And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Mt. Shasta is an active volcano. It's been a couple of hundred years since it last erupted; there are active fumarols near the summit, as I understand it. It's just impossibly beautiful.
Geologists estimate about every 600 to 700 years. In the late 1700's the Comte de la Perouse was in a boat offshore Northern California and reported seeing an eruption inland that might have been Shasta. Lassen erupted vigorously in 1915.
Does Shasta have any history of volcanism, like having been one at some point, or is this just something settling?
ReplyDeletewhen the Juan de Fuca plate snaps, we will see
DeleteEvery one of my 80 years we've been told the big one is coming. It's been a big disappointment, especially recently.
ReplyDeleteOne Harry R. Truman having been more than enough, I'd put that thought on the shelf with "careful what you wish for".
ReplyDeleteMt. Shasta is an active volcano. It's been a couple of hundred years since it last erupted; there are active fumarols near the summit, as I understand it. It's just impossibly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteGeologists estimate about every 600 to 700 years. In the late 1700's the Comte de la Perouse was in a boat offshore Northern California and reported seeing an eruption inland that might have been Shasta. Lassen erupted vigorously in 1915.
DeleteShakin' all over...
ReplyDeleteCheck out "https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-shasta/science/most-likely-eruptive-scenario-mount-shasta" for deeper detail from the USGS.
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