Do you ever think about the geology below you, as you fly?

[Waldo Pepper 1,953]

On 5/9/2023 at 3:53 PM, birdguy said:

On Good Friday,1964, I was on shift in Wyoming when the 9.1 Richter Scale earthquake shook Anchorage.  Our seismometers went nuts.  It was a week before things settled to a point where we could start read the seismograms again.

The Pacific rim is not called the Ring of Fire for nothing.

Noel

Curious if you were you in the region when Mount St. Helen's erupted in 1980?

 

 

 

[birdguy 3,943]

No, I was long gone by the time Mt. St Helens erupted.  I wasn't even in the Air Force anymore.  In 1980 I was working in Denver as a development engineer designing in house test equipment for the manufacturing floor of a company that made mass storage tape and disk drives.

Noel