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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2003, 06:33:00 PM »
Now reporting 2 or 3 deaths.. Paso Robles was hit hard.
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Offline Gunslinger

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« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2003, 06:35:29 PM »
OK I saw this show on PBS (wich means it HAS to be true) and this scientist guy said california will never fall into the ocean and that's impossible.


More seriously I live near lancasteer SE of the quake and I didnt feel a thing.  I heard about it from my mom calling from Nebraska who saw it on the news.
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« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2003, 07:59:26 PM »
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More seriously I live near lancasteer SE of the quake and I didnt feel a thing.  I heard about it from my mom calling from Nebraska who saw it on the news.


Not surprised... I'm 80 miles north of you (or so) and I felt it. My next door neighbor didn't notice it. Hell... even my son sitting five feet away didn't feel it. Had another friend in town that said he felt dizzy.

It was very light here, but it lasted a long time. I wasn't surprised to find that it was a big one.
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« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2003, 11:18:49 PM »
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OK I saw this show on PBS (wich means it HAS to be true) and this scientist guy said california will never fall into the ocean and that's impossible.


More seriously I live near lancasteer SE of the quake and I didnt feel a thing.  I heard about it from my mom calling from Nebraska who saw it on the news.


The guy reporting that must live in Wisconsin.   California is split (mind you this is the generic version, not to be confused with minute details and specifics) around the San Andreas fault.  The Western side is on one plate, the eastern side is on another.  The Western side is actually sliding under the Eastern plate.  

Fall into the ocean?  Not likely, but slip under the plates a real possibility.

Now, I could post facts, figures and links, but geez I'm just too damn lazy to pull it up.
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« Reply #19 on: December 22, 2003, 11:41:22 PM »
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Offline JB73

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« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2003, 12:02:38 AM »
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What you don't want to see is a fault line with little to no activity for extended periods
according to the map 1/2 way down this:
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/EarthSC202Notes/quakes.htm
page we in wisconsin are in greater danger than 2/3's of california.

we've had nothing in liek 100 years maybe 200. guess that "big one" is coming huh?

(I'd STILL rather live here than somewhere i might die from falling debris almost any day of the week)
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« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2003, 12:40:42 AM »
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OK I saw this show on PBS (wich means it HAS to be true) and this scientist guy said california will never fall into the ocean and that's impossible.


That's true... the ocean will rize.  In his quatrains, Nostradamus prophesizes "In the first decades of the third millenium the waters will rize to swallow the city of false images..."
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« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2003, 12:43:23 AM »
of course nostradmaus said it. why didnt we plan for this???

better look out. it will happen. it's written. unlike the almighty TV the written word never lies or is wrong.
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« Reply #23 on: December 23, 2003, 12:53:48 AM »
I cross referenced Confucius, and there is a related passage...

"Man who makes living in industry of false image may drown in hugmungous flood of irony"
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« Reply #24 on: December 23, 2003, 12:55:19 AM »
YIKES i work for




Xerox.


im doomed.
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« Reply #25 on: December 23, 2003, 01:03:25 AM »
Slept right through it, just found out about it now in this thread... :)
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« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2003, 02:05:13 AM »
lol people from europe tould me about it;)
i feel nothing
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« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2003, 02:07:34 AM »
OH Geesh!

Confucious and nostrawhatsisname definatly outrank the PBS guy.  We're all screwed.....I WANT A TRANSFER....it wasnt my choice to live here
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« Reply #28 on: December 23, 2003, 02:16:15 AM »
in california quakes have become more of a feature and less of a problem.  
  they rock you to sleep at night.  kinda like the old hotel rooms with "majic fingers", without all those quarters.
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« Reply #29 on: December 23, 2003, 03:21:54 AM »
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in california quakes have become more of a feature and less of a problem.  
  they rock you to sleep at night.  kinda like the old hotel rooms with "majic fingers", without all those quarters.


It sure does when the roof collapses on you... :rolleyes:
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