Cool video of the Valcano in Iceland

Scuba Diving II

I posted before a power point of why I love scuba diving.  Well, here is another round in a Youtube Video.  I just wish I culd dive more often.

Scuba Diving

Many of my friends have asked me why I Scuba Dive, if I was afraid of getting attacked by sharks or other critters under the sea.  Well here is the reason I live Scuba Diving, it is another World and it is beautiful and so peaceful.  You just cannot touch most things, because they will sting you

Quake hits Haiti

A large earthquake hit Haiti yesterday.

Tectonic Summary

The January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake occurred in the boundary region separating the Caribbean plate and the North America plate. This plate boundary is dominated by left-lateral strike slip motion and compression, and accommodates about 20 mm/y slip, with the Caribbean plate moving eastward with respect to the North America plate.

Haiti occupies the western part of the island of Hispaniola, one of the Greater Antilles islands, situated between Puerto Rico and Cuba. At the longitude of the January 12 earthquake, motion between the Caribbean and North American plates is partitioned between two major east-west trending, strike-slip fault systems — the Septentrional fault system in northern Haiti and the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault system in southern Haiti.

The location and focal mechanism of the earthquake are consistent with the event having occurred as left-lateral strike slip faulting on the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault system. This fault system accommodates about 7 mm/y, nearly half the overall motion between the Caribbean plate and North America plate.

The Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault system has not produced a major earthquake in recent decades. The EPGFZ is the likely source of historical large earthquakes in 1860, 1770, 1761, 1751, 1684, 1673, and 1618, though none of these has been confirmed in the field as associated with this fault.

A Bears Den

National Geographic

SLSO Presents The Blue Planet Live!

I will be going to the St Louis Symphony Orchestra’s The Blue Planet Live on the 19th.   Looks pretty cool to me.  I loved Planet Earth and Blue Planet.  And it should be interesting to see this live.

SLSO Presents The Blue Planet Live!

I will be going to the St Louis Symphony Orchestra’s The Blue Planet Live on the 19th.   Looks pretty cool to me.  I loved Planet Earth and Blue Planet.  And it should be interesting to see this live.

First ever video of Snow Leopards in the wild

Such beautiful creatures

First ever video of Snow Leopards in the wild

Such beautiful creatures