La Palma is rumbling - What are the implications of a 40 foot Tsunami along the east coast?

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CatgirlTyranid said:
So what's the peak amount of lava flow we can achieve without sacrificing the comfy lava video streams?
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depends how much magma is below the ground. There is literally no limit in theory...in human timescales anyway. You could see 1000 vents
 
The golden neckbeard said:
depends how much magma is below the ground. There is literally no limit in theory...in human timescales anyway. You could see 1000 vents
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You're disregarding the limiting factor. I want to know how much of the island can be a glowing pile of death while someone can continue filming it and uploading that feed to my computer close enough to the lava to be comfy.
 
CatgirlTyranid said:
You're disregarding the limiting factor. I want to know how much of the island can be a glowing pile of death while someone can continue filming it and uploading that feed to my computer close enough to the lava to be comfy.
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Wifi will make that endless. A boat off the coast can simply stream the island melting away forever
 
A very informative vid today from Geology Hub
A fun bit of info. ”signs the eruption may be subsiding is Sulfur Dioxide output drops below 100 tons/day. It’s current output rate is 17,000 tons” Yeah it’s gonna be awhile.
 
The golden neckbeard said:
Word is we got a second vent exactly where i have been saying and its a bigun and a smoke belcher!!!!
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Babe wake up new vent dropped

Memeing aside though, that's exciting! I wonder how that'll affect the current/original vent; if the dramatic lava flows of the last day or two were an indication of a large volume of lava coming up and building pressure, I wonder if the earthquake zone and new vent are more directly over where the upwelling is occuring. Could having finally managed to break through right over the hotspot mean that the lava flow to the original vent will now dry up in favor of the new one?
 
BoobWhiskers said:
Babe wake up new vent dropped

Memeing aside though, that's exciting! I wonder how that'll affect the current/original vent; if the dramatic lava flows of the last day or two were an indication of a large volume of lava coming up and building pressure, I wonder if the earthquake zone and new vent are more directly over where the upwelling is occuring. Could having finally managed to break through right over the hotspot mean that the lava flow to the original vent will now dry up in favor of the new one?
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Just speculation, but that's probably what's happening. The vents in the streams are a lot less dramatic than I've seen, with just a small stream of lava coming out. Just based on the indications from the last few days, I flatly refuse to believe things have actually settled down this much.
 
Mind Goblins said:
Just speculation, but that's probably what's happening. The vents in the streams are a lot less dramatic than I've seen, with just a small stream of lava coming out. Just based on the indications from the last few days, I flatly refuse to believe things have actually settled down this much.
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Wow, you weren't kidding! I jumped around in the stream and not a single sign of the dramatic fountaining we've gotten so used to.
Wonder if that means the new one will be potentially even more dramatic, if it's right over the lava and doesn't have to bleed off energy going a mile sideways to reach a vent point.
 
Hot Cup of Joe said:
I don't know why we're not just shipping oil tankers full of rubbish to la palma and tipping it all in the volcano
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I want your design proposals for building the container ship port and the conveyor belt system that will deliver the trash into the active volcano, as well as a risk mitigation analysis for working in the danger zone of an active volcano on my desk by noon tomorrow, Johnson.
 
not william stenchever said:
I want your design proposals for building the container ship port and the conveyor belt system that will deliver the trash into the active volcano, as well as a risk mitigation analysis for working in the danger zone of an active volcano on my desk by noon tomorrow, Johnson.
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Dude. Just... catapult.

Volcano's been putting out more lava in the past few minutes. Grab yer sticks and marshmallows!

Volcano looks to have a lava peener. lol
 
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usernames can change now! said:
Because burning garbage gives everyone downwind cancer, did you learn nothing from the burn pits of Afghanistan and Iraq?
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It's the Canary Islands. The prevailing wind is north-easterly, which means most of the cancer will get shot into the middle of the Atlantic. Some parts of the Eastern Sahara might get cancer - and there's like ten people, all of them black or Berber, living there - and after that, it's just fish and, eventually, Venezuelans.

So who cares? I say the burn the garbage, it's the ideal location for cancer plumes.
 
Literally everything causes cancer

If you live in america, you eat meat laced with Ractopamine...which 100% causes cancer and you probably eat way more than you should.

Just googling Ractopamine is a rabbit hole itself. Literally wouldnt worry about trash burned
 
Sped Xing said:
Yes, past eruptions, which came down long ago, long enough for opportunist plants and microbes to begin changing ash into soil. If you try to farm on an ash field that came down in your lifetime, you're going to have a bad time
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Exactly. For instance, take this satellite image. That giant scar in the middle is from the 1949 eruption. As you can see nothing is growing on it. Sure, they built roads through it, but that’s about it.
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Also, La Palma just had its largest earthquake yet (4.6) about an hour ago. Not good.
 
PotatoSalad4711 said:
Also, La Palma just had its largest earthquake yet (4.6) about an hour ago. Not good.
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Yes, I just checked the seismic activity from last night and wow, one 4.6 and another 4.5!

The maximum magnitude recorded was 4.6, located southwest of the town of Villa de Mazo at 05.41 hours. With intensity III-IV EMS and a depth of 37 km, it was felt in numerous nuclei throughout the island. This tremor was followed an hour later (07.07 hours) by another earthquake of 4.5 (mbLg), also southwest of Mazo, with intensity IV-V and a depth of 37 km.
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And a new eruptive vent began to spew gases and piroclastics at the southeast of the main vent.

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I'm looking for a new job right about now but post-apocalyptic raider is not one I was expecting or looking forward to. Knowing my luck if the hockey puck falls off this island and causes le big wave then Yellowstone will probably blow up shortly thereafter. Maybe Giant Meteor will finally show up after that.
 
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