so. who felt that one? was really far from me still felt pretty cool.

been in enough that i knew instantly that it was harmless. still scares all the pets in the house shitless though.

Nothing up here in the Murder Mitten...

is that oakland? or DC?

Oakland and DC? Man I've got Detroit and Flint.

We don't have those in the UK...Or tornadoes...Or alot of the crazy weather tanks have, why do you live in a land that literally opens up and swallows you whole?

Didn't feel it in New Zealand.

We're OK here in Sweden.

We don't have those in the UK...Or tornadoes...Or alot of the crazy weather tanks have, why do you live in a land that literally opens up and swallows you whole?

The same reason they keep rebuilding in the exact same spot after a hurricane.

People are stupid.

so. who felt that one? was really far from me still felt pretty cool.

been in enough that i knew instantly that it was harmless. still scares all the pets in the house shitless though.

Where are you located.. When I was living in Sonoma county out in California, we used to get a few shakers.. I was there in Alameda for the 89 quake.

Here in New Zealand we get dozens of small ones every year, and usually a couple of really big ones each year. Over 5.7 on the Richter scale. Any idea how big your little shake was?

Here in New Zealand we get dozens of small ones every year, and usually a couple of really big ones each year. Over 5.7 on the Richter scale. Any idea how big your little shake was?

So now it's a competition on who lives in the more dangerous place eh?

That was from old mine shafts collapsing we are lucky to live no where near a tectonic plate edge.

We don't have those in the UK...Or tornadoes...Or alot of the crazy weather tanks have, why do you live in a land that literally opens up and swallows you whole?

If you want an honest answer:

Statistically, a earthquake that kills say.. 100 people out of the 2.5 million that live in this flat-type suburban/city area happens about every 80 to 100 years. When you figure those odds.. welp. Even I'd bet for a Falcon.

Second, they're kind of thrilling especially at the 3.0 to 6.0 level. any higher and theyre kinda serious and definitely a little logically scary. there is danger of something falling on you, or property damage. hehe. like your xwing minis falling off a display shelf. lol

and yes. thank goodness we dont have many mine shafts around here

i do believe (though i might be wrong), that shark attacks, lightning strikes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and tsunamis have a higher chance of killing you.

where i live isnt in much danger of those. we're about 100 ft above sea level, so if the seas catastrophically rise 30ft, we're still okay. when we start killing each other over the remaining land ill turn into a gun toting carry-freak, but not until then! also got my trusty katana for zombie apocalypses. all i need is to get a gas mask and a radiation suit. maybe a underground bunker too.

actually, on a funny thought... we live close enough to one of three communications arrays in the US. If some country really wanted to beat the US on a strategic level, we'd be in a nuclear fallout zone.

Then again, so are places like all of South Korea, Taiwan, the Middle East...

There's a nuclear power plant next to a fault line in New York state, about 5 miles from where I live. Beat that.

What Glen calls an earth quake wasn't strong enough to do more than make the glasses on a shelf shake slightly, zero injuries or deaths it's was a few seconds rumble and over.

Really when we have a storm that knocks over a few trees that's harsh for the UK.

Of course an inch of snow cripples us because local councils are useless and never salt the roads even when they know it's coming.

There's a nuclear power plant next to a fault line in New York state, about 5 miles from where I live. Beat that.

I was gonna take a train past the marathon finish line the day the bombing happened. Got lazy and forgot to go to that appointment though.

Martial law and what not. everyone ordered to be off the streets for a week. Looked like a zombie apocalypse. nobody anywhere, police cars and barricades, helicopters 24/7. bits of newspaper and dust flying in the dusk.

they found a bomb in an apartment building i used to walk past.

the center of the boston shopping district lost power for over a week once. this is a major city center lol. At about a week, things were starting to really shut down. no backup power, no refrigerators, no hot water, no food and no grocery stores, no wifi, no cellphones (everyone is a college student, no land lines).

been in most of these.. lol

shark attacks, lightning strikes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and tsunamis .... Been close enough to touch a volcano, Was in the water with a shark about 20 feet away... glad I haven't really been close to a lightning strike.. oh, and while in the US Coast Guard, my ship was in the North Pacific and I've been in 50+ foot seas (our pilot house is 40 or so feet off the water), and thought I was gonna see the bottom of the ocean.. lol.. had I not been on the ball that day we would have..

how did you get to change your member title to imperial bomber pilot???

Here in New Zealand we get dozens of small ones every year, and usually a couple of really big ones each year. Over 5.7 on the Richter scale. Any idea how big your little shake was?

So now it's a competition on who lives in the more dangerous place eh?

New Zealand is prone to earthquakes because we're on the Pacific Rim, it's as simple as that. 4,423 earthquakes were recorded in the Canterbury region above a magnitude 3.0, from 4 September 2010 to 3 September 2012. On 22 February 2011, an earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3 struck Christchurch city killing 185 people. The big one before that measured 7.1.

So, yes it's probably a bit more dangerous than the UK.

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hwut, i dont see it

been in most of these.. lol

shark attacks, lightning strikes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and tsunamis .... Been close enough to touch a volcano, Was in the water with a shark about 20 feet away... glad I haven't really been close to a lightning strike.. oh, and while in the US Coast Guard, my ship was in the North Pacific and I've been in 50+ foot seas (our pilot house is 40 or so feet off the water), and thought I was gonna see the bottom of the ocean.. lol.. had I not been on the ball that day we would have..

lol, I been in a Hurricane, a Typhoon and a Cyclone.

I know I'm not the only one around here that can claim this one:

War

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I don't see it either.

Here in Australia we don't get earthquakes all that often, but we do have 9 out of the top ten most venomous creatures on the planet and most of those critters live amongst us in suburbia.

The majority of people that live in Australia are allergic to most of the flora, our national flower being the wattle, causes more time off work than any other cause.

But bush fires are our biggest problem, our largest city Sydney is surrounded by massive Eucalyptus forests. Eucalyptus trees release a flammable oil into the air during high heat. The temperature in a bushfire exceeds 1000 degrees Celsius, nothing can withstand that kind of temperature, and our houses and belongings turn to ash and smoke. But like true mad bastards we rebuild our homes to contain our newly purchased belongings on top of the ruins of the last and with true optimism we tell ourselves lightning never strikes the same place twice, three times, four.