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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (40318)	5/31/2013 2:37:34 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Yes, I thought and posted that the big black patch on the sun was unusual since I have been watching over the last half dozen years thanks to the SOHO website. But it's probably nothing out of the ordinary in the longer term. There have been plenty of quiescent patches previously. The data now available on-line is vast. We are living through the most phenomenal times ever but oddly, it's not particularly acknowledged in the run of the mill lives people lead. The Industrial Revolution was a big deal but the current developments make that look trivially insignificant. I don't see where a tsunami on the Atlantic would come from other than the dreaded Canary Islands collapse or an incoming bolide which would be independent of any activity on the sun or on Earth. There's no subduction zone around the Atlantic ocean because it's a spreading ocean, not subducting. So where would earthquakes come from to create a tsunami big enough to mention? There aren't even volcanoes. ... Oh, yes there are. Thanks Google. Amazing amounts of information immediately available. For example: Geology [ edit]The originally volcanic islands –seven major islands, one minor island, and several small islets– were formed by the Canary hotspot. The Canary Islands is the only place in Spain where volcanic eruptions have been recorded during the Modern Era, with some volcanoes still active (El Hierro, 2011). [28] Volcanic islands such as the those in the Canary chain often have steep ocean cliffs caused by catastrophic debris avalanches and landslides. [29] =-------------------------------------------------------------- In one part it mentioned pumice erupted. Pumice is big bang material, from liquids turning to gases and giving vast volumetric explosions unlike the pahoehoe low gas eruption of volcanoes like the Hawaii chain. Maybe there could be a big bang after all. My theory on gas-forced volcanoes is that they go bang when the pressure holding them down is too low, which happens when the tides are right [the moon and sun acting in concert to lighten the load], snow cover and water table pressure are down, and air pressure is low. When the pressure is relieved, some hot liquids [water] turns to gas, which starts erupting, which removes overburden and lightens the load, allowing more liquid to turn to gas which expands the column and pushes more material off, which allows more and so on, rapidly, until the whole column is an expanding "geyser" of liquids turning to gas with hot magma flying into the sky, with the gases [the hydrocarbon parts] igniting in air to give the big bang and fire everything up and in all directions in stupendously huge eruptions. Apparently there can be a Canary Islands collapse due to load of previously erupted material into the Atlantic ocean which even in the absence of eruption would cause a huge tsunami. Never a dull moment. People will not be worried about another 16cm of sea level rise over the next hundred years due to the Greenhouse Effect when they see the tsunami arriving. Global Warming will be the least of their worries. Mqurice