Kansas Crimson

food for thought:

http://itic.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?op ... temid=2026

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:06 am

NotGutterGutter wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:46 am

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:36 am 8.2 magnitude hit Alaska

sounds like minimal damage

Minimal man made structural damage. My uneducated guess is that an 8.2 would fuck up a major city pretty bad.

oh sure, but it didn’t even look like there was “natural” damage either...i’ll have to look into it more, but really surprised there wasn’t a tsunami

the 8 the largest quakes in recorded US history have all been in Alaska...the 1964 one, which was notably centered much closer to Anchorage (80 miles vs 500 miles) resulted in landslides and tsunamis

i realize that the severity scale of quakes is logarithmic, but am still a little surprised...particularly with the epicenter of this one being just off the coast

One of these days I am going to educate myself in regards to earthquakes.
I don't think about it often but when I do, it makes me a bit nervous living in a high rise when I am not all that far away from the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Plus, I'm a block away from a large body of water that is not immune to a meteotsunami.

NotGutterGutter wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:20 pm

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:06 am

NotGutterGutter wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:46 am

Minimal man made structural damage. My uneducated guess is that an 8.2 would fuck up a major city pretty bad.

oh sure, but it didn’t even look like there was “natural” damage either...i’ll have to look into it more, but really surprised there wasn’t a tsunami

the 8 the largest quakes in recorded US history have all been in Alaska...the 1964 one, which was notably centered much closer to Anchorage (80 miles vs 500 miles) resulted in landslides and tsunamis

i realize that the severity scale of quakes is logarithmic, but am still a little surprised...particularly with the epicenter of this one being just off the coast

One of these days I am going to educate myself in regards to earthquakes.
I don't think about it often but when I do, it makes me a bit nervous living in a high rise when I am not all that far away from the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Plus, I'm a block away from a large body of water that is not immune to a meteotsunami.

all of that “macro” geology fascinates the shit out of me, and was a sub-focus if my graduate work (historical biogeography)

it’s so incredibly dynamic and complex

related...imo, one of the coolest things is standing on the Pacific coast and thinking about what/where you’re standing in the grand scheme of things...on the edge of a massive continental shelf that is slowly inching its way westward

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:25 pm

NotGutterGutter wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:20 pm

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:06 am
oh sure, but it didn’t even look like there was “natural” damage either...i’ll have to look into it more, but really surprised there wasn’t a tsunami

the 8 the largest quakes in recorded US history have all been in Alaska...the 1964 one, which was notably centered much closer to Anchorage (80 miles vs 500 miles) resulted in landslides and tsunamis

i realize that the severity scale of quakes is logarithmic, but am still a little surprised...particularly with the epicenter of this one being just off the coast

One of these days I am going to educate myself in regards to earthquakes.
I don't think about it often but when I do, it makes me a bit nervous living in a high rise when I am not all that far away from the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Plus, I'm a block away from a large body of water that is not immune to a meteotsunami.

all of that “macro” geology fascinates the shit out of me, and was a sub-focus if my graduate work (historical biogeography)

it’s so incredibly dynamic and complex

related...imo, one of the coolest things is standing on the Pacific coast and thinking about what/where you’re standing in the grand scheme of things...on the edge of a massive continental shelf that is slowly inching its way westward

Sometimes I sit and overthink things that I feel most people never really think about.
Such as the complexity of the human body.
When I start to think about the planet Earth, and question how it has or hasn't existed "forever", and how it's evolved, and many of the intricacies, it blows it me away.

Getting back to earthquakes and "natural disasters", as a child I believed California COULD (not would) "fall in to the ocean" in the next 100 or so years.
I have since read that's basically impossible. Then as an adult I started to believe much of California would be underwater by the next century (2100s). While probably highly doubtful. I don't think it's "basically impossible". If it did happen, my uneducated guess is that it would probably be more due to "man made disaster/s".

300+ dead in 7.2 Haitian quake

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... plnews_d-1

Usgs estimates of 10k to 100k dead.

Also hurricane headed there soon


Didnt this just happen there like 6 or 7 years ago with massive casualties?

https://twitter.com/foro_tv/status/1435 ... 28325?s=21

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/10353354 ... e-apocalyp

Forgot to post this the other day......

"You all felt the earthquake, right?" one man asked as he exited his apartment complex. "I wasn't sure if it was just the brownies kicking in."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ear ... 45449.html

TDub, you feel any of the recent quakes?

apparently 40+ over the past 24 hrs

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:40 am TDub, you feel any of the recent quakes?

apparently 40+ over the past 24 hrs

nah, but I'm a long way from the coast

TDub wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:43 am

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:40 am TDub, you feel any of the recent quakes?

apparently 40+ over the past 24 hrs

nah, but I'm a long way from the coast

i figured

Earthquake of 4.3 with an epicenter 3.6 miles east of Salina around 8ish this morning.

7.8 in Turkey (and surrounding countries).

https://twitter.com/Headlineznow/status ... 3869640704

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status ... 2665475072

https://twitter.com/UpwardNewsHQ/status ... 1138041857

https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/16 ... 3837153280

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/stat ... 2699858946

Forgive me if too pols boredy, but now might be a good time to ease up on the sanctions against Syria

there are all sorts of ways that you can donate to the relief effort.

are you going to donate to the relief effort.

He just did! did you not see his post? His raising awareness and asking important and pointed questions to the 15 of us is more valuable and impactful, long term, than any actual effort.

for real tho. capitalism. amirite.

2,500+ now estimated dead

gonna surpass 5k?

7,800 and climbing

WHO estimates maybe as many as 20k