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Longhorned wrote:(to be read with Archie Bunker's voice) How can they put a man on the moon and still not make an oithquake-proof bottle of wine?

Longhorned wrote:Just felt a big one in central Illinois. That's our first since 2008.

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:Just felt a big one in central Illinois. That's our first since 2008.

Went to my go-to news source (Twitter) and didn't see anything. Earthquakes reported in Oregon, Tokyo, California, and Nevada, but no Illinois.

Are you sure someone didn't just rip a loud rumbling fart?

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:Just felt a big one in central Illinois. That's our first since 2008.

Went to my go-to news source (Twitter) and didn't see anything. Earthquakes reported in Oregon, Tokyo, California, and Nevada, but no Illinois.

Are you sure someone didn't just rip a loud rumbling fart?

Huh. Maybe I felt the one in Tokyo. I was just sitting here and the floor started moving all around under my feet. I shouted to upstairs to the wife, "Did you feel that thing?"

"Feel what?" she said. "I think I heard something."

I looked over at the chandelier but the cord was hanging completely still. I dismissed all evidence to the contrary because I felt a doozy. Time to go to the hospital.

aid workers warned that the situation could be far worse near the epicenter. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered near Lamjung, about 50 miles northwest of Kathmandu, in the Gorkha district.

Roads to that area were blocked by landslides, hindering rescue teams, said chief district official Prakash Subedi. Teams were trekking through mountain trails to reach remote villages, and helicopters would also be deployed, he said by telephone.

The aid group World Vision said in a statement that remote mountain communities, including in Gorkha, were totally unprepared for the level of destruction caused by the earthquake.

Villages near the epicenter "are literally perched on the sides of large mountain faces and are made from simple stone and rock construction. Many of these villages are only accessible by 4WD and then foot, with some villages hours and even entire days' walks away from main roads at the best of times," the group's local staff member, Matt Darvas, said in the statement.

He said he was hearing that many of the villages may have been completely buried by rock falls.

"It will likely be helicopter access only for these remote villages," he said.

Chicat wrote:Holy shit

ASUHATER! wrote:Death toll over 5000 now. Seismologists say the entire Indian subcontinent shifted 10 feet northwards.

Chicat wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote:Death toll over 5000 now. Seismologists say the entire Indian subcontinent shifted 10 feet northwards.

I wonder if that means Everest is any higher now.

Longhorned wrote:Is it too late for us all just to go back to the savannah and sleep in trees and ride this whole nature thing out for what it is?

Longhorned wrote:Is it too late for us all just to go back to the savannah and sleep in trees and ride this whole nature thing out for what it is?

Chicat wrote:8.3 off the coast of Chile. Tsunami alert issued and they're evacuating towns on the coast.

A string of earthquakes north of Phoenix gave the Valley a rare jolt Sunday night, and the largest – a magnitude 4.1 just before 11:30 p.m. – rattled homes across the region.

The series of at least three Arizona earthquakes generated no reports of notable damage, but left people swaying or stunned from Black Canyon City, closest to the epicenter, to Camp Verde and across metro Phoenix as far as Queen Creek.

Michael Conway of the Arizona Geological Survey said Monday morning that scientists had not identified the causative fault line yet. Because the earthquake was small and did not rupture the ground, it will be hard to identify where it originated, Conway said. He also said there will be aftershocks over the next few days, many of them too small to feel.