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Kind of a shame.

I was hoping the caldera would let loose so we could all be called fear-mongering liberals from the usual suspects as we ducked for cover!

I can hear it now:

24HCF trolls: "it's just a common eruption! It's only 2 feet of ash, you limp wristed liberal sky is falling pantywaists! I'm a real man, I'll just shovel it without a face mask!"
The rest of us: "But the ash fall is exponential, they say there will be 12 feet!"

Would have made for some entertaining evenings before the mesothelioma set in.

But, alas.

Yeah if it was the Caldera we could quit worrying about Covid 19 immediately!

From a man who lives with Yellowstone. And he is exactly right!

Yeah, and I felt a little of that Idaho quake last night....was wondering if it mighta started a crack...but apparently not!

As long as the wind is blowing from the Pacific, I'd just have to wish you all the best.

And as long as the reverberations didn't set off Shasta or Lassen too. Them things are too close. Mammoth could get a bit jiggy too.

Geno

Lassen is one of the more active areas in the US that people have no clue about, and most have never even heard of.

Geno, better stock up on N95 mask and maybe a snow shovel.......

Ha! But not sure a mask and shovel would touch a 1,000 KM nuée ardente in every direction. The odds are almost ZERO any of us would ever see one in our lifetimes, but damn, it'd be something else to witness in person.

I was around and in the area when St. Helens let loose, and that would pale in comparison!

Snow shovels, check

Tractor, with front end bucket, check.

N95 masks...........Mmmmmmnn? I think they went overboard with the firearms on that canoe trip.

All the TP and dog food too.

Geno

Hey Boo Boo!


These dummies just abandoned their pic a nic baskets!

I may be mistake, as I'm not a volcanologist, but if memory serves Lassen was the last one to go off prior to St Helens.

Most folks don't know about Mammoth either.

Geno

Geno

Geno has been tested by fire right here at the fire..... he will prevail with a snow shovel and roll of T.P. book it.......

Fuggin guineas.




Not much you can do with them.

Fuggers always growin' tomatoes and peppers and stuff.

Can't do a thing with them is right.

Geno

Idaho earthquake was caused by lack of human motorized activity which caused a modular cyclical vibration which was amplified by earth natural vibration , nothing to worry about.

i can't sleep.

You are correct, sir!

Generally speaking, yes. There have been a few "events" along the North American Pacific Rim of Fire that could qualify since Lassen and St. Helen's, but general consensus would concur....

My degree is in geomorphology/geography/remote sensing from Chico State so I have a little place in my heart for California volcanoes!

Wish they would teach us how;....

When I get it completely figured out I'll tell you,

In Italian!


Honestly, about the time I figure it out in one place....................we move.

Used to have tomatoes survive along a south wall of the house in SoCal all winter.

Lived in a place in the desert near Las Vegas, had a serrano pepper plant live through 2 or 3 winters just covering it good on the frosty nights. Dang stem was as big around as my wrist/forearm.

Now, I have about 90 whole days frost free, have to get them started early and hope they don't freeze once they go out, and hope they ripen before the next hard frost.

Even with the little hobby greenhouse I bought last year I didn't do very well.

I hope I don't get excommunicated from the Official Dago Tomato and Pepper Growing Society.

Geno

PS, I'm so crazy I want to get a dwarf lemon and bring it in the house for 7-8 months a year!!

I’d never heard of Lassen until we went there in 2013. Neat place.
We had a bobcat run across the road in front of our friends RV just west of the entrance to the campground.

Fact - that area of Idaho has a bunch of fault lines. Quakes are very common but 99% are too small to be felt. The '83 Borah quake was the biggest ever recorded and this one was is 2d on the list. This pic shows the known fault lines. This one was near the top of the Lost River line and the Borah quake was farther south on the same line. Idaho is said to be the #4 state for total number of quakes but most are very tiny.

That whole area of fault lines is in remote mountain country with very few small towns. This map doesn't show state lines. The Red Rock and Centennial lines are in MT and the Teton is in WY. The rest are in ID.

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This photo is just below Mt Borah, on the same Lost River fault line. It took one whopping quake to turn this piece of real estate on it's side like that.