"Sittin' on the dock of the bay..."
Posted on 12/17/2016 3:57:02 AM PST by JimSEA
An earthquake measuring 8.0 has rocked Papua New Guinea sparking widespread warnings of a deadly tsunami.
The quake struck 157km to the east of Rabaul this morning, according to the US Geological Survey.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a statement claiming giant waves of up to 3 metres are possible.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
“A tsunami threat to Hawaii is reportedly still being evaluated.”
I did some work at a site far to the west of this quake in Irian Jaya. The new mining engineer designed a wall to withstand a large quake like this and submitted the design to his boss.
“Hell kid - this whole place is going down if an earthquake hits. We’re not in the USA designing things to specs. Just design it so it can keep a truck from falling over the side at 5 mph!”
I had a Thai coworker. A nice guy who traveled back to his birthplace every couple of years. He traveled home a few months after the Boxing Day earthquake/tsunami of 04.
Upon his return he informed me that everyone he talked to blamed the US. He explained the tone as......”Yankees drill for oil....get to keep the oil....we get earthquakes and tsunamis “. We are, I believe, thought to be the cause of all evil in the pacific rim. And zer0 agrees.
Whoa!
Thinking about this, living’ in L.A.
We were living in Chiang Mai when the Boxing Day Tsunami hit. There was a lot of anger about the lack of an adequate warning system mostly directed at the Thai government but some at the US who they didn’t feel did enough to warn people. Nothing about oil companies though. It was a very emotional time though. Everyone we knew had relatives or friends working in the area hardest hit and many were killed and often never found or identified. Terrible tragedy.
It was put upon the US to correct the problem by installing tsunami monitoring buoys in the Indian Ocean area. (Why we have to do this I have no idea)
I have never been outside of North America nor ever care to be. This blaming us because of drilling is what my friend Prawat told me. I believe him.
The Thai government was actually give a timely warning by the USGS but completely dropped the ball. Some people thought we should have known about the incompetent Thai officials and done more to warn people.
Wow......
Lots of activity in that part of the world lately.
"Sittin' on the dock of the bay..."
And the boss was right.
The boss was right - the villages and everything else weren’t designed for a big seismic event either. But I’ve used that, and the mine’s lack of regard for the environment or the local people as an argument for mining in the U.S. of A.
If the Liberals REALLY cared about people or the environment, they would allow more mining in the U.S. where we actually have rules. Of course we have gone overboard on the rules, but hopefully Trump can scale some of them back.
They recently found the biggest exposed fault on earth at the bottom of the Banda Sea.
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-biggest-exposed-fault-earth.html
I saw that report and wasn’t sure what to make of it.
Looks like it is capable of producing large earthquakes
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1938_02_01.php
Same here. The two illustrations -- taken together -- made little sense at all...
A thin horizontal piece of the crust about the size of Belgium is moving to the east, The lithosphere beneath is moving to the west. There is some vertical displacement, so it is capable of producing tsunamis.
Geologic evolution
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