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Originally posted by johnco
. .. who knew this one would would cause this much damage. every hurricane that passes thru gets pretty much the same type of dire warnings, but never this much devastation. you have earthquakes and volcanos? and you still haven't moved somewhere else? I just can't understand
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Indeed; when warning is like a cry of "wolf" . .it's hardly a warning at all. (like our earthquakes here)
fwiw, When St Helens blew, there was warning . .. even though we were then new at predicting eruptions, the local geologists did a great job.
Unfortunately, now, there is much new constuction happening on top of old pyroplastic flows. . . .next to a volcano which is over-due for a St Helens sized, or bigger, bang. (They do have sirens, for those areas tho' . .. similar to our tsunami warnig systems - not exactly a "crying wolf" thing.)