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Re: Tsunamis a threat to Ja?
Some years before I was born on St.Thomas, my mother told me a tidal wave (they are called Tsunamis in the Pacific and Indian Oceans) came ashore in our capital, Charlotte Amalie generated by a hurricane. The wave brought in tons of fish which the people sccoped up. When the wave retreated back out to sea, it took quite a bit of people with it and drowned them.
The Caribbean region is an earthquake prone area. It's just that major earthquakes are cyclical and seem to happen every 50-100 years or even longer meaning some people will never experience one. Wherever you have high mountains onshore, deep water lies offshore and deep water sits in underwater trenches (like a deep basin) which were created because of movement beneath the earth in what is known as faults. The spine of the Caribbean chain is mountainous and our islands sits on or near faults that can move and when they do you get tremors of earthquakes.
In 1907 Kingston was destroyed by an earthquake. In 1957 an earthquake registering 8.0 hit near Hanover and most people know about the earthquake in the 1600s that damaged Port Royal. So earthquakes nor Tsumanis are anythng new. They've been happening ever since and will continue happening and doomsday prophets will arise claiming it's the end of the world of some god is coming back. I wonder what the Chinese were thinking in 1586 and 1976 when earthquakes killed over 800,000 people and 600,000 people respectivley? What about when Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1816 and the explosion was heard 2,000 miles away and its ash spread around the world and prevented summer in the northern regions, dropping global temperatures an average of 3 degrees and generated famines and starvations worldwide because crops could not grow? Probably made for great sunday sermons speaking of God's impending return, judgment and the end of the world. That was 188 years ago.
Some years before I was born on St.Thomas, my mother told me a tidal wave (they are called Tsunamis in the Pacific and Indian Oceans) came ashore in our capital, Charlotte Amalie generated by a hurricane. The wave brought in tons of fish which the people sccoped up. When the wave retreated back out to sea, it took quite a bit of people with it and drowned them.
The Caribbean region is an earthquake prone area. It's just that major earthquakes are cyclical and seem to happen every 50-100 years or even longer meaning some people will never experience one. Wherever you have high mountains onshore, deep water lies offshore and deep water sits in underwater trenches (like a deep basin) which were created because of movement beneath the earth in what is known as faults. The spine of the Caribbean chain is mountainous and our islands sits on or near faults that can move and when they do you get tremors of earthquakes.
In 1907 Kingston was destroyed by an earthquake. In 1957 an earthquake registering 8.0 hit near Hanover and most people know about the earthquake in the 1600s that damaged Port Royal. So earthquakes nor Tsumanis are anythng new. They've been happening ever since and will continue happening and doomsday prophets will arise claiming it's the end of the world of some god is coming back. I wonder what the Chinese were thinking in 1586 and 1976 when earthquakes killed over 800,000 people and 600,000 people respectivley? What about when Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1816 and the explosion was heard 2,000 miles away and its ash spread around the world and prevented summer in the northern regions, dropping global temperatures an average of 3 degrees and generated famines and starvations worldwide because crops could not grow? Probably made for great sunday sermons speaking of God's impending return, judgment and the end of the world. That was 188 years ago.
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