This is a subject I pay alot of attention to. I'm only a block from the bay and maybe a half mile from the ocean itself. Here in the Pacific NorthWest, we are still waiting for the "Big One" to hit. This occurs about every 300 years or so. Its been 307. No white people were here then, but the Indians have stories of the mega-quakes that strike this area. The last one in 1700 was recorded in Japanese history books, about a tsunami that arrived there without an earthquake. There is evidence to suggest that in prehistoric times, tsunamis a thousand feet high have hit this area. Anyway, its an interesting subject. I'll toss in a few links that I visit several times a day. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt http://www.ess.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/WEBICORDER/VOLC/HSR_SHZ_UW_current.html (Mt. St. Helens seismograph) http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/static-classic.php Mt St Helens webcam. Wait for daylight. x
Amazing the kewl stuff you can monitor online. I work in the telephone world, so the first thing I do when I get to my desk is check the world for major events that may affect our ability to get calls to remote overseas destinations. I've occasionally noticed major quakes before any of the news services announced them (we have to keep international cable news running at all times also). Decades ago, we imagined a lot of kewl things for "the year 2000." But I never imagined being able to access so much real-time scientific data on what the planet is up to at any given moment.
