Posted on 01/17/2010 2:37:31 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Yes, but this seismologist was saying that the upcoming events could rival that of what destroyed Pompeii back around 70 AD. IIRC there was about 12' of volcanic ash carried by superheated gasses, not a dusting...
Hey, I just noticed: I guess they didn't get the ash cleaned off the tail of the plane when that photo was taken. The front landing gear is off the ground!
Mark
Same thing about the fault line going through Charleston, SC. No serious earthquakes since the 1880’s but one will happen sooner or later. Many do not even know there is a fault zone there.
Vesuvius is to the east of Naples. There is also large caldera just to the west of Naples. If both let go simultaneously Naples could conceivably be turned into a Pompeii with a million people.
Major damage in Memphis is almost unthinkable, and FEMA better have their A game on because the looting will ensue in hours, and riots very quickly thereafter. Which really means that it's gonna get bad, because I have no confidence whatsoever in the government.
It's one year after two New Madrid earthquakes have devastated the Mississippi Valley. Battalions of foreign peackeepers are occupying Tennessee, at the invitation of the President. Phil Carson, (from "Enemies Foreign And Domestic"), and three strangers are hiding in a well-stocked cave, which is a guerrilla fighter's lair. Across the region Kazakh "contract peacekeepers" are wiping out the last remaining American holdouts, who have rejected the federal government's order to abandon their homes and move to "relocation centers." This scene is in the middle of the novel.
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