To add insult to injury, volcano erupts in India due to quake

[momzno1]

haven't these people had enough???

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11814736%255E1702,00.html

[davidinalameda]

1. they're godless heathens

according to the fundies--probably not

[aquart]

4. Hundreds were killed in church.

Where they were gathered for services. Hundreds. All Christian. All drowned.

[Worst Username Ever]

2. Doesn't sound dangerous.

Surrounded by ocean, no homes in danger...

[xultar]

3. Tsunami from one end and Lava from the other...JEEZUS! n/t

[jn2375]

5. I'm getting a bad feeling about all this

Something else is going on but we're being kept in the dark.

[DU9598]

6. I agree - the weather too

Anyone else having crazy weather? Here in Iowa we had our overnight low well above our average daytime high temperature for this time of your. It is already 60 degrees outside and supposed to be mid-60's. Unheard of for end of December in the upper midwest.

[truthseeker1]

13. In LA we had constant rain for three days STRAIGHT

and we had thunder and lightning Tuesday afternoon and evening, something which is pretty rare for this area. I figured the weather system we were experiencing had to have something to do with the tsunami's global impact.

[RawMaterials]

23. cincy ohio,

had the worst snow ice storm in 25 years, now one week later highs are supposed to get up into the 60's

[mcscajun]

8. I don't know if we're being "kept in the dark"

I think there's a great deal of 'dark' surrounding the interrelatedness of the various tectonic and volcanic events, though.

I was pleased to see an article in yesterday's NY Times op-ed section addressing this very point. It was written by Simon Winchester -- author of "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883."

The article in yesterday's Times was titled: The Year the Earth Fought Back. The following is an excerpt:

"...one can only wonder: might there be some kind of butterfly effect, latent and deadly, lying out in the seismic world? There is of course no hard scientific truth - no firm certainty that a rupture on a tectonic boundary in the western Pacific (in Honshu, say) can lead directly to a break in a boundary in the eastern Pacific (in Parkfield), or another in the eastern Indian ocean (off Sumatra, say). But anecdotally, as this year has so tragically shown, there is evidence aplenty.

Plate tectonics as a science is less than 40 years old. It is possible that common sense suggests what science has yet to confirm: that the movement among the world's tectonic plates may be one part of enormous dynamic system, with effects of one plate's shifting more likely than not to spread far, far away, quite possibly clear across the surface of the globe."

(snip)

"It is worth noting that scientists have discovered that the geysers in Yellowstone National Park started to erupt much more frequently in the days immediately following a huge earthquake in central Alaska in 2002. There turned out to be a connection, one hitherto quite unrealized, that intimately linked places thousands of miles apart."

So I don't think there has to be a conspiracy to keep us from knowing...but I definitely think something is up.

[Occulus]

11. I [i]always[/i] hate it when people talk about Yellowstone

Sends shivers up my spine every time.

[crispini]

14. Considering that the quake wobbled the EARTH's ORBIT --

I think it's not a stretch to say the volcano's related.

[m0nkeyneck]

9. alien terrorists?

;-)

[Lorien]

12. This has gone on throughout the history of the

planet. After all; all the continents were once a single land mass. Hell, a geologist friend of mine dug up a dinosaur fossil in Antarctica from a species that had previously only been found in Africa! Land masses will probably continue to move as long as the earth keeps spinning. There's no conspiracy here, only science.

[momzno1]

15. here is a prediction about another HUGE one

I don't know much about this, but he seems to have some kind of system for prediction about quakes

http://www.syzygyjob.net/jackcoles/messages/5114.shtml

[genieroze]

21. Maybe HARP is causing this. eom

:tinfoilhat:

[RawMaterials]

24. no those are normal X's and o's in the sky

thats supposed to happen, its from the planes exhaust freezing not from spraying something.

sarcasm

[Catchawave]

25. Hope this and the Norfolk (breaking) scares won't have to

disturb our vacationing prez again. Makes him cranky, ya'know!

[Slit Skirt]

7. how about this......

check out 3rd paragraph....
Pod of 20 Whales Beached on Remote Australia Coast
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20041228/sc_nm/environment_australia_whales_dc

Tue Dec 28, 4:36 AM ET <snip>

It's very hard to pinpoint those sort of things because ... this year has been a year when we've had lots of strandings anyway and obviously they've all happened without an earthquake," zoologist Mark Hindell told Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) television.

The Australian government has said it would set up a national database on whale strandings. Last month, 115 long-finned pilot whales died in two separate strandings on Tasmanian beaches.

Bob Brown, leader of Australia's Greens party, expressed concern last month that those strandings might have been linked to "sound bombing" of the ocean floor used in seismic tests for oil and gas.



it would be unforgivable to find that oil exploration in that area triggered the seismic activity, which led to the disaster.

[noamnety]

26. Another article about the sound bombing

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10211&fcategory_desc=Environment

[LibertyLover]

10. Volcano

Have they determined if this eruption is related to or the result of the earthquake? It would seem logical, but I have one a layperson's understanding of plate tectonics Does anyone know what's happening with some of the other volcanos in the area - are they showing any seismic or eruptive activities?

[Squatch]

16. There is no apparent correlation other than that they are both

in S Asia

[Squatch]

17. Your title is misleading and in violation of DU rules

"6. When posting articles, please use the published title of the article as the title of the discussion thread"

Thanks for adding to the litany of armchair geologic hypotheses.

[momzno1]

19. well aren't you perfect!

Casting stones on those of us who have not been around long enough to know all the rules.
next time instead of condescending, how about trying to be helpful?

[Squatch]

22. When you posted this story in LBN, did you not read the rules?

I'm sorry, but ignorance of the rules is no defense. You must acknowlege the rules in order to post in LBN.

Your changing of the title is nothing but more alarmism. If it's not to late, can you change it back to the original title?

Thanks

[HuckleB]

28. No stones were cast.

Squatch simply stated the rule violation and listed the actual rule. How is that "casting stones"?

Welcome to DU, but direct communication is not a slight, it is being helpful.

Salud!

[HuckleB]

20. I can't connect to the article, but I suspected as much.

What I found elsewhere doesn't match the alarm of the title of this thread...

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/001200412302174.htm

[idiosyncratic]

18. I just felt an earthquake in San Diego County

It was a tiny one about 100 miles away according to this site, but it certainly got me thinking . . . :scared:

[Massachusetts]

27. RELAX

Its just the Mother ship looking for me. Gotta Go.:silly:

[Moderator]

29. locking

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