Earthquake!

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 5:51 am

6+ near Napa.

A lot of very expensive wine bottles are probably broken this morning.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 6:00 am

SFgate has some impressive pictures.

The Napa-American Canyon-Vallejo stretch was hit hard. Some old historical buildings in Napa crumbed.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:33 am

87 injuries, 3 severe. 15,000+ without power, water main break and a couple small fires. Biggest quake in that half of the state since the 89 one.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:09 pm

(to be read with Archie Bunker's voice) How can they put a man on the moon and still not make an oithquake-proof bottle of wine?

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 2:06 pm

Went up to 120 injured 6 critically. At least a dozen Napa buildings are condemned and 6 mobile homes burned down nearby. Dozens of other buildings with cosmetic damage.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 5:19 pm

Longhorned wrote:(to be read with Archie Bunker's voice) How can they put a man on the moon and still not make an oithquake-proof bottle of wine?

Youse think people in an earthquake zone would know better.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:00 am

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:52 pm

Just felt a big one in central Illinois. That's our first since 2008.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:59 pm

Longhorned wrote:Just felt a big one in central Illinois. That's our first since 2008.

Went to my go-to news source (Twitter) and didn't see anything. Earthquakes reported in Oregon, Tokyo, California, and Nevada, but no Illinois.

Are you sure someone didn't just rip a loud rumbling fart?

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:09 pm

Chicat wrote:
Longhorned wrote:Just felt a big one in central Illinois. That's our first since 2008.
Went to my go-to news source (Twitter) and didn't see anything. Earthquakes reported in Oregon, Tokyo, California, and Nevada, but no Illinois.

Are you sure someone didn't just rip a loud rumbling fart?

Huh. Maybe I felt the one in Tokyo. I was just sitting here and the floor started moving all around under my feet. I shouted to upstairs to the wife, "Did you feel that thing?"

"Feel what?" she said. "I think I heard something."

I looked over at the chandelier but the cord was hanging completely still. I dismissed all evidence to the contrary because I felt a doozy. Time to go to the hospital.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:12 pm

Maybe you just had a rumbly in your tumbly. Go get some ice cream.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:17 pm

Longhorned wrote:
Chicat wrote:
Longhorned wrote:Just felt a big one in central Illinois. That's our first since 2008.
Went to my go-to news source (Twitter) and didn't see anything. Earthquakes reported in Oregon, Tokyo, California, and Nevada, but no Illinois.

Are you sure someone didn't just rip a loud rumbling fart?
Huh. Maybe I felt the one in Tokyo. I was just sitting here and the floor started moving all around under my feet. I shouted to upstairs to the wife, "Did you feel that thing?"

"Feel what?" she said. "I think I heard something."

I looked over at the chandelier but the cord was hanging completely still. I dismissed all evidence to the contrary because I felt a doozy. Time to go to the hospital.

I think the parrot slipped you some low grade acid. Just take some deep breaths, drink some orange juice, pet something furry, and you'll be just fine.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:42 pm

I went straight to pet something fury

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:48 am

7.8 in Nepal. Thousands possibly dead and parts of Katmandu have been flattened.

This guy's twitter has a lot of first hand stuff. Looks absolutely devastating...

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:05 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:57 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:50 pm

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nep ... nsnewsap11

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 9:09 am

Up over 2500 dead. But there are likely even more...

aid workers warned that the situation could be far worse near the epicenter. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered near Lamjung, about 50 miles northwest of Kathmandu, in the Gorkha district.

Roads to that area were blocked by landslides, hindering rescue teams, said chief district official Prakash Subedi. Teams were trekking through mountain trails to reach remote villages, and helicopters would also be deployed, he said by telephone.

The aid group World Vision said in a statement that remote mountain communities, including in Gorkha, were totally unprepared for the level of destruction caused by the earthquake.

Villages near the epicenter "are literally perched on the sides of large mountain faces and are made from simple stone and rock construction. Many of these villages are only accessible by 4WD and then foot, with some villages hours and even entire days' walks away from main roads at the best of times," the group's local staff member, Matt Darvas, said in the statement.

He said he was hearing that many of the villages may have been completely buried by rock falls.

"It will likely be helicopter access only for these remote villages," he said.

Also a 6.7 magnitude aftershock hit this morning. I can't even imagine how terrifying it must be there right now...

Post by **UAdevil** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:55 am

My father was in Kathmandu just a few years ago and at Everest base camp. Glad he got to see these now destroyed landmarks.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:59 am

Dan Fredinburg, an engineer in Google's Project X division, was among more than a dozen climbers killed in avalanche set off by Nepal's massive earthquake.

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-enginee ... CAD590a51e

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:13 am

Science magazine predicted this 2 months ago.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6 ... 159caecc09

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:29 am

Amazing pictures here

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:57 am

Amazing.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 3:55 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 4:00 pm

Holy shit

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:21 pm

I shit my pants just watching that

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:21 pm

Chicat wrote:Holy shit

No. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:24 pm

Death toll over 5000 now. Seismologists say the entire Indian subcontinent shifted 10 feet northwards.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:22 am

ASUHATER! wrote:Death toll over 5000 now. Seismologists say the entire Indian subcontinent shifted 10 feet northwards.

I wonder if that means Everest is any higher now.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:04 am

Chicat wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:Death toll over 5000 now. Seismologists say the entire Indian subcontinent shifted 10 feet northwards.
I wonder if that means Everest is any higher now.

Looks like they have less than two weeks to collect the data that will answer my question: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015 ... y-science/

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:49 am

Is it too late for us all just to go back to the savannah and sleep in trees and ride this whole nature thing out for what it is?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:19 am

Longhorned wrote:Is it too late for us all just to go back to the savannah and sleep in trees and ride this whole nature thing out for what it is?

As long as there's a good Wi-Fi connection I'm good.

Post by **UAdevil** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:30 am

Longhorned wrote:Is it too late for us all just to go back to the savannah and sleep in trees and ride this whole nature thing out for what it is?

Could yet happen.

Jefe · Post by **Jefe** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:58 am

Amazing they are finding people alive. One guy was buried for 82 hours

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sat May 02, 2015 10:28 am

Near my old home town of Battle Creek.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat May 02, 2015 10:34 am

Didn't feel it here (about 100 miles away).

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue May 12, 2015 2:53 pm

Another big earthquake hits Nepal. Looks like a 7.3 and preliminary reports are that 50 people are dead 1,000+ injured. Also a US military helicopter involved in relief operations has gone missing.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue May 12, 2015 3:56 pm

Ugh just awful

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:20 am

Is it ironic my old hometown gets more earthquakes than I do out here in Cali?

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:58 pm

8.3 off the coast of Chile. Tsunami alert issued and they're evacuating towns on the coast.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:29 pm

Chicat wrote:8.3 off the coast of Chile. Tsunami alert issued and they're evacuating towns on the coast.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:35 pm

Well hell. Hope people get the hell out. Tsunamis are just insane.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:19 am

Central coast issues warnings to tourists.

Even a smaller Tsunami is capable of producing strong currents or waves to persons in or very near water. Please be careful near our beaches and harbor.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 7:26 am

7.5 on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. 100 dead is the initial estimate, but that's bound to go up.

Catintheheat · Post by **Catintheheat** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:31 am

I didn't feel it, but I guess many did.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/loc ... /75026000/" target="_blank

A string of earthquakes north of Phoenix gave the Valley a rare jolt Sunday night, and the largest – a magnitude 4.1 just before 11:30 p.m. – rattled homes across the region.

The series of at least three Arizona earthquakes generated no reports of notable damage, but left people swaying or stunned from Black Canyon City, closest to the epicenter, to Camp Verde and across metro Phoenix as far as Queen Creek.

Michael Conway of the Arizona Geological Survey said Monday morning that scientists had not identified the causative fault line yet. Because the earthquake was small and did not rupture the ground, it will be hard to identify where it originated, Conway said. He also said there will be aftershocks over the next few days, many of them too small to feel.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:26 am

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 2:02 pm

Yep, felt it. The whole house shook. We thought maybe someone had driven a car into our house. Went downstairs and looked in the front and back and realized we just had an earthquake.

Felt an aftershock about 20 minutes later. Second earthquake I have felt. The first in California was felt much bigger like a train was rrolling over the place we were at.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Fri Nov 13, 2015 4:12 pm

JMarkJohns · Post by **JMarkJohns** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 11:56 pm

Wednesday, December 29th, is day one of forty that brings us to February 6th...

What's February 6th?

Maybe nothing.

Maybe just a simulation date.

Maybe just the end of the world!

Gonna be a whole lotta shaking going on...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/ ... ly-big-one" target="_blank

As a former journalist, former geology minor, I am currently suffering from both a knotted stomach and a science/writing boner... Holy shit that article is awesome!

Read to the end. I doubt I need to say that here, as anyone willing to click a New Yorker link is smart enough to know the value of reading to an article's conclusion, but, seriously, the second half is better than any suspense film.

Again, Holy Shit!

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 3:00 am

Great read. Particularly the detective story about the 1700 quake. Thanks, JMJ.

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