I can deal with hurricanes. I've dealt with blizzards.

Been in an earthquake.  Had to leave an area due to a wildfire.  Never had to worry about a tornado more than what spawns from a hurricane.

BUT.  You can't convince me to live on an active volcano.

Past 24 hrs in Hawaii:

Looks far enough away from infrastructure, and since it has frequent activity there's less chance of a sudden huge eruption.

Unlike, say, Vesuvius :

j_tso said:

Looks far enough away from infrastructure, and since it has frequent activity there's less chance of a sudden huge eruption.

Yeah, the nature of the magma in it is such that it's not going to explode like Mount St. Helens did.  OTOH, if the flow of lava is coming slowly towards your house there is nothing to do but leave.  You can't board up the windows or do seismic retrofits to improve your chances, the lava is going to burn, melt, and bury everything in its path.  There's something almost Lovecraftian about that.

The weather is so mild and lovely most of the time that the occasional molten lava spike just disappears into the noise. Average temp is still comfortable, no big deal.

Sometime I wonder if I lived in an area more prone to catastrophic natural disasters, maybe I would have less attachment to material things. 

Eruptions on the big island are almost non-stop. Personally, I would consider anything built there to be a temporary structure. 

It's just a flowy one, it's the spewy ones you need to worry about.

Of course if you're in the mood to be scared, look into Yellowstone and how overdue it is for a cataclysmic eruption.

When that goes, we're ALL dead, so why worry?

RevRico said:

It's just a flowy one, it's the spewy ones you need to worry about.

Of course if you're in the mood to be scared, look into Yellowstone and how overdue it is for a cataclysmic eruption.

The USGS begs to differ.

Lived on the westcoast most of my life.

When the news ran it's usual cycle of terrorists, then whatever virus was on the loose, then whatever weather event we decided to give a scary name to, you could be sure "OMG overdue megaquake" was next.

It's been due for 80 years.

When it happens, it will be so big that no amount of canned food and bottled water buried in the rubble will save you. Stop worrying and live with it.

In reply to Duke :

A, maybe they need to advertise better then because I've been hearing this same overdue thing since elementary school science class. Admittedly, geology never a strong suit for me, I preferred other sciences, but disasters have always been an interest.

2, as they say themselves, unpredictable things are sort of unpredictable. Let me hold onto this ray of hope since the full on California sinking into the ocean superearthquake doesn't seem to be coming soon. 

In 3 weeks I'll be there in person. I'm stoked its putting on a show for us.

In reply to RevRico :

Los Angeles is only expected to get 0.4" to 1.2" of ash on the ground so cause of death will be starvation.

I've been following the news on the eruption.  Really wish I was there to see it in person.  Kilauea was erupting when I was there before, and that was a sight.  Now that it and Mauna Loa are erupting at the same time, there's so much to see.

Would love to live on the Big Island if I could afford it, but would be very mindful of the likelihood of being in the path of lava flow.  There's a lot of the island that should be safe barring an apocalyptic eruption.

Dwayne Johnson will save them.

I've seen the movie. 

RevRico said:

In reply to Duke :

A, maybe they need to advertise better then because I've been hearing this same overdue thing since elementary school science class. Admittedly, geology never a strong suit for me, I preferred other sciences, but disasters have always been an interest.

Well, "overdue" in geologic time is relative. 1000 or even 10,000 years is a blip in geologic time. Thus, "any day now" can mean tomorrow or ten millenia from now and still be accurate.