The Earthquake Thread

[Paradoxium]

That would be awesome if it happens. Maybe the US can dump all the Guantanamo prisoners there and a month later disown their asses. t:

 

[Manic]

That would be awesome if it happens. Maybe the US can dump all the Guantanamo prisoners there and a month later disown their asses. t:

What did California ever do to you?!


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What did the northern end of California ever do to you?!

 

[Paradoxium]

They are imploding fiscally with their insane spending finally. And yet the insane unions wants to uphold themselves, give nothing up.

It's like a fat ugly guy with no job who wants a supermodel girlfriend that will have sex with him 2-3 times a day, on top of wiping his ass after he ****s.

 

[Dark Helmet]

I once heard that California would at one point would break off from the mainland and become an island. It was on the discovery channel.

Seems like the tectonic plates are shifting around for it...

They also say 2012 will happen

 

[AnorexicBatman]

Um... plate shifting is a real phenomena... Australia was once a part of Antarctica
How do you think it got where it is now?

2012 is a hoax and not supported by the scientific community

 

[Manic]

But the ancient Mayans created that calender that stops abruptly in the year 2012! Surely that means the world will end, not that they simply stopped after creating centuries worth of calender. I mean, what kind of person simply stops making their calender abruptly at a certain date unless it means the world is ending?

For example, my local gas station gave me a calender that says the world will end on December 31st this year. It just stops there. That has to mean something, right?

 

[Hotwire]

But the ancient Mayans created that calender that stops abruptly in the year 2012! Surely that means the world will end, not that they simply stopped after creating centuries worth of calender. I mean, what kind of person simply stops making their calender abruptly at a certain date unless it means the world is ending?

For example, my local gas station gave me a calender that says the world will end on December 31st this year. It just stops there. That has to mean something, right?

 

[Figs]

Um... plate shifting is a real phenomena... Australia was once a part of Antarctica
How do you think it got where it is now?

2012 is a hoax and not supported by the scientific community

 

[Hobgoblin]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/10/illinois.earthquake/index.html?hpt=Sbin

(CNN) -- An early morning earthquake rattled northern Illinois on Wednesday, shaking an area about 50 miles west-northwest of downtown Chicago, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake was originally reported as having a magnitude of 4.3, but the USGS later downgraded it to magnitude 3.8. It hit just before 4 a.m. CT (5 a.m. ET), with an epicenter about 3 miles underground. The USGS pinpointed the quake between the towns of Virgil and Sycamore, Illinois.

Millions of people felt the temblor, with reports coming in to the USGS from Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin, as well as Illinois. Members of the public sent more than 10,000 reports of the earthquake to the USGS within the first few hours after it struck.

See local coverage of the Illinois earthquake

Several callers to CNN said the quake shook their homes severely, but there were no immediate reports of major damage.

Doug Dupont of Belvidere, Illinois, about 70 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, said the quake shook him out of bed and caused a 1-foot-long crack in the wall of his kitchen.

"It was really scary. It felt like a train was going by our house," Dupont said. "This is not California. This is northern Illinois. We are not supposed to get earthquakes."

Did you feel it? Tell the world about it

Rex Covington, who lives about five miles west of Elgin, Illinois, told CNN affiliate WGN that the tremor lasted five or six seconds -- and also shook him out of bed.

"I was sleeping and the whole bed was shaking, it was that violent," Covington said.

"The whole house shook," Walter Mockus of St. Charles, Illinois, told WGN. "The chimes that hang were all ringing. It was so loud, I thought a plane had gone down."

The shaking also woke up Sarah Evans, of Elgin, Illinois. She immediately turned to the microblogging site Twitter, where she has 38,000 "followers," to see if anyone else had felt the quake.

Evans instantly found others in her area who had experienced the shaking, and says she found them comforting because "I'd never felt an earthquake before."

Read about how Evans confirmed the earthquake and connected with others on Twitter

The Illinois earthquake was mild compared to the one that leveled parts of Haiti last month, according to the USGS. The Haiti quake was about 33,000 times as powerful.

Some of the strongest earthquakes ever known to hit the United States took place in the Mississippi River valley in 1811, 1812, and 1895, but Wednesday's Illinois event was 250 miles or more to the north of those temblors, said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with the USGS.

"This is a different area geologically," he said, calling Wednesday's earthquake unrelated to the New Madrid quakes of the 19th century.

I had no idea there had been an earthquake this morning. If I did hear it, I must have assumed that it was one of the snow plows rumbling past the house early this morning. Any other Midwesterners feel it?

 

[huskerwebhead]

I'm in Nebraska right near the Nebraska/Iowa border and didn't feel a thing. We're probably a little too far west though. I assume the Iowa reports were in the eastern half of the state.

 

[CELTICPRED]

I'm in south central Wisconsin, woke up just before 4 this morning, fell asleep with the light on and Seinfeld in the Xbox, got up, turned them off, went back to bed.


I thought it was the quake that woke me up when I was told about it at work this morning.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Most of my family lives in the far western suburbs and they all felt it. My sister told her daughters it was a snow plow. Didn't feel it in the city though.

 

[WompuM]

I'm in Chicago. Felt nothing. Which of you other internet weirdos lives up here.

 

[VampElvis]

Are we sure this wasn't Anubis making the world move for a really fat tranny?

 

[Poeman]

WHOA 8.8 is ridiculous ...It hit in the middle of the night
7th largest earthquake ever by magnitude....went for 5 minutes

Tsunami to hit Peru, Ecuador and coastal lines of Chile within the hour...Even antartica

Remember Haiti was 7.0...This is insane and CNN said it is 64 times greater.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1

Powerful earthquake rattles Chile; tsunami warning issued
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* Magnitude 8.8 quake jolts central Chile, according to U.S. Geological Survey
* Tsunami warning has been issued for Chile, Peru
* Parts of Santiago, Chile, are without electricity

RELATED TOPICS

* Chile
* Earthquakes
* U.S. Geological Survey

(CNN) -- An magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake's epicenter was located near the city of Concepcion, 212 miles (341 kilometers) from the capital of Santiago. It struck at 3:34 a.m. (1:34 a.m. ET).

Concepcion is Chile's second largest city with a population of 200,000.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for Chile and Peru. The center recorded a tsunami wave as high as 9 feet.

iReport.com: Did you feel it? Share information, images with CNN

"An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines near the epicenter within minutes and more distant coastlines within hours," the National Weather Service said in a statement.

The extent of damage or casualties was not immediately known.

Alessandro Perez, who is staying at the Santiago Marriott Hotel, reported shattered windows, but there was no structural damage. No one at the hotel was injured, he said.

Anita Herrera, who works at the Hotel Kennedy in Santiago, said electricity was knocked out at that hotel and guests were nervous.

"Our hotel is built for this," she said. "In Chile, this happens many times."

Chile holds the record for the largest earthquake in the world, according to the USGS. A magnitude 9.5 quake struck the South American country in May 1960 and killed 1,655 people.

 

[Octoberist]

my mom is in hawaii and I just called her. i hope the tsuami won't hit Oahu.

 

[[A]]

Hawaii ain't that close to Chile, come on..

 

[Kud-Dukan]

Yep, there is a tsunami warning for all of Hawaii and they're keeping an eye on the West Coast of North America too.

An 8.8 quake...that just boggles the mind.

 

[terry78]

My mom was like, it's 2012. I was like, quit freaking us out.

 

[NotAHenchwench]

My mom was like, it's 2012. I was like, quit freaking us out.

Um... was I asleep for 2 years? It's still 2010, right?

But in seriousness... that's nuts. Does anyone know where the epicenter was?

 

[Wolfwood]

Um... was I asleep for 2 years? It's still 2010, right?

But in seriousness... that's nuts. Does anyone know where the epicenter was?

Well you know, the Earth has to warm up for 2012, just like a runner for a race.

It's been sometime since this was posted, did the tsunami warning pass already? How long do tsunami warnings stay in effect?

 

[NotAHenchwench]

Well you know, the Earth has to warm up for 2012, just like a runner for a race.

It's been sometime since this was posted, did the tsunami warning pass already? How long do tsunami warnings stay in effect?

It can be as long as 24 hours, depending on where the epicenter of the quake was in relation to the land around it [I think...] .

 

[The Lizard]

"Charles McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, said he didn't know how big the waves will be, but he expected them to be the largest to hit Hawaii since 1964."


I'll bet a few crazy surfers are going to try to ride the tsunami.

 

[Carcharodon]

Hawaii ain't that close to Chile, come on..

Tsunamis can cover thousands of miles in a few short hours without losing much energy. They can literally travel at a couple hundred miles per hour in the open ocean.

 

[StorminNorman]

Goddamn, there goes more tax money to a foreign country.