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socal earthquake rocks! booyah
« on: June 13, 2005 12:20 pm CDT »
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quak ... 51344.html

man my whole house was moving. it was great. i havnt been in an earthquake in a while. if you've never been in one it kinda feels like a large explosion just took out half your town. haha.


5.2 is a pretty good size. and considering it happened about 30 minutes from my house i felt pretty much all of it.
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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2005 02:35 pm CDT »
The craziest thing about earthquakes is the way theyre measured...
Like, if u have a 5.2, then a 5.3 would be 10x worse, and a 5.4 would be 10x worse than the 5.3. You'd think something like an 8.0 would practically destroy the world.
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2005 02:54 pm CDT »
dont forget the 9.0 earthquake that was in the indian ocean... you know, the one that caused the tsunami on indonesia... i can only imagine of that earthquake was on land...
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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2005 03:17 pm CDT »
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dont forget the 9.0 earthquake that was in the indian ocean... you know, the one that caused the tsunami on indonesia... i can only imagine of that earthquake was on land...



if that earthquake was on land then indonesia would probably be completly gone. a lot more people would have been dead in all the surounding countries.


i just mentioned it because it's been a while since we've had a quake this size. and since quakes are pretty much the only natural disater in california (besides huge fires) its exciting.

if you've never been in an earthquake its a really weird feeling.
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« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2005 04:06 pm CDT »
ya, i bet its also a weird feeling when a 2-ton support beam falls on your head :P
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Re: socal earthquake rocks! booyah
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2005 05:13 pm CDT »
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man my whole house was moving. it was great. i havnt been in an earthquake in a while. if you've never been in one it kinda feels like a large explosion just took out half your town. haha.


5.2 is a pretty good size. and considering it happened about 30 minutes from my house i felt pretty much all of it.


Hah! I felt it too! My lamp fell off my computer!
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2005 06:52 pm CDT »
actually aphex, we do have a few cases of tornadoes here too.  remember sacramento?  i forgot how many months that was but there were 3 tornadoes together i heard.
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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2005 11:13 pm CDT »
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actually aphex, we do have a few cases of tornadoes here too.  remember sacramento?  i forgot how many months that was but there were 3 tornadoes together i heard.



there was a tornado in my town a few months ago. and one in the town just north. nothing to really be concerned about but it took out a house or 2. the one in the town to the north did a lot more damage. tornados in southern california are pretty unheard of. the most we get is severe thunderstorms, floods, hail and snow storms. but im still waiting for the big earthquake to hit.
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« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2005 02:09 am CDT »
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The craziest thing about earthquakes is the way theyre measured...
Like, if u have a 5.2, then a 5.3 would be 10x worse, and a 5.4 would be 10x worse than the 5.3. You'd think something like an 8.0 would practically destroy the world.
I think the correct measurement is that each whole number is twice as strong as the previous number.  The 1.4 or 4.7 or 9.1 is 2^(earthquake number) units of energy released.  (I doubt that is completely correct, it might be multiplied by millions to be the actual joules released.)
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« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2005 01:09 pm CDT »
It actually wasn't an earthquake..  I turned up the bass and drove around california.
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« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2005 03:25 pm CDT »
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It actually wasn't an earthquake..  I turned up the bass and drove around california.


i wish.
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« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2005 11:57 pm CDT »
thats gonna be your "last wish" -ok malarkeyty joke,
but i think every richter scale unit is 32 times greater.  a 5.0 is 32 times more powerful than 4.0
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« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2005 12:47 am CDT »
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie ... itude.html

Problem solved, its a logarithmic function.  Should be completely simple to do that stuff in your head.  :roll:
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« Reply #13 on: June 15, 2005 08:36 am CDT »
hahah there was a 7. something quake off the coast of california and we were on a tsunami watch for all of 2 seconds...it was so funny. haha.
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« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2005 04:00 pm CDT »
ew we just had another quake like 2 seconds ago....scary.

it was a 5.3 up by LA.

this is the 3rd since sunday. we had a 7.0 off the coast of northern california that triggered a tsunami warning for the whole coast of california...


THe WORLD IS ENDING!!
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