I can certainly think of better places to go hiking than around a volcano I can tell ya Annie. :-O

Cheers.

I can certainly think of better places to go hiking than around a volcano I can tell ya Annie. :-O

Cheers.

Me too Wiggo, not that I can, but I can think of a few places that are better, Yosemite in California comes to mind.

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I can certainly think of better places to go hiking than around a volcano I can tell ya Annie. :-O

Cheers.

Me too Wiggo, not that I can, but I can think of a few places that are better, Yosemite in California comes to mind.

Anything after a 10min walk from here turns into a hike as you'd be well into the surrounding bush by then (no volcanoes around here thankfully). ;-)

Cheers.

4.6 quake in California today.

Yes, Japan Volcano very sad :(

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4.6 quake in California today.

Sunday afternon - saw it on the news last night. About 50 miles west of me. Didn't feel a thing.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Wow! The world turns. We had a
public service notice on the TV
yesterday warning Albertans to
be aware of what to do in an
earthquake emergency.........
Here?

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A volcano (Mount Ontake), part of the Ring of Fire, in Japan has claimed the lives of hikers, at least 30 are feared dead.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/japan-volcano-30-hikers-feared-dead-after-mount-ontake-erupts/story-fnizu68q-1227073087698

JAPANESE police say at least 30 people have been found dead on erupting volcano Mount Ontake.

Police say the hikers were found “in cardiac arrest” near the peak of the volcano, the country’s second-highest volcano, the Associated Press reports.

The volcano, which is about 200 kms west of Tokyo, erupted on Saturday, spewing clouds of ash and smoke into the sky.

The victims have been described as not breathing and their hearts have stopped, which is the customary way for Japanese authorities to describe a body until police doctors can examine it.

This year the Ring of Fire has certainly proved to be overly active.

I saw some footage of it on Al Jazeera :/ I'm never quite sure what I'd do in such a situation - be so mesmerised by the awesomeness of the unfolding scene that I'd have no one to tell about because I'd be dead... or leg it at the first rumble and miss it all whilst piling down the mountain squealing.

I'm firmly in the camp of legging it.

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Saw something on the news about an earthquake in South America too - but didn't catch which country - so just did a search (didn't pin it down) and came across this instead... which people probably already know about, but I didn't :)

Gosh there's a lot of shaking going on :/

edit @Zapped :)

I'm firmly in the camp of legging it.

Squealing? :) Or something pitched a little lower...

Saw something on the news about an earthquake in South America too - but didn't catch which country - so just did a search (didn't pin it down) and came across this instead... which people probably already know about, but I didn't :)

Gosh there's a lot of shaking going on :/

edit @Zapped :)

I'm firmly in the camp of legging it.

Squealing? :) Or something pitched a little lower...

Squealing, screaming the end is nigh. That kind of thing.

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Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club.

I live in the south end of Los Angeles county. I remember the Whittier earthquake - it moved every large object in our house 4 inches south.

I use this site (http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/) to look at earthquakes worldwide. It seems the USA gets earthquakes along the west coast and in Oklahoma.

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Saw something on the news about an earthquake in South America too - but didn't catch which country - so just did a search (didn't pin it down) and came across this instead... which people probably already know about, but I didn't :)

Gosh there's a lot of shaking going on :/

edit @Zapped :)

I'm firmly in the camp of legging it.

Squealing? :) Or something pitched a little lower...

Squealing, screaming the end is nigh. That kind of thing.

Driving away at a velocity of at least R10 (Douglas Adams reference), not bothering to emit sounds except when I think I'm about to go off the road (and then they would be things better left unsaid in this forum).

As for running, I wouldn't be there on foot in the first place.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Gosh there's a lot of shaking going on :/

Yes, zoom in on Mammoth Lakes CA, (Long Valley) and last week something over 1,000 earthquakes. http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/calvo/ wrote:

Despite the several felt earthquakes, this is still rather modest activity compared with the much more energetic swarms occurring in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Gosh there's a lot of shaking going on :/

Yes, zoom in on Mammoth Lakes CA, (Long Valley) and last week something over 1,000 earthquakes. http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/calvo/ wrote:

Despite the several felt earthquakes, this is still rather modest activity compared with the much more energetic swarms occurring in the 1980s and 1990s.

So... not only shaking but quite a lot of sploshing too... thanks Gary :) I think :)))

I am not sure if it is still official. But the state of Oklahoma in the United States has had more earthquake activity than California.
The last one I felt was when my alarm went off and I was debating if I wanted a few more 💤. Then my bed suddenly had magic fingers massage. I decided the 💤 could wait.

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According to the US Geological Survey and San Francisco State University 3 Californian faults are primed and overdue for a major earthquake.

Cheers.

I heard that as well....

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According to the US Geological Survey and San Francisco State University 3 Californian faults are primed and overdue for a major earthquake.

Cheers.

Yeah, and thta little jolt in Napa a few weeks ago probably didn't provide much relief. Now if these fine scientific minds could just tell us WHEN all hell is going to bust loose on those flauts.....

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

According to the US Geological Survey and San Francisco State University 3 Californian faults are primed and overdue for a major earthquake.

Cheers.

I saw a report on this on TV. One of the faults goes right through Danville...

U-Verse hasn't had an outage, yet; however, if after the big one hits and I'm offline for more than a few days, pray for me... (If U-Verse goes down, I lose my Vonage home phone, too...)

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos

According to the US Geological Survey and San Francisco State University 3 Californian faults are primed and overdue for a major earthquake.

Cheers.

I saw a report on this on TV. One of the faults goes right through Danville...

U-Verse hasn't had an outage, yet; however, if after the big one hits and I'm offline for more than a few days, pray for me... (If U-Verse goes down, I lose my Vonage home phone, too...)

You can take your Vonage box somewhere else and plug it into internet and it will work. After my father died, I brought his home and kept it active for a couple of months.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

i would like to visit Hawai'i before I go to that big home in the sky :) which island are the big telescopes on ?

Most of them, including the Keck twins, are on Maui.
The active volcanos on the Big Island would render optical telescopes useless.

thank you Donald for that info.

Just woke up it is 3: 24 AM on west coast of Canada :)

I think I will lay down and sleep some more :)

Best wishes
Byron

P.S.

Portland Oregon, seattle Wash, and Vancouver Canada are all on the Ring of Fire

they say we could get the next big Earthquake in seattle, Vancouver area

anytime now. and they say (US GS) (Canada GS) it will a big big one 9.0 ?

when mt st Helens went off in Oregon in 1980 , I heard the Boom in Vancouver.

Vancouver is I think 500 to 600 miles north of Mt St Helens ?

Well We will all feel it on the west coast if it goes down but I'm not going to stay waiting for it. :)) Not much going on out there right now at this point but who knows.

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Cheers everybody
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