
east coast.
Large earthquakes do occasionally occur elsewhere in the Atlantic that may
pose a tsunami risk to the east coast. The 1755 Lisbon, Portugal earthquake
produced a very large tsunami that was observed in the Caribbean and
probably produced waves along the east coast.
There has been quite a bit of media attention on east coast tsunamis caused
by large landslides. In 2000, potential landslide sites off the coast of
Virginia and North Carolina hit the headlines. Failures of unstable sections
of the continental slope are thought capable of sending 18-foot-high
tsunamis towards the coast. There has been even more attention paid to a
mega-tsunami caused by the partial collapse of one of the Canary Islands in
the Eastern Atlantic. Of particular concern is Cumbre Vieja volcano, which
shows signs of fracture. A large failure could impact most of the Atlantic
Ocean. There is no agreement on the probability of such a failure, but there
is no question that such an event is far rarer than large earthquake-driven
tsunamis typical of the Pacific basin.
Because of the potential for an east coast tsunami, a bill to strengthen the
U.S. tsunami warning system currently winding its way through Congress
proposes to install several deep pressure sensors in the Atlantic and
Caribbean as well as add more in the Pacific basin.
NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tsunami/ask-050331.html
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Most of Asia is running out of fresh drinking water....and where does at
least 25% of the planet's fresh water lie? In Canada and the U.S. of
course.....It is inevitable that North America will be invaded by the
Japanese with or without the Chinese.
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| User: "Padraigh ProAmerica" |
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| Title: Re: A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hitAmerica |
04 Sep 2005 08:46:41 PM |
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Japan doesn't have the military power, and the Chinese lack amphibious
and airlift capability. ow do you expect them to invade- by
teleportation?
Siberia is a much more likely target- much closer, and with minimal
human habitation. {to this day, some Japanese refer to Siberia as "the
Northern Resource Area."}
"Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
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| User: "Raving Loonie" |
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| Title: Re: A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hit America |
04 Sep 2005 08:21:08 PM |
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Warhol wrote:
A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hit America.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/megaquake_prog_summary.sh
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So what .
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| User: "Warhol" |
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| Title: Re: A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hit America |
04 Sep 2005 09:59:15 PM |
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"Raving Loonie" <frogwalk-add@yahoo.ca> a écrit dans le message de news:
1125883268.644144.254310@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Warhol wrote:
A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hit America.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/megaquake_prog_summary.sh
tml
So what .
I saw the special relating to the probability of a North American tsunami &
megaquake on Discovery Channel back in April.
The documentary was extremely scary...
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| User: "Raving Loonie" |
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05 Sep 2005 12:32:09 AM |
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Warhol wrote:
"Raving Loonie" <frogwalk-add@yahoo.ca> a =E9crit dans le message de news:
1125883268.644144.254310@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Warhol wrote:
A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hit America.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/megaquake_prog_summary=
..sh
tml
So what .
I saw the special relating to the probability of a North American tsunami=
&
megaquake on Discovery Channel back in April.
The documentary was extremely scary...
Try this ~~~~~>
http://tinyurl.com/dsvb7
btw, the same will happen with Hawaii, with certainty, with more
catastrophic effects, in likelihood.
I wouldn't loose any sleep over it. You may be killed by an asteroid
beforehand.
Quoting Double-A ...
'That audio interview with Tholen that I posted is very interesting.
To
learn of all the football sized asteroids that pass between the Earth
and Moon and are moving too fast to photographed is unnerving! '
Try listening to the following. I have yet to do so ... but I will:
~~~~~~~~~>
http://www.hour25online.com/Hour25_Previous_Shows_2000-6.html#tholen_and_bo=
ttke_01
RL
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| User: "Warhol" |
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| Title: Re: A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hit America |
05 Sep 2005 10:39:38 AM |
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"Raving Loonie" <frogwalk-add@yahoo.ca> a écrit dans le message de news:
1125898329.003403.260060@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
Warhol wrote:
"Raving Loonie" <frogwalk-add@yahoo.ca> a écrit dans le message de news:
1125883268.644144.254310@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Warhol wrote:
A huge megathrust earthquake and tsunami will one day hit America.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/megaquake_prog_summary.sh
tml
So what .
I saw the special relating to the probability of a North American tsunami
&
megaquake on Discovery Channel back in April.
The documentary was extremely scary...
Try this ~~~~~>
http://tinyurl.com/dsvb7
btw, the same will happen with Hawaii, with certainty, with more
catastrophic effects, in likelihood.
I wouldn't loose any sleep over it. You may be killed by an asteroid
beforehand.
Quoting Double-A ...
'That audio interview with Tholen that I posted is very interesting.
To
learn of all the football sized asteroids that pass between the Earth
and Moon and are moving too fast to photographed is unnerving! '
Try listening to the following. I have yet to do so ... but I will:
~~~~~~~~~>
http://www.hour25online.com/Hour25_Previous_Shows_2000-6.html#tholen_and_bot
tke_01
RL
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Mind-blowing! Mad Max and Waterworld rolled into one.
So what's the next apocalyptic movie that the US will perform in real life?
Mad Max III: The Bijou Tribes
Sep 4, 11:28 PM EDT
French Quarter Holdouts Create 'Tribes'
By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- In the absence of information and outside assistance,
groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming
"tribes" and dividing up the labor.
As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to
protect property. In a bar, a bartender put near-perfect stitches into the
torn ear of a robbery victim.
While mold and contagion grew in the muck that engulfed most of the city,
something else sprouted in this most decadent of American neighborhoods -
humanity.
"Some people became animals," Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning as he
sipped a hot beer in Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon Street. "We became
more civilized."
While hundreds of thousands fled the below-sea-level city before the storm,
many refused to leave the Vieux Carre, or old quarter. Built on some of the
highest ground around and equipped with underground power lines, residents
considered it about the safest place to be.
Katrina blew off roof slates and knocked down some already-unstable
buildings but otherwise left the 18th and 19th century homes with their
trademark iron balconies intact. Even without water and power, most
preferred it to the squalor and death in the emergency shelters set up at
the Superdome and Convention Center.
But what had at first been a refuge soon became an ornate prison.
Police came through commandeering drivable vehicles and siphoning gas.
Officials took over a hotel and ejected the guests.
Fritz says he's been living by his wits since the hurricane.
An officer pumped his shotgun at a group trying to return to their hotel on
Chartres Street.
"This is our block," he said, pointing the gun down a side street. "Go that
way."
Jack Jones, a retired oil rig worker, bought a huge generator and stocked up
on gasoline. But after hearing automatic gunfire on the next block one
night, he became too afraid to use it - for fear of drawing attention.
Still, he continues to boil his clothes in vinegar and dip water out of
neighbors' pools for toilet flushing and bathing.
"They may have to shoot me to get me out of here," he said. "I'm much better
off here than anyplace they might take me."
Many in outlying areas consider the Quarter a playground for the rich and
complain that the place gets special attention.
Yes, wealthy people feasted on steak and quaffed warm champagne in the days
after the storm. But many who stayed behind were the working poor -
residents of the cramped spaces above the restaurants and shops.
Tired of waiting for trucks to come with food and water, residents turned to
each other.
Johnny White's is famous for never closing, even during a hurricane. The
doors don't even have locks.
Since the storm, it has become more than a bar. Along with the warm beer and
shots, the bartenders passed out scrounged military Meals Ready to Eat and
bottled water to the people who drive the mule carts, bus the tables and
hawk the T-shirts that keep the Quarter's economy humming.
"It's our community center," said Marcie Ramsey, 33, whom Katrina promoted
from graveyard shift bartender to acting manager.
For some, the bar has also become a hospital.
Tryphonas, who restores buildings in the Quarter, left the neighborhood
briefly Saturday. Someone hit him in the head with a 2-by-4 and stole his
last $5.
When Tryphonas showed up at Johnny White's with his left ear split in two,
Joseph Bellomy - a customer pressed into service as a bartender - put a
wooden spoon between Tryphonas' teeth and used a needle and thread to sew it
up. Military medics who later looked at Bellomy's handiwork decided to
simply bandage the ear.
"That's my savior," Tryphonas said, raising his beer in salute to the former
Air Force medical assistant.
A few blocks away, a dozen people in three houses got together and divided
the labor. One group went to the Mississippi River to haul water, one
cooked, one washed the dishes.
"We're the tribe of 12," 76-year-old Carolyn Krack said as she sat on the
sidewalk with a cup of coffee, a packet of cigarettes and a box of pralines.
The tribe, whose members included a doctor, a merchant and a store clerk,
improvised survival tactics. Krack, for example, brushed her dentures with
antibacterial dish soap.
It had been a tribe of 13, but a member died Wednesday of a drug overdose.
After some negotiating, the police carried the body out on the trunk of a
car.
The neighbors knew the man only as Jersey.
Tribe member Dave Rabalais, a clothing store owner, said he thinks the
authorities could restore utilities to the Quarter. But he knows that would
only bring "resentment and the riffraff."
"The French Quarter is the blood line of New Orleans," he said. "They can't
let anything happen to this."
On Sunday, the tribe of 12 became a tribe of eight.
Four white tour buses rolled into the Quarter under Humvee escort. National
Guardsmen told residents they had one hour to gather their belongings and
get a ride out. Four of the tribe members decided to leave.
"Hallelujah!" Teresa Lawson shouted as she dragged her suitcase down the
road. "Thank you, Jesus!"
For Mark Rowland, the leaving was bittersweet.
"I'm heart-broken to leave the city that I love," Rowland said as he sat in
the air-conditioned splendor of the bus. "It didn't have to be this way."
© 2005 The Associated Press.
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