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

That was very interesting how they determined the date looking at tree rings and centuries old Japanese documents.

Think it's been common knowledge for year that the Pacific NW has been overdue for the big one.

Can't imagine many of those old homes in Seattle surviving even a smaller quake, especially those built on top of the old city. That underground tour was very cool.

JMarkJohns wrote: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!

Sean Miller and the UofA bball team plays at UDUB on.......2/6/16 at 2:30 in the afternoon. Yikes

Good article. Thanks for the link. Time to tie up your boats in Idaho.

well....I'm having my wedding and honeymoon on the oregon coast in about 5 months...

scumdevils86 wrote:well....I'm having my wedding and honeymoon on the oregon coast in about 5 months...

Hopefully you'll feel the earth move under your feet, but not in the way mentioned by the article!

JMarkJohns wrote:Hopefully you'll feel the earth move under your feet, but not in the way mentioned by the article!

Reminds me of a story. Several years ago I was staying in Provo and working around Eureka, UT. Listened to KSL on the radio while driving back and forth. One morning all the callers to the local talk show were commenting on a pretty good sized earthquake that occurred along the Wasatch earlier in the morning (which I apparently slept thru). The one caller that i remember was a new bride who was calling from the bridal suite of the Hotel Utah in SLC. Seems that she and her new husband were just consummating the new marriage at the exact time that the quake hit. Her comment on the radio was: "everyone told me that the earth would shake but I didn't believe them!" Took me half an hour to stop laughing. True story.

4.8 just north of Victoria, BC at about 11:40 pm.

Now I'm convinced a tsunami will obliterate me on my honeymoon. Geeze.

scumdevils86 wrote:Now I'm convinced a tsunami will obliterate me on my honeymoon. Geeze.

If that happens can I have your smoker?

azgreg wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:Now I'm convinced a tsunami will obliterate me on my honeymoon. Geeze.

If that happens can I have your smoker?

Feel weird to celebrate something on the topic such as earthquakes at a time like now, but that article I posted just won the Pulitzer:

My wife had read the article and gave me grief about a 3 day visit to Seattle/Tacoma.

wellp....as long as it holds off for 41 days I'm okay...

My next scheduled trip to the Ducks campus is next March, if it's still there.

So far the local volcano/ski resort is currently quiet. . .too quiet.

2 confirmed deaths. Said to be some moderate to heavy damage in some areas. Only a couple dozen miles away from the earthquake in 2009 that killed 300 people.

37 now confirmed dead in Italy.

And now this...

Saying 78 dead now

120 dead now

5.6 struck this morning in southern Oklahoma. Felt in Dallas as well.

Was it caused by fracking? Okie isn't an earthquake hot spot.

wyo-cat wrote:Was it caused by fracking? Okie isn't an earthquake hot spot.

Probably. Vast majority of earthquakes there are from that.

I feel like central and southern Italy are about to break off and rejoin North Africa.

Chicat wrote:I feel like central and southern Italy are about to break off and rejoin North Africa.

In Italy that's actually a racist statement by supporters Lega Nord.

Chicat wrote:I feel like central and southern Italy are about to break off and rejoin North Africa.

Maybe that boot was made for walking?

That tsunami is happening.

crap.

Shit.

azgreg wrote:

Offshore, but no tsunami threat.

This one however....

seems like there has been a ton of earthquakes lately. sumatra, solomon islands, japan, italy a couple times, off california today..all in the last couple months.

Was sleeping in an RV last night. Thought a moose was trying to tip it over when I woke up.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... y-thursday" target="_blank

BigSkyCatinMT wrote:Was sleeping in an RV last night. Thought a moose was trying to tip it over when I woke up.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... y-thursday" target="_blank

You mean you thought a moose was trying to mate with it.

Chicat wrote:

BigSkyCatinMT wrote:Was sleeping in an RV last night. Thought a moose was trying to tip it over when I woke up.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... y-thursday" target="_blank

You mean you thought a moose was trying to mate with it.

Still a good 3 months away from that kind of behavior.

7.7 in Alaska. Word is just breaking now.

More coal, more fracking!