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Oregon Is Growing A Mystery Bulge
nedwolf writes "LiveScience is reporting that a 100 square mile bulge has been rising in Oregon. First observed from a satellite using a relatively new technology called 'radar interferometry', some believe this to be the formation of a new volcano. I think it's just happy to see me."
Really? I was sure it was D.C.
Major earthquake exercise under way in Russian Far East
According to research conducted by the International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, there is at least a 30% probability of an earthquake with a 7.2-magnitude or higher in the area of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands before mid-December.
The ministry's regional forces have been on alert since early August.
In looking at the map on the IRIS Seismic Monitor web site, it appears that the Kamchatka peninsula and the volcanic activity in Oregon may have something in common: both regions lie along the same fault line. The Indonesian tsunami, quakes near Taiwan and Japan, and recent earthquakes in Alaska and California all seem to lie along the same fault line.
I wonder how possible it will be to get geothermal energy from this if that is the case.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
I don't care about a volcano poping up in my backyard, as long as the Bush administration is not in charge of evacuating my ass.
Not to fan the flames or anything - though I do realize that I am - but your retort was about as witty and original as the GPs Microsoft dig...
See, it's like dealing with crying baby...if you *always* respond to them, they learn that they can get whatever they want by crying. However, if you ignore them, there is a good chance that they'll either stop or find another way to entertain themselves.
"How like you to drag your keyboard to a gun fight." - Aaron Bedard (BANE)
That's media perspective for you.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
They can fix any natural disaster and have tons of foresight.
(This will make sense if read completely.) A simple observation of the white tailed deer may offer an insight into the current events of the natural world. The deer, when their herds become to large, often experience wide spread disease. The question we must ask ourselves: Why do the deer become ill if the population grows to large? There must be some mechanism in nature which responds to the growing population and causes the disease. This mechanism is the lack of food. The theory of evolution suggests that the less novel (less original ways of getting food) and weaker (cannot fight for the food) deer will be the ones who starve and become more vulnerable to disease. If unchecked the disease will eventually become so serious the deer die. Then the population is reduced. I propose that there are multiple mechanisms which regulate the population of all life. I will also propose that if one mechanism is not successful in controlling the population of a given species that another method will then prevail. I will finally state the obvious: 1) humans are an animal species, 2) we are vulnerable to disease, however we can treat disease, 3) because we can treat disease nature now responds with natural destruction. I must make perfectly clear that this is not a Gaia theory, I do not propose that the planet is alive. The supernatural need not explain this behavior. The Earth is merely a self-regulating system, and nothing more.