Worldwide Earthquake Activity in the Last Seven Days

[dave502d]

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/

[lenidog]

1. Looks like the usual suspects when it comes to earthquakes

[applegrove]

2. I do not like it. I do not like it at all. n/t

Just saw a documentary last night on Super Volcanoes. Did anyone know that Yellowstone was one? I think one of the only supervolcanos on land. There may be a few in Asia too. And earthquakes can set them off.

[Dookus]

5. What's not to like?

Do you know if this is an unusual amount of activity? By how much? Certainly after a super-quake like the December one, there would be many aftershocks.

As far as I know, there's nothing unusual about the current level of earthquake activity.

[applegrove]

9. It is probably a normal amount of quakes. But because of December

the MSM reports on them more. So one way or the other.. you have to adjust to the increased reporting.. it is a "story". But I think it is good people are reminded about other parts of the world and I hope more people will vacation there and stuff. I hear the tourism industry lost 3Billion there in the last few months. Money is not nearly as important as the death of so many.. but in many of those places.. money goes a long, long way.

I just hope that was the big one for this millennium.

[Tilei]

18. Actually, the December Quake...

slowed the earth rotation and it was reported to have altered the axis a fractal(NASA reported). That would explain an increase in activity and severity.

[newyawker99]

19. Hi Tilei!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[applegrove]

21. Yes welcome.

:hi:

[StuckinBFE]

7. I live in bozeman and well that documentary sucked

It was a crappy made for TV movie to dumb it down for the masses. I have been lucky enough living here that I have gone to some of the presentations by the scientists down in Yellowstone. Yes there is a large chamber under Yellowstone but it is on the move the whole Snake River Basin was created by this hot spot so were the Tetons. The likelihood of a massive eruption is very small and there will be plenty of warning when that volcano goes active. But I would suggest coming out here and checking out Yellowstone it is a very fascinating place.

Sorry for my rant but that documentary was a huge joke I would have preferred it without the made for TV drama.

[applegrove]

10. How it was terrible with the drama. But you know.. we are talking about

it the next day .. so they are no fools. Good for business.

[MnFats]

14. yes! yellowstone is a BIG worry.

i hope i'm not being chicken little but a lot of stuff i've read about yellowstone is very upsetting....the whole thing practically is ready to blow, with very widespread disastrous results...

[applegrove]

15. No it is not ready to blow. They say there would be much more in the

way of activity. And it is not following a 600,000 cycle. That is crap. And there is 5 times more rock on top of the lava than every before.

I just thought it was interesting that I never knew it was a volcano. The activity, as always, is in Asia.

But if Yellowstone blows then she will cover all of us with ash. So no need to worry about that.

If you look at it like this: Americans have been here for 250 years. So why would it up and blow right here, right now, this side of the first 500 years of white people? When the whole thing is Millions and Million of years old? .. It will not!

[StuckinBFE]

16. Actually North America does have a few active

volcanoes currently. St. Helens and South Sister in Bend Oregon has a bulge building on the cone, plus I image many more. Big picture is I would be more worried about an earthquake or crossing the street today then I would about a supervolcano coming to get you.

[applegrove]

20. In the documentary they talked about Super Volcanoes that would

start a planetary winter if they blew. There were about 20 in the world and they said Yellowstone was the only one (or one of) the only ones on land. The rest were underwater (I am assuming that underwater is better in terms of ash somehow..as a island is built up front he sea bottom.. but I do not know).

That when the Philippine volcano (a big one but not a super volcano) went off in the early 1990s it changed the climate for a bit. But that the Super Volcanoes will change the world. But they only happen in hundreds of thousands of year intervals and humans have only been living in the past 10,000 in societies.

I go and look and see if any of them blew in the past 10,000 years. Perhaps Thera? I don't know.

[Willy Lee]

22. I saw a bit of that "Super Volcanoe"-

It wasn't a documentary but a made-for-TV movie. There's a difference.

[Zynx]

23. Actually, the science in it was *really* good.

It's a hypothetical starting with the premise of there being an eruption, but none of the facts about the volcano were wrong.

[zapp]

3. Was John Bolton steaming mad about this?

[lonestarnot]

4. It's the end of the world as we know it...It's the end of the world as we

know it...llaallaaa and I feel fine.....

[G_j]

6. looks pretty "active",

you say this is more than usual?

just happened to see "superquake" also

[Maple]

8. Perhaps this one will give you

a better idea of what's going on.

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

[Kindigger]

11. I check Iris every a.m.

It seems California is way overdue.

[Maple]

12. Yeah and

BC in Canada too. Looks like everything is heading to the North American coastline.

[alfredo]

13. It's been really quiet on the west coast.

That could be bad or good.

[mopaul]

17. signs and portents

a bad moon risin'

[Baclava]

24. I'm still waiting for the New Madrid fault to go....

Just read 'The Rift'. I just love all the EOTWAWKI books.