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Yeah but i mean.. with the visuals in that trailer, we're looking at what... a 20, or 30 on the richter scale?? lol it's pretty ridiculous if you ask me.... And sitting in Geology class this quarter right now, I can tell you if what Paul Giamatti's character said is correct, in order to physically feel a quake all the way on the east coast from California, it'd have to be bloody MASSIVE, like we don't have machines to measure that high kinds of massive
I like the Rock. I will enjoy seeing him outrun volcanos or quakes or whatever.
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Yeah but i mean.. with the visuals in that trailer, we're looking at what... a 20, or 30 on the richter scale?? lol it's pretty ridiculous if you ask me.... And sitting in Geology class this quarter right now, I can tell you if what Paul Giamatti's character said is correct, in order to physically feel a quake all the way on the east coast from California, it'd have to be bloody MASSIVE, like we don't have machines to measure that high kinds of massive
Lol. Agreed!
Even a quake on the level of Anchorage 1964 that somehow managed to somehow hit at a focus of only a few kilometers wouldn't be able to do what the movie is foisting.
Still, it's going to be good disaster porn with what looks like solid effects, hence, the geology/volcanology nut in me is going to go, likely on opening weekend!
@Medium of Death: Yellowstone functions on a completely different mechanism than southern Cali earthquakes. Plus the fact that there's considered to be too much solid rock above the chamber right now to get an actual super eruption.
Though, interesting fact: recent seismic data has shown that the magma chamber under Yellowstone is roughly double the size the USGS originally believed it to be!
That's not to say it's 100% impossible for a really massive quake to trigger Yellowstone, but, a quake large enough to set off the Yellowstone Caldera (and be felt on the eastern seaboard) would also almost certainly cause the entire Cascadia range to go haywire first!
Iron_Captain wrote: 2012 was still slightly more ott I did like it though.
This one I will probably like too. I just like disaster movies in general.
I enjoy disaster movies in general, even when they throw most of the actual science out the window, (ala Day After Tomorrow), or else butcher the actual events they're based on, (ala Pompeii & Dante's Peak), but 2012 was pure garbage even by SyFy channel standards.
The only thing I got out of it was my sides splitting from laughter at the idea of much stupider the movie could possibly get!
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Lol, probably not... not with what's on the docket through this year and next.
I did ask my Geology professor, and since she's still plugged into those circles was telling me that the people making this movie went to the USGS for advice and know-how on how to make the movie more realistic...... and promptly threw 95% of the advice out
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Lol, probably not... not with what's on the docket through this year and next.
I did ask my Geology professor, and since she's still plugged into those circles was telling me that the people making this movie went to the USGS for advice and know-how on how to make the movie more realistic...... and promptly threw 95% of the advice out
...still sounds like you're lining up on a Friday!
Yeah but i mean.. with the visuals in that trailer, we're looking at what... a 20, or 30 on the richter scale?? lol it's pretty ridiculous if you ask me.... And sitting in Geology class this quarter right now, I can tell you if what Paul Giamatti's character said is correct, in order to physically feel a quake all the way on the east coast from California, it'd have to be bloody MASSIVE, like we don't have machines to measure that high kinds of massive
The Richeter scale is an exponentuial scale, so 6 is very big, 7+ is total carnage, 9 is damn rare and 10+ is a global event normally triggered by something else.
20 on the Richter scale? When planets collide possibly. The quake that followed the comet impact that nuked the dinosaurs was estimated 13 on the scale.
Megaquakes sound like an interesting concept for a disaster movie, I don't know how much science is involved but it might be one of those things that can happen, once every few million years or so.
While the emphasis is on the US a megaquake would send very large tsunami across the Pacific basin. Hollywood can get real self centered asshat about things like this, and can cause offense if its all look at the USA while Japan and Korea (and Hawaii) are facing the 400' wave.
Though I cant judge a film for that pre-release.
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Yeah but i mean.. with the visuals in that trailer, we're looking at what... a 20, or 30 on the richter scale?? lol it's pretty ridiculous if you ask me.... And sitting in Geology class this quarter right now, I can tell you if what Paul Giamatti's character said is correct, in order to physically feel a quake all the way on the east coast from California, it'd have to be bloody MASSIVE, like we don't have machines to measure that high kinds of massive
The Richeter scale is an exponentuial scale, so 6 is very big, 7+ is total carnage, 9 is damn rare and 10+ is a global event normally triggered by something else.
20 on the Richter scale? When planets collide possibly. The quake that followed the comet impact that nuked the dinosaurs was estimated 13 on the scale.
Megaquakes sound like an interesting concept for a disaster movie, I don't know how much science is involved but it might be one of those things that can happen, once every few million years or so.
While the emphasis is on the US a megaquake would send very large tsunami across the Pacific basin. Hollywood can get real self centered asshat about things like this, and can cause offense if its all look at the USA while Japan and Korea (and Hawaii) are facing the 400' wave.
Though I cant judge a film for that pre-release.
The 9.0 Japanese megaquake was powerful enough to tilt the Earth's axis, I'd say that classifies as a 'global event'.
Quakes produced along the San Andreas also do not produce large tsunamis, due to the very different mechanism on which they work. (as IIRC, the San Andreas is known as a slip-strike zone, where the plates move in a purely sideways motion - large tsunamis require uplift to cause displacement in the seafloor.)
Quakes occurring along the north western US coast up through BC and into Alaska however, are quite capable of producing large to devastating tsunamis, due to the fact those areas can suffer a 'mega-thrust' type quake. (due to the presence of subduction zones)
Yeah but i mean.. with the visuals in that trailer, we're looking at what... a 20, or 30 on the richter scale?? lol it's pretty ridiculous if you ask me.... And sitting in Geology class this quarter right now, I can tell you if what Paul Giamatti's character said is correct, in order to physically feel a quake all the way on the east coast from California, it'd have to be bloody MASSIVE, like we don't have machines to measure that high kinds of massive
The Richeter scale is an exponentuial scale, so 6 is very big, 7+ is total carnage, 9 is damn rare and 10+ is a global event normally triggered by something else.
20 on the Richter scale? When planets collide possibly. The quake that followed the comet impact that nuked the dinosaurs was estimated 13 on the scale.
Megaquakes sound like an interesting concept for a disaster movie, I don't know how much science is involved but it might be one of those things that can happen, once every few million years or so.
While the emphasis is on the US a megaquake would send very large tsunami across the Pacific basin. Hollywood can get real self centered asshat about things like this, and can cause offense if its all look at the USA while Japan and Korea (and Hawaii) are facing the 400' wave.
Though I cant judge a film for that pre-release.
The 9.0 Japanese megaquake was powerful enough to tilt the Earth's axis, I'd say that classifies as a 'global event'.
Quakes produced along the San Andreas also do not produce large tsunamis, due to the very different mechanism on which they work. (as IIRC, the San Andreas is known as a slip-strike zone, where the plates move in a purely sideways motion - large tsunamis require uplift to cause displacement in the seafloor.)
Quakes occurring along the north western US coast up through BC and into Alaska however, are quite capable of producing large to devastating tsunamis, due to the fact those areas can suffer a 'mega-thrust' type quake. (due to the presence of subduction zones)
Did we just...
...learn something in here?!?
Wow!
I'd say that this puts SAN ANDREAS miles ahead of 2012 already!
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