Earthquake Strikes Under USS Iowa

Something really odd just happened. So I made a screen capture of it. Look:

What you've got on the left is a live track on the Facebook page for the USS Iowa, 881 feet long, displacing 41,000 tons, being towed majestically to Los Angeles to become a military museum no one visits. What you have on the right is a Google map, linked from the U.S Geological Survey, of an earthquake (4.0 on the Richter scale) that just happened. Here on Pt. Dume our walls creaked, and our daughters blamed each other.

The earthquake happened under the USS Iowa. How cool is that?

But then, I'm a primitive, and we've always overreacted to omens and strangers in boats.

When Perry's black ships full of strangers neared Tokyo, the Prince of Mito warned Lord Abe that things would go "from bad to worse"...

At first they will give us philosophical instruments, machinery and other curiosities, will take the ignorant people in, and trade being their chief object, will manage bit by bit to impoverish the country; after which they will treat us just as they like; perhaps behave with the greatest rudeness and insult us... If we don't drive them away now, we shall never have another opportunity. If now we resort to a willfully dilatory method of procedure, we shall gnaw our navels afterward when it will be of no use.

Little did he know.

 

Comments

[L I Beral]

02:26 PM on 06/06/2012

The Japanese already were aware of the predatory spirit of the Europeans since the Portuguese first arrived there about 1600 bringing trade and Catholicism and disease.

[Kavoom]

11:04 AM on 06/03/2012

Wow, I just read this last part. It was like a warning to ourselves 130 years later that we did not heed.

"When Perry's black ships full of strangers neared Tokyo, the Prince of Mito warned Lord Abe that things would go "from bad to worse"...

At first they will give us philosophical instruments, machinery and other curiosities, will take the ignorant people in, and trade being their chief object, will manage bit by bit to impoverish the country; after which they will treat us just as they like; perhaps behave with the greatest rudeness and insult us... If we don't drive them away now, we shall never have another opportunity. If now we resort to a willfully dilatory method of procedure, we shall gnaw our navels afterward when it will be of no use."

Amazing. All you have to do is substitute Banks, Corporations and Iphones and flat screen TV's for Perry and Mito's warning and it's U.S. How's that navel taste by the way.

[driller7530]

04:27 PM on 05/31/2012

I wonder what makes Mr Kelly comment that no one will Visit such a Storied ship as the Iowa ?
The Wisconson I Believe It Is at Port Of Norfolk and does a booming bussiness

[greenfarmsden]

12:55 PM on 05/31/2012

The next series of earthquakes are going to hit the region such as mankind has never seen before. The truths about how this happens and how these dead zones appeared in our oceans void of life or presence in that vicinity. These earthquakes are triggered by intense internal massive coronal mass ejections that account for these magma being polarized North and South and reversed. Twenty major earthquakes and now volcanoes the crust starts forming in the Yellowstone Park area crystal blue mixture of chemicals that are extremely volatile and highly acidic sulfuric and mercury lava.

[Michael Casper 001]

02:08 PM on 05/30/2012

Cool article but not sure why you think no one will visit USS Iowa. USS Midway (San Diego) receives ~1 million visitors each year and USS Intrepid (New York) receives ~950000 visitors each year. Couldn't find stats for the other Iowa class battleships but suspect the Missouri (Pearl Harbor) and Wisconsin (Norfolk) are doing well. Not sure about New Jersey (Camden) as there are no other tourist attractions there.

[OleProfessor]

12:36 PM on 05/30/2012

ULF waves..? I wonder if they were sending to Submarines when this occurred or testing new strong ULF Wave Emitters..

[Dana1982]

12:21 PM on 05/30/2012

Clearly the cause of this quake is due to all the fracking that the oil corporations are doing.

[Ozonator]

03:56 AM on 05/31/2012

Close enough, unless the Iowa was rigged with parts from the Glomar Challenger. It's AGW harmonics were predicted by moi' with “Channel Islands (5+)” under 5/27 - 6/2/12.

[LIbislife]

12:15 PM on 05/30/2012

The earthquake happened under the USS Iowa. How cool is that?

Why is this cool?

[TheyCallMeLtKelso]

04:13 PM on 05/30/2012

It's an interesting co-incidence.

Have a little fun.

[deminmo]

12:08 PM on 05/30/2012

Now this is weird!

[julieintx]

10:17 AM on 05/30/2012

Why do you say no one will visit the USS Iowa museum ship?

[kkehoe5]

09:46 AM on 05/30/2012

That wasn't an Earthquake, it was alien ships hitting the ocean. I just saw a docmentry called 'Battleship' in the theater.

[Bletcherstonerson]

09:26 AM on 05/30/2012

Could explain what happened to the Mongolian fleet that was wiped out trying to invade Japan.

[Tom Weidermeijer]

04:41 PM on 05/30/2012

Land locked Mongol ports?

No water, just yurts and yaks?

[L I Beral]

02:30 PM on 06/06/2012

Kublai Khan - Mongol - lived mostly in present day Beijing - built 2 large armadas to invade Japan - big time fail. Check it out.

[mo524]

07:02 PM on 05/30/2012

That was a typhoon.

[smitallica]

09:14 AM on 05/30/2012

"We shall gnaw our navels afterward..."

What a spectacular turn of phrase. Thanks for posting that, Mr. Kelly.

[Vyslichajici]

01:51 PM on 05/30/2012

it gains in translation.