Earthquake in Hawaii

[colorcountry]

Son just called. Does anyone know anything?

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks Buddy! Power is on here but the radio and TV stations have to get their computers up and running.....and it's Sunday......it's a beautiful sunny day and 82 degrees. Hmmmmm.... O/T or beach?

[debg]

1 lb ground sirloin
2 cans dark red kidney beans - drained
2 cloves garlic diced
1/2 onion diced
2 cans whole tomatoes - drained
1 can Rotel original
2 tbs chili powder
dash salt and pepper

serve over jasmine rice

good stuff!

When I lived in Oahu, McDonalds used to serve chili and rice.

[tubebender]

Here is a small sampling of the quakes you have missed...

9/1/94 - The Mendocino fault earthquake: 8:15 am, PDT, magnitude 6.9-7.2, located offshore about 90 miles west of Cape Mendocino. This earthquake was a major plate boundary (interplate) event centered along the Mendocino fault, the boundary between the Pacific plate to the south and the Gorda plate to the north. This is a very active fault with frequent small to moderate magnitude earthquakes and occasional large ones and accounts for about 30% of the seismic energy released annually in the North Coast area. The Mendocino fault is vertical and oriented east-west. Motion is almost entirely strike-slip with the Gorda plate side moving to the east relative to the Pacific plate side of the fault. Even though this was the largest magnitude earthquake located within the United States in 1994, it produced no damage due to its far-offshore location. The September 1 earthquake is the largest magnitude earthquake in historic times which can be clearly associated with the Mendocino fault. This earthquake was felt from south of the San Francisco Bay Area to Roseburg Oregon. A 6 inch wave, interpreted as a tsunami, was recorded by the Crescent City tide gauge about 45 minutes after the earthquake.

You can see the distribution of shaking and damage on this Isoseismal map of the Mendocino Fault Earthquake.

4/25/92 - Cape Mendocino earthquake (also called the Petrolia, Ferndale or Lost Coast earthquake: 11:06 am PDT, magnitude 7.1, located onshore near Petrolia at a depth of about 7 miles beneath the earth's surface. This earthquake was located very near the inferred position of the Cascadia subduction zone boundary between the Gorda plate and the North American plate and has been interpreted as the first major historic earthquake on the subduction zone. Motion was along a north-south oriented fault plane dipping gently down to the east. The North American plate was thrust up and over the Gorda plate beneath it. It produced measurable coastal uplift in the vicinity of Cape Mendocino on the order of 4 to 5 feet and a tsunami which was recorded at tide gauges from Port Orford, Oregon to Port San Luis near San Luis Obispo. Maximum recorded wave heights were just under 2 feet in Crescent City.

The mainshock was followed by two magnitude 6.6 aftershocks within 18 hours (4/26, 12:41 am and 4:18 am PDT). The aftershocks were both intraplate Gorda earthquakes located about 15 miles offshore of Cape Mendocino at depths on the order of 13 miles. Both aftershocks were strike slip earthquakes along vertical faults and at least the second exhibited right-lateral slip along a NW oriented fault. The mainshock and large aftershocks caused on the order of $60 million in damages and resulted in a federal disaster declaration.
You can see the distribution of shaking and damage on this Isoseismal map of the Cape Mendocino Earthquake.

9/17/91 - The Honeydew earthquake: 12:29 pm PDT, magnitude 6.0 - 6.2, located onshore about 13 miles SSE of Cape Mendocino at a depth of 7 miles. This earthquake was located in the immediate vicinity of the Mendocino triple junction only about 7 miles SW of the April 92 earthquake. Like the Cape Mendocino earthquake, it involved thrust motion along a NS oriented fault. There is some controversy as to the fault orientation. Surface features, such as the pattern of damage, surface ground cracks and displaced boulders along with the geologic structure in the region suggest a west dipping fault plane. Others, noting its proximity to the Cape Mendocino earthquake and the similarity of the focal mechanisms, have interpreted this earthquake as a foreshock and prefer the east dipping fault plane. Peak Modified Mercalli intensities were VIII in Honeydew, where over 60% of residents reported structural damage.

11/8/80 - Trinidad earthquake: 2:27 am PST, magnitude 7.1, located offshore about 30 miles west of Trinidad at a depth of about 12 miles. This earthquake was located within the Gorda plate and was caused by left-lateral slip along a 60 mile long vertical fault oriented northeast - southwest. A freeway overpass south of Eureka collapsed and regional damages were $1.75 million.

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This report was complied by Lori Dengler, Department of Geology, Humboldt State University and is based on the work of many researchers and institutions including McPherson, 1989; Oppenheimer and others, 1993;

[Diddle E. Squat]

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.

Total nonsense.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Looks like this may be more serious than originally thought.

[mom4kittys]

Sounds yummy, I'm from New Orleans so I like everything with rice. I haven't tried chili though! I ususally serve chili over fritos. Is this a local dish?

[onyx]

You're welcome, but I am a girl and never you mind how old of a girl...lol.

[onyx]

It's 80 degrees here (MS) but no beach in sight...lol... just the MS River. Be safe and well. Dec. 7, 1941 was also a lovely Sunday morning.

[paulat]

I would use black beans...kidney beans make me shudder...but love the recipe!

[hoosiermama]

I know how old you are ONYX! But I'm not telling!

[onyx]

LOL -- THANK YOU!

[null and void]

Actually for me, the noise of the coming quake was more frightening than the quake itself

Been there, done that!

[debg]

I learned to eat chili over rice in Hawaii. It's popular there. Can't say it's a local dish...but then again, I've never heard of anyone eating chili over fritos.

[BIGLOOK]

Beg your pardon, Ma'am.

[onyx]

LOL-- no problem. My pic with Jim is on my page. We're the same age and he looks SO GOOD.

[debg]

Black beans in a dish at the Wash DC Hilton made me sicker than I've ever been in my life. (Or maybe it's cuz I was there to meet Clinton.) Kidney beans are good!

[ElisabethInCincy]

SPEAKING of chili.... what the heck is this skyline crap in cincinatti ITS DISGUSTING

[paulat]

Black beans in a dish at the Wash DC Hilton made me sicker than I've ever been in my life. (Or maybe it's cuz I was there to meet Clinton.) Kidney beans are good!

It HAD to be Clinton..... LOL!!

[streetpreacher]

Never had chili pie? Frito corn chips with cheddar cheese. I add sour cream.

[proudofthesouth]

I just heard on Fox that Hawaii's governor has declared a state of disaster. WHAT disaster??? Buildings are standing, no report of deaths or widespread injuries. Power is out in places but its expected to be up by morning. For heaven's sake, Buffalo is in worse shape!