After seeing imagery that shows what the size of the blast radius would be it really boggles the mind how catastrophic this would really be.
We could only hope that the mountains around the blast would offer some protection from the initial blast, however it would do nothing against the fall out that would follow.
Poisonous rain and nuclear winter just to name a couple.
This would be just as bad, if not worse, than a huge meteor strike and would definitely cause a worldwide disaster.
btw MischeviousElf, whats the deal? making posts using all caps telling people to STOP making threads, you have no right to tell anyone what to post where. There is no rule here that states that all earthquake activity has to be posted in the "Earthquake watch 2009" thread or whatever.
The guy posted relevant and new information that he found, as long as its not duplicated, there isnt a problem.



[edit on 1/7/2009 by Kr0n0s]

Originally posted by Kr0n0s
btw MischeviousElf, whats the deal? making posts using all caps telling people to STOP making threads, you have no right to tell anyone what to post where. There is no rule here that states that all earthquake activity has to be posted in the "Earthquake watch 2009" thread or whatever.
The guy posted relevant and new information that he found, as long as its not duplicated, there isnt a problem.
[edit on 1/7/2009 by Kr0n0s]

MMm I disagree... posting lots of eq's should obviously be in the Quake Watch Thread.

Thats the purpose of the thread. Has been for years. To collate all the current seismic activity in one thread for discussion about them and for ease of debate, research and comparison.

There was a very real chance he was not aware of the quake watch thread, its confusing for new members, and new visitors to the site.

The OP's Contribution was then followed by the said fine poster, which then within the next few days would be copied by many members not aware of the quake watch thread.

I feel it is right to say anyone visiting ATS or researching within it to include members old and new alike would use the search term "quake" or such like for looking at the current world wide eq activity.

As thousands of threads have this in the keyword search, this thread would probably be missed anyway, and as there is no such term in the OP's header wouldnt show up in a title search anyhow.

I am sure posters who spend time contributing to ATS would like their contributions to be easily found on the topic they post on?

I am also sure they would like the contribution of an historical perspective, and an easier to use site than wasting their time posting information that probably would be posted elsewhere.

In addition if this is really for the effects of quakes globally and their interdependance on the Yellowstone region surely they should go into one of the many current Yellowstone threads and be discussed and viewed by members who have done much research already on this topic.

It wastes much server space and by the very nature of the The Quake Watch thread it is highly likely if it was not mentioned data would obviously be duplicated very quickly, wasting the valuable time of the fine contributor.

Otherwise ATS would be a mine field of millions of threads all showing the same information and just a data storage site, with no historically researchable and relevant flows of discussion on the topic and information.

Would certainly turn me off the site.

Having said that CAPS removed.

Kind Regards,

Elf

i know earthquakes happen every day but they have been increasing on reicher scale. all we have today is 4's mostly not that many 2s but they decreased in frequency i think today

yea, if i was living in that area, and i have a son and wife, so I would probably listen to that other dude that said to evacuate. just in case, just in case. live w/ some relatives. im in mississippi so im not in immediately affected area but if i was living next to that park i probably wouldnt stay there. but thats just me

Did the other thread say what causes that sort of effect? Definately interesting; now I want to see if I can find some of those. Thing is, the maps aren't in real time are they?

well, other events that ive noticed over this time is lots of volcanoes going orange and landslides, multiple landslides, also, today, the earthquakes seem to follow the same pattern that i suggested the other day. they decrease in quantity but really increase in strength. all we have today is a 7.5! in russia and a few 5's. after a week of increasing 4's. hmm something to think about? also, giant waves like a mofo

who me, this is interesting. so the satellite took a picture of it while it was shaking like that. its kinda like a pimple i guess on the face of the earth ready to burst soon. so... earthquakes all in the 4.5's now all around the world. all ive seen over the past 2 weeks is increasing in strength of the earthquakes... lets see if they follow the pattern for the next month or two maybe then we'll be able to draw some conclusions. im also still watching the yellowstone thread. interesting. im no seismologist but for what ive been researching, the activity at yellowstone has only been increasing in last years. the caldera has risen 3" a yr for the past coupla years. doesnt look good. did ya'll know that they gonna have yellowstone mentioned in that new movie '2012' ?