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6+ near Napa.

A lot of very expensive wine bottles are probably broken this morning.

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SFgate has some impressive pictures.

The Napa-American Canyon-Vallejo stretch was hit hard. Some old historical buildings in Napa crumbed. :(
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87 injuries, 3 severe. 15,000+ without power, water main break and a couple small fires. Biggest quake in that half of the state since the 89 one.
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(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?
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Went up to 120 injured 6 critically. At least a dozen Napa buildings are condemned and 6 mobile homes burned down nearby. Dozens of other buildings with cosmetic damage.
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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?
Youse think people in an earthquake zone would know better.
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Just felt a big one in central Illinois. That's our first since 2008.
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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?
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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.
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Maybe you just had a rumbly in your tumbly. Go get some ice cream.
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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.
I think the parrot slipped you some low grade acid. Just take some deep breaths, drink some orange juice, pet something furry, and you'll be just fine.
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I went straight to pet something fury
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7.8 in Nepal. Thousands possibly dead and parts of Katmandu have been flattened.

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This guy's twitter has a lot of first hand stuff. Looks absolutely devastating...
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Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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Up over 2500 dead. But there are likely even more...
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.
Also a 6.7 magnitude aftershock hit this morning. I can't even imagine how terrifying it must be there right now...
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My father was in Kathmandu just a few years ago and at Everest base camp. Glad he got to see these now destroyed landmarks. :-(
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Dan Fredinburg, an engineer in Google's Project X division, was among more than a dozen climbers killed in avalanche set off by Nepal's massive earthquake.

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-enginee ... CAD590a51e
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Science magazine predicted this 2 months ago.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6 ... 159caecc09
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Amazing pictures here
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Amazing.

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Holy shit
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I shit my pants just watching that
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Chicat wrote:Holy shit
No. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
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Death toll over 5000 now. Seismologists say the entire Indian subcontinent shifted 10 feet northwards.
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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.
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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.
Looks like they have less than two weeks to collect the data that will answer my question: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015 ... y-science/
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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?
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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?
As long as there's a good Wi-Fi connection I'm good.
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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?
Could yet happen.
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Amazing they are finding people alive. One guy was buried for 82 hours
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Near my old home town of Battle Creek.

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Didn't feel it here (about 100 miles away).
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Another big earthquake hits Nepal. Looks like a 7.3 and preliminary reports are that 50 people are dead 1,000+ injured. Also a US military helicopter involved in relief operations has gone missing.
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Ugh just awful
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Is it ironic my old hometown gets more earthquakes than I do out here in Cali?

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8.3 off the coast of Chile. Tsunami alert issued and they're evacuating towns on the coast.
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Chicat wrote:8.3 off the coast of Chile. Tsunami alert issued and they're evacuating towns on the coast.
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Well hell. Hope people get the hell out. Tsunamis are just insane.
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Central coast issues warnings to tourists.

Even a smaller Tsunami is capable of producing strong currents or waves to persons in or very near water. Please be careful near our beaches and harbor.

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7.5 on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. 100 dead is the initial estimate, but that's bound to go up. :(
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I didn't feel it, but I guess many did.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/loc ... /75026000/" target="_blank
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.
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Yep, felt it. The whole house shook. We thought maybe someone had driven a car into our house. Went downstairs and looked in the front and back and realized we just had an earthquake.

Felt an aftershock about 20 minutes later. Second earthquake I have felt. The first in California was felt much bigger like a train was rrolling over the place we were at.
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Wednesday, December 29th, is day one of forty that brings us to February 6th...

What's February 6th?

Maybe nothing.

Maybe just a simulation date.

Maybe just the end of the world!

Gonna be a whole lotta shaking going on...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/ ... ly-big-one" target="_blank

As a former journalist, former geology minor, I am currently suffering from both a knotted stomach and a science/writing boner... Holy shit that article is awesome!

Read to the end. I doubt I need to say that here, as anyone willing to click a New Yorker link is smart enough to know the value of reading to an article's conclusion, but, seriously, the second half is better than any suspense film.

Again, Holy Shit!
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Great read. Particularly the detective story about the 1700 quake. Thanks, JMJ.
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