Why not give our kids a geography lessons?
Here is a map with actual names of the islands and links for each.
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Posted on 10/15/2006 10:34:29 AM PDT by colorcountry
Son just called. Does anyone know anything?
I'm cooking rice now for the 'canned' chili I'm going to put over it. You all did it too. LOL.
Oh geeesh! Trace just gave the headline...power out...landslides..building damage etc ...then he said " and no reports of anyone dead...pause...pause...YET"...
Get a grip Trace.
I'm thisclose to doing that as well!
Don't know about FEMA, but I heard they are giving out free ice cream on the Big Island.
Actually the whole "Cumbre Vieja will collapse and annihilate the East Coast" thing has been almost completely debunked - basically the entirety of the Tsunami Research community has destroyed the wildly overestimated wave heights that would result from the collapse on the East Coast of the US (avalanche tsunamis do not propagate their energy well over LONG distances, relative to earthquake tsunamis) and recent scholarship has attacked the idea that Cumbre Vieja is on the verge of a large-scale collapse at all.
The only problem is the mainstream media and popular documentary makers ONLY focused on the initial claims by Simon Day, because they were so scary and exciting, and ignored everyone who came after who disagreed.
Also heard a report of Coldstone Creamery in Honolulu giving away ice cream...they have no power, so it's either give it away or let it melt!
there is a 5 percent chance of a bigger quake after a preliminary one....that isnt a dumb question...that is why all the fire engines are put out on the driveways out of the stations.
"George Bush doesn't care about Hawaiian people."
Why not give our kids a geography lessons?
Here is a map with actual names of the islands and links for each.
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This earthquake felt big to me, and I've been through lots of earthquakes. (being from California) To me it felt just as strong as the 89 earthquake in the SF bay area (which I was also in the middle of!)
It was pretty scary while it was rocking the hardest, you could literally see everything moving back and forth. I was still in bed, and then someone yelled 'evacuate the building!' and everyone went outside, many students still in their pajamas... one guy had just a sheet wrapped around him.
In our apartment, things fell off shelves (a couple framed pictures of mine fell to the tile floor and amazingly didn't break) and our bathtub was filled with shampoo bottles and stuff.
I heard that the ywam base up in Makapala (north of here) had an older building that collapsed, but I don't think anyone was in it. Here where I'm at i think everyone is ok, as far as I've heard.
Thanks for the prayers and thoughts, you all!
Anna: lol@ 'trouble magnet'... you're right, what's up with that?
Incinidary checked in on DA. She's fine. Rockin' rolling. :-)
I'm speechless...as if this were something admirable.....
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Volcanic activity and gentle erosion have not been the only forces to shape the Hawaiian islands. Landslide debris has now been mapped off of all the islands. Enormous amounts of material have traveled great distances, indicating that the slides were truly catastrophic. The Nuuanu and Wailau landslides, shown in the map, tore the volcanoes forming eastern Oahu and northern Molokai, respectively, in half, and deposited blocks large enough to have been given names as seamounts. Tsunamis generated during these slides would have been devastating around the entire Pacific Basin.
The discussions below are paraphrased from abstracts of papers published by the Submarine Volcanism group.
OAHU - Wai'anae Volcano comprises the western half of O'ahu Island, but until recently little was known about the submarine portion of this volcano. Seven submersible dives conducted in 2001 and 2002, and multibeam bathymetry offshore of Wai'anae provide evidence pertaining to the overall growth of the volcano's edifice as well as the timing of collapses that formed the Wai'anae slump complex.
A prominent slope break at ~1400 meters below sea level marks the paleoshoreline of Wai'anae at the end of its shield-building stage and wraps around Ka'ena Ridge, suggesting that this may have been an extension of Wai'anae's northwest rift zone. Subaerially erupted tholeiitic lavas were collected from a small shield along the crest of Ka'ena Ridge, now submerged. To the south, tholeiitic pillow lavas have been recovered 65 km from the volcano's center, indicating the south rift zone extended at least this distance. Sediment cores collected from north of Ka'ena Ridge contain pelagic sediment with volcaniclastic grains and volcanic glass that originated from Wai'anae's postshield stage and eastern Oahu's Ko'olau Volcano's shield stage, respectively.
Multiple collapses and deformation events occurred during and after the shield stage, resulting in compound mass wasting features on the volcano's southwest flank, the Wai'anae slump complex. This slump complex is the largest in Hawai'i, covering an area of ~5500 km2. It is composed of several distinct sections based on morphology and lithologies of collected samples. The outer bench of the slump complex contains tholeiites that correlate with subaerial lavas erupted early during the volcano's shield stage, from 3.9 to 3.5 million years ago (Ma), and probably formed during and shortly after the early shield stage. To the southwest of the outer bench lies a broad debris field of subaerially derived volcaniclastic rocks containing tholeiites with early shield compositions, interpreted to have formed by a catastrophic collapse event that breached the outer bench. The breach may have then been filled by slumping material from the main volcanic edifice. Finally, on top of the northern main body of the slump is a rotated landslide block that detached from the proximal part of the Ka'ena Ridge after the volcano's late shield stage (3.2 to 3.0 Ma), containing higher alkali rocks that correlate with late shield-stage subaerial lavas. None of the slump complex samples correlate with alkalic subaerial postshield lavas.
In most places in Hawaii you can be close enough to see the beach while still at a considerable height above sea level, well above any conceivable tsunami.
Aloha :-)
I have to wonder if the nuclear test by N. Korea could have triggered the quake.
OMG!! I hope SO...my heart was in my mouth when a read that!!
Yea, me too. One Fox guy keeps referring to the "little villages", where houses are little more than "grass shacks". The guy hasn't been to the big island in the last 40 years?
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