Hawai'i and severe earthquakes

[damontucker]

Re: Hawai'i and severe earthquakes

Maybe the rumor stemmed from this?

Scientists made their first discovery of a volcanic eruption in progress 1.5 miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
The event was predicted at a site where earthquake activity had increased. The eruption was confirmed when eight of 12 seismometers deployed to the seafloor were apparently buried. Other similar projects had experienced a 98 percent success rate in recovering the devices, so scientists assumed the missing ones were covered by magma.

The seismometers are part of an ongoing, detailed study of the creation of new sea floor at the East Pacific Rise, where the sea floor spreads apart [graphic]. The research is sponsored by the
National Science Foundation.

The work has "exciting implications that we may be able to anticipate future sea floor eruptions," said co-author James Cowen of the University of Hawaii.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...ctedinprogress

[joshuatree]

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Personally, I'm less concerned about a monetary impact and more concerned about copy cats. If someone gets away with this then others may try to follow suit, just to get their jollies, but with a different version. The Chicken Little effect has been around for eons. It appears many people questioned authority, witnessed by all the phone calls pouring in to the CD and other organizations. However, the world is full of gullible people!

I would try to look on the positive side of this event. At the very least, it was an educational experience for gullible people, scientists cannot predict exactly when an earthquake and tsunami will occur. And it might have gotten people in general to also think of what they can prepare/do for the next real deal.

[tutusue]

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I wonder if the hoax itself cost taxpayers money? I mean, other than Civil Defense needing to get out word that it was wrong through the media, did it cost us anything? Wouldn't it cost us to hunt down the perps and prosecute? I think it was idiotic to start such a rumor, and I was thinking how amazingly idiotic people on TV who were interviewed were telling the media that they believed that someone with authority has announced an earthquake would happen.

Whatever happened to Question Authority? Is that just for old fuhts?

Personally, I'm less concerned about a monetary impact and more concerned about copy cats. If someone gets away with this then others may try to follow suit, just to get their jollies, but with a different version. The Chicken Little effect has been around for eons. It appears many people questioned authority, witnessed by all the phone calls pouring in to the CD and other organizations. However, the world is full of gullible people!

[lavagal]

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Well, it looks like every agency in town will be investigating this hoax. God, I hope they catch that twerp. Now that we have confirmation as to the gullibility level of the average Hawai‘i resident, we need to go after these punks!

I wonder if the hoax itself cost taxpayers money? I mean, other than Civil Defense needing to get out word that it was wrong through the media, did it cost us anything? Wouldn't it cost us to hunt down the perps and prosecute? I think it was idiotic to start such a rumor, and I was thinking how amazingly idiotic people on TV who were interviewed were telling the media that they believed that someone with authority has announced an earthquake would happen.

Whatever happened to Question Authority? Is that just for old fuhts?

[poinographer]

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I'll support prosecuting those behind this hoax as soon as Congress prosecutes those behind the Iraq War hoax... Heh.

[scrivener]

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Well, it looks like every agency in town will be investigating this hoax. God, I hope they catch that twerp. Now that we have confirmation as to the gullibility level of the average Hawai‘i resident, we need to go after these punks!

We need to teach people not to be so gullible, and to know whom to believe. Why should it be illegal to propagate a hoax? Should we aggressively go after whoever started the "Good Times" hoax, too? Far more people believed THAT one, even though at the time anyone who knew anything about email knew that you can't get a virus from a text email.

[alohabear]

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Well, it looks like every agency in town will be investigating this hoax. God, I hope they catch that twerp. Now that we have confirmation as to the gullibility level of the average Hawai‘i resident, we need to go after these punks!

Why should they go after these punks? People fell for a rumor that if you only use your own common sense you would know it's BS. It's just like an April Fool's joke, the people who fell for it are the same ones who fall for April Fool's jokes about parades.

[TuNnL]

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Well, it looks like every agency in town will be investigating this hoax. God, I hope they catch that twerp. Now that we have confirmation as to the gullibility level of the average Hawai‘i resident, we need to go after these punks!

[blueyecicle]

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Really?

No I am totally kidding, it take me 60 minutes to drive 60 miles. I was joking. I rarely do over 68. Speed limit here? 65.

[tutusue]

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[...]I drive there all summer and it takes me 1 hour. So probably 80 miles

Really?

[blueyecicle]

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So 1 hour? How many time zones? 1 hour in honolulu traffic can be like 5 miles!

I didn't think of that. Ok like 65 miles. Maybe 80 I don't know for sure. I drive there all summer and it takes me 1 hour. So probably 80 miles

[damontucker]

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We just had an earthquake 2 days ago about 1 hour away from me. Right on the Oregon coast. Someone's grumbling ....under the water this month.

So 1 hour? How many time zones? 1 hour in honolulu traffic can be like 5 miles!

[craigwatanabe]

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What really shocks and saddens me about yesterday's rumor is the amazingly large number of people who fell for it and who don't realize it's utterly and ridiculously impossible to predict earthquakes or tsunami.

Well I sold two generators at Home Depot last night because of it. I tried to talk them out of buying it but they were adamant that they wanted to be prepared. Okay we go over the wattage requirements for their needs and out they go. Why do I get the feeling they will be back tonight to return it.

[blueyecicle]

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Another N.S.S. post... the same could be said for every major city on the West Coast.

We just had an earthquake 2 days ago about 1 hour away from me. Right on the Oregon coast. Someone's grumbling ....under the water this month.

[Palolo Joe]

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The only truth to that rumor is that Hawai'i WILL be struck by another earthquake. But there's no telling when that might be or what its severity will be, hence the need to prepare ahead of time for that eventuality.

Another N.S.S. post... the same could be said for every major city on the West Coast.