stage 6 earthquake rocks California

[Karrmann]

yes. it even happened at an active Volcano, so it should erupt. but yeah it is one of the biggest ones that California experanced in a while

[Egg Nog]

Stage 6? Wow, that's a lot of power ;)

EDIT: I hope everyone gets this... ;)

[Sweeney921]

just like a hennessey viper ;)

[Matt]

yes. it even happened at an active Volcano, so it should erupt. but yeah it is one of the biggest ones that California experanced in a while

Welcome to the big boy world of the Richter Scale and Mt. St. Helens.

[Renesis]

i heard that yellow stone park is really a big ass volcano thats due to explode 30,000 years ago

[Sweeney921]

i heard that yellow stone park is really a big ass volcano thats due to explode 30,000 years ago
you mean due to explode 30,000 years from now?

[Esperante]

Karrmann are you on drugs??

[taz_rocks_miami]

THE END IS AT HAND! REPENT, REPENT NOW!!! Just kidding :p ;) :D

[Chinky_boi]

Mt st helen is about to erupt. :D.

[Distress]

Snizers, is that fairly powerful?

We had a earthquake here in Indiana a couple weeks ago; wasn't related to any fault lines, but rather something else (a huge bolder broke I suppose). I FELT IT! Indiana, of course it was a very little trembler, and I though maybe it was a car stereo or simi-truck at first, then I heard it on the news..lol

Eh, Tornados here, hurricanes down south, earthquakes out west...YOU ARE SAFE NOWHERE.

[Coventrysucks]

you mean due to explode 30,000 years from now?

No, it is 30,000 years "overdue".

Scientists kept finding random layers of ash in places with no history of volcanic activity.

After examining the ash it turned out to be from Yellowstone. Further investigation showed that most of Yellowstone is a giant volcano, or caldera, covering 9000 sq km.

Looking back through layers of rock, they found these layers from the huge eruptions (ash covered New York to a depth of 20m) at regular 600,000 year intervals.

The last one was 630,000 years ago.

People thought it was extinct, but then in 1973 someone noticed that Yellowstone was still on the move. In 1984 the centre of the park (100 sq km) was 1m higher than in 1924. In 1985 it dropped 8" and it is still moving about.

[PsychoChimp22]

oh ya??? well a couple years ago up here in seattle we got like a 7.8..... so Boo YAA!

[Esperante]

In fact, the swelling of lava in Yellowstone's caldera causes lakebeds to surge up and flood outlying areas.

[PerfAdv]

oh ya??? well a couple years ago up here in seattle we got like a 7.8..... so Boo YAA!

I experienced that one....was living up in Bellevue then. The quake was super powerful but luckily the epicenter was 34 miles underground. It was halfway between Seattle and Olympia, relatively unpopulated area. I was at work at the time and the building just started shaking like crazy. Interesting to hear a building creak like an old car on a bad road. When I got home some model cars had fallen and water had splashed out of the aquarium. Got lucky with that one, very close call.

[Esperante]

during the LA quake and San Fransisco in early 90's/89 both Library Tower and TransAmerica Tower shook like rubber (quite dramaticaly, really). They were designed to absorb the quakes, and it worked. But imagine seeing a godamn 70 storey building shake like rubber!!

[SPHFerrari]

yellowstone is not a giant volvano, although it is sysmicly (sp?) and thermally active. they are not sure why, some beleive it may be a hotspot similar tot hat which formed hawiii

[Esperante]

it is a HUGE volcano, the size of the entire park!!