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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wobble73 on February 27, 2008, 05:23:35 am
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:shaking:
EARTHQUAKE! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm)
I was rocked out of bed by it at around 1am this morning, anyone else feel it!?
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If a major earthquake did hit Grimsby... would anyone be able to tell the difference?
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Bah. If it's not London it doesn't matter :p
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I never even knew england GOT earthquakes :wtf:
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I felt it, but there's been a few lately so I wasn't really all that bothered... of course, had I been closer to the epicentre I might have :)
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Slept straight through it. Just like the great storm of 1987 :D
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I never even knew england GOT earthquakes :wtf:
Agreed!
Slept straight through it. Just like the great storm of 1987 :D
Also agreed!
I thought this was a joke or something when I woke up this morning... I'd always grown up thinking England didn't ever get earthquakes. I suppose being down in Portsmouth the chances of me feeling anything were low and I was asleep anyway. But still... weird.
That said, I imagine a lot of people who have suffered through worse quakes are rolling their eyes at everyone who's making too much of a fuss about this!
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San Franciscans laugh at your 5.2:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/SanFrancisco/Random/th-sf.jpg)
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Yep but English laugh at you largely gay tourist demographic.
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San Franciscans laugh at your 5.2:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/SanFrancisco/Random/th-sf.jpg)
Dinosaurs laugh at your earthquake.
(http://broncosrule.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/meteor.jpg)
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I didn't feel it at all. If only I was still spamming. Then I would have ran out of my house screaming "NUCLEAR ATTACK!!!"
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That said, I imagine a lot of people who have suffered through worse quakes are rolling their eyes at everyone who's making too much of a fuss about this!
Like waking up to find yourself bummed by a with a guy with a 1" cock, it's not the size so much as the fact that you totally didn't expect it that is important. :p
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I woke up literally a few seconds before the "tremor" hit Manchester. Not much more than a vibration really (like if you stall the engine and the car vibrates). Wasn't sure if it had really happened or I'd had a "funny turn" as I was still half a sleep.
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Like waking up to find yourself bummed by a with a guy with a 1" cock, it's not the size so much as the fact that you totally didn't expect it that is important. :p
Best. Analogy. Ever. :ick:
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The shake woke me up! And I'm on the Wirral, though I suppose that the fact I'm on a hill that's made of solid stone did't help the fact!
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Dinosaurs laugh at your earthquake.
(http://broncosrule.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/meteor.jpg)
No, they die.
I saw the news this morning here in Canada. I've never been in an earthquake of any scale in my life. I want to experience one, they sound pretty cool! :D
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It's like you'd never think of the UK as being one of the worst areas for Wind-spouts and Tornados, but it is, but like the Earthquakes, they are mostly small and localised.
We have an advantage that much of the central British Isles is, or was, swampland, so it's kind of like having a shock-absorber built into the bedrock :)
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We have an advantage that much of the central British Isles is, or was, swampland, so it's kind of like having a shock-absorber built into the bedrock :)
Actually, that makes it worse, not better.
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Why would it do that? It would absorb the impact.
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At a guess I'd say ngtm1r is on about soil liquefaction like with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake where although hundreds of miles away from the epicentre the geology of the area made the Earthquake effects much worse.
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****. Canary Wharf is currently shaking under my feet. We're getting a tremor every few minutes. Everyone is trying to be cool but people are starting to quietly voice their concern.
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...Today as well? :wtf:
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Yes this is wierd. Nothing on BBC London about it. I'm left wondering what the hell that was. I suspect the Cloverfield monster.
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At a guess I'd say ngtm1r is on about soil liquefaction like with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake where although hundreds of miles away from the epicentre the geology of the area made the Earthquake effects much worse.
That was caused by Harmonics though, not by the Earthquake itself iirc, and was actually a pretty rare and unpredictable occurence.
From what I remember, the UK actually has 3-4 Earthquakes a year, but most of what undermines the effect of them is the geology of the area. Wales, for example, is mostly Slate and Granite, which would be really messy if the vibrations got to them, slate, in particular, can be very nasty in those situations because it is a 'layered' rock that breaks off into huge flat slabs. It is only the UK's 'springy' Midlands that help disperse that problem to a large degree.
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IPA Andrews i'm at south quay. It's just the DLR commuters moaning lol i wouldn't worry. The isle of dogs will sink later when my work lot hit the Spinnaker pub lol.
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My Physical Geography 100 class says pretty much that you want the right kind of bedrock. Obsidian, for example, that's great stuff to have under your feet because it barely moves at all. But the guy next to you on sandstone, he's screwed, because obsidian transmits the waves well even if it doesn't actually move much. (This is why in the event of The Big One hitting San Diego, most of La Jolla will still be standing.) Mexico City was an unpredictable occurance but soil liquefaction is not, so all that swampy land might just come back and bite you unless you're on the right kind of bedrock.
Basically, studies have shown that anything aside from rock is probably asking for trouble. The San Francisco earthquakes prove the point: those parts of the city built on swampy land were flattened along with the fill portions. The Presido, which is built on an area with obsidian bedrock, didn't feel a thing.
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We. Will. Survive. *cue trance music* i know what you're saying but we'll muddle through if england splits off from wales and scotland and floats away. [hopefully somewhere warm]
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We could go hang with Hawaii, that'd be cool ;)
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Can Alaska come too?
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Can Alaska come too?
Ummm, only if you bring your oil! :P
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END OF ZE WORLD!
(In reference to the Alaska/Hawaii line)
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Earthquakes aren't rare here with all those volcanos(Etna, Vesuvio, Marsili, Vavilov, Vulcano, Stromboli) and other fearsome places(Campi Flegrei).
There's a small (almost unactive) volcano about 100 meters from me! :blah:
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100 meters? so it's outside your front doorstep? :wtf:
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Let's say 150 meters. It's near the hill...
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I really gotta see a picture of that...
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There's no smoke coming out from it now(though my father told me that my grandpa has seen smoke coming out from the bottom about 90 years ago or more) but the magma is close enough to the surface to make the presence of "terme" possible. There always are Polish and German tourists having a bath there.
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There always are Polish and German tourists having a bath there.
Eugh... Old men included? Eugh...
Is the volcano much of a hill, or is it a vent or whatever?
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Young and old people...primarily old(they want to cure their bodies).
The volcano is a tapped hill now but the magma is still close to the surface. You can enter it with a tunnel but the access is prohibited since two "speleologi" died many decades ago. There's some kind of toxic gas inside that tunnel and the area near the opening is full of vipers.
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That gas would probably be sulfur. Kill you by smell alone. :ick:
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HIGH concentration of sulfur...that's lethal.
"Rotten eggs"
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What a horrible way to die. With the smell of rotton eggs...
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I guess there was something else inside that tunnel, not only sulfur.
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Probably CO, or cyanide. (I think that's one place where cyanide is formed)