South Pacific Facing Imminent Disater?

[FlamesAddiction]

It seems like it never ends for those poor people down there.

2 more Earthquakes in the area (6.8 in Vanuatu, and 6.5 Papau New Guinea).

3 Volcanos come to life (including Krakatau).

Pretty scary stuff...

http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...4/s1344541.htm

[KevanGuy]

I wonder if we are just more sensitive to this type of thing now. It would be interesting to compare what has been going on there in the past 6 months to years past.

[Claeren]

It has always been the most active area on earth, most of those islands are volcanic for god sakes! It is THE hot spot on the ring of fire....

I am thinking we are, as you said, just hyper aware of it now...

Claeren.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Well, I posted an article awhile back regarding Sumatra's supervolcano. The earthquakes are in danger of causing a premature eruption.

Article can be found in here:
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/index.php?showtopic=10056

[Bertuzzied]

Not sure how accurate this will be but a Pyschic in Thailand who predicted the Tsunami on boxing day 3 months before it happened says something bad will happen to Japan this year.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally posted by Claeren@Apr 14 2005, 12:37 PM
It has always been the most active area on earth, most of those islands are volcanic for god sakes! It is THE hot spot on the ring of fire....

I am thinking we are, as you said, just hyper aware of it now...

Claeren.

That might be part of it, but reading one article from Indonesia, one old person commented that it is the worst they have ever seen it. That's not scientific validation, but it makes me think that maybe it is pretty bad right now.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally posted by FlamesAddiction+Apr 14 2005, 07:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (FlamesAddiction @ Apr 14 2005, 07:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Claeren@Apr 14 2005, 12:37 PM
It has always been the most active area on earth, most of those islands are volcanic for god sakes! It is THE hot spot on the ring of fire....

I am thinking we are, as you said, just hyper aware of it now...

Claeren.

That might be part of it, but reading one article from Indonesia, one old person commented that it is the worst they have ever seen it. That's not scientific validation, but it makes me think that maybe it is pretty bad right now. [/b][/quote]
I don't necessarily disagree with what you are saying, but people experiencing traumatic events or extreme climatic activity always seem to say that it's the worst they've ever seen...or the worst they can remember. What's fresh in the mind is more vivid and therefore....the worst they've ever seen.

I too would like to see some scientific data before accepting that the area is in a geological uproar the likes of which has never been seen.

[TheCommodoreAfro]

Originally posted by Bertuzzied@Apr 15 2005, 02:51 AM
Not sure how accurate this will be but a Pyschic in Thailand who predicted the Tsunami on boxing day 3 months before it happened says something bad will happen to Japan this year.

Umm,
I'm curious to hear what that has to be.

Living in Japan and all. The "big one" is always the next shake away here, though there were two earthquakes in the past month here close to the size of the Kobe Earthquake.
The one in Niigata struck in a relatively unpopulated area, so there were no mass casualties (though an entire town has been blocked off from the outside world and has yet to be reopen) and another shaker closer Fukuoka. Apparently that quake was as big as Kobe's, except that the area it hit is fairly solid compared to the liquidization that happened in Kobe.

In any event, I hope he/she is wrong this time.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan+Apr 15 2005, 12:16 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Displaced Flames fan @ Apr 15 2005, 12:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

That might be part of it, but reading one article from Indonesia, one old person commented that it is the worst they have ever seen it. That's not scientific validation, but it makes me think that maybe it is pretty bad right now.

I don't necessarily disagree with what you are saying, but people experiencing traumatic events or extreme climatic activity always seem to say that it's the worst they've ever seen...or the worst they can remember. What's fresh in the mind is more vivid and therefore....the worst they've ever seen.

I too would like to see some scientific data before accepting that the area is in a geological uproar the likes of which has never been seen. [/b][/quote]
Malaysia recently experience an earth quake. I can tell you in all my years of living there, I have never had one single earth quake experience. And since Indonesia and Malaysia are so close together, that's a pretty unusual phenomena.

[FlamesAddiction]

For what it's worth, there was another earthquake in Indonesia and they have upgraded the alerts on 9 volcanos now.