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SheilaT

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3. Thanks for some clarification.

Reply to jakeXT (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 30, 2014, 02:53 PM

Oct 2014

The seismologist on the panel (he'd recently retired from a career at the earthquake center in Golden, CO) also said something about needing a fault that would circle the entire globe some improbably number of times.

I didn't take notes, and now wish I had.

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Bombs and Walls Might Slow Lava, But Not Stop It [View all] jakeXT Oct 2014 OP

Unfortunately, in movies they do silly things like that and SheilaT Oct 2014 #1

Up to magnitude 10 is what I've always heard, and a successful lava stopping operation was Heimaey jakeXT Oct 2014 #2

Thanks for some clarification. SheilaT Oct 2014 #3