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2010-03-29 Science & Technology

Undersea Volcano 90 Miles SW Of Naples Could Collapse - Tsunami

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-29 14:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Sounds to me like someone needs research grant funding. Did you know that you "could" be hit right on the head by a meteorite just as you are sitting here reading this? But it is impossible to make predictions. The risk of that is real but hard to evaluate.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-03-29 15:49|| 2010-03-29 15:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Marsili is almost 10,000 ft. tall, 43 miles long and 19 miles wide. This means that if about anything happens to it, it would be very bad.

Not just an eruption, but if one of its walls collapses, or a large piece just breaks off, which has apparently happened before, as they are sitting right next to it, a super tidal wave could result.

And such events are not mutually exclusive. The west coast of Italy and the north coast of Sicily could just be flattened.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-29 16:42|| 2010-03-29 16:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Clearly we need BRUCE WILLIS + his Team of brave, Rough-N-Ready dirty smelly DRILLERS-RIGGERS to drill a side hole[s) and relieve the pressure on this NOT-SO-TEXAS-SIZED-VOLCANO???

* MADONNA > "HEY YOU"!, aka THE RIGGER SONG.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-03-29 18:45|| na 2010-03-29 18:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Whahaha... Joseph, you are a treasure.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-29 18:48|| 2010-03-29 18:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Anonymoose:

If people had any clue of what has happened in the Naples area over the recent geological history, they wouldn't live there to begin with. Probably the most interesting is the VEI-7 eruption at Campi Flegrei about 30,000 years ago (during the last ice age just before the start of this interglacial) that spread ash all the way to Moscow and ended hominid habitation of much of Central and Eastern Europe for over 2000 years. Archeology shows Neanderthal habitation before the event, nothing for 2000 years after the event, and then modern human habitation thereafter. It buried much of Eastern Europe under 6 feet or more of volcanic ash.

This story is some researcher angling for grant money by creating fear. Now the politicians will need to "study" it and he will be the recipient of the research grant. I see this crap all the time in the scientific literature. "Global Warming" is much the same scam.

There are dozens of such unstable cones around the planet and there is absolutely nothing we can do about them. Mt. Rainier in Washington is one of them. The entire Western slope is "rotten" and could slide at any moment with no warning whatsoever. All the studying in the world isn't going to change that or give you any warning of an impending failure of that slope.

Same goes for volcanoes in the Azores / Canary Islands area.

But you couldn't pay me enough to live anywhere near Naples. That place erupts at nearly Yellowstone magnitude and much more frequent intervals. More like Long Valley Caldera magnitudes but still, very powerful eruptions and at fairly frequent intervals in geological timeframs.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-03-29 20:26|| 2010-03-29 20:26|| Front Page Top

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