[Rockhounds] Volcanos, earthquakes and things

[betdav97 at aol.com]

JR,

? Actually the Bluefield-Princeton, and western Virginia area, is fairly active.

Where you live is stable.
Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: J. R. Hodel <jr50wv at yahoo.com>
To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
Sent: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 8:42 pm
Subject: [Rockhounds] Volcanos, earthquakes and things




Hi:

Well, Martha got a book about the 1906 SF earthquake, which is loaded with geo 
facts.  She reads me some of the factoids that strike her as interesting or 
surprising.

One recent one was that there was a huge volcanic eruption (Vesuvius  I think?) 
17 days before the 'quake. Then today on one of the news shows there was a 
mention of someone being killed in an eruption.  We didn't catch where, so she 
said "Google it" so I did.

Much to my surprise, there were a lot of new volcanic eruptions in the news 
today!  One was in Chile, where they were rescuing tourists, and one was in the 
Red Sea, near Yemen, where they talked about how bright the glow was from the 
lava.  I think there were others too...

Should I be strapping the bookcases to the wall?  I'm being deliberately - 
what's the word, maybe obtuse? - here, but isn't it a little odd to have several 
volcanoes go off at once?

I'm in WV, where there are several thousand feet of stable sedimentary rock 
between me and the real basement.

I did feel an earthquake here once, 3.? on the Richter scale, while I was 
driving on a bridge over the Kanawha River, I thought a towboat had hit a bridge 
pier - it wasn't too long after the Silver Bridge collapsed.  It would have been 
really scary in an underground coal mine, you bet!

Speaking of Richter, Martha tells me (the earthquake book says) he was an avid 
nudist and famously sexually active - I guess that's easier in California.  Is 
there some famous geo-gossip about him beyond his work on earthquakes?

JR

       
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