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Earthquake in Hawaii

Posted on 10/15/2006 10:34:29 AM PDT by colorcountry

Son just called. Does anyone know anything?


TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 6point6; earthquake; hawaii; tsunami
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To: maryz
Some print reporter calling in to FNC said some other network is/was reporting that another earthquake was predicted to be on the way? WTH was with that?
581 posted on 10/15/2006 3:31:09 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: onyx; Howlin

I'm a Giants fan......dammit!


582 posted on 10/15/2006 3:31:11 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: SE Mom; maryz

Maryz concurs.
Dust cloud due to landslide.


LOL About this gal on tv who needed to get to the store for RICE!

Bieng Asian family raised I just assumed we all kept the huge 50lb sacks in the huge tins.


583 posted on 10/15/2006 3:31:19 PM PDT by Global2010
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To: BIGLOOK


I'll go check the football thread for news on the Giants for you.


584 posted on 10/15/2006 3:32:54 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: fish hawk
Over 70 photos of various EQ damage are here.

Much the same as what is being seen on HITV/CNN, but a few more.

585 posted on 10/15/2006 3:33:03 PM PDT by budman_2001
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To: celtic gal

When I left Calif. for Hawaii several years ago, I thought I left earthquakes behind. Now I have to worry about earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes exploding. LOL


586 posted on 10/15/2006 3:33:24 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: mewzilla

I didn't know they could be predicted?


587 posted on 10/15/2006 3:33:34 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: BIGLOOK


Your Giants beat Atlanta.


588 posted on 10/15/2006 3:34:31 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: fish hawk
I did a Freep search for your name and here you are. Look FH, I will not be able to sleep nights until you and yours move back to California where you will be safe. Please don't worry about our 7.+ quakes here in Humboldt even if we have three in 24 hours. Hell we didn't even rate any coverage outside the Tri County area. I guess we don't have enough Blondes here.
589 posted on 10/15/2006 3:36:40 PM PDT by tubebender (Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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To: Global2010

LOL! Never enough rice:)


590 posted on 10/15/2006 3:37:56 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: colorcountry

Haven' read the entire thread; if no one has posted yet, here's my fav. eQuake website:

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/


591 posted on 10/15/2006 3:38:45 PM PDT by SnarlinCubBear (There is none righteous - NO not one.)
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To: tubebender
I was there for the earthquakes in the fifties and sixties but thought I was safe from them over here. LOL
592 posted on 10/15/2006 3:40:04 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: All

guy just called local station on CNN and said 700 feet of his property fell into the ocean...


593 posted on 10/15/2006 3:40:23 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Global2010

I just made chili and rice. Enough for everyone! mai e 'ai


594 posted on 10/15/2006 3:41:55 PM PDT by debg
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To: debg

Recipe? Or is it just that--chili and rice?


595 posted on 10/15/2006 3:43:06 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: mom4kittys

I don't think they can with any precision. I wonder if the news outlet was either totally confused (which I can relate to), or if it was talking about something else being predicted by an earthquake swarm. If this constitutes a swarm. I wish the reporter had repeated what he heard verbatim. Might have helped.


596 posted on 10/15/2006 3:43:58 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: janetjanet998
guy just called local station on CNN and said 700 feet of his property fell into the ocean...

Holy cats. Well, on the bright said he should get a break on his property taxes. Yikes. Glad he's okay.

597 posted on 10/15/2006 3:45:29 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: janetjanet998

He was a Dr.

Said his house is now 10 feet from the ocean bluff.

Oy, I'm so glad I don't live in California anymore.


598 posted on 10/15/2006 3:46:32 PM PDT by WestCoastGal ( I hope Toyota and Red Bull are proud of their driver McWreckers!!)
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To: Godebert
The effects of a collapse of Cumbra Vieja, the volcanic island in question in the Canary islands (in this case on the island of La Palma) is still very much under debate. The big problem is that there's no direct measurements that are reliable to predict this sort of thing. The closest thing we have is a big thrust earthquake in the Washington State area around 1700 of the type that hit Indonesia a couple of years ago that caused a very destructive tsunami in Japan which was previously unexplained until researchers made the connection recently. The problem is even the most massive earthquake is going to move the earth a maximum of about 15 feet and that dictates the maximum wave size of a resulting Tsunami.

A tsunami from a big landslide is predicted to have up to 3,000 foot wave height initially, which could result in a wave height of up to 100 meters when it hits the US coast (more likely 15 to 25 feet max, which is still much larger than any recorded tsunami and something that would wipe out the entire east coast nearly totally for several mile inland). That's what the argument is about. The evidence that gets cited most often involves a big landslide generated tsunami in Alaska not that long ago that is supposed to have been 1700 feet high initially, sweeping one fishing boat out of the affected bay over the land and trees of a submerged peninsula.

They can look at the other Hawaiian islands underwater terrain and see the results of previous "volcanic island slumps" and calculate from the mass of those things how big the tsunamis would have been.  From low end to high end they're all big humping waves that we don't want to have to deal with.  The stuff I've seen on the big crack that is now on the big island of Hawaii indicates that it's a huge portion of the island and will generate a "splash" that will virtually wipe the west coast region of the US off the map for several miles inland, certainly all of the Los Angeles basin, the SF bay area and all of the California coast outside the coastal hills.  That includes places such as Santa Barbara, Malibu, Pacifica, Half Moon Bay, Monterey, etc.

599 posted on 10/15/2006 3:46:46 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Local news coverage in Hawaii (on CNN) just had on a doctor who said that he was in danger of losing his home because some of the bluff had fell into the ocean, and his house had been BUILT JUST 10 FEET FROM THE BLUFF'S EDGE. Then talking with people in line at stores to get supplies since the power is out, and a mom who had run out of insulin for her daughter (what the hell is Mom of the Year doing with just a few hours supply of insulin?) The tourists I can understand, but Hawaii is vulnerable to hurricanes, so there is zero excuse for not being able to handle a few days without power. I imagine next the media will show interviews with people with their fingers in sockets waiting for the power to come back on...


600 posted on 10/15/2006 3:49:07 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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