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To: carranza2 who wrote (78979)	9/4/2011 3:29:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 217755

C2, the ring of fire is always on the move, with a bit of stiction on the way. Nothing new: <rim of fire acting up. > But because human lives are short and memory and perspective limited, events like Taupo erupting or a tsunami surging across Japan's landscape are quite shocking. Wellington is going to be ruined in an earthquake more than Christchurch was because so much of it is brick and concrete of old-style design. Even some of the newer buildings [1970s] which are supposedly designed for earthquake resilience might fail according to our concrete professor in civil engineering in the early 1970s because, he said, the concrete was not being cured properly due to the haste of construction. Having worked on construction site, I have also observed that design and as-built are two different things, with workers being somewhat indifferent to quality control. Taupo erupting [or perhaps Matata or Rotorua] will be really exciting. Those are big bang eruptions, not genteel scoria fire fountains or quiescent ooze of pahoehoe lava as in Hawaii. When Taupo goes up, NZ is going to get a seriously revised future. 2020's reglaciation/Little Ice Age will also cool NZ substantially with the west coast of the south island glaciated and the rest distinctly colder with an ice cap on the central north island mountains. The fears about Global Warming will gradually be forgotten. Mqurice