Posted on 12/26/2004 3:30:18 PM PST by Brian Mosely
"This won't necessarily lead to much of...anything.
Thanks for the panic quelling;)
Incredibly shallow by earthquake standards. But if this had happened on land, say in Los Angeles, the death toll would have been at least as high.
Love the Seattle area. Loved ones there.
But I figure between the Juan de Fuca and all the volcanoes . . . it's likely to get interesting.
I did some fact checking and you are correct. I can't find any reference to any British use of the base. The Island has a small detachment of Royal Navy and Royal Marines for administrative purposes but nothing else. I would be surprised though if Royal Navy ships did not make a port of call there. I know we used Portsmouth in England when I was on a DE/FF. They ran the base, we just stopped to R&R for a few days and to get ships stores.
A big quakes always does. Not by very much, but detectable and measurable. Newton's Laws of Motion apply to planets as well as smaller bodies. . .
Thanks.
Prayers going up for all our pople on Diego Garcia.
I have a bad feeling about that place.
Hope I'm wrong.
I don't even recall when or where I read it.
I'm not that concerned about it at all. Just curious.
Good.
Overall the number of M 7+ quakes this year is still below average, and it would still take quite a lot of them in the last 5 days of the year just to reach average.
And if you look at, say, the Smithsonian Volcanism site, worldwide, there's about as much volcanic activity as one would expect.
Mauna Loa erupts a lot and it wouldn't exactly be a surprise if it erupts again.
And Mt. St. Helens, when all is said and done, is just one volcano. Seems to count for about 100 volcanoes because it happens to be in the lower 48 states, but it's fairly quietly still dome-building.
The basic point is lots of quakes and lots of volcanoes..including catastrophic ones...are....normal.
Especially if you take a long term geologic view. What really leads to a lot of the popularity of apocalyptics is people desperately trying to convince themselves that "normal" is no acitivity, no catastrophes, no chance of suddenly dying for no aparent reason, and everything else is "abnormal."
Good news!
Pentagon Duty Officer Cheryl Irwin told FOX News that the National Military Command Center has received no reports of any damage to the Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility, off the southern coast of India. The Navy is considering whether and what kind of aid to offer to local governments in the region, said Navy Press Duty Officer Lt. Pauline Pimetel.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142566,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142566,00.html
Pentagon Duty Officer Cheryl Irwin told FOX News that the National Military Command Center has received no reports of any damage to the Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility, off the southern coast of India. The Navy is considering whether and what kind of aid to offer to local governments in the region, said Navy Press Duty Officer Lt. Pauline Pimetel.
Unless a sub was near an undersea cliff wall near a quake, how would a big quake hazard a sub?
that's good news
The 5 PM news on KTVU out of Oakland said this quake shook for 5 minutes. That would do huge damage to most populated areas...
Lived through lots of 5's and a few 6's in Taipei. Thankfully the epicenters were quite some distance.
Still a bit of a rude wakeup.
The Loony Lefties are blaming Kyoto.
It's Bush's fault, indeed.
When I was on Shemya they had a contingency plan for every contingency, including a tsunami. I thought is was mildly amusing until I gave it a couple seconds thought. I am sure that Diego Garcia has a tsunami plan, exactly how effective it will prove to be remains to be seen.
I virtually never listen to Art Bell contrary to public perceptions. Pretty close to certain it wasn't him or his website.
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