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MurdochsAid
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Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
Last night on the History Channel, I was watching this research team searching the Indian Ocean for "the" fault line that caused that enormous 12/26/04 tsunami. 
They did indeed find it. It was interesting to see the humongous rift on the ocean floor of the above Indian Ocean, below that chain of islands. WOW!!! I thought, when I saw it.
Hopefully, it will air again, so that you guys too can see it as well.
-MA
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Oct/15/2006, 9:40 am
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Lights
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 Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
The area where the Boxing Day Tsunami occurred is indeed interesting geologically. The rift is the area where the Indian Australian Plate is subducting (being pulled down into the mantle) beneath the Pacific Plate. This is still a very tectonically-active area as both the eruption of Krakatoa and the Boxing Day Tsunami amply demonstrate. (Although the latest large eruption of Krakatoa was in the 1880's, the smaller cone, which is called Anak Krakatau [Child of Krakatau] is intermittently active]). 
 
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Oct/16/2006, 9:50 am
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MurdochsAid
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Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
Then the above Pacific Plate must also include the island nation of New Zealand. I just now learned that an earthquake stroke off the SW end of even Ada's own south island of NZ, that registered 5.8 on the Richter Scale. Thankfully, there was no sign of any tsunamis in the area. :dol:
And before that, Molokai, Hawaii, was rocked by a 6.7 mag. quake...for which they are still experiencing aftershocks today. My aunt & uncle (he's the one who is Will's amazing lookalike) live over in Hawaii. I just learned from my sister-in-law that even they too felt the quake. I told her that I suspect Pyongyang (or, whatever the name of that North Korean president's name is) could be triggering those quakes due to him setting-off those underground atomic blasts tests.
I once saw a futuristic-type movie for which even Japan is rocked by devastaing earthquake that "completely" causes that island nation to disappear right off the map.
-MA
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Oct/17/2006, 3:57 pm
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Lights
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Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
<< once saw a futuristic-type movie for which even Japan is rocked by devastaing earthquake that "completely" causes that island nation to disappear right off the map.>>
Whilst anything is possible, I doubt that will happen. Japan has ocean crust subducting off shore--this means that the continental tectonic plate on which Japan is situated is lighter than the ocean crust and therefore unlikely to sink any time soon.
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Oct/18/2006, 3:19 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
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<< once saw a futuristic-type movie for which even Japan is rocked by devastaing earthquake that "completely" causes that island nation to disappear right off the map.>>
Whilst anything is possible, I doubt that will happen. Japan has ocean crust subducting off shore--this means that the continental tectonic plate on which Japan is situated is lighter than the ocean crust and therefore unlikely to sink any time soon.
Oh really, Lights. Do you happen to notice that Japan is always being rocked by earthquakes...and most recently, tsunamis slammed into this Island Nation as well too. So...
In all due respect, don't you think that there could actually be such a possibility that perhaps an enormous eathquake of a high velocity just might cause Japan to disappear into the sea? 
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MA
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Nov/19/2006, 6:43 pm
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Mr Titanic
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Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
An intense Earthquake, sometime in the future is expected to split California along the San Andres Fault. So it is a possibility, though I don't suspect Japan would disappear all at once in one large Earthquake. It would take a series of powerful ones over time to do the job, and that could take decades or even centuries.
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Nov/20/2006, 4:47 pm
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Lights
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 Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
Well, I finally got to watch this turkey and it gets my "Four Funnels DOWN" Award :sailor: There is no plot to speak of and well, the poor Captain gets humiliated and has to act as MC to the lead singer for the evening.
About the only part I liked were the special FX with the tsunami...that was neat...and a modern ship bit the dust--two great things in Lightsy's evening.
About the only thing they got right was that an experienced ships' officer can feel when something is "wrong", but that is only one thing out of 90-plus minutes.
I blew 20 bucks on this thing and all I can say is "Caveat Emptor...I Wuz ROBBED!"
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Nov/22/2006, 1:43 pm
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Lights
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Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
As for Japan or California sinking completely into the Pacific, it would take many earthquakes over thousands of years to submerge either area and it is highly likley that a far part of either region would still remain above sea level. Whilst there is subsidence in the Home (Japanese) Islands ( there are what are thought to be ruins off the Japanese coast, a complex called Yomaguni, as well as off the SW coast of India [Mahabalipuram]), this subsidence is thought to be more a matter of rising sea levels after the Ice Age ended and the ice began to melt, eventually making its way to the ocean basins of the world.
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Nov/25/2006, 4:36 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
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Lights Wrote:
Well, I finally got to watch this turkey and it gets my "Four Funnels DOWN" Award :sailor: There is no plot to speak of and well, the poor Captain gets humiliated and has to act as MC to the lead singer for the evening.
About the only part I liked were the special FX with the tsunami...that was neat...and a modern ship bit the dust--two great things in Lightsy's evening.
About the only thing they got right was that an experienced ships' officer can feel when something is "wrong", but that is only one thing out of 90-plus minutes.
I blew 20 bucks on this thing and all I can say is "Caveat Emptor...I Wuz ROBBED!"
Hey Lightsy--
Check out TSOLD>The Dock... for there's a surprise there for you under my QM & QM2 thread.
I saw that picture in a shop onboard Queen Mary, as well as on a t-shirt in another shop on her Promenade Deck Mall as well too.
Cool!!! Huh!?!
MA
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Mar/4/2008, 12:06 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (2005 NBC-TV movie)
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Lights Wrote:
Well, I finally got to watch this turkey and it gets my "Four Funnels DOWN" Award :sailor: There is no plot to speak of and well, the poor Captain gets humiliated and has to act as MC to the lead singer for the evening.
About the only part I liked were the special FX with the tsunami...that was neat...and a modern ship bit the dust--two great things in Lightsy's evening.
About the only thing they got right was that an experienced ships' officer can feel when something is "wrong", but that is only one thing out of 90-plus minutes.
I blew 20 bucks on this thing and all I can say is "Caveat Emptor...I Wuz ROBBED!"
Hi Lights!
I too, thanks to TNT, finally got to see this same turkey of a film last night. It followed our favorite film, TITANIC, at around 8 p.m. (PT).
Frankly, I STILL perfer the original film that starred my favorite oceanliner--Queen Mary in the title role of the SS Poseiddon (sp.)
MA
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Oct/6/2008, 8:19 am
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