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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited April 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    Am I the only one that paid attention in geography class in high school?

    I loved geography and history in high school but I had a revelation one night that kept blinking GOOGLE, GOOGLE, GOOGLE in psychedelic lights and sounds in my head so I saw no need to pay attention in geography class.:eek:

    See you are not the only who the voices talk to.:D
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2010
    7.8 in Sumatra just a few minutes ago, looks like its offshore too.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited April 2010
    Time to sacrifice another virgin......., uh..oh, we're in trouble!
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited April 2010
    http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/04/06/tsr.myers.indonesia.earthquake.cnn
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited April 2010
    Man !!! I have been gassy like a Mo-Fo the past couple days! Anybody else? I'm kinda concerned here.....
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited April 2010
    Face wrote: »
    http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/04/06/tsr.myers.indonesia.earthquake.cnn

    This definitely some scary stuff!
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited April 2010
    Uh huh, I'm just sayin'.................

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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited April 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    It "helps" that California / Mexico have a lot of Earthquakes and are therefore prepared. It's not so much the building codes of the USA but of earthquake zones; if a large Earthquake hit Manhattan the whole city would be in shambles.

    Haiti isn't in an area that gets a lot of earthquakes, so they weren't really prepared for hte damage. Plus, you know, poverty.



    Brainrott, I was fooling around. Relax. I'm well aware that there ARE no facts in the Bible.

    BAZINGA!

    I am just getting back on line with this response to my comment. Response: you are right! Manhattan would fall down if the area got such a shake. I know this from profession.

    All that I am saying here is that Caleixco fared pretty good with the building codes in place there.

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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited April 2010
    Damn, lots of activity lately. But, according to that CNN link, this is all normal activity.
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  • mhmacw
    mhmacw Posts: 832
    edited April 2010
    the building codes are all going fema seismic. in 2002 oxarc in spokane wa made a killing with the updated welding and moment connections testing in relation to the addendum from fema. all sorts of cup and ball stuff. any way look for those codes to already be implimented around the us/world.

    allways been equakes yes but there is certainly more activity lately. i have an astronomy friend in california that mentions the most solar activity in 500 years. and still ncreasing. flares affect gravity and surface temp so its obvious things will keep stirring for some time any way.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,807
    edited April 2010
    mhmacw wrote: »
    the building codes are all going fema seismic. in 2002 oxarc in spokane wa made a killing with the updated welding and moment connections testing in relation to the addendum from fema. all sorts of cup and ball stuff. any way look for those codes to already be implimented around the us/world.

    allways been equakes yes but there is certainly more activity lately. i have an astronomy friend in california that mentions the most solar activity in 500 years. and still ncreasing. flares affect gravity and surface temp so its obvious things will keep stirring for some time any way.

    ????

    Every astronomy and science news website I've read says that we are in the lowest level of solar activity since we started recording such things.
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  • dpowell
    dpowell Posts: 3,067
    edited April 2010
    Another fairly decent sized quake hit this morning in N. Mexico, SoCal. Certainly more activity being felt as of late. Not that they don't occur all the time but the magnitude certainly has increased.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited April 2010
    There was a 3.2 in Oklahoma a few hours ago...


    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010uvbj.php
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited April 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    It "helps" that California / Mexico have a lot of Earthquakes and are therefore prepared. It's not so much the building codes of the USA but of earthquake zones; if a large Earthquake hit Manhattan the whole city would be in shambles.

    Haiti isn't in an area that gets a lot of earthquakes, so they weren't really prepared for hte damage. Plus, you know, poverty.



    Brainrott, I was fooling around. Relax. I'm well aware that there ARE no facts in the Bible.

    BAZINGA!

    Gotta disagree with you on this one. As a civil engineer within New York state, certain things comes your way, just like any other profession. Seismic resistance is among one of them for civil engineers. Manhattan is considered to be a moderately high seismic zone (surprising to me) and things are built accordingly. That is not to say that there are not a lot of buildings that do not have existing seismic resistance built into them either ... Manhattan is an old town by North American standards.

    On the other hand, it is understood why literally everything was not falling down when the Calexico quake happened on the same scale that happened in Haiti. Haiti's earthquake potential is no different than southern California. Certain building codes rule!
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited April 2010
    Dang...another good jolt at 2am this morning...woke me up. Quick sharp jolt, maybe 3 seconds, then over.

    Check out the activity in the last day!
    http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/116-33.htm

    I've never felt so many in so short of time!:eek:

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  • Amherst
    Amherst Posts: 695
    edited April 2010
    Hillbilly61 wrote: »
    Gotta disagree with you on this one. As a civil engineer within New York state, certain things comes your way, just like any other profession. Seismic resistance is among one of them for civil engineers. Manhattan is considered to be a moderately high seismic zone (surprising to me) and things are built accordingly. That is not to say that there are not a lot of buildings that do not have existing seismic resistance built into them either ... Manhattan is an old town by North American standards.

    On the other hand, it is understood why literally everything was not falling down when the Calexico quake happened on the same scale that happened in Haiti. Haiti's earthquake potential is no different than southern California. Certain building codes rule!

    The only earthquake I have ever experienced was just north of NYC. I believe it struck in 1986, and was centered just about 12mi. away from me in Rye,NY.
    It was 3AM and the bed started moving like a train was right outside the house....scary to someone unknowing about such things!
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