Okay ... this is getting scary now

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Probably badgers.

No it was me digging a bunker

 

[Robert Jarvis]

As long as we do not get any earthquakes. Feel very sorry for the folk that have suffered though, must be heart rending and soul destroying.

 

[Hilga]

Christ lad?

WTF??? Do you want anything to happen to LD?

I take it you've not seen the movie then?

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Statistically this is nothing unusual

Larger earthquakes occur less frequently, the relationship being exponential; for example, roughly ten times as many earthquakes larger than magnitude 4 occur in a particular time period than earthquakes larger than magnitude 5. In the (low seismicity) United Kingdom, for example, it has been calculated that the average recurrences are: an earthquake of 3.7 - 4.6 every year, an earthquake of 4.7 - 5.5 every 10 years, and an earthquake of 5.6 or larger every 100 years. This is an example of the Gutenberg-Richter law.



The number of seismic stations has increased from about 350 in 1931 to many thousands today. As a result, many more earthquakes are reported than in the past, but this is because of the vast improvement in instrumentation, rather than an increase in the number of earthquakes. The USGS estimates that, since 1900, there have been an average of 18 major earthquakes (magnitude 7.0-7.9) and one great earthquake (magnitude 8.0 or greater) per year, and that this average has been relatively stable.

In recent years, the number of major earthquakes per year has decreased, although this is thought likely to be a statistical fluctuation rather than a systematic trend. More detailed statistics on the size and frequency of earthquakes is available from the USGS.


Most of the world's earthquakes (90%, and 81% of the largest) take place in the 40,000-km-long, horseshoe-shaped zone called the circum-Pacific seismic belt, also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, which for the most part bounds the Pacific Plate. Massive earthquakes tend to occur along other plate boundaries, too, such as along the Himalayan Mountains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadly_earthquakes_since_1900

As you can see the world usually gets one major earthquake, 8 scale and above once per year. We get several or more 7 scale and above per year and thousands of 5-6scale quakes per year.

Major quakes also set off other quakes.

The boxing day 2005 quake 9.3 magnitude set off a secondary quake for example on another faultline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. This earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes. It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm (0.4 inches)[5] and triggered other earthquakes as far away as Alaska

Volcano erupts in Iceland....huge dust cloud headed our way...all UK flights cancelled....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm

Matt...sorry mate you're on the bench for the next game!

** Mutzo goes back to digging bunker **

 

[spikeman]

Just a warm up to 2012.

 

[Matt Damon]

Volcano erupts in Iceland....huge dust cloud headed our way...all UK flights cancelled....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm

Matt...sorry mate you're on the bench for the next game!

** Mutzo goes back to digging bunker **

Nothing unusual either!

If you want to know about eruptions:
Mount St. Helens, Washington State USA.

Webcam of Mount St Helens [video]http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/views/static-highdef-medium.php [/video]

Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am PDT which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,365 feet (2,550 m) and replacing it with a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater. The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km3) in volume.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Nothing unusual either!

If you want to know about eruptions:
Mount St. Helens, Washington State USA.

Webcam of Mount St Helens [video]http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/views/static-highdef-medium.php [/video]

Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am PDT which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,365 feet (2,550 m) and replacing it with a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater. The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km3) in volume.

Matt....that's not exactly comforting....

** Mutzo re-does bunker construction calculations **

 

[Matt Damon]

http://www.scenta.co.uk/nature/volcanoes/volcanoes_worldwide.cfm

You might want to make a note of the volcanoes on there Mutz.

 

[Dylan]

Nothing unusual either!

If you want to know about eruptions:
Mount St. Helens, Washington State USA.

Webcam of Mount St Helens [video]http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/views/static-highdef-medium.php [/video]

Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am PDT which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,365 feet (2,550 m) and replacing it with a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater. The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km3) in volume.

I drove up that. Used to be stationed in WA state.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I drove up that. Used to be stationed in WA state.

Is there anything left of it? looks like the whole mountain went up

 

[Matt Damon]

Is there anything left of it? looks like the whole mountain went up

That was it the day before the eruption

It lost a 1000feet of height and was left with this taken 2 years later:

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Feck me....Thats awesome...its taken a major chunk of mountain with it...totally amazing.

 

[Matt Damon]

Feck me....Thats awesome...its taken a major chunk of mountain with it...totally amazing.

With this sort of eruption what you don't realise is the static generated by the fine volcanic ash/dust particles rubbing against each other causes massive numbers of lightening strikes. Witness said the 1980 St Helens eruption was near constant lightning strikes.......

Indonesia - Lombok: Mount Rinjani - outbreak in 1994

The US military (airforce) abandoned a base in the Phillopines in 1991 due to an eruption

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Air_Base
Abandoned. 18000 personnel and families left

Basically, Mutz. [Poor language removed] HAPPENS

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Im gonna need a deeper bunker

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I saw what you did there Mr. Dreyfuss.
Stands up and applauds