fault creep and historical hair

[tsuki_no_bara]

those of you who tumbl, is there way to show all your tags on one page?

there's a town in california being slowly twisted out of whack by fault creep, which seems to be kind of like the very, very slow shifting of the tectonic plates under the earth. (the instruments used to measure fault creep are called creepmeters. hee.) it would be

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[chaneen]

For tumblr tags, do you mean like this? If that's what you're looking for, I'll dig up the instructions tomorrow. It's super easy!

Those pictures of the fault creep are kind of eerie, wow.

[tsuki_no_bara]

that's exactly what i mean! i can wait for instructions until after you recover from aou, tho.

>>Those pictures of the fault creep are kind of eerie, wow.<<

you might say they're... creepy. :D

[chaneen]

Sorry about the delay; I haven't been at a computer all weekend! So, in order to get that kind of tag cloud, this website will generate a code for you. You can fiddle around with that a bunch so that you don't (for example) have to see tags you've only used once, or a queue tag if you have that. There is a max number of tags it will display (IDK what that is, though), so I set mine to show tags with a minimum usage of 2. If you have questions, I've fiddled around with this a bunch, so I can hopefully help you there.

Once you get your code, you can either paste it into the sidebar field on your layout (varies depending on layout), or do what I did and create a new page for it. Here are tumblr's instructions on how to create pages. If you do a new page, then you can link that page in your sidebar or wherever, and you don't have a crazy long list of tags on every page of your tumblr (makes loading things quicker). Let me know if you have any questions!

you might say they're... creepy. :D

*facepalm* :D

[tsuki_no_bara]

it's only sort of working. >.< i generated the code for the tag cloud and added a page for it, but the page shows the code and not the tags. so it looks like this. what did i do wrong?

(i can't resist a good pun. :D )

[ignipes]

It's actually the slow shift of tectonic plates at the *surface* of the earth, which is why it's happening, you know, where we can see it. I mean, it's happening at depth too, but it doesn't go very deep relative to the size of the earth. The faults in the San Andreas fault system only go about 20 km below the surface at the deepest--it's a fault system where all the excitement happens near the surface.

The Pacific Plate is moving north relative to the North American plate at the same speed (about 2 cm per year, I think?) all along the length of the boundary, but in some places it sticks for a long time before breaking in big earthquakes, in most places it sticks and breaks frequently in many small earthquakes, and in some places it doesn't stick at all but creeps continuously--and that last one is why that entire town has been turned into a creepmeter. :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

i forgot to mention that any geologists in the audience (altho i think you're the only one i know) should feel free to correct my half-assed understanding of the science. ahem. now i have a slightly less half-assed understanding of the science. :D admittedly, most of what i got from the blog post was "this is what happens when you build your town on a slow moving fault line", because i didn't know there were any other kind of fault lines besides the ones that cause earthquakes.

also, creepmeters. i love it.

[ignipes]

Yeah, most people have never heard that most big fault zones have parts that don't have earthquakes at all but just grind along steadily, and the pics in that link are a pretty stunning way to demonstrate it!

Also, forgot to say, thanks for linking those hairstyle videos every time they come up--they're so cool and I love seeing them. :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

probably because non-geologists only hear about any earth shifting when it's massive earthquakes leveling towns and killing people. fault creep doesn't offer the same kind of sexy disaster porn. altho the pictures are really cool and vaguely, er, creepy. they remind me a little bit of centralia, pa, with the mine fire. just the idea that the earth is doing its own thing and doesn't give a shit if there are people trying to live on top of it.

if i wasn't sharing the nifty hair, i wouldn't be me. :D but i'm glad someone besides me likes the videos.

[halfshellvenus]

The 50s hair was really pretty-- classy. The 70s made me think of Mary Ann, from Gilligan's Island!

[tsuki_no_bara]

it totally was mary ann hair! so cute, too.