The counts at 19,000 and rising. Kind of makes Katrina look like a sneeze. What a crazy year.

Somehow, I'll bet this is George Bush's fault.

Of course, it's Bush's fault. Does anyone doubt that he ordered thermo-nuclear weapons placed in the ground at strategic points on the fault line?


Just noticed that you said "Bush's fault." Was that a pun?

(Edited by FeaturesTroll at 7:35 pm on Oct. 10, 2005)

yeah and i'm waiting for the 'why didn't they leave?' and 'they deserved it' crap to start.

I don't think people get a few days of advance warning before an earthquake, do they?

nope... the place just starts shaking.

um, they're called fault lines.

i'm no geologist, but i'm pretty sure earthquakes happen and are very highly likely to reoccur along fault lines.

and i'm not himilayan, but i know that they've had some major earthquakes recently. like within the past year.

but yeah, this was predicted. only they thought it was going to be bigger.

tah

Oh man, this is creepy. I was about to say something about fault lines being all over the place-- even Knoxville. Then the Weather Channel reported that a 3.3 just happened 47 miles SW of Knoxville.

What are the odds of that? Very creepy.

I live at one of the most seizmically active places in the world. They can monitor activity but can't "predict". People can't really change their lives just b/c of the potential of something catastrophic happening. If that was the case, California would be abandoned. The fact is, you cant really get away from the potential of natural disasters where ever you go. Whether it's tornados in Tennessee, Blizzards elsewhere, Hurricanes, ... whatever, you're never really safe from nature's toll.

I think the heart of the matter, though, was that Sina was implying that a lot of people weren't sympathetic to the victims of Hurricane Katrina and, therefore, those same people would/should be unsympathetic to the victims of the earthquake. I was implying that such a comparison is irrelevant due to the fact that the whole arguement was based on the fact that Katrina was preceeded by a warning of immediate danger rather than it being a sudden occurance like an earthquake.

Now, blaming it on George Bush... that seems more likely. Actually, I heard that troops from nearby Afganistan were lent to rescue efforts shortly after the earthquake. My first thought was, "Hmm.. how long before people accuse Bush of caring more about foriegners than poor black Americans?"

I thought about posting the same thing, but I thought it might be taken as insensitive. I'm glad you did it though, Brother Love.

I know it's supposed to represent a richter scale squiggle, but that thing on his stomach looks like a mouth.....and "EarThQuake" is the eyes.

Ohhhhh...well, that makes a bit more sense, then.

The warning of immediate danger would have been the very serious earthquakes that they had in recent years. Also, has no one here ever been warned of a possible major earthquake? Shit, we used to have to pack survival kits to school when they thought one was coming. They do have early warning abilities, perhaps not as vivid as the hurricane (i.e. pinpointing date, time and exact location) but they know when one will hit in the vicinity. There are geologists studying most every active fault line in existence and warning nearby residents of any danger.

The point is, that community survived earthquakes in the past; why should this one be any different?
just like how new orleans survived hurricanes in the past; why would that one have been any different?
If you don't have an answer (and no one here does), then your compassion or lack thereof should remain no matter the community, cost (death), or surrounding events. If it's not, then you are completely irrational.

(Edited by deathscythe257 at 5:42 pm on Oct. 13, 2005)

My whole life I've heard that eventually there will be another "big one" on the New Madrid fault, and that it will pretty much destroy Memphis, and maybe even cause damage here in Nashville.

I grew up about 100 miles from the New Madrid... I actually remember one or two tremors that shook stuff and knocked things off the walls at home. Local (SE Iowa) lore was that the last time a big one hit on New Madrid the Mississippi River flowed backwards for about 10 ten days.

So how many imminent cataclysmic events do we have lined up now?

why is deathscythe257 the smartest - second smartest person here?

Whew, that was close. You almost forgot about me.

uh uh dwigt

NICE!!

I drive a brown Probe.

I thinkn its actually red... just brown from all the "probing"

I'll crawl back under my rock now.

Well, I'm not sure if I completely agree with everything Deathscythe257 said. But here is a PBS article a little over a year old that I found on predicting earthquakes, and supports my argument on it. PBS Predicting Earthquakes (2004) I have lived in the SF Bay Area for 2 years now and still haven't really felt a quake but they occur quite often. Alot of times I'll sleep right through a 3.0 magnitude quake that hits about 10 miles away.