Curruption in the Pacific Islands Countries?
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Corruption is not just limited to the Pacific Islands
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Probably the erruption of Mount St. Helens or possibly Krakatoa?
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parts of New Zealand and Oceania in general..thousands of unexplored islands.
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Composite cone volcanoes are often found near convergent plate boundaries. And at all fault lines there are earthquakes so yes, there is.
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The normal huge storms on coastal areas around the world....this year.\n\nLarge earthquake.......Asia....2007\n\nSome big volcano news in Pacific Rim....2008.\n\nA scary encounter with an asteroid...near miss....2009.\n\nA major drought scattered world-wide......2010-2012.
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The Pacific Ring of Fire is a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions encircling the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, island arcs, and volcanic mountain ranges and/or plate movements. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.\n\n90% of the world's earthquakes and 81% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5–6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the Alpide belt which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.
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Very Good!\n\nGermany also had several Island Chains in the Pacific Ocean (Marshall Islands, Bismark Islands, part of Samoan Islands) as well as their concession in China, Tsing Tao.
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http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/index.cfm
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Philippines\nThe peso-dollar value is going up...Yay for us! But our president is still under the pressure of rallyists who want her to resign 'cause they say she cheated in the elections and she's doing a sucky job of running our country.\n\nTry searching for the "Hello Garcy" scandal.
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Here's a 1994 Inundation Hazard Zone map for Hawaii. \nhttp://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/1994/94_04_29.html\n\nHere's the current volcano watch and eruption status for Kilauea:\nhttp://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/\nand a map of past fallout:\nhttp://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/current_issue.html\nHere's a USG publication about inundation and hazards:\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/hazards/hazards.html\n\nLinks within these sites will provide you much more information. There is also a live webcam of Kilauea:\nhttp://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cam/\n\nMore maps:\nhttp://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/main.html
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Here is a list: \n\nhttp://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/naturalhazards/majorearthquakes/earthquakes_stats_new.html
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Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, and several of the Pacific island territories/dependencies.
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Oahu Hawaii North Shore\n\nThese islands are the most isolated land mass on earth surrounded by ample ocean surface for the great storms of the Pacific to generate giant, perfect waves that pulse from deep water into the shallow reefs and lava rock of the Hawaiian island chain (e.g. Jaws, Waimea, Pipeline)
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marikina fault line!!!
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Japan and most Asian countries
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There have been several significant and catastrophic eruptions of Krakatau.\n\nThe 1883 eruption produced a tsunami that reached 140 ft (40 m) in height and killed over 34,000 people. On the Volcanic Explosivity Index (similar to Richter scale in that it is logarithmic) the eruption is rated as a VEI 6 (very large). There was a bulk volume of material erupted of 4 cubic miles (16.7 cubic km). Eruption height reached past 80,000 feet, and the ash thickness at ten miles distance was 10 feet. At 300 miles distance the ash fall was still 1 inch thick. \n\nThe eruption was preceded by 5-6 years of seismic activity in Sumatra, and 3 years of seismic activity that was felt in northern Australia. A small eruption began about 3 months before the explosive eruption took place. \n\nAnak Krakatau has been growing within the caldera since 1927. It currently has built a summit at least 2,667 feet (813 m) above the sea and is very active. \n\nAn earlier eruption that may have taken place in the 6th century AD may have been even more catastrophic. Author David Keys together with Ken Wohletz at Los Alamos Lab have suggested that a large volcanic eruption near Krakatau might have caused the Dark Ages.\n\nI quote:\n"climate destabilization brought on by a natural catastrophe, with strong evidence from tree-ring and ice-core data that it occurred in 535 AD"\nFurther effects such as:\n"notably colder and drier weather in Europe and Asia, where descriptions of months with diminished sun light, persistent cold, and anomalous summer snow falls are recorded in 6th-century written accounts. Writings from China and Indonesia describe rare atmospheric phenomena that possibly point to a volcano in the Indonesian arc. Although radiocarbon dating of eruptions in that part of the world are spotty, there is strong bathymetric and volcanic evidence that Krakatau might have experienced a huge caldera eruption"\n\nField expeditions to the area found evidence of a 40-60 km caldera, which would have ejected many times more material than the 1815 eruption of Tambora, and many times more than the 1883 eruption of Krakatau. \n\nThe book by Keys, "Catastrophe: An Investigation in the Origins of the Modern World" and the website by Wohletz are very interesting reading on this subject.\nhttp://www.ees1.lanl.gov/wohletz/krakata...
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It is difficult to measure levels of corruption. There is no scale that I know of such as the Richter Scale for earth quakes. However, I can't recall a more corrupt administration and I have been around for a long time. But, whether there was or wasn't, there is certainly no excuse for what is going on right now. We should send them all home (or to jail) today.