(note before going...I put this out to the Blue Lander staff today, sorta a fare thee inn the well with a Virgin Island Region "TOD" twist...not that any of it has any inn any the sort of thing or way to do with leaving or La Palma per-se just saying...but then it could since we're all connected in sum any inn the way sort)
Staff,
Consider this in all tsunami swansong chance probability hoodlikely...that is unless La Palma does decide to finally-please slip into the sea, then I'll try and get out a quick alert note before heading to the beach with my In-The-Eye...my last e-mail to you (I heard that "Thank God!") from any sort of noaa mail confines.
The all-obsessive-and-always-consuming reason why I write this to you tonight is not because of some long period distant southern hemi swell emanating up and across the western atlantic front toward us from between South America and Africa (and not down from off the coast of England), but just-to-note before I Halloween depart (this way if the "La Palma" thing does occur, you will just-have-noted read something's weird here 1st) that something seems to be a bit out of ordinary-array-amiss (and don't blame ex-pat Virgin Islands Region "OMAR" please) that's been going on off the Virgin Islands Region (Lat/Lon: Just N and Sorta DEEP off St. Thomas) since 10/11/2008 @1040:16Z.
Now some of you since 2001 know that since 2001 I've been checking on a somewhat daily minimized basis to what I refer to fondly as the "TOD" (a.k.a., The "Ticker Of Death"...although most just call it the USGS EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS PROGRAM website). I've been doing this since that time mainly to note any underwater-earth movement hint should La Palma slip slide away thus pump up the EC surf real good.
Anyway, since that 1st tattoo rip neck current anarchy rep time, I've noticed most of the under-rumble-ring-of-action-fire occurs (small wonder quite leftly so) along the EAST/WEST Pacific oceanic/landmass region sides. Very rarely, if at all, but then that is very rarely, I'll see an Atlantic minor oceanic pier rumble which will perk my "Is La Palma Falling?" interest.
Anyway just get to the point II, on 10/11/08 at precisely 1040:16Z, there was a 6.1 all-of-a-sudden (i.e., no-small-pre-hint-hints) bang that went off along the Virgin Islands Region. Now that one pretty good sized one alone would've been really big bang news to me after all these minimized years looking. However, right after that, there's been a total of 140 (that's one-hundred-forty right...and that's an enormous 2001 to present checking time amount worth), minor 4.0's and less that have after-shocked there since then to this 16th same 10th month typing time frame.
Just sorta 7 years of checking all of a sudden weird-like worth of noting that's all. Nobody USGS or anywhere else probably even cares. I bet the Generational Dynamics Man would know the why of it though. Oh well, as Jay used to upon closing the 4th floor door when leaving say, "Have fun."
Ice
