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Earthquake!
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:46 pm
by AltarBoy
Man, we just had a bad one here this morning at around 9.06am. Measured 6.0 on the Richter Scale. I was home on a day off when the whole house shook like mad. This was one of the worst in 10 years. It sounded like a freight train and must've lasted about a minute or less. We felt an aftershock an hour ago and that was just as scary.
Altar-"All Shook Up"-Boy.
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:17 am
by :FI:WillieOFS
FFS!! 6.0 and the house didn't fall down? Glad it didn't.
Stuff like that is why I don't go to Kalifornia any more..
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:23 am
by AltarBoy
Yeah, my house is constructed out of prefabricated concrete. Glad to be alive. We live in seismic belt in the Eastern Caribbean. Some folks got injured and one guy fell off a ladder and died.
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:28 am
by :FI:Falcon
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now, is that 6.0 in American Richters
or in weeny li'l T/T Richters?
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New Orleans sits on hundreds of feet of mud, muck and left over gumbo. Even if we had a twenty-nine point eleventy-five, no one would feel it.
Fal "Left over gumbo?" con
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:40 am
by AltarBoy
Nope it's in Yankee Richters. Now, the news said it was really 5.8. Big deal it was still a frightning tremor. The aftershock was just as bad- 5.2.
New Orleans mud? Hmmmmm.....