04-06-2009, 04:17 PM
That New Madrid one left river boats high and dry hundreds of yards from the newly redirected river bed.
And thanks Paul, for bring up Seattle's impending doom. Half of Downtown Seattle is built on landfill, that will likely undergo liquifaction. The entire Cascade mountain range is somewhere between dormant and active. Jy ex GF's dad was on the USGS team that investigated the range back in 1973. He was the lone disenting geologist when it came to the report. He filed a minority report, warning of Mt St Helens, and indicated several others that were likely as well. He said St Helens would go within a decade. It did 7 years later. Several others, according to him, were very likely to let go within a 100 years. We are 1/3 of the way there.
And thanks Paul, for bring up Seattle's impending doom. Half of Downtown Seattle is built on landfill, that will likely undergo liquifaction. The entire Cascade mountain range is somewhere between dormant and active. Jy ex GF's dad was on the USGS team that investigated the range back in 1973. He was the lone disenting geologist when it came to the report. He filed a minority report, warning of Mt St Helens, and indicated several others that were likely as well. He said St Helens would go within a decade. It did 7 years later. Several others, according to him, were very likely to let go within a 100 years. We are 1/3 of the way there.