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Nahh, our stuff is too good for that but if you'd like to send us some of that stuff you guys make we could try it.Esav Benyamin said:Have you guys been pouring beer down into the crevices to lubricate this one plate you've got? That might ease the aftershocks, anyway.
Esav Benyamin said:Do we make beer? :barf: I always liked Guinness.
Esav Benyamin said:Do we make beer? :barf: I always liked Guinness.
Plumber576 said:I know it sounds sick, but an earthquake is one thing that I jsut want to possibly feel someday...not falling into one, or the devistation, but the idea of feeling the earth move is just interesting.
The possibility of great landmasses falling into the ocean is always with us, and recently scientists found vertical fault lines through a volcano on La Palma, one of the smaller and more westward Canary Islands. The volcano has a crater about 5 miles wide and a half-mile high, and erupts about every 200 years. The last eruption was in 1948, but the newly discovered fault lines have convinced some scientists that eventually the huge crater will break apart and slide into the ocean, bringing more than a half-trillion tons of rock with it.
Since tsunamis are created in proportion to the amount of land that has fallen into the water, this event would likely create a wave mass never before known to written history, many times bigger than the wave at Lituya Bay. The wave would diminish a little as it crossed the Atlantic, but if it hit the Atlantic Seaboard it could be higher than the skyscrapers of Boston, New York, Washington and Miami. Scientists do not know if it will take one, four or 10 eruptions to separate the landmass, only that the separation is inevitable.
The only good news is that volcanoes usually send signals before they erupt, and it would take eight hours for the wave to travel from Africa to the United States' eastern shoreline. It is not sufficient time, however, to move all the people who would be in its path.
I assume you're kidding!mycroftt said:Most of the best beers in the world are brewed in either Belgium or in the USA.
Well, that part is correct.mycroftt said:The big three American breweries (Bud , Miller, Coors) brew something that can only loosely be described as beer.
Esav Benyamin said:New Madrid provided the largest earthquake ever recorded in the continental United States of America.
I read a science fiction story years ago that predicted an incredible repeat of it that dropped the whole Mississippi valley and turned the center of the country into an extension of the Gulf of Mexico. After the country recovered from its losses, the moderated climate and increased access to the sea increased national prosperity.
shgeo said:The magnitude of the New Madrid guake is inferred from anecdotal ecidence and news reports of the time as 8.3 on the modified Richter scale. This was the largest we know of in the interior of the continent and about equal to the great San Francisco quake. The Good Friday quake near Prince william sound in 1964 was over 30 times as strong at a measured 9.4. The largest quake ever recorded was in 1960 in Chile the measured 9.5 and sent tsunamis all the way to Japan, Hilo HI and British Columbia.
It is thought that the impact that ended the Cretaceous at Chixulub on the Yucatan coast generated quakes over 10 in magnitude.