A shifting earth?

[Bing o]

What's going on? There seem to be eaurthquakes and volcanoes all over the shop - that's going to bugger up our CO2 targets.

But seriously, does anyone think we are due a major event, possibly in Yellowstone?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and...

The Times said:

Hundreds of earthquakes have hit Yellowstone National Park, raising fears of a more powerful volcanic eruption.

The earthquake swarm, the biggest in more than 20 years, is being closely monitored by scientists and emergency authorities.

The series of small quakes included three last Friday which measured stronger than magnitude 3.0. The strongest since this latest swarm of quakes began on December 27 was 3.9.

No damage has yet been reported but scientists say this level of activity - there have been more than 500 tremors in the last week - is highly unusual.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6042619.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/a...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/...

[Eric Mc]

What makes you think that there is anything different to normal?

[Einion Yrth]

If Yellowstone goes up life is going to become..... interesting - if probably rather shorter.

[WorAl]

Einion Yrth said:

If Yellowstone goes up life is going to become..... interesting - if probably rather shorter.

Completely agree....would be worth seeing though

[tamore]

WorAl said:

Einion Yrth said:

If Yellowstone goes up life is going to become..... interesting - if probably rather shorter.

Completely agree....would be worth seeing though

don't worry though, there's going to be a volcano tax. surely that'll stop it.

[stew-S160]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE...


what we should do is send all the greenies to yellowstone, show them some pics and how nice it is and they would love being there...then watch as they all get blown to pieces by one of the largest volcanic eruptions ever...

[Bing o]

Eric Mc said:

What makes you think that there is anything different to normal?

Bing o's original post said:

No damage has yet been reported but scientists say this level of activity - there have been more than 500 tremors in the last week - is highly unusual.

[ewenm]

stew-S160 said:

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE...

Correct.

[MK4 Slowride]

I know there was a big earthquake in Italy today. However, those articles are 3 months old. Have we heard more since?

[Bing o]

MK4 Slowride said:

I know there was a big earthquake in Italy today. However, those articles are 3 months old. Have we heard more since?

Arseburgers - it was all linked to the Italian earthquake story, so I assumed it was all current news...

Someone phone an Ambiwlans...

[MK4 Slowride]

Bing o said:

MK4 Slowride said:

I know there was a big earthquake in Italy today. However, those articles are 3 months old. Have we heard more since?

Arseburgers - it was all linked to the Italian earthquake story, so I assumed it was all current news...

Someone phone an Ambiwlans...

In the scheme of things, especially related to Earth movements I'd have said that really close together time wise. 3 months is a lot of time to humans but not the planet. I don't believe I've ever heard of a quake in Italy before.

[Einion Yrth]

MK4 Slowride said:

I don't believe I've ever heard of a quake in Italy before.

Well it's got two volcanoes, so it's hardly geologically inactive.

[Thudd]

TVR Moneypit said:

I thought that but reading the artice it said that there was a biggish one in the same part of italy back in 97-98, killing 13 people. it also said that there was two fault lines running through italy.

Yep when I was in Umbria they had all the black and gold scaffold up.
Have you heard of Pompeii, MK4?

[Invisible man]

I remember a video of a church in Italy during an earth quake, the roof caved in killing several people

[Killer2005]

Einion Yrth said:

If Yellowstone goes up life is going to become..... interesting - if probably rather shorter.

We're doomed

[jmorgan]

Times poetic licence? here is one I made earlier.
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/publications/2009/09...

And on and on
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/activity/archive/200...

etc
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/activity/archive/200...

From here.

[Oakey]

MK4 Slowride said:

Bing o said:

MK4 Slowride said:

I know there was a big earthquake in Italy today. However, those articles are 3 months old. Have we heard more since?

Arseburgers - it was all linked to the Italian earthquake story, so I assumed it was all current news...

Someone phone an Ambiwlans...

I don't believe I've ever heard of a quake in Italy before.

I bet that's what they said in Pompeii and Sicily too

[Invisible man]

Oakey said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Bing o said:

MK4 Slowride said:

I know there was a big earthquake in Italy today. However, those articles are 3 months old. Have we heard more since?

Arseburgers - it was all linked to the Italian earthquake story, so I assumed it was all current news...

Someone phone an Ambiwlans...

I don't believe I've ever heard of a quake in Italy before.

I bet that's what they said in Pompeii and Sicily too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7985248.stm

[Oakey]

Invisible man said:

Oakey said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Bing o said:

MK4 Slowride said:

I know there was a big earthquake in Italy today. However, those articles are 3 months old. Have we heard more since?

Arseburgers - it was all linked to the Italian earthquake story, so I assumed it was all current news...

Someone phone an Ambiwlans...

I don't believe I've ever heard of a quake in Italy before.

I bet that's what they said in Pompeii and Sicily too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7985248.stm

Apparently there was quite a large one last Dec too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7798036.stm

[mikechandler]

Que sera sera

Nobody is bigger than Mother Nature. She can destroy us all in no time so the only thing we can do is enjoy our time as best we can.