Bryn appears to have been within "light shaking" range of this evening's earthquake, a couple of hours after nightfall. That'll teach him not to skive off another time.
M6.1 - 47km SW of Karpathos, Greece
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When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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How does that translate to the way we think of the magnitude, do you know? For example we had a 4.8 on the Richter scale a week ago. Five years ago we had a 7.2. Both were on the same fault, the epicenter about 50 miles from us. The 4.8 did no damage. The 7.2 did considerable damage.
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The "6.1 M" scale is roughly like the old Richter value of 6.1. Each unit extra is a 30-fold jump in energy, so your 7.2 is just over 30 times bigger than this one.
"A magnitude 6 ML earthquake is the energy equivalent of 30,000 tons of TNT or a 30 kilotonne nuclear explosion". But then, 30 miles is quite a way off.
"A magnitude 6 ML earthquake is the energy equivalent of 30,000 tons of TNT or a 30 kilotonne nuclear explosion". But then, 30 miles is quite a way off.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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spot;1477676 wrote: The "6.1 M" scale is roughly like the old Richter value of 6.1. Each unit extra is a 30-fold jump in energy, so your 7.2 is just over 30 times bigger than this one.
"A magnitude 6 ML earthquake is the energy equivalent of 30,000 tons of TNT or a 30 kilotonne nuclear explosion". But then, 30 miles is quite a way off.
Thanks for the info. Did Bryn feel the quake?
"A magnitude 6 ML earthquake is the energy equivalent of 30,000 tons of TNT or a 30 kilotonne nuclear explosion". But then, 30 miles is quite a way off.
Thanks for the info. Did Bryn feel the quake?
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If he doesn't post in the next day or so I'll assume he's under the rubble.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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I had a brief chat this morning. Even the aftershocks are keeping him on his toes. There was a small swarm even before he arrived, he was told in retrospect. If they're building up to "To Megalo", as they call it round those parts, he has an exciting week in store, though I'd always thought that was meant to happen under Istanbul.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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After experiencing my first earthquake, which sent giant windows shattering to the ground 100 ft. in front of me, and over 25 aftershocks of 4. and more over the next 24 hours, I would head for shelter (a doorway or table or desk) at the first tremor. I still do this 36 years later. I've been asleep for some of them and my foot hits the floor immediately; midnight, 4 a.m.. I live very near to the San Andreas fault and my friends say "Move!" but strangely enough only two of the larger ones have been on this fault. All others on various faults in the area. Once, after I had moved to Wyoming (not a notorious area for quakes) two hit on a fault 1/2 mile from our house. One a 5.8 and a 5.3, in the middle of the night. Same scenario, foot hits the floor, head for the doorway.
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It strikes me they follow you around.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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spot;1477731 wrote: It strikes me they follow you around.
:) It struck me the same way, Spot. My husband and I had just moved into this farmhouse two months before. The epicenter was 1/2 mile away where his childhood home had stood. That's strange enough but it used to be tornadoes. I was born and brought up in tornado alley in Kansas and later moved to Pennsylvania. There started to be tornadoes there in places I had just visited hours before, a restaurant, a shopping center, etc. Eerie huh? Then to add to that, after moving to California, I went to an art show at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Later that night a tornado blew the roof off.
:) It struck me the same way, Spot. My husband and I had just moved into this farmhouse two months before. The epicenter was 1/2 mile away where his childhood home had stood. That's strange enough but it used to be tornadoes. I was born and brought up in tornado alley in Kansas and later moved to Pennsylvania. There started to be tornadoes there in places I had just visited hours before, a restaurant, a shopping center, etc. Eerie huh? Then to add to that, after moving to California, I went to an art show at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Later that night a tornado blew the roof off.
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The Indians have goddesses with several wavy arms on each side who manifest in exactly this way, you know. If you're a genuine Avatar of Vishnu you fulfil most of the attributes of Kalki, Destroyer of Filth, and you're very famous. Let me rephrase that, you're scheduled to become extremely famous during the next few years while you bring the universe to an end.
It's occasionally debated whether an Avatar is aware of their celestial origin - you're in an ideal position to say.
It's occasionally debated whether an Avatar is aware of their celestial origin - you're in an ideal position to say.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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spot;1477734 wrote: The Indians have goddesses with several wavy arms on each side who manifest in exactly this way, you know. If you're a genuine Avatar of Vishnu you fulfil most of the attributes of Kalki, Destroyer of Filth, and you're very famous. Let me rephrase that, you're scheduled to become extremely famous during the next few years.
It's occasionally debated whether an Avatar is aware of their celestial origin - you're in an ideal position to say.
" . . . . .extremely famous during the next few years." How so? Now I'm excited!
Perhaps you should start a thread on unexplained phenomena? I would be most interested!
" . . .aware of their celestial origin-" Would that explain why I told my friends when I was 10 years old that my father came from another planet? I had never seen a Science Fiction movie and we didn't have a television set.
It's occasionally debated whether an Avatar is aware of their celestial origin - you're in an ideal position to say.
" . . . . .extremely famous during the next few years." How so? Now I'm excited!
Perhaps you should start a thread on unexplained phenomena? I would be most interested!
" . . .aware of their celestial origin-" Would that explain why I told my friends when I was 10 years old that my father came from another planet? I had never seen a Science Fiction movie and we didn't have a television set.
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It all fits together.
Check occasionally whether women in bright saris are lighting candles in bowls of water around your front gate and dribbling honey on the lips of your visitors, that's a sure sign.
Check occasionally whether women in bright saris are lighting candles in bowls of water around your front gate and dribbling honey on the lips of your visitors, that's a sure sign.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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ZAP;1477730 wrote: After experiencing my first earthquake, which sent giant windows shattering to the ground 100 ft. in front of me, and over 25 aftershocks of 4. and more over the next 24 hours, I would head for shelter (a doorway or table or desk) at the first tremor. I still do this 36 years later. I've been asleep for some of them and my foot hits the floor immediately; midnight, 4 a.m.. I live very near to the San Andreas fault and my friends say "Move!" but strangely enough only two of the larger ones have been on this fault. All others on various faults in the area. Once, after I had moved to Wyoming (not a notorious area for quakes) two hit on a fault 1/2 mile from our house. One a 5.8 and a 5.3, in the middle of the night. Same scenario, foot hits the floor, head for the doorway.
Growing up in The South, Earthquakes were not at all common. When we lived in the Huntsville, AL area back in the late 50s we were not far from the rocket test facilities and the ground and air (house, car, and pretty much everything) rattled and shook whenever a rock engine was fired up. I imagined that was what an earthquake felt like. Last August, I was staying at a cousin's house near Fairfield, CA the morning the North bay quake shook up Napa and Vallejo.
That was my first relatively intense quake. The house shook like someone was pounding it with with a really big hammer. It took me a minute to realize what was going on. Then I thought about running downstairs and getting out of the house, but I had read something in the hotel the other day about quakes that said most injuries happened when people were hit by debris after they ran outside. So I just stayed in bed.
My cousin said that we probably felt a 3.8 to 4.2 where we were. In Napa it was about 6.0.
Growing up in The South, Earthquakes were not at all common. When we lived in the Huntsville, AL area back in the late 50s we were not far from the rocket test facilities and the ground and air (house, car, and pretty much everything) rattled and shook whenever a rock engine was fired up. I imagined that was what an earthquake felt like. Last August, I was staying at a cousin's house near Fairfield, CA the morning the North bay quake shook up Napa and Vallejo.
That was my first relatively intense quake. The house shook like someone was pounding it with with a really big hammer. It took me a minute to realize what was going on. Then I thought about running downstairs and getting out of the house, but I had read something in the hotel the other day about quakes that said most injuries happened when people were hit by debris after they ran outside. So I just stayed in bed.
My cousin said that we probably felt a 3.8 to 4.2 where we were. In Napa it was about 6.0.
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spot;1477737 wrote: It all fits together.
Check occasionally whether women in bright saris are lighting candles in bowls of water around your front gate and dribbling honey on the lips of your visitors, that's a sure sign.
:wah: Very amusing!
It's all becoming clear to me now, thanks to Spot. And perhaps that is why I was drawn to my avatar on this site, rather than the lightning bolt that I used to have. And here, I just thought it was an off-white unicorn.
Check occasionally whether women in bright saris are lighting candles in bowls of water around your front gate and dribbling honey on the lips of your visitors, that's a sure sign.
:wah: Very amusing!
It's all becoming clear to me now, thanks to Spot. And perhaps that is why I was drawn to my avatar on this site, rather than the lightning bolt that I used to have. And here, I just thought it was an off-white unicorn.
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ZAP;1477679 wrote: Thanks for the info. Did Bryn feel the quake?
Couldn't miss it, the entire building shook for about twenty seconds although there was no damage caused. We also felt the aftershocks (magnitude 4.9 and 5.0) about an hour later and woke up to another 'quake (magnitude 5.3) at five this morning.
It looks as though there have been about eighty smaller 'quakes in the past day and a half, all from the same area, and I'm being told of three or four other large ones already this year.
Couldn't miss it, the entire building shook for about twenty seconds although there was no damage caused. We also felt the aftershocks (magnitude 4.9 and 5.0) about an hour later and woke up to another 'quake (magnitude 5.3) at five this morning.
It looks as though there have been about eighty smaller 'quakes in the past day and a half, all from the same area, and I'm being told of three or four other large ones already this year.
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Bryn Mawr;1477743 wrote: It looks as though there have been about eighty smaller 'quakes in the past day and a half, all from the same area, and I'm being told of three or four other large ones already this year.
The gods on Mount Olympus are passing comment on the EU debt management discussions, that would explain things.
The gods on Mount Olympus are passing comment on the EU debt management discussions, that would explain things.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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LarsMac;1477740 wrote: Growing up in The South, Earthquakes were not at all common. When we lived in the Huntsville, AL area back in the late 50s we were not far from the rocket test facilities and the ground and air (house, car, and pretty much everything) rattled and shook whenever a rock engine was fired up. I imagined that was what an earthquake felt like. Last August, I was staying at a cousin's house near Fairfield, CA the morning the North bay quake shook up Napa and Vallejo.
That was my first relatively intense quake. The house shook like someone was pounding it with with a really big hammer. It took me a minute to realize what was going on. Then I thought about running downstairs and getting out of the house, but I had read something in the hotel the other day about quakes that said most injuries happened when people were hit by debris after they ran outside. So I just stayed in bed.
My cousin said that we probably felt a 3.8 to 4.2 where we were. In Napa it was about 6.0.
Earthquakes are weird. Someone told me to imagine someone taking hold of a carpet (the epicenter) and shaking it with an up and down motion. For example, in the Loma Prieta quake, 6.9 in '89, my oldest daughter was living 20 miles from the epicenter and felt it strongly. The Bay bridge in San Francisco had extensive damage as did other structures and there was a large loss of lives. I called another daughter who lives 15 miles north of the Bridge and she didn't know that there had been a quake. Her husband had started to go to his teaching job in the city and found out about it when he saw they were diverting traffic.
That was my first relatively intense quake. The house shook like someone was pounding it with with a really big hammer. It took me a minute to realize what was going on. Then I thought about running downstairs and getting out of the house, but I had read something in the hotel the other day about quakes that said most injuries happened when people were hit by debris after they ran outside. So I just stayed in bed.
My cousin said that we probably felt a 3.8 to 4.2 where we were. In Napa it was about 6.0.
Earthquakes are weird. Someone told me to imagine someone taking hold of a carpet (the epicenter) and shaking it with an up and down motion. For example, in the Loma Prieta quake, 6.9 in '89, my oldest daughter was living 20 miles from the epicenter and felt it strongly. The Bay bridge in San Francisco had extensive damage as did other structures and there was a large loss of lives. I called another daughter who lives 15 miles north of the Bridge and she didn't know that there had been a quake. Her husband had started to go to his teaching job in the city and found out about it when he saw they were diverting traffic.
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Bryn Mawr;1477743 wrote: Couldn't miss it, the entire building shook for about twenty seconds although there was no damage caused. We also felt the aftershocks (magnitude 4.9 and 5.0) about an hour later and woke up to another 'quake (magnitude 5.3) at five this morning.
It looks as though there have been about eighty smaller 'quakes in the past day and a half, all from the same area, and I'm being told of three or four other large ones already this year.
It's a scary feeling. I always wonder, When is the shaking going to stop? In the 7.2 quake it lasted over a minute.
It looks as though there have been about eighty smaller 'quakes in the past day and a half, all from the same area, and I'm being told of three or four other large ones already this year.
It's a scary feeling. I always wonder, When is the shaking going to stop? In the 7.2 quake it lasted over a minute.