re: #15 Walter L. Newton

I’m positive the anti-nuke crowd will use this to their benefit.

And why would they not? Nuclear meltdowns tend to be nasty events for entire regions and everybody who lives around.

Also, a cousin of mine was coordinating evacuation of senior citizens from RV parks at the ocean front in Crescent City Harbor (in Northern California) yesterday. She got them out in time before the harbor was completely wiped out by a series of tsunamis up to 8.1 feet. All the docks are gone and 35 boats were wrecked (I used to go fishing and crabbing off the docks at Crescent City) Brookings in Oregon took a bad hit too.

And a correction. I stated incorrectly yesterday that you should expect plastic rock deformation at 6 miles down in a normal geo-gradient. This is incorrect. The transition to plasticity begins at 6 miles down (or about 10 km), but true plastic rock deformation starts at about 14 km down in a normal geo-gradient. Apologies.