This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Don, Thank you very much for your reply. I will check out the library and the museums. And, as I said to the other gentleman, I will praise the man who invented earthquake insurance. Best regards
Right, Thanks. Knowing the book exists, I'll hit the library. And I'll keep my quake insurance current.
#San Diego Canyons ??
Message #166038
I live in San Diego. The topography around here is a number of Mesas with canyons cut into them. For instance, I live on the heights of Point Loma and the back of my house abuts on a canyon/ravine sort of thing which becoems the famosa slough and empties into…
| anything about this or other southern Cal. dino finds (especially west of the | San Andreas)? Didn't they pull dinosaurs out of the La Brea tar pits? I know the LA natural history museum is lousy with dinosaur bones. I myself have seen the Allosaur in the San Diego…
quake hint<–$300 saved
Message #164646
I forgot one of my best pieces of advice for quake survival. Every week put five bucks in yer emergency pack until you have at least $300. When those ATM's die and they're selling batteries for $10 a piece down at the Kwikstop you can pay them first and deal…
| Write more! What else did you find out in Santa Cruz????? I am native born Californian and had always fantasized (being an RN) of the heroic things I would do when a quake should give me the opportunity. Most of what I learned at Loma Prieta was about people.…
Now that's interesting. I have always heard that wood frame construction was the safest there is and certainly I saw that in Santa Cruz. I hear conflicting stories about building codes in Kobe. Apparently much of the housing was Grandfathered in with their newer construction standards, but I saw many…
| What I am searching for here is why a 6.8 earthquake that happened in Kobe is | so much worse than the quake in Northridge, which had a really violent ground | motion — more than the REAL scientists thought it should — and so much worse For what…
| hilltops experienced more shaking than buildings elsewhere. Afterwards, the | geologists decided that ridgetops "focus" earthquake waves. Gosh. Thanks a | bunch. Glad I was able to help the cause of science! (Of course, a magnitude 7 Very interesting! I was in the county health department on Emline that…
plinian eruption..Is wha
Message #160234
A guy on the volcano list over on the internet sez that Popocateptl has had "possibly Plinian" eruptions about 1300 years BP. Does that mean it might have had a humdinger around 700 AD? Also what is a St. Vincent style pyroclastic flow?
Martin's story… Before I moved from Fresno to Buffalo (1971) I asked my geology buddies if there was risk of an earthquake in New York. They all told me no (being grad students). The week after I got there it happened a Richter 4.0 (from a sink hole if I…
Newtoids attack USGS !!
Message #158066
I found these two files on the Volcano list. Apparently the "Contract with America" involves killing USGS among other things. QED Joseph D. Devine (Working at, but not necessarily speaking for:) Brown University Dept. of Geological Sciences Box 1846 Providence, RI 02912 —————————-Original message—————————- U.S. Representatives John Kacich (R-Ohio), Henry…
Ahem! "The Right Honorable" Gingrich is on the net. You can find his address via "congress@hr.house.gov". Maybe if we all right him and tell him we're at school and we're praying to keep ask-a-geologist.
| In the other branch of this thread, you mention ftp mail servers perhaps as if | such a server can get something from a different machine via ftp and mail that | to the requestor; I had assumed there had to be an ftp mail server on the |…
Hmmmm, Doug I wouldn't attempt to do extensive internet E-mail work via CIS. Internet access has exploded around San Diego. I pay $25 a year dues to the San Diego Computer Society and that gives me unlimited E-mail access tot eh net. There are several ftpmail servers around on the…
Volcanoes
Message #154776
| What is this "Big list" – a list of mail-lists one can FTP-download from | somewhere? Have you an address for that? FTP is something CIS users cannot | yet do, but I would like to grab it at work and upload the geo-related parts | here. Ha! This…
Volcanoes
Message #154775
Barbara, The sysop asked me to send him the volcano stuff. I am going to send you a copy too. This has. 1. The blurb on "ask-a-geologist" 2. The intro message you get when you sign on to VOLCANO describing it. 3. A text file from the ROADMAP internet course…
There is a mailing list on the internet called "Volcano" I think. I receive it and it has lots of stuff. If you have e-mail access to the net get the Big list and see what the address is if you want to check it out.
Mammoth Lakes CO2
Message #153722
The San Diego Tribue has an article about emission of CO2 from the Mammoth Lakes basin. Is outgassing of CO2 normal in volcanoes? From what I understand from NOVA, it is when the volcano is _NOT_ outgassing (but the pressure is building) that it is time to worry. Comments?