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Title: earthquake
Post by: voidmain on 19 June 2002, 00:57
A couple of hours ago my fuckmicrosoft.com forum reading was interrupted by an earthquake!  It was a small one but it's the first one I have ever felt.  I thought someone was behind my chair fucking with me. It felt like someone grabbed the back of my chair and shook it back and forth a couple of times but when I looked back there was no one there.  I thought I must have been losing my mind but then I see on the news that it was a small quake about 100 miles away (a 5.0). Glad I don't live in California!!
Title: earthquake
Post by: Master of Reality on 19 June 2002, 01:21
Around here (nearish toronto) we get really small supposed quakes that i have never felt. According to the new we have had about 10 in the last year. They were all <1. I have never actually felt one, but other people claim that there was a little shakin'
Title: earthquake
Post by: Aaron Ni on 19 June 2002, 08:56
There was a small earthquake here the other day, very small, just one shake and it was gone.
Title: earthquake
Post by: Kintaro on 19 June 2002, 13:09
There was one here a while ago also <1

I just thought gooseburys mum must have triped  (http://smile.gif)
Title: earthquake
Post by: voidmain on 19 June 2002, 14:04
quote:
Originally posted by BOB X11:
There was one here a while ago also <1

I just thought gooseburys mum must have triped   (http://smile.gif)  


You're killing me!!!
Title: earthquake
Post by: badkarma on 19 June 2002, 14:55
luckily the biggest quake we ever had here was a 4.5 and was about 100km away.... that was a few years ago ... I'd hate to live on a faultline :-/
Title: earthquake
Post by: Calum on 19 June 2002, 15:53
we supposedly get tiny ones all the time. I used to  live right on the edge of town in a loft and i did feel some shudderring once or twice, unusual...
Title: earthquake
Post by: cahult on 19 June 2002, 17:19
Seattle is waiting for "the big one". So am I...
Title: earthquake
Post by: hoojchoons on 20 June 2002, 03:14
You should visit Greece!! Talk about earthquakes!! I've experienced two big ones until now. The first in '81 and the second in '99 (with many casualties). Oh and Calum, Britain doesn't get any earthquakes.

[ June 19, 2002: Message edited by: hoojchoons ]

Title: earthquake
Post by: Calum on 20 June 2002, 03:53
none, eh? let's not become earthquake elitists here, i never said they were very noticable, and i'm not saying they're anything like Greece's either. I would never even have known about it if somebody had not mentioned it to me.

Why do you say none? i may have been mistaken (you know, from all that acid i dropped in the sixties!  ;)  )
Title: earthquake
Post by: hoojchoons on 20 June 2002, 05:37
Britain doesn't suffer from earthquakes because it "sits" on top of the tectonic plates. Contrarily, Greece is located right between the Eurasian and the African tectonic plates. Basically, that means that whenever those plates move they produce an earthquake and create seismic breaches. The same goes for California and the infamous St Andrew's breach, Japan, Turkey (our beloved neighbours), Armenia etc etc etc.

[ June 19, 2002: Message edited by: hoojchoons ]

Title: earthquake
Post by: choasforages on 20 June 2002, 08:49
makes me think armageddon is in progresse. we have war in the middle east. a man was cuaght with some sort of nuclear device from what i was hearing. isreali palistian tensions are a new hieght. were geting ready to attack saddam hussien. pakistan and india are getting ready to anilate each other. and all these damned earthquakes. last time i flipped throught the last few chapter's of a bible it was talking about shit like that. now all that need's to happen is verichip/*they got paid to implant memory chips that contain medical date under the skin in this one family*/ to sell a credit card service with the damned things and there earnings come out to 666.

ps

this is a joke, i hope atleast   :(
Title: earthquake
Post by: pkd_lives on 20 June 2002, 08:57
Britain does get quakes, it's just that they have the siezmometers set very very sensitive in order to detect them. There were measurements being taken on the Isle of Wight, and the equipment was set so low that people walking past (or making love upstairs, so the urban legend goes) could be measured on it.

Every country gets quakes it's just that the only places that 'suffer' bad quakes are on the plate lines.

We had one here in New England, but I never felt it, it was like 2.4 or something, a few months ago. Of course plates can crack, so new fault line can develop anywhere, at anytime, that aught to help you sleep, ha ha ha.

Acid never made me shake (that was generally when I was coming down, not that I partake anymore, only nice legal antibiotics for meeeeeeee).
Title: earthquake
Post by: CommonSense on 20 June 2002, 21:16
quote:
Originally posted by VoidMain:
Glad I don't live in California!!


You're not, but this server is, so your forum browsing could be interrupted nonetheless.   (http://smile.gif)

I would think the sheer joy of living in California would make it worth it.  For me, anyway.  Instead, I'm stuck in NJ . . .
Title: earthquake
Post by: voidmain on 20 June 2002, 21:32
Well, I think California is a nice place to visit (been there many times) but I wouldn't want to live there.  But I could be in the minority on that one. I am very happy with where I live even though it is commonly referred to by both left and right coaster's as "fly-over country".
Title: earthquake
Post by: Kintaro on 20 June 2002, 11:09
My German teacher at my old school is from california. Australia has only small earthquakes and no volcanos... Anyone been at a volcano eruption before? As for armageddon i doubt it, if there was a god... we have replaced him already... Or bob has WE ARE ALL BOB.

But australias main problem is weather because of global warming... In the summer it gets to 45 Degree's Celcius (Dont know farhenhiet conversion)
And in the winter (which it is now) it gets fucking cold. WHich is why i am surfing on my older box, which is loaceted next to a heater  (http://smile.gif)

However australia also at the moment has very bad winds and they fucking piss me off. (So powerfull they tend to be a few steps close to a tornado).
A was blown off my feet the other day by a sudden gush. Talking wind, i have loads of fun on a bike with an unberella at my mums bissness:
www.dunbarroadmotorwreckers.com (http://www.dunbarroadmotorwreckers.com)
Anyway see you westerner'z
Title: earthquake
Post by: choasforages on 20 June 2002, 11:17
on my views of religion, i think i might try to start one to swindle people out of there money and bow donw unto me/*wait, thats all world-religions oops*/

[ June 20, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

Title: earthquake
Post by: sporkme on 25 June 2002, 05:36
there was a small earthquake that rattled windows and broke dishes centered near evansville, indiana (near me) magnitude 5.0.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/18/midwest.earthquake/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/18/midwest.earthquake/index.html)

i was in a boat at the time and the water got rough, but no big deal really.  there have been big ones off the madrid fault though.

basically, the world is going to break apart and we will all spiral out into space, closer and closer to the sun until our entire civilization is destroyed, with a whimper.

all you can do to survive is become a bob.

we have a very large "genesis" spaceship tucked away in the mountains and have already colonized several planets in alpha centauri.

YOU WILL JOIN US

[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: sporkme / bob ]