Huge Earthquake Just Hit SoCal!

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sLg
So if I was listening to music on an iPod or PSP and dropped it in water, would it be fine?
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You would be safe, much safer than if you dropped a hairdryer or a toaster (Although why anyone would have a toaster near the bath is beyond me!!!!! :rolleyes:) but I can't vouch for the safety of your electrical devices!
Having never dropped either an iPod or PSP in a bath I've no idea what happens, and don't intend to try it!!!! I can state that you'd be safe from fatal electrocution though!!! ;) (Unless you're on a mains adaptor and you dropped that in your tub too! :ouch:)
 
:odd: Umm... yeah. I was watching legit news here and they said the quake lasted 5 min. but minor damage... ? I found that hard to believe.

Having lived here in "earthquake country" for so long I think I have a new motto. I think about an earthquake hitting just as much as I do sex. (Since they say males thinking about it every 5 min. or whatever it is...)

Danoff
This is what it was like (in my area, pretty far from the epicenter):
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:lol: Judge Judy on CNN? Wow... has news been that dull lately?

Loon
I never understood why people in the South get so much flack for living in tornado alley, but people who live right on fault lines don't catch anything.
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I'd MUCH MUCH rather live in Earthquake country ANY day over Tornado Alley. Those guys are jusk asking for it just like the people that live near flood zones. :scared:
 
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...although it's still not "huge" really (thankfully)... the Earthquake that caused the 2004 tsunami was one million times more powerful than that :sick:
 
I know it was kinda a stupid movie much like say... The Day After Tomorrow but, THIS is what I'd consider the BIG ONE. If there's any movie that would scare the
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out of any Californians it should be this one. It has for me since I saw it... I also still maintain that when the BIG ONE hits I'd rather it kill me than be around for the aftermath. That's what's more scary than the actual quake because of all the idiots that will become even more when they get their hands on firearms...

The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake




And to lighten the air after that... This one is pretty hilarious! It's ok I'm goin to hell already...

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Turn the gas off!

 
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TheCracker
So 5.3 is a 'big one' where the recent 5.1 we had in the UK is immensely laughable?



SoCal hysteria! LMAO! :lol:
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I was in the Upland earthquake in 1990, at its epicenter. That was a 5.4 also. That was nothing like this latest quake. This one was a lot more intense, despite less damage. New quake measuring system is in place. I don't like it. Lucky for us this was a short quake, or they'll be a lot more damage. We got lucky with the short duration. I also got lucky with the direction of the quake's waves. Up and down isn't as bad is side to side, apparently.

Yes, the hysteria was a bit overblown, but that's natural when there's nothing else to report. One TV channel had it on for over five hours after the quake, even when there was absolutely nothing more to report on for over four of those hours.
 
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Yeah, you’d think that here we’d get over it more quickly… it’s like Uh, the ground shook for a bit and some bricks fell off an old building, and we have to devote 24/7 news coverage to it. Jeebus.
 
Glad everybody is okay.

I had never experienced an earthquake, living in Pennsylvania doesn't lend itself to them, until last August, when a 7.9 hit while I was in Peru. To be honest, it didn't seem all that bad to me compared to how I expected an earthquake to feel. The real scary part is how many panicking people there were after it happened, it was quite an ordeal just to get back to the house I was staying in. We were about 100 miles from the center of it, so it didn't hit as hard as it did in some places, but still a pretty crazy experience.
 
Danster
jeez! was lax (airport) ok? dont really know about about earthquakes, Glasgow isn't exactly earthquake city.
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I hope you wont live a earthquake never ever in your life. maybe some people can make jokes about it but it is not nice. I experienced a 7.4 earthquake. It took about one minute. It was a so desperate,strange and scary moment.
 
Touring Mars
...although it's still not "huge" really (thankfully)... the Earthquake that caused the 2004 tsunami was one million times more powerful than that :sick:
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Interestingly, I was watching a documentary on that a few weeks back. The earthquake moved the island of jakarta by 30 metres! For me, that put into perspective how powerful it was. About 9.2 wasn't it?
 
i live in Orange County and i could definatly feel it, but it really wasnt that bad, the only thing that freaked me out is not being able to call out of my cell phone, either than that, it was pretty gnarly, i was in a pretty big earthquake back in 89 and i was asleep through it or at least until my mom woke me up, it was not bad at all.

PS: I hate the news, they blow everything up, they have to go ask 4 year olds how the earthquake experience was, which is ridiculous in my opinion.
 
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Interestingly, I was watching a documentary on that a few weeks back. The earthquake moved the island of jakarta by 30 metres! For me, that put into perspective how powerful it was. About 9.2 wasn't it?
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9.2 is very extreme.thanks god that aint happen too much :)
 

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