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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Hope all the forum members in the Seattle/Washington State area are a-okay after the 7.0 earthquake a few hours ago.

CNN reports the earthquake was centered on (or near) Seattle and was felt as far away as Salt Lake City. So far, no one is reported injured.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I didn't know Washington could get quakes...

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Hell, we had some (very) minor quakes in the Baltimore area about 5 years ago.

Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

Yep any area with active tectonics can have earthquakes. In fact here in the next decade or so we are supposed to have a really big one in the Pacific Northwest. That one ought to be a lot of fun.

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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

*shudders*

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

May your world shake for other reasons....

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

Just got off the phone with my Aunt who lives near Seattle. They're all right. Thank God.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

The uneasy earth beneath our feet here in the Pacific Northwest tends to move quite a bit. However, it usually does so at a depth too deep to feel. This has been mentioned over and over again by people from the area on the news, no doubt in response to a billion souls shaking their heads and going "Earthquake? Seattle? That's on Earth now?"

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

This has been a test of the Emergency Forum Earthquake System. This is only a test. Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been told to RUN LIKE HELL!

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Well, this is obviously a lot more serious than Gujarat. There only 20,000 people died. Here there was *shudder* damage to property! The sheer cost! In money terms! And the emotional damage - shrinks will be working overtime for years! Everyone else will be able to share in the trauma through the medium of TV movies!

What a world we live in. . .

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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

Sarcasm is what you live for isn't it. Just so everyone has a real reason to run for cover when the big one hits this area it is likely to level a lot of things. Reasons for this

1. The two plates have been looked up tight for about 300 years. At around 1 to 2 inches of movement a year we are looking at anywhere from 25-50 feet of movement. That is a lot of energy being released.

2. The buildings are not designed for high magnitude earthquakes.

3. Most of the high population areas sit on sedimentary deposits which are not the most stable of items. In fact earthquake intensity can increase in these areas.

Now that I have scared all of the weak hearted people I'm going to get off of my soap box. ENJOY

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

I saw a car that got smashed. You guys got fucked over, like, real bad.

They closed the fucking space needle!

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

They won't have to change the Frasier title sequence, will they?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

You mean the tower?

Someone set up them the quake...

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

*ahem*

Space Needle.

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

I ain't touching that one with a 10 foot pole.

*sniggers*

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

I'll see that *snigger* and raise you a *guffaw* 8)

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Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :

Hey Tec... I dunno about "high-population". That's open to interpretation. Not too much residential. Some of the Denny Regrade is built on fill, but it's mostly all the stuff down by Harbor Island and the areas just South of downtown. Industrial.

**TRIVIA TIME** The fill in Elliot Bay is mostly rocks used as ballast in the ships coming up to Seattle for timber to build San Francisco. My historical irony sense is tingling here. SF's Seattle lumber burned in th e1906 quake, and in the big on in the PNW, it'll be the stuff on the San Francisco fill that suffers most.

--Jonah

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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

I'm not talking about fill in the bays I'm talking about sedimentary rocks that fill what most of these cities sit on. We are looking at a line from Seattle down to Eugene, OR and every city in between. The ground is not solid bedrock it is sedimentary rock which actually amplifies the intensity. I hope I will be back home on solid rock before the big one happens cause it isn't going to be pretty.

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