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A pixel doodle of the Three Sisters!!

The Three Sisters are a cluster of stratovolcanoes that extend for 20km along the Cascade Mountain range in Oregon. The tallest of the three reaches a height of 3,157m.

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My love language has become other people sending me texts whenever there are earthquakes or they see cool mountains, and me getting to explain what is going on or why they’re like that.

To be loved is to be known and me being known is everyone around me knowing I love geology

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Earthquake Map Progress Log #4

15 November 2024

It has been a while since I worked on the map because of classes and work, but I met up with a friend today and we both worked on map-related projects we're doing right now. I only got through two days of earthquakes (January 11 and 12) because my most frequently used paint pen kind of exploded.

On a mildly related note, I am taking a uni course on natural disasters next semester! And, I'm considering learning Python to make my own modified natural disaster map/prediction site. (If anyone knows good resources for learning Python, please share!)

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A pixel doodle of the Mt. Etna volcano!!

Etna is a very active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy. It's current height is 3,403 meters tall and it's the highest peak in Italy south of the Alps. It most recently erupted on August 14th, 2024.

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Not my meme but figured I'd share for those about to ride out the storm

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me with hurricanes and earthquakes

got called into the living room because "they're talking about something you'll like on tv" and it was a documentary about arsenic poisoning

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Earthquake Map Progress Log #3

18 August 2024

I switched from map stickers to paint pens which has made the process a lot of faster. I’m still using stickers for the 6.0-6.5 category because I couldn’t find the right color (or at least couldn’t find the right color for a price I can afford as a college student). But I got through about four days of mapping. Today’s progress was fun because I was working next to a friend who is doing their own cool mapping project!

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Earthquake Map Progress Log Entry #2

23 July 2024

Since the last progress log entry, I have made some progress. I did January 3rd and 4th a while ago but worked on January 5th and 6th today. It doesn't seem like a lot of progress but it takes a while. I've got to look up the coordinates and then put the sticker down on the map in the right place, which is further complicated by the fact that the stickers have a diameter of an eighth of an inch.

It is slow going but already feeling rewarding.

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Nothing more satisfying than realizing that your ability to comprehend data is correct. I had been following the data coming from a couple different kinds of scales and sensors and had been talking for like a week about how I thought there was going to be a volcanic eruption in Italy.

Just found out that Mt. Etna in Italy erupted yesterday (July 4th, 2024) and that another nearby volcano, Mt. Stromboli, is showing a lot of activity. It looks like the Mt. Etna eruption temporarily closed down a nearby airport but I have not seen mention of any issues or fatalities, just people/cities having to clean ash off of roadways and vehicles.

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Big Earthquake Alert!!

1 day ago (June 28, 2024) we had our fourth earthquake over 7.0 magnitude in 2024.

A 7.2 earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean about 5 miles (8 kilometers) off the coast of Peru near Chala/Arequipa, Peru. From the reports I’ve seen people were injured (the count as of writing this is 8) but no one was killed.

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Pixel doodle of the Capulin Volcano! This is a personal favorite of mine as I got to visit it and drive up to the top and walk around a couple summers ago.

It’s an extinct, symmetrical cinder cone volcano that reaches a height of 8,182 feet (2,494 meters) sea level and has a crater that is roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide.

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OK Maybe I'm too much of a scientist or something but like... where did the stereotype that volcanoes are a prehistoric thing come from? Different time periods have different levels of volcanism, but like, the Mesozoic wasn't particularly high or anything, frankly, a lot of volcanic activity that still affects us today was in the Eocene, 10 million years after the Mesozoic ended... where did this "Dinosaurs fight in front of volcanoes" Trope even come from like what there are still volcanoes today y'all know that right

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as a volcano guy, I'd love for you to go over what media typically gets wrong about volcanoes (like people outrunning a fucking pyroclastic flow and/or surviving in it for any period of time). I know you sort of talked about eruptions in your natural disasters post, but I still feel like there's a lot to explore about the typical "stratovolcano that somehow has constant rivers of lava" image that most people think of. Some stuff about how karst caves work/different types of them would also be cool!

Apologies for replying so late, but this is so true and frustrating! Media does not really properly convey natural disasters, maybe to make people feel less scared? But what it actually does is give everyone false confidence, or allows people to make uneducated decisions!

So lets talk about it! First lets look at some things in media that upset me:

To be completely clear here, I love Lord of the Rings and so does my advisor, so at LEAST two geologists have managed to get over this scene. However, when I put on my geologist glasses there is a lot to unpack, first, the above volcano is a stratovolcano, which erupts how it is depicted above kind of, which means its letting off mostly ash and giant boulders, and! the lava is not that flowy. Only mafic lavas flow like that (like in Hawaii). Stravovolcanoes get their shape from all the ash that is shed down the sides of the it, that is what the volcano is made of!

Also, even if we want to play devils advocate and say, "ok they got lucky with pyroclastic flows" WHICH GOES ON AVERAGE 60MPH OR 100KM/H. And lets imagine that these rocks just managed to keep them cool enough to sit on that rock, lava releases toxic gases?

Like CO2 which is toxic by itself sure, but also sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other very very toxic things.

Another thing about pyroclastic flows is they are freaking hot! 200°C and 700°C (390-1300°F) the heat will kill anyone before the ash does.

And now that I have brought up ash lets talk about what it is because people just casually standing in it with no masks?

Those are tiny glass shards you are inhaling, you know how asbestos is super bad for you? This is just as bad for the same reasons.

Dropping media for a minute, volcanoes kill in several different ways, whether it is an incident like Pompeii which was overtaken by pyroclastic flows, whether is be from volcanic gases like the Lake Nios, or from related earthquakes or tsunamis caused by the volcanic activity.

Speaking of Tsunamis!

No, there is not some huge wave, more than likely you will not see a tsunami coming. The most you get is maybe feeling the associated earthquake or volcanic eruption, or you see the ocean receding rapidly.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE BY THE EARTHQUAKE OR VOLCANO FOR YOU TO BE AFFECTED BY A TSUNAMI, If something causes a tsunami to happen in Japan, it can also affect Hawaii, and the West Coast of the US, and visa versa. This occurred most recently (to my knowledge) in 2011.

Do you want to know how fast tsunamis travel in open water?

over 500 mph (800 km/h)

Media should have some responsibility in teaching people how to behave in these situations to some degree and natural disaster safety should be taught regardless if you live in Kansas or Washington state, because who knows where you will end up living as an adult or if where you happen to vacation experiences a disaster.

I know there is a lot more to address from a lot of movies, but if I am being completely honest I avoid movies involving natural disasters like a plague because it just leaves me feeling very upset.

Oh wait one last thing to everyone seeing this!

YELLOWSTONE IS NOT GOING TO ERUPT. STOP SAYING THAT. The rhyolite magma chamber beneath Yellowstone is only 5-15% molten (the rest is solidified but still hot). Pick another volcano to start an apocalypse, because she ain't it.

Oh, also you don't need a supervolcano to send the world spiraling, a year without a summer, which was an absolute disaster, was created by the eruption of mount Tambora (in Indonesia) and just in EUROPE over 65,000 died because of the climate changes and resulting famine.

Thank you for your time!

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History of huge eruptions in the last 10,000 years