Earthquake

[ZenGum]

Re Bruce's link :

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2. there is probably a slight inaccuracy in the way it is written. The headline refers to a wave 1,720 feet tall. The graphs indicate that vegetation was stripped up to this altitude, which still rates as OMG, but does not mean the wave was 1,720 feet tall. That is the "run-on height", the distance the wave climbs up the land before losing energy.
There was a giant asteroid movie about ten years ago - Armageddon? - in which a chunk of the asteroid hit the Atlantic ocean and sent a tsunami onto North America. They got the physics of the wave pretty much right. A 200 foot wave could run a thousand feet up a hill with the right conditions.

Think for a moment about the landslide that started the Alaskan wave. Here are my back-of-envelope numbers, I think I calculated the acceleration correctly but my fellow nerds are invited to check: 30 million cubic metres, at average crustal density of 5 tons per cubic metre, yields about 150 million tons of rock. Falling from 900 metres (assuming no friction) would take about 13 seconds and deliver a final velocity around 130 m/s, or 488km/h - a little under 300 mph.

[classicman]

I really doubt that if the rescuers heard an animal in one place and a person in another that they would concentrate their efforts on the animal.

Then again, there are a few animals I'd rather . . . nevermind.

[Shawnee123]

Of course I would want my kittens rescued. I luv them. But I would feel terrible if they were rescued at the expense of a human life. That was my only concern.

Not me. My cats are worth about 20 humans, depending on the humans. No ulterior motives, ya know? They're very clear about what they want, and what they'll do for it. In exchange for food and warmth and lovin's, they return poo and barf and lovin's

No, I know what you mean but I doubt it was at the expense of humans. They heard a poor puppy whining and of course got him out.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Haiti peaked in 1802. Been in a decline ever since, since apparently their talented people aren't ethical, and their ethical people aren't talented.

What to do? I don't know -- ask Bill Gates to buy that half of the island as a fixer-upper?

[glatt]

Remember Haiti? Me neither.

Amazing how our attention moves along, isn't it? It was only 5 months ago.

[monster]

Actually, yes. Just last night I was forced to listen to a schoolkid remake of the Haiti remake of "We are the world". I found myself wondering if it would cause another earthquake. And then I hoped not, because that was not a fun thing.

And then I wondered how the clean-up was going and whether there were disease epidemics and I googled and I found this: http://newsone.com/world/newsonestaf...-up-continues/ and I sighed because they are dumping the rubble in the rivers and creating more environmental problems down the line... but this was the only recent thing that came up, and nothing about disease and I figured life goes on.

thanks for asking

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by monster

Actually, yes. Just last night I was forced to listen to a schoolkid remake of the Haiti remake of "We are the world". I found myself wondering if it would cause another earthquake.

Apparently, it did.

[monster]

that was an hour later -I suspect that may have been me yelling at the kids to put their bloody* laundry away.

*Anglicized for your work viewing convenience