| Alaskan Earthquake March 27, 1964 |
[Aug. 15th, 2008|01:20 am] |
On March 27, 1964 there was a 9.2 magnitude earthquake in the Aleutian Islands. This is a National Geographic article that describes what happened.
I'm sorry I could not find the article in a more reader-friendly form. The jpgs are from National Geographic CD's. I tried many different things, and the best was just to use PB. You can read the entire article here:
http://s531.photobucket.com/albums/dd352/mrssarcasmo/
This earthquake happened when I was 2. So my husband and I, and all the kids we grew up with in Jersey had this ghastly fear of earthquakes. We were told this story and it became a legend in its own time. When we thought "earthquake", we imagined the ground opening up and shaking you to your core like it did in Alaska. When we moved to CA and the Northridge quake happened, we got scared, but it was nothing like what we imagined an earthquake would be.
The tsunami that was caused by the Alaskan quake was 10 times the size of the Thailand quake.
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[Aug. 2nd, 2008|11:31 pm] |
remember the long burning coal fires in pennsylvania?
(http://community.livejournal.com/wtf_nature/87449.html)
well, something similar is happening in southern california, as was released by the news tonight.
basically, an oil field is heating up quickly with ground temperatures of over 800 degrees.
this is the only entry i can find on it right now:
http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10079965
and given that i live in santa clarita, i'm a bit nervous. :/
EDIT: apparently the area has exhibited such temperatures 5 times since 1987. |
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| Hitting Rock bottom |
[Jul. 31st, 2008|06:22 pm] |
Okay, so I failed my maturity test. Badly.
This is a malachite formation from Kongo.
(Link is in German, sorry folks) |
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| Satellite photos from the China earthquake: |
[May. 21st, 2008|10:36 pm] |
Before the earthquake:
And after, note the rockslides impeding the river's flow:
A link to some related photos and more of this: http://pinewooddesign.co.uk/
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| Balancing Rocks |
[May. 5th, 2008|01:20 am] |
Garden of the Gods, Colorado:
( ZOMG MOAR )
Oh, and this is ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tetrabinary...long story.
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| I ♥ glaciers |
[May. 1st, 2008|04:46 pm] |
I'll assume this is real:
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| ~~ THE LA PALMA WAVE ~~ |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|03:24 pm] |
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**Dramatization, duh.
( The La Palma Wave )
Who wants to bet when this thing comes, there will be some jackass, somewhere, convinced that surfing this wave will be an EXCELLENT IDEA? I hope they bring a video recorder when they do. |
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| Curious cloud formations linked to earthquakes |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|02:29 pm] |
Can unusual clouds signal the possibility of an impending earthquake? That's the question being asked following the discovery of distinctive cloud formations above an active fault in Iran before each of two large earthquakes occurred.
Geophysicists Guangmeng Guo and Bin Wang of Nanyang Normal University in Henan, China, noticed a gap in the clouds in satellite images from December 2004 that precisely matched the location of the main fault in southern Iran. It stretched for hundreds of kilometers, was visible for several hours and remained in the same place, although the clouds around it were moving. At the same time, thermal images of the ground showed that the temperature was higher along the fault. Sixty-nine days later, on 22 February 2005, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 hit the area, killing more than 600 people.
Guo and Wang suggest that an eruption of hot gases from inside the fault could have caused water in the clouds to evaporate. Another idea is that ionization may be involved: Friedemann Freund at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, recently demonstrated that when rocks are squeezed, positively charged ions form in the air above. The trouble is that ions usually help to form clouds, not dissipate them.
Sauce |
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| Ko Tapu |
[Apr. 2nd, 2008|03:43 am] |
Ko Tapu (Thai: เกาะตะปู, literally "nail island", also sometimes Khao Tapu, เขาตะปู, "nail hill") is an island located in the Phang Nga Bay, Thailand. It has become a popular tourist attraction since it was featured in the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974; for this reason, it is also often referred to as James Bond Island. Ko Tapu island is about 20 meters tall, and lies approximately 150 meters offshore of the two-islet pair known as the island Ko Khao Phingkan (Thai: เกาะเขาพิงกัน, lit. "hills resting on each other island").
Enormous photo with detail
(This is to make up for that most obvious shoop I posted last)
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| Green Diamonds |
[Mar. 24th, 2008|12:56 pm] |
Green diamonds are a result of exposure to radioactivity.
Quote: "The green color is usually caused by the crystal's coming into contact with a radioactive source at some point during its lifetime, and in geological terms, this is measured in millions of years. The most common form of irradiation diamonds chance into is through bombardment by alpha particles which are present in uranium compounds or percolating groundwater. Long exposure to these particles forms a green spot on the surface of the diamond, or sometimes produces a thin green coating which is only skin deep and can easily be removed during the faceting process. But bombardment by beta and gamma rays well as neutrons will color the stone to a greater depth and in some cases turn the whole stone's interior green."
The largest known green diamond is the "Dresden Green". The "Dresden Green" weighs in at 41 carats and 8.2 grams. The gem normally resides in Germany, although it has been on exhibit in the Smithsonian Institute.
( Pics of the 'Dresden Green' ) |
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