Gov, Scientists: Quake in So Cal every 3min - Supervolcano Can Destroy CA

www.nationalgeographic.com...

^Scientists new study reveals socal experienced nearly 2 million quakes in the past decade.

Well that should be comforting since small quakes help reduce big ones or something like that having to do with subduction, etc.

So much for the 100-yr 'drought'!

Alas, to top it off,

a reply to: Artesia

The next disaster is always just around the corner.

Yet it doesn't stop humanity from living in these areas.

Never has done, never will do, i suppose.

I'm not sure there's any firm evidence that Long Valley is in danger of really waking up anytime soon.

However, a supervolcano would endanger more than just California if it went.

The Earth is a very volatile environment, and it's a wonder that it's been relatively stable enough for long enough that we're not all dead yet. Big, constantly shifting molten rock with a very thin film of wet gas clinging to it. Home sweet home.

a reply to: Blue Shift

A tenuous temporary situation at best.

Which is why keeping all our eggs in the one basket so to speak is rather silly i suppose.

The tech is there or nearly thereabouts, we should at least colonize low Earth orbit and the Moon whilst we still have the technologies and infostructure at our disposable to do so, because it might not always be the case.

No monies and motivation to do so through, not whilst we have the next £1000 iPhone, Love Island and fake Terrorism to contend with.

Hmmm, strange, I took a look at hisz.rsoe.hu... and only 6 earth quakes today.
Edit, I checked the website format and this is just quakes above 2. S Cal had 33 quakes total today

a reply to: andy06shake

You're right about that. That's why I ask why U.S. taxpayers keep rebuilding Puerto Rico.

a reply to: carewemust

Never get anywhere whilst we still squabble amongst ourselves down here paying at whos nation is best nor strongest/poorest.

We need to come together for the correct reasons and not the bankers and corporations agenda game.

It's the uneven distribution of wealth and power amongst our respective populations that's the main contention where humanity accomplishing something big is concerned.

Simply cannot play all our cards nor command the majority of our resources, power, and ability, when half the world is starving and living well below the poverty line.

Anyhoo rant over. LoL

Time for a cup of Tea.

Supervolcano Can Destroy CA

When a supervolcano erupts, especially Yellowstone, it will destroy a lot more than just a region such as Cali, and will virtually destroy the entire western/midwestern US ecosystems, and affect the entire US for decades, not to mention global weather changes.

a reply to: Liquesence

It could affect the entire Hemisphere, probably the entire planet and most lightly create a mini ice age/nuclear winter type scenario.

TKO back to the stone age really for the majority of the species within a few years.

Fingers crossed.

a reply to: Artesia

Yet another post with a subject that the dim witted will believe,currently there is a series of volcanic eruptions,large quakes ground sinking,tsunamis,all going off around the world,the whole world is in danger,the mid west is under water,life exists beyond the border

a reply to: Oldtimer2

Well with the amount of particulate matter a Supervolcano may release into our upper atmosphere "dim" might actually be a rather apt choice of wording.

You are talking a mini ice age again if that thing goes pop in any kind of significant fashion.

originally posted by: Blue Shift
The Earth is a very volatile environment, and it's a wonder that it's been relatively stable enough for long enough that we're not all dead yet. Big, constantly shifting molten rock with a very thin film of wet gas clinging to it. Home sweet home.

You mean that thin film of wet gas that makes up 71% of the earths composition?