Today in History: Today in History, the most powerful volcanic explosion in recorded history took place in 1883, when Krakatau, (Krakatoa ) blew it's top. It caused tsumamis that...

Loki Loc: Georgia

Today in History, the most powerful volcanic explosion in recorded history took place in 1883, when Krakatau, (Krakatoa ) blew it's top. It caused tsumamis that resulted in an estimated 36,000 deaths, at a time when the area was sparsely populated. Had that explosion happened today, the death toll would have likely exceeded a million. Read more:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/krakatau-explodes?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-0827-08272016&om_rid=41ddba5c644e63bc6

pafret Loc: Northeast

Loki wrote:

Today in History, the most powerful volcanic explosion in recorded history took place in 1883, when Krakatau, (Krakatoa ) blew it's top. It caused tsumamis that resulted in an estimated 36,000 deaths, at a time when the area was sparsely populated. Had that explosion happened today, the death toll would have likely exceeded a million. Read more:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/krakatau-explodes?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-0827-08272016&om_rid=41ddba5c644e63bc6

The volcano is still active, it has formed a new cone a short distance away, within a mile, of the previous caldera and has grown to the point that it is becoming as big a menace as the original. From reports I have read the noise of the original eruption was heard at distances of 2000 miles. The volcanic ash hurled into the lower atmosphere circled the globe and caused a 2 year long winter.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Loki wrote:

Today in History, the most powerful volcanic explosion in recorded history took place in 1883, when Krakatau, (Krakatoa ) blew it's top. It caused tsumamis that resulted in an estimated 36,000 deaths, at a time when the area was sparsely populated. Had that explosion happened today, the death toll would have likely exceeded a million. Read more:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/krakatau-explodes?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-0827-08272016&om_rid=41ddba5c644e63bc6

Some think we are in for a similar experience one day right here in Yellowstone, though current science does not support that idea in the foreseeable future.
(Watch out AuntiE!!!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera

Loki Loc: Georgia

[quote=PaulPisces]Some think we are in for a similar experience one day right here in Yellowstone, though current science does not support that idea in the foreseeable future.
(Watch out AuntiE!!!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera[/quote

If I lived on the California coast, Paul, I think I'd invest in a rowboat. I can see it now. The Yellowstone Caldera blows and sets off the "BIG ONE"in California. Woe is we'uns.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

[quote=Loki][quote=PaulPisces]Some think we are in for a similar experience one day right here in Yellowstone, though current science does not support that idea in the foreseeable future.
(Watch out AuntiE!!!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera[/quote

If I lived on the California coast, Paul, I think I'd invest in a rowboat. I can see it now. The Yellowstone Caldera blows and sets off the "BIG ONE"in California. Woe is we'uns.[/quote]

Look at the bright side Loki. I will then be able to afford beach-front property!

Loki Loc: Georgia

[quote=PaulPisces]Look at the bright side Loki. I will then be able to afford beach-front property![/quote

Of course it will be affordable. It will only be accessible at low tide. lol

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

PaulPisces wrote:

Some think we are in for a similar experience one day right here in Yellowstone, though current science does not support that idea in the foreseeable future.
(Watch out AuntiE!!!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera

May I ask what this has to do with me?

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

AuntiE wrote:

May I ask what this has to do with me?

I have surmised from your location as being "the 44th least free state" that you mean the 44th State that entered the union, being Wyoming.
And it is the caldera in Wyoming that some folks think will erupt one day.

If I have made an error in any part please forgive me. I was only concerned for your well-being should this catastrophe actually happen any time soon.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

PaulPisces wrote:

I have surmised from your location as being "... (show quote)

An error, yes. My being from the 44th Least Free State has to do with ratings of states based on personal, tax and other freedoms.

There seem to be a great many catastrophes occurring currently. One of the after shocks in Italy registered 4.8. To me, such a number would not be an after shock but a second quake.

Speaking of well being, you certainly are not in a good place. Please tell me you are not in a high rise.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

AuntiE wrote:

An error, yes. My being from the 44th Least Free State has to do with ratings of states based on personal, tax and other freedoms.

There seem to be a great many catastrophes occurring currently. One of the after shocks in Italy registered 4.8. To me, such a number would not be an after shock but a second quake.

Speaking of well being, you certainly are not in a good place. Please tell me you are not in a high rise.

Thank you for your correction, AuntiE!

In general of course, Northern California and SF in particular are at pretty high risk for an earthquake. They keep saying it is not a matter of "if" but "when".
I find high rise dwellings to be one of the most inhuman ways of living imaginable, earthquake or not. I cannot see me ever living in one if I can help it.

I am in a flat in a pre-1908 earthquake building that is either Victorian or Edwardian, depending on whom one asks.
We are on bedrock and my hope is that since the building survived the last "big one" is has a good chance of doing so during the next.
BTW - Most the destruction to homes that media showed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was in The Marina neighborhood of SF, which is built entirely on landfill from the construction of the 1915 World's Fair here.

I thank you for you concern, though.