Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated*5.8 Taiwan*5.2 Taiwan ~ Pg 20439

I am highly impressed by you knowing the area of the antipode without that map!

Lol, I wouldn't have had a clue otherwise.

A couple of Guatemala videos...


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Their area hadn't been touched by lava since the 1700's...

Family with Houston ties loses home

They thought Hawaii was safest. They bought 14 acres and built a home where lava had not flowed in centuries.


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So much interesting info & videos posted - it's hard to catch up! I so prefer the sweet spirit and friendship here - I seldom look at any other thread.

ND - so sorry to hear about your brother. Addiction is an ugly, tenacious beast. My heart aches for you! You and your family will be in my prayers.

Those vids from Guatemala broke my heart. So many people on foot trying to outrun the ash - with no chance of success. That cloud was moving so fast! A miracle to see the baby rescued.

I really love you guys - this is the one peaceful and loving escape I have right now - other than holding and loving on my great-granddaughter!! But my grandson & his fiance are having trouble and it may be boiling to a split. Because grandson is spoiled and not assuming the responsibility he should. It makes my heart hurt to think about losing my sweet Sadie! Please be praying for them.

Love you guys! Have a good rest of the night, and hope your Tuesday is great!

Dr. Lucy Jones

Magna with more quartz is stickier, can grow into tall cone, traps gases & more likely to explode: That's Guatemala. Low quartz magma, like Kilauea, create lava flows that travel out into a large, flatter shield volcano. Guatemala = hot deadly gas. Kilauea = extensive lava

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Pure panic. That's all I feel when I watch these Guatemala videos. It's so awful.

What happens to all these people who have literally lost everything? I fear for them.

What happens to all these people who have literally lost everything? I fear for them.

Interesting.......1700 is the last time Cascadia let go .....

Wow! I always thought of the ash as slow billowing plumes. Not hardly.

wth??? bwahahahahaha!

Video shows car reversing down U.S. 33 near Canal Winchester

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Uh oh.

Hawaii appears to have stopped.

Assuming no more Hawaii quakes, I am expecting a 9.0+ to hit Japan around 6/11.

Ummmm...isn’t that weird? Similar six days if this holds true.

Wow! I always thought of the ash as slow billowing plumes. Not hardly.

wth??? bwahahahahaha!

Video shows car reversing down U.S. 33 near Canal Winchester

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Pyroclastic flows...

The volcano sits at an elevation of more than 12,000 feet and is one of three in the area near the city of Antigua. It’s a stratovolcano, meaning it’s built up over time to have steep slopes, especially near the cone. They’re some of the most common—and most deadly—volcanoes on Earth, and they emit a combination of lava and pyroclastic flows.

“In Fuego, the main devastation was due to the pyroclastic flows,” Mather told Newsweek. “This is very different to a lava flow.” Pyroclastic flows are a mixture of hot gas along with volcanic matter, like ash and rock fragments, she said. They are incredibly hot and can travel faster than a moving vehicle in some cases.
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A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that moves away from a volcano reaching speeds of up to 700 km/h (430 mph). The gases can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,830 °F).
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Scary shit

That driver has skills!

I'm starting to learn with all this recent stuff that I guess it depends on the volcano. The lava they spew isn't necessarily the same, for one. Joinca posted something earlier about this.

All of it is so tragic, but the film coming out of Guatemala is nothing short of terrorizing. The only comforting thing I can come up with as I watch these videos in tears is that at least those who died, died quickly. But heck, the fear they felt up to that point just doesn't seem fair.