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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
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.
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.'"
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.
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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.
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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
and not one Taco Bell joke? A/C is slipping.
Is this non-news really worth posting on /. ?
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
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.
Though would prefer 7.1
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.
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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.
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In the greater LA area, it's rather likely that 50 people are displaced from their homes on a daily basis from water mains leaks, fires, termites and Bog Knows what else. Call FEMA (and me) when you ramp it up by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Any magnitude >= 5 earthquake with an epicenter in the middle of a large urban area is going to cause some damage and make the news. One that is 100 miles away from the coastline and 800 miles away - less so unless it causes a tsunami (which the one two weeks ago didn't do). Why is it news for nerds - Irvine, Downtown LA (One Wilshire) and El Segundo are all within 30 miles and a decent amount of network traffic passes through those hubs or point of origination is in one of the data centers there.
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.)
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We will rebuild
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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
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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.
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
Nobody knows who's naked until the tide goes out. Nobody knows who shortcut the building codes until a moderate tremor hits.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
For both parties.
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