Not ignored. More like played down to almost the insignificant level. Over a year ago I was telling acquaintances and friends, don't be concerned until you start seeing strange weather conditions, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc., at unusual locations. That still applies and it will be getting worse. There are stresses being placed on our tilted planet by an outside source and it does no good to make public announcements about it because people get irrational and panic.
Though, Alaska's Aleutian Islands are certainly not an unusual place for volcano erutpions or earthquakes, CanMan.
AK is part of our planet's infamous "Ring of Fire".
Let's not forget the tragic Good Friday quake March 27 of '64, which at 9.2 was the second strongest quake ever recorded (first was the 9.5 in Chile in '60) and the strongest ever felt north of the equator. Rough stuff...
And right here in central Illinois we felt a tremor recently from our usually dormant New Madrid fault... Historians tell us that one of the strongest quakes ever felt happened here in 1812 'tho too ealry to be measured. Yikes!
And of course you're out in Cali where quakes are quite certainly a way of life... so you're defintiely no stranger to the earth's shaking and shimmying! Yikes!
AK is part of our planet's infamous "Ring of Fire".
Let's not forget the tragic Good Friday quake March 27 of '64, which at 9.2 was the second strongest quake ever recorded (first was the 9.5 in Chile in '60) and the strongest ever felt north of the equator. Rough stuff...
And right here in central Illinois we felt a tremor recently from our usually dormant New Madrid fault... Historians tell us that one of the strongest quakes ever felt happened here in 1812 'tho too ealry to be measured. Yikes!
And of course you're out in Cali where quakes are quite certainly a way of life... so you're defintiely no stranger to the earth's shaking and shimmying! Yikes!
Kev I will never forget my 1st earthquake: I was getting ready for work and was applying my mascara and the shaking started and I felt like I was having a "dizzy spell" or something it TOOK ME "A FEW" to figure out what was going on having grown up in Miami, FL it was a blast I loved it!!! How exciting to experience a whole new phenominum from the blowing and howling of a hurricane! Of-course I will never forget it. But I am one who loved wicked weather, kind of like some folks who like scarrey movies!!! Gives me an adrenaline rush, I hate to admit it but I think I should have went into a different profession, hee-hee. But I will state just for the record: I don't want to experience a volcano, I do not consider that fun and I really hate the thought of one erupting near-by, I feel sorry for those who live near the hot things.
Memories of friends shoveling ash off their homes because of Mt. St. Helen's.
Boy of boy, Kevin, do I remember that quake. The military's top security lines were down more than 12 hours. Can you imagine what civilian traffic must have been like? They're probably still playing catch-up.
Interesting comment about the ash, Mama. And, to show you the effects that volcanos can have on both weather and geology:
Mt. St. Helens---just one little old volcano mind you---dropped up to two inches of ash 200 miles away. And ash was falling on the Atlantic Ocean for weeks afterwards.
Now, let's go back a few years. Marking the Permian Extinction (that's when the dinosaurs disappeared, literally over-night) is a four foot layer of volcanic tuff and fosillized ash. This is a layer that covered the entire globe, so you can imagine the volcanic activity that caused it.
With all that ash in the air the earth became a giant hothouse (and, oh gee, we weren't even around to take the blame, Mr. Gore), leading to the warming of the oceans, which caused snow to fall in arctic regions, the weight of which caused the ice to squeeze out and cover a significant portion of the northern hemisphere.
Old species, like the giant reptiles, disappeared. And new species, like those new-fangled mammals, became dominent.
Tectonic plates floated around like a raft on a white-water river. Oceans flooded and receeded. Mountains poofed out, and were eroded down. Mankind achieved dominion over the earth, and invented spray cans and greenhouse gasses that led, according to the Gories, to global warming.
And all of it the result of a little ash from a couple of volcanos.
Interesting comment about the ash, Mama. And, to show you the effects that volcanos can have on both weather and geology:
Mt. St. Helens---just one little old volcano mind you---dropped up to two inches of ash 200 miles away. And ash was falling on the Atlantic Ocean for weeks afterwards.
Now, let's go back a few years. Marking the Permian Extinction (that's when the dinosaurs disappeared, literally over-night) is a four foot layer of volcanic tuff and fosillized ash. This is a layer that covered the entire globe, so you can imagine the volcanic activity that caused it.
With all that ash in the air the earth became a giant hothouse (and, oh gee, we weren't even around to take the blame, Mr. Gore), leading to the warming of the oceans, which caused snow to fall in arctic regions, the weight of which caused the ice to squeeze out and cover a significant portion of the northern hemisphere.
Old species, like the giant reptiles, disappeared. And new species, like those new-fangled mammals, became dominent.
Tectonic plates floated around like a raft on a white-water river. Oceans flooded and receeded. Mountains poofed out, and were eroded down. Mankind achieved dominion over the earth, and invented spray cans and greenhouse gasses that led, according to the Gories, to global warming.
And all of it the result of a little ash from a couple of volcanos.