Personally, I would like to see it. Yeah. I'm morbid that way, but after investigating my local area for remnants of the 1811-1812 New Madrid quakes, I stand amazed at the behavior of certain elements during the process of liquefaction. Take sand. Miles deep, the sand takes on the behavior of water during a quake and it is sifted upwards, sometimes squeezing through a loosely packed bedding plane and emerging at the surface as if it were a geyser. The sand blows of NW Tennessee, the bootheel of Missouri, and the eastern third of Arkansas all testify to the power of a quake.
Near Holcomb, Missouri, there is a place affectionately called "the beach." It is the world's largest sand blow and it appears to be about 2-3 acres in circumference. In Caruthersville, Missouri, there are sand volcanoes, cones shaped from the sand and compressed into keeping that shape, much as if they were a rock. A few miles from Sikeston, Missouri, there are sand dunes smack dab in the middle of grassy lot. Real dunes whose roots are so deep that removal is impossible. I could go on and on, but I'll stop there.
Watching the concrete in this video behave as if it were fabric is simply a fantastic visage. So yeah. I want to see it.
Lin
Nobody is known to have ever had that happen to them yet.... besides, if the water is bubbling up beneath you then you don't keep standing there.... survival is usually about making informed and responsible choices..... much less occasionally are you truly screwed no matter what you do which is something that probably happened to most of those people who died in Japan... when you are at the coast and a 33-foot high tsunami bore is rapidly approaching and is going to surge inland several miles and you aren't already in your car and headed inland then you're pretty fraked no matter what you do.
KimmerOn Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Patricia J Akers <delachenaie1@yahoo.com> wrote:
Or instantaneous sinkholes from the water rushing underneath.
Patricia
Sent: Mon, March 14, 2011 5:29:52 PM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] 2011 Japan EQ: Liquefaction Video | Tokyo Central Park
There's no danger there... just about the safest place to be during an earthquake... in a park..... the liquefaction threat to human beings in such a park is from excessive vertigo. ;-p
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