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5.1 Earthquake Hits California
An anonymous reader writes "A 5.1 earthquake hit Southern California at 9:09PM local time on Friday. It was preceded by a 3.6 earthquake, then followed by 3.4 and 3.6 quakes, as well as 100+ smaller aftershocks. The United States Geological Survey has a map showing the epicenter. There have been no reported deaths, though roughly 50 people have been displaced from their homes. 'The shake caused a rock slide in Carbon Canyon, causing a car to overturn, according to the Brea Police Department. Fullerton police received reports of water main breaks and windows shattering, but primarily had residents calling about burglar alarms being set off by the quake.'"
5.0 - deep Atlantic Ocean - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear...
5.8 - deep Atlantic Ocean - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear...
5.2 - 100 km east of Japan - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear...
5.0 - near New Guinea - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear...
5.2 - Nicaragua - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear...
and then there are the ones below magnitude 5
Hopefully the earth will open up and swallow your stupid ass up. Troll up on my nutsack.
A 5.1 in California is the equivalent of an inch of snow in Ohio. People will kvetch about it but not cause any real issues.
Bass QUAKE!!
Some guy was complaining that his wife was angry because some of her wine glass collection fell over and broke. Wine glass collection, in Los Angeles. Good ideer! I keep my playing card house collection in a storage locker down there. I guess I should go check on it. You wouldn't believe what I went through to get those things moved.
Anyway, he also said that some people he knew weren't being allowed back into their neighborhoods or something. And when there isn't a gas leak, I'm surprised, knowing PG&E. So maybe there was some more significant damage around, if not major.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So a little while ago I felt like I had a great big healthy shit coming on. I mean it makes sense. I have been adding more fiber to my diet lately. So I sat on my white porcelain throne and then ... *unghhnhhghhghh* *PLOP*
Ah. Wow that was a big one. Damn it this is a big, wide, long log. It'll probably fold in half and get stuck
and clog the fucking toilet. Again. Ah well. I will deal with that if and when it happens.
... oh no. I feel something knotty.
Yup, what I feared from this turd has come to pass. I have lots of hairs around my asshole. I suppose most men
do. Nature's way of saying "I love you! But not that much."
It was such a wide turd-log with such girth though. Amazing that my otherwise virgin asshole can expand that wide. Hmm that could be a problem. So I start to wipe. Damn it this could take a while. I got feces smeared on the sides of my ass cheeks from the girth of that turd. I wipe some more and
There it is. I can feel it through the single ply paper. A great big DINGLEBERRY. Naturally I try to awkwardly grab it with a folded sheet of toilet paper and dislodge it. I pull. Ouch. I pull harder. OUCH. Wow during its brief passage past the asshair, this turd-let really securely managed to get caught on some ass hairs. I can't just pull the dingleberry out without ripping the hairs right out. I have no idea if that caries the possibility of breaking the fecal encrusted skin and leading to an infection or what, but I know it would hurt so I want other options. I try gathering lots of sheets of toilet paper. I repeatedly wipe the same area over and over, hoping to wear this fucker down. I manage to whittle it down a little but this is taking far too much time. This turd is really determined to stay in its new home!
I can't very well pull my underpants back up now, that would get them all shitty and smelly. If I wanted to smell bad all the time I would let myself get fat. Maybe some water will help. I awkwardly reach for the faucet, turning it to a slow stream, and wet some toilet paper, making a mental note to disinfect the faucet handle later. I can't see the damned thing but judging from the brown stains appearing on the sheets of toilet paper, I am at least making progress. Now my hands are wet and shitty smelling and I am thinking this better be worth it. I use a dry sheet to feel for the dingleberry again. It did shrink but it's still there, dangling from my ass hairs, mocking me. WTF have I been eating lately to produce such a persistent turd? Nature does abhor a vacuum, which is why lots of gas has entered my bowels where the big turd-log recently was. I enjoy a nice after-defecating loud fart while I wonder what to do next. I chuckle because when the fart is your own, you don't think it stinks but you know somebody else would evacuate the area. Ok time to stop laughing, this is a serious predicament.
I toy with the idea of getting some scissors or something to try and cut the dingleberry out. Then I consider this is a sensitive area, I cannot see what I am doing, and it's too close for comfort to my cock and balls to be wielding a bladed item. I am starting to get angry. I am starting to not care anymore about the consequences of just yanking the damned thing out. I tried the easier ways and they failed. Fuck it, I have places to be and things to do. I can't very well spend all day in the bathroom playing a not-so-fun game with a turd. I double up on toilet paper and get a good secure grip on the dingleberry. Okay fucker, you're going DOWN. *YANK* Yeouch, fuck that hurt as much as I thought it would. And there it is, in my hand, nestled in the folds of toilet paper: my dingleberry! Ha ha ha, you won the battle, dingleberry, but I just won the war! I rub my sore ass cheek. Then I ceremoniously plop that fucker in the toilet bowl, to briefly swim with his big brother log. Oh man, you never heard such a satisfying flushing sound in your life. I rub some aftershave around my
Normal weather for each respective locale.
And in other technological "news for nerds"....
Hurricanes hit the Mid-Atlantic
Tornadoes spawn in the Midwest.
Snow falls in the Northeast.
Taxes go up.
Civil liberties go down.
Google makes money.
http://www.earthquakecountry.i...
This rather minor earthquake happened 12 hours ago in an are that frequently has earthquakes, and that had a bigger quake two weeks ago. Why is this one news?
I certainly agree with that sentiment. The best place to build a home would be a place infrequent of natural disasters. You know, like earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, volcanos and all that? Turns out that's pretty hard to do while also having access to vital resources and also reasonably close to civilization.
People love to live dangerously and famously. In placed like New York and California, they have both.
What amazes me about those places is property values. If I owned property in California, I'd sell. Same with New York. With California, it's mostly the land conditions and with New York, it's the people. Both peoples are full of themselves though. Their own politics are their own undoing. It's at least a little fun to watch them from a distance.
I used to think living in the country somewhere, a drive away from a WalMart but out where a man's rights are respected, was crazy talk. Now it seems like a nice way to lay back and watch the world spin.
If a little shake rattle and roll scares you? Take a time trip back to Naples in the year 79 AD. We are all at the mercy of Gaia and perhaps she is getting pissed at our insolence and stupidity again. I would not at all be surprised if the Earth is due for another major ice age that verges on a snowballing. Caused by something like an unforeseen coronal mass ejection that reduces the mass of the Sun and in so doing fundamentally changes the physics of our solar system and decreases the output of the Sun. Are we absolutely certain these kind of events cannot occur in the natural progression of a solar system like ours? Perhaps stars the size of our sun change habitable zones in a succession inward, this could explain why there was once water on mars.
The time of man on Earth might just be coming close to an end and we might not even know it. The shameful thing is that in our arrogance we believe intelligence is uniquely human and perhaps for this very reason we will not survive as a species. We are far to anti-social and aggressive to advance past our current state. Unless we get our shit together and learn how to expand (evolve) into a cooperative non aggressive outer space species human kind may not survive.
This message was not sent from an iPhone because Peter Sellers really was a deviated prevert without a dime for the call
There was some rumbling, then a jolt, then afterwards for several seconds it felt like the ground was moving back and forth. On the second story, the towels were swaying. I think I will put those saftey straps on the IKEA book cases I purchase years ago.
I used to think living in the country somewhere, a drive away from a WalMart but out where a man's rights are respected, was crazy talk. Now it seems like a nice way to lay back and watch the world spin.
Most things that make sense to the informed are "crazy talk" to the rest.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
Didn't even feel it... Slept right through it... In Glendale, CA.
Maybe if it was a 7 or better.....
and not one Taco Bell joke? A/C is slipping.
Is this non-news really worth posting on /. ?
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
Johannesburg. None of the above natural disasters, and it is at least moderately civilized.
But then you just trade in the natural disasters for the man-made variety - state looting & corruption, frequent prolonged strikes, murders, robbery, theft, mugging, rape, etc. etc. etc.
mag 5 is a nothing quake. california really needs to get over itself
I think the problem is that California is getting under itself
Watch those corners
OMG, it's another sign of global warming!!!
During the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake every car alarm in the area was set off.
Although I now live in quake-free Texas the first thing I think of when a car alarm goes off is Earthquake! It must be the reptile part of the brain or something. Once my heart starts beating and the rest of my brain starts working I realize there is no earthquake.
50 people displaced for a 5.1? Where I live earthquakes are smalltime only, so it's not like we're engineered for quakes. We had a 5.4 last year (biggest in a century), in an area made mostly of clay (so it amplifies the shaking), and no one was displaced. A few chimneys fell, that's all.
High property values in LA and NYC reflect the high salaries that can be made there by high achievers. I live in LA and make twice what I did in a smaller city, but of course the cost of living is higher here.
Though would prefer 7.1
Most things that make sense to the informed are "crazy talk" to the rest.
Having the same priorities as you and being "informed" are not the same thing.
High pay isn't high achievement unless that is how you measure high achievement.
As long as you find a nice spot to write your manifesto.
rewriting history since 2109
In 5.1 Dolby Surround too!
And aliens.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
How hard is it to understand? Anybody who agrees with me is informed. Anybody who holds a dissenting viewpoint is an ignorant sheep. Very simple.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
The sad part it is that some of those are true, and it's also true racism is alive and well, at least from west coast (?) ac white trash
Get up!
Congratulations, you have an opinion, just like everyone else on the planet.
Doesn't mean you know shit. For example, laying back and watching the world spin doesn't do anything to contribute to the extraordinary achievements of which humans are capable. The people who do that are (mostly) in... you guessed it, places like CA and NY.
You're at least as full of yourself as those people you contemptuously dismiss.
Neutron bombs make other materials become radioactive and the bomb itself is supposed to have a dirty result in a much smaller area.
It's relatively clean compared to one of the worst things invented but it is not really clean. We will know for sure when all this positive hype gets somebody to use it and then the real world results will slowly come out (whether or not the gov knows in detail about it does not matter, they'll claim ignorance for anything bad that results and rationalize justifications.)
Democracy Now! - uncensored, anti-establishment news
I certainly agree with that sentiment. The best place to build a home would be a place infrequent of natural disasters. You know, like earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, volcanos and all that? Turns out that's pretty hard to do while also having access to vital resources and also reasonably close to civilization.
People love to live dangerously and famously. In placed like New York and California, they have both.
What amazes me about those places is property values. If I owned property in California, I'd sell. Same with New York. With California, it's mostly the land conditions and with New York, it's the people. Both peoples are full of themselves though. Their own politics are their own undoing. It's at least a little fun to watch them from a distance.
I used to think living in the country somewhere, a drive away from a WalMart but out where a man's rights are respected, was crazy talk. Now it seems like a nice way to lay back and watch the world spin.
The NorthEast US (Boston) and Canada are pretty close to fitting that ideal. It's true that we have snow storms and Nor'easters roll through but very few natural disasters.
We will rebuild
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I used to think living in the country somewhere, a drive away from a WalMart but out where a man's rights are respected, was crazy talk.
You are far more likely to die in a car accident while driving to WalMart than you are from any natural disaster.
Seriously, is this news? I've lived in California and minor-moderate earthquakes are no big deal. Californians cause about 5 minutes of excitement where everyone runs outside (you don't want a house falling on you), and businesses evacuate (don't want heavy equipment falling on employees or customers), and traffic slows and stops. Afterwards it is not news even for Californians - it is business as usual.
According to the CA Department of Conservation - "Each year, California generally gets two or three earthquakes large enough to cause moderate damage to structures (magnitude 5.5 and higher)" and this from the USGS "Each year the southern California area has about 10,000 earthquakes; the majority of which go unnoticed. " Seriously, minor / moderate earthquakes in California is not news.
In related news:
There are strong wind gusts in Chicago
It is really cold (19F) in Anchorage, AK
People traded *billions* of dollars in stocks and securities on the New York Stork Exchange on Friday
Somewhere in the US there is a thunderstorm, with lightning bolts containing approximately 1 TW of power
Most cities has di-hydrogen monoxide in its food that people are eating right now. The LD50 (median death dose for 50% population to die) is only 90 ml/kg.
Wow! California has an earthquake? Next you'll tell me that a Democrat got caught taking bribes, that a Republican got caught saying something stupid, that a Hollywood movie star got caught behaving badly, and that someone rich just did something like a giant telecommunication merger to make them richer!
Ops, sounds like God needs to refine his aim. Just around the world a little and he can start Judgement Day with 30 generations of cansor at puberty. .. etc.
But please, no one bother their tiny brains thinking of all that burning fuel shooting into upper atmosphere, circulating around the globe,
When? At a guess, I'd say around Eater seems a likely time.. complete guess, could be tonight.
When do you think God will start the end?
only if we can sent obama, and the rest of the US democratic leadership along with those republicans. you know, fairness and equallity and all
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
It only a shake on Chile....
Looking for quake-destroyed houses, and beating people they found cowering in their yards to death. After all, they were now homeless and a California jury has ruled them fair game. Watch for the hilarious videos on YouTube.
"The best place to build a home would be a place infrequent of natural disasters."
An example is along the San Andreas fault, a long section near Palm Springs. One result of the faults are two tectonic plates next to each with one side 'higher' than the other. As the plates slide against each other they grind very fine rock dust which make a water barrier. The result is ground water from the higher plate seeps out as underground springs right along the fault. You can see a line of desert oasis in the desert there, right on top of the fault. And along come humans, and they see and say, "Hey! A source of water. And date palms!" And next you know they are building fancy mansions and big resorts....
think of all the tech companies in california. what would happen if california fell into the ocean?
You're seriously arguing that lubricating something makes it less slippery? Wastewater disposal is the part of fracking that *causes* earthquakes. You "guys" aren't fooling anyone.
See title.
Most things that make sense to the informed are "crazy talk" to the rest.
Having the same priorities as you and being "informed" are not the same thing.
It's not a priority for me to be informed about, say, interior decorating. I don't know anything about it. That's why you won't see me making statements and giving opinions on it. Simple?
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
How hard is it to understand? Anybody who agrees with me is informed. Anybody who holds a dissenting viewpoint is an ignorant sheep. Very simple.
It depends on whether it's a factual matter.
What ignorant sheep do: post sometimes vehement/passionate opinions concerning subjects they haven't even bothered to read up on, let alone understand. Then get upset when someone who is informed constructively corrects them. It's standard ego-childishness.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
You deal with the slow-motion train wreck of paying to heat your house. My winter monthly heating bill was less than $100 in January, and I'm renting in a place that leaks like a sieve. If I owned, I do believe I could get that sucker down to about $70/mo with some common sense mods like double-pane windows, insulation and a programmable thermostat. Getting up with the alarm and turning it from 60 to 70 sucks, but it saved me about $20/mo this year.
For both parties.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Simple? Nope. Communication is never simple - there are a huge number of variables and issues to deal with.
One of the largest variables: context. For instance, you seem to be implying that we should value the opinions of slashdot user #777677 on topics other than interior decorating because we know something about user #777677. But there are literally millions of slashdot users - that bit of context is almost always lost.
However, the context of the current discussion or thread is almost always available, at least here on slashdot. Let's look at some of it:
In that context, your statement about the "informed" has a lot of other implications - apparently, the people who do not choose to live out in the country are un-informed (nor are their rights respected). But chances are, others made their choices based on what is important to them (i.e., their priorities).
Were you trying to make a more general statement about how our perceptions change, based on our knowledge? That's a legitimate point, but in order to make it, you probably needed to do that in a different context. Or similarly, you could have added more words to disassociate your comment from the thread's context (and maybe some different words - here, "the informed" sounds like "the gentry", i.e. a grouping that exists more to be exclusive than descriptive).
I'm sure much of what I've written here will not be interpreted in the way I intended ... as noted, communication is never simple.