SCC Blog - Science Edition

Did you ever read something and think to yourself, "Hmm. I just saw something like this not to long ago." And then it slips your mind until something happens to bring it all back? We were reading this article about Vancouver Island moving 3 millimeters TOWARD Japan in the last few days. This is a complete reversal of its usual drift toward the east and could hint at a BIG earthquake in the coming months or years (up to 200 years). Or it could mean nothing. But the day before, we saw this article on CNN about a 100 square mile bulge rising almost an inch and a half a year in Oregon.

That's a pretty large movement of earth - and that triggered a memory of an article a few years ago about the Yellowstone Caldera in National Geographic Magazine. A quick search reveals this recent article about the last time the Yellowstone Caldera blew up. It left a crater 30 miles by 50 miles in the ground - that's about 7 times as big as the entire city of Chicago. Combined with the recent Pacific tsunami activity and such, hmmm.

How do you prepare for something like that? Maybe we shouldn't read as much as we do - we get nervous. But that's ok, we'll forget it tomorrow unless something else triggers another thought. Ignorance is bliss we suppose.