Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California | |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 70980000 United States 01/17/2016 07:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California Check out the article: US West Coast Earthquake Warning as Cascadia Subduction Zone Surges [link to eugenedailynews.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 58127330 New Zealand 01/17/2016 07:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California can someone explain to me what this means? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71256262 does it measure water level? Buoys measure water level (that can also be indicative of some weird anomaly like a whale or boat hitting it, in which case that would *not* cause a 13 ft. / 4 meter drop). Buoys can also detect when the ocean floor moves significantly (like in a drop). Corresponding water levels will drop with the ocean floor, hence the general increased concern with buoys in subduction zones like these. A 4 meter drop of 13 ft. is pretty significant. Hmmmmmmm. I thought water was self leveling? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71257963 Australia 01/17/2016 07:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California can someone explain to me what this means? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71256262 does it measure water level? Buoys measure water level (that can also be indicative of some weird anomaly like a whale or boat hitting it, in which case that would *not* cause a 13 ft. / 4 meter drop). Buoys can also detect when the ocean floor moves significantly (like in a drop). Corresponding water levels will drop with the ocean floor, hence the general increased concern with buoys in subduction zones like these. A 4 meter drop of 13 ft. is pretty significant. Hmmmmmmm. I thought water was self leveling? It is. But it does not happen instantly over that wide an area. Thats how it was detected. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 70980000 United States 01/17/2016 08:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California Here are the screenshots showing all buoys registering the same drop at the same time, from: [link to www.ndbc.noaa.gov] Station 46005: [link to screencast.com] Station 46002: [link to screencast.com] Station 46404: [link to screencast.com] Station 46407: [link to screencast.com] Station 46411: [link to screencast.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70841472 United States 01/17/2016 08:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California GLP won't let me re-post the link, but Google the title: Quoting: CuriousSeeker US West Coast Earthquake Warning as Cascadia Subduction Zone Surges "... hundreds-of-thousands of people would be killed as a fifteen meter (45 foot) wall of water came ashore well inland passing Interstate 5 and destroying everything its path from the beach to Interstate 5." What utter bullshit. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 70980000 United States 01/17/2016 08:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California GLP won't let me re-post the link, but Google the title: Quoting: CuriousSeeker US West Coast Earthquake Warning as Cascadia Subduction Zone Surges "... hundreds-of-thousands of people would be killed as a fifteen meter (45 foot) wall of water came ashore well inland passing Interstate 5 and destroying everything its path from the beach to Interstate 5." What utter bullshit. Remember that article posted awhile back saying how the Director of FEMA for the Pacific Northwest Region was quoted as saying: "We are operating under the assumption that everything west of I-5 will be toast"? Oh yeah...here it is: [link to www.newyorker.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71148464 Canada 01/17/2016 08:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California West Coaster, the weather is meh, the wind is blowing, could there be an offshore pressure system blowing the water into large waves? 4 meter long waves are not very big on the ocean |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 71262305 United States 01/17/2016 08:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California Intriguing Seismic Activity along the Cascadia Subduction Zone I'm terrified of Cascadia, so you'd think I'd be freaked out about now, right? But no, I'm totally relaxed. This is all completely normal stuff for this area. We do, of course, need to be aware of the dangers and not let normal lull us into a false sense of invulnerability. Subduction zones like Cascadia regularly produce enormous, devastating quakes, and we've got to be ready for when, not if, the Big One comes. But the current activity isn't reason to panic. [link to blogs.scientificamerican.com] |
AQUABRAT User ID: 69278931 United States 01/17/2016 08:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California can someone explain to me what this means? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71256262 does it measure water level? Buoys measure water level (that can also be indicative of some weird anomaly like a whale or boat hitting it, in which case that would *not* cause a 13 ft. / 4 meter drop). Buoys can also detect when the ocean floor moves significantly (like in a drop). Corresponding water levels will drop with the ocean floor, hence the general increased concern with buoys in subduction zones like these. A 4 meter drop of 13 ft. is pretty significant. Hmmmmmmm. I thought water was self leveling? Displacement though... hi |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52260488 Finland 01/17/2016 08:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California I think you are reading the data wrong. I see a drop of a few centimetres. One metre is the whole thing, it's a fraction of metre! Not too difficult.. the drop which triggered the event was a few centimetres. Learn how to watch the data before making foolish threads. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 46371392 United States 01/17/2016 08:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California GLP won't let me re-post the link, but Google the title: Quoting: CuriousSeeker US West Coast Earthquake Warning as Cascadia Subduction Zone Surges "... hundreds-of-thousands of people would be killed as a fifteen meter (45 foot) wall of water came ashore well inland passing Interstate 5 and destroying everything its path from the beach to Interstate 5." What utter bullshit. geologist gotta eat! . |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 70980000 United States 01/17/2016 08:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California I think you are reading the data wrong. I see a drop of a few centimetres. One metre is the whole thing, it's a fraction of metre! Not too difficult.. The data clearly says meters - not fractions of a meter. The data measures the totality of the water in meters - from the top of the water down to the ocean floor. Ergo 2,300 meters down to 2,299 meters is one meter. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70405932 United States 01/17/2016 08:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California Some analysts, when looking at the Pacific "Rim of Fire" following Fukushima and other huge quakes to the southwest (around New Zealand/Australia) and the southeast (around South America), have theorized it was now only a matter of time for the northeastern section of the rim, such as around the Cascadia zone, to finally go off. But the plate tectonics of the Earth are very unpredictable and capricious, so who knows what may or may not happen. ` |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52260488 Finland 01/17/2016 08:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California I think you are reading the data wrong. I see a drop of a few centimetres. One metre is the whole thing, it's a fraction of metre! Not too difficult.. The data clearly says meters - not fractions of a meter. The data measures the totality of the water in meters - from the top of the water down to the ocean floor. Ergo 2,300 meters down to 2,299 meters is one meter. The event which triggered was and still is the red... ie few centimetres. I'll go to bed now but you can worry about nothing. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 70743812 United States 01/17/2016 08:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California That's the zone which generated a magnitude 9.0 earthquake back in the year 1700. In that incident, the quake triggered a tsunami of about 15 meters, that sent a 45 to 50 foot wall of water more than ten miles inland, destroying everything in its path. Based on the click-through news story in the post above, if something like that were to take place nowadays, everyone west of Interstate 5 would probably be wiped out -- dead. There are a few very good videos showing the evident of the above incident both in the area it happened and Japan. Search YT. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 70841472 United States 01/17/2016 08:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California GLP won't let me re-post the link, but Google the title: US West Coast Earthquake Warning as Cascadia Subduction Zone Surges Quoting: CuriousSeeker "... hundreds-of-thousands of people would be killed as a fifteen meter (45 foot) wall of water came ashore well inland passing Interstate 5 and destroying everything its path from the beach to Interstate 5." What utter bullshit. Remember that article posted awhile back saying how the Director of FEMA for the Pacific Northwest Region was quoted as saying: "We are operating under the assumption that everything west of I-5 will be toast"? Oh yeah...here it is: [link to www.newyorker.com] So? He doesn't say a 45-foot tsunami will destroy everything in its path from the beach to I-5. Apparently you think the land is flat? Find out about the Coast Range. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 52260488 Finland 01/17/2016 08:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California I was a bit harsh to the OP but it won't change the fact that the water level did not drop 4 meters suddenly. For the last time the event which triggered the buoy station was a few centimetres. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 68897468 United States 01/17/2016 08:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California I was a bit harsh to the OP but it won't change the fact that the water level did not drop 4 meters suddenly. For the last time the event which triggered the buoy station was a few centimetres. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 52260488 I see meters on the y-axis and no demarcation or readings in centimeters. Start splainin' Lucy! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 70980000 United States 01/17/2016 08:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cascadian Subduction Zone NEW BUOY EVENT Update pg24 2-12-2016 4:54 am PT: USGS Mistake Shows 9.9 Earthquake Hitting The Geysers, California Ok - I'm not saying anybody needs to do anything. I'm saying we need to be kept on watch because of the drop in these buoys over such a wide area. THAT is the worry here. The drop in these buoys is what happened with the 2011 Japan earthquake, and is starting to happen in Cascadia. If nothing happens, great, this is not a prediction anyway. It's a watch. Nothing more. |