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That is scary, Kurt - thanks for that link. It just amazes me the human capacity to build major populations in areas that are very likely to be death traps. Look at Vesuvius - they expect an explosion there to be so likely that the gov is actually paying some of the 800,000 who live right ON the volcano to move. That is going to be one furious tragedy if it goes off, too. What would possess people to live there other than the fact we have over-populated to the point that we have to put our populations SOMEWHERE. In India it is the impoverished who have been pushed to the subduction zones that nobody else is willing to live near as there is no lack of volatile activity in the area and after being stripped to desertification it is now burying those denizens in slides on a frequent basis.

Thunderbird.....um maybe you might consider hitting some higher, more solid ground inland? Scientists are now saying that a lot of what is going on in shoreline areas is due to a 30% increase of the size of waves. The growth is happening because of weather patterns, not warming, and because of a mantle that is now shifting rotation a bit and causing a change in ocean flow. So the coasts are being eroded and pounded. Rising is going on regionally, not worldwide, as we have been led to believe.

With the current shift of the magnetic pole and the flux in the mantle rotation, we can expect some very major events to be going on soon - the quake and tsunami of 2004 and Haiti are just warnings. We had around 5 major quakes of 8 mags in a period of a year, ending about a year and a half ago now - the average for those things is only 1 per year if any. The luck was that they, for the most part, went on in areas that did not lead to massive calamity. We won't always be so fortunate, however. While scientists now believe that plume under Yellowstone has unhooked from the heat source (it is cooling) there is still enough heat to cause a global crisis if that area decides to explode. It's still the most monitored area on the planet. Recently the area has been shaking but scientists are saying that it's just a normal swarm at this point and have come to the conclusion it's being caused by tectonics and not volcanic activity. Still a bit intimidating sitting just over 500 miles from the thing.

I would expect from my research that we can expect at least 3 more very significant calamities to fall - natural ones, not man-made. I don't think we will get through March without another major quake. With coastal lines being stripped and populated any shake that sends enough water will be a disaster somewhere.