La Palma volcano. (Earthquakes)

Hi guys. I’m living on isla de la Palma
as some of you might know.
Puerto Naos to be exact.
It’s been about 2000 earthquakes in the past five days.
I’m pretty much ground zero.
Where they are located.
What should I do. Should I pack up and go.
Or should I get a beer.?
I mean how bad could it get?

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/la-palma.html

X marks my location

 

Someone needs to explain something to me , so around the world there are areas where for millions of years have had earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, drought you get the picture then some thick barstewards comes along and decides it’s a good idea to build a village, town or city smack bang in the middle of these areas , and people knowing that these places are prone to disasters buy a house and live there, I don’t get it

 

Come on, Baz. East Grinstead’s not that bad.

 

One of my customers has a house in yalding village which is next to the river Medway, ever since I was a kid yalding village has constantly been flooded it’s always on the news when this happens , he can’t sell it and he can’t get insurance why the ***** buy a house there in the first place

 

isnt that the volcano that if it explodes and drops a ton of rock it will send a tsunami at the speed of sound across the Atlantic to the USA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard

 

open a business that sells tin hats?

 

Volcanos are very good places for agriculture as the soil is rich in chemicals. Islands in the middle of the Atlantic were always a good stop off for water and food. So people live on volcanic islands.

The worst case is you slide into the sea in an earthquake along with the side of the island.
The best is it dies down.

You will probably get reasonable notice those Canary Iskand volcanos tend not to be violent just they collapse into the sea from time to time.

(Losing it is the price for a luxury expat lifestyle.)

 

Stock up on marshmallows

 

Contact Snotty. He has a sideline business selling fire proof under pants to larger gentleman who have chaffing issues and are protecting against spontaneous combustion. I think he might also have a static proof range for people in the electronics industry.

might be worth wearing a pair and also a tin hat. Failing that maybe it’s time to take that long awaited boat trip to Tenerife that you’ve been planning for years.

 

I may be a bit on the weird side, but I’d want to sit it out and see what happens first hand then maybe talk excitedly about it for the next ten years
If it all went wrong and I got fried alive or buried under ash, I’d be thinking about what a dumb idea that was as I was about to be incinermerated



Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,sounds exciting and brown trouser time too

 

Oh, just a thought, I’d try and make some toast and marmalade using nature’s own toaster just to see if it could be done.

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,, I’d like that

 

Lived in New Zealand for several years and earthquakes were the norm. Our first home was in Wellington which is built on major fault lines and has frequent earth quakes and some are damaging enough to break buildings and even the harbour structures. The stone and concrete buildings suffer but most folks live in wooden houses with a tin roof which tend to bend rather than collapse. We had a wooden bungalow which did bend and move off its pilings during a couple of severe quakes, but we were fine.

The North Island has several volcanoes, 2 are active, White Island off the coast is very active. The best one we even went to the top of is Mount Egmont (taranaki) which is spectacular.

We lived in Yalding when first married which as pointed out is very prone to flooding due to 3 rivers meeting in the village, it flooded several times we lived there but our house was up on the hill away from the rivers. There is a mobile homes park beside the river and most homes are up on piles but many wooden bungalows are built on floats with chains designed to float when the river floods, you would need a boat to get in and out of the bungalow. I think the place is called Little Venice.

 

Don’t worry guys. I got my Lidl crocs on , this morn , I can out run it and if need be walk on water...

 

If a lump drops of that island and does cause a tsunami, it will make Cov19 look like Christmas

 

The name of the mobile home park at yalding was called Breadons it was near the station, my old Nan had a caravan there and got flooded out twice, I never understood why she bought one on there

 

I saw a documentary about the volcano tsunami US East coast combo being one of the biggest natural phenomena hazards, more of a risk than a giant asteroid. By a complete coincidence, I briefly worked in Yalding, in a large chemical manufacturing plant, flooding was one of their biggest concerns. Shut now I think, probably a housing estate. Whenever a town gets flooded, I'm sure the TV reports deliberately stand next to road signs such as Lower Ford Road, or Pond Lane, or Wehaven'tbeenabletogetinsurancesincethegreatfloodof82 Avenue. The phrase caveat emptor comes to mind, but anyone who's bought a VW bus should know that.

 

That’s the spirit. Have a gin and tectonic and forget about it

 

I would have a boat of some sort at hand just in case. Or take the pop top off your camper, and use that as a boat…