Mega Tsunami Headed For North America

[kevdupuis]

So let me get this into the right sequence of events..
The rock fall in the Canary Islands triggers a tsumami which wipes out the East coast and triggers the super volano. This in turn wipes out the central continent and trggers the San Andeas which dumps the west coast on the bottom of the Pacific.

HEY! I just wrote a new B disaster plot.

[WingMan13]

"One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
Learn to swim." -TOOL

[slade]

reals.

as I understand it, most volcanos act like... an automatic lawn sprinkler. the pressure builds up, the lava finds a crack, and spurts out.

these mega-volcanos act like.. a zit. the lava builds up and builds up in a big pool underground, and pops all at once. the last time this volcano exploded it created THE VALLEY YELLOWSTONE SITS IN.

the pressure has built to the point that the ground has tiled enough under this one lake to move the lake something like 10 feet. that's actually how the scientist found out about it. he went back after many years and found out the lake wasn't where he remembered it to be...

nope, theres three basic kinds of volcanos... the kind in hawaii, where the flow is liquidy and slow, with a very small slope, a volcano with a large slope that explodes more, and usually the largest and most destructive one is a composite volcano, a mixture of those two. sorry i sorta forgot the names, earth science was last year

or that lawnmower will fly?

hey... that was a fake lawnmower!


*irony* i just realized... wouldnt it be a lot easier for the terrorists to just get some dynamite and blow the thing into the sea? they say its close to falling anyway...

[brianlojeck]

nope, theres three basic kinds of volcanos...

4 types. super volcanos have calderas measured in kilometers, and there's no "flow" or "slope", but a big bang that destroys life for miles around.

keep in mind nobody living today has ever seen a super volcano go off. the last eruption was something like 75000 years ago, so it's not a "known" type in a lot of science classes. this is highly theoretical til it happens, but evidence of the last eruption can be found in geological ash deposits.

supposedly many roads in yellowstone are closed now because their temperature has reached 200 degrees! (I can't cofirm or deny this... never been myself...)

some links for more information:

http://www.virginiasbestkeptsecret.com/yellowstones_super_volcano.html

http://armageddononline.tripod.com/volcano.htm

http://www.acfnewsource.org/science/erupt_yellowstone.html

[dirty_canadian4894]

i think that there is a book about a terrorist organisation planning to drop a nuke on that island and screw the u.s. over, by Patrick Robinson hes a really good author maybe ill look for a link

[viper_ssc]

*irony* i just realized... wouldnt it be a lot easier for the terrorists to just get some dynamite and blow the thing into the sea? they say its close to falling anyway...

I was wondering the same thing when I saw this a few years ago.The terrorists are probably making plans on it right now. Well glad I live in michigan, no big natural disasters happen here.

[dirty_canadian4894]

http://www.patrickrobinson.com/

its the scimitar but both of the hms unseen series are great books i just finished barracuda 945

[bunker17]

ANYONE know if any big disaster are coming the way of the caribbean to see if i have to start getiing paranoi or if i can just keep

[slade]

4 types. super volcanos have calderas measured in kilometers, and there's no "flow" or "slope", but a big bang that destroys life for miles around.

keep in mind nobody living today has ever seen a super volcano go off. the last eruption was something like 75000 years ago, so it's not a "known" type in a lot of science classes. this is highly theoretical til it happens, but evidence of the last eruption can be found in geological ash deposits.

supposedly many roads in yellowstone are closed now because their temperature has reached 200 degrees! (I can't cofirm or deny this... never been myself...)

some links for more information:

http://www.virginiasbestkeptsecret.com/yellowstones_super_volcano.html

http://armageddononline.tripod.com/volcano.htm

http://www.acfnewsource.org/science/...llowstone.html

well, three basic types... and btw slope is talking about the slope of the side of the volcano, like steep or shallow, or in a more technical sense something like 1 foot per 5 feet. and the flow only applys to one type of volcano (hawaii, i cant remember the name for it...) the other kinds are more explosive.
ive never really heard about a super volcano, but it sounds like its just a really large composite/not hawaii... (dammit cant remember the names...) volcano.

thanks for the links, i cant really look at them now though... too much of this years work, dont really have time to brush up on last years. ill look at it later.

[SlipknotX556]

As long as it dosent happen when I am alive, dosent bother me.

[Gtask8]

HAHAHAHA

[logamus]

nope, theres three basic kinds of volcanos... the kind in hawaii, where the flow is liquidy and slow, with a very small slope, a volcano with a large slope that explodes more, and usually the largest and most destructive one is a composite volcano, a mixture of those two. sorry i sorta forgot the names, earth science was last year

here is a neat link on the yellowstone volcano in particular. read it when your not buried in your earth science book.
link

[slade]

here is a neat link on the yellowstone volcano in particular. read it when your not buried in your earth science book.
link

thanks. actually i do remember hearing a lot about that volcano in particular outside of sci class, and how when it goes off it may wipe out the whole central us with smoke/ash.

[OysterBoy]

... I would HATE to live around the borders when that happened.. thousands of people screaming to get across.. and the aftermath.. well. It COULD be good; technologically.

I have a side question for members of the forum..

What are USA's main exports ?

Just snowballing here..

[SSMercury]

reals.

as I understand it, most volcanos act like... an automatic lawn sprinkler. the pressure builds up, the lava finds a crack, and spurts out.

these mega-volcanos act like.. a zit. the lava builds up and builds up in a big pool underground, and pops all at once. the last time this volcano exploded it created THE VALLEY YELLOWSTONE SITS IN.

the pressure has built to the point that the ground has tiled enough under this one lake to move the lake something like 10 feet. that's actually how the scientist found out about it. he went back after many years and found out the lake wasn't where he remembered it to be...

This description makes this geology graduate cry.

But, ah, not entirely inaccurate. Lava is pushed up by buoyancy, and just comes through where ever the weakest spot in the crust above it is.

As for a tsunami generated by a collapsing volcano flank, California isn't secure either, a similar section of land that is Kilauea's flank in Hawaii is also sliding into the sea, and speeding up. It's happened a lot in geological time. The volcano builds out a bench of land to sea, it gets too far, it collapses, and rebuilds. It'll probably happen in the next couple hundred years or so.

And since we've budding geology buffs here, there's also Long Valley Caldera in California, Valles Caldera in New Mexico, for the US at least, if you want to study resurgent calderas.

These volcanoes are a different breed. Very, very slow to erupt, and very, very cataclysmic. The last one I can find on hand reference in my library is to Toba Caldera, Sumatra. Yes, near the last major earthquake. Last erupted ~74000 years ago. The caldera is 2 km deep, 100 km long, and 30 km across.