Comments on: Earthquakes, Anyone?…..

By: MRambler

MRambler — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:56:22 +0000

Got two theories – The earthquakes picked up in frequency and strength about the same time as the Seattle Sonics became the Oklahoma City Thunder….. There are hard-core Seattle fans out there transporting and planting them under us for revenge….. The other theory is that PD Bob has a secret underground lab in the Jones area and is conducting high explosive experiments….. I’ve grilled him, but, he won’t admit to anything, even when I brought up the fact that he had shown up smelling like cordite and gunpowder on more than one occasion…… He did state that if I would stop with the questions, he would predict the exact time of the next quake and allow me in his bunker for protection….

I don’t know if it was as strong as a small atomic bomb, but, it did knock things of the walls and was felt as far away as Tulsa (100 miles from ground zero)…… Any word on insurance?…..

By: Sunn

Sunn — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:29:20 +0000

MR, I’m sure PDB has his “safe spot” burrowed out. Maybe, just maybe, if you are nice, you can have him make room for you.

By: zook

zook — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:06:45 +0000

Jeez, MR! What the hell are you up to? Wikipedia tells me that a 4.0 is equivalent to a small atomic bomb. Is there something you’d like to tell us?

By: MRambler

MRambler — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:32:51 +0000

It’s me, It’s me!….. You noticed that’s a big blue square in Oklahoma, Jek, and it’s right over my head…. I guess I should have kept my mouth shut as it just got bigger, today at 9:18 am we had a 4.0 followed by a 3.8 at 9:30 am….. Same location – around the town of Jones….. They are unable to explain why we are having so many or why they are getting stronger….. They are supposedly moving in more seismic equipment before committing to a firm answer….. They say the biggest earthquake ever in Oklahoma was a 5.5, and, that we can’t have a 7.0 here because we don’t have the right plates in the ground below us….. I don’t know whether to believe them or not…… Anyone know if you can get earthquake insurance?…… Still shakin’ in Oklahoma……

By: Jek

Jek — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:55:43 +0000

Below are images of the “Latest Earthquakes in the USA – Last 7 days” from Zook’s last link. They even got Maine right.

Look at that lonely blip in OK. That must be you MR!

By: Sunn

Sunn — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:55:53 +0000

All sorts of weather related phenomena lately. Record cold, snow, flooding, earthquakes. However since there is no such thing as global warming (tic), sort of makes you wonder, huh?

By: anon

anon — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:35:22 +0000

No fun being poor in a quake when you live and work in shitty concrete structures.

We’ve dirtied Mother’s clean floors but that’s no cause for a shaken.

I survived the Nisqually quake. Waiting for the really Big One, the 9 that’s overdue . Come visit.

By: zook

zook — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:22:37 +0000

Seattle has a lot of earthquakes. It looks like we’ve had four in the last two weeks—I think that’s kind of quiet.

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/recenteqs/Maps/Seattle_Region.html

In the ten years I’ve been here, I’ve only felt two of them. One was the 6.8 Nisqually quake. It was quite a ride. I felt the other, but just barely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually_earthquake

It’s worth pointing out that a 2.5 release almost 6 *million* times less energy than a 7.0. These logarithmic scales are deceiving.

Oh, and if you really want to follow these, the USGS has lots of info. They even have GEORSS enabled RSS feeds you can subscribe to.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/