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M7.8 subduction quake Ecuador - Island Chris - 04-17-2016
As you all probably know, there has been a M7.8 subduction quake in Ecuador.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005j32#general
By the way, we are way below critical mass here. There have been things I would normally post that I just have not bothered with. For example, the recent De Conto and Pollard paper in Nature on modeling 5 to 6 feet of sea level rise by 2100, 5 cm/year sea level rise next century, 50 foot sea level rise within 500 years. That is IF we continue the "business as usual" release of CO2. It will only be a couple of feet of we only increase the levels from the current 400 ppm to 450 and then the level is cut quickly.
For the non-Americans, 50 feet is 15 meters.
Chris