Posted on 09/07/2010 10:00:48 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
ALERT: Magnitude 6.2 earthquake - FIJI REGION
Magnitude 6.2
Date-Time
* Tuesday, September 07, 2010 at 16:13:33 UTC
* Wednesday, September 08, 2010 at 04:13:33 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 15.917°S, 179.365°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region FIJI REGION
Distances 145 km (90 miles) ENE of Lambasa, Vanua Levu, Fiji
220 km (135 miles) SW of Sigave, Ile Futuna, Wallis and Futuna
340 km (210 miles) NE of SUVA, Viti Levu, Fiji
2385 km (1490 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13.6 km (8.5 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 78, Nph= 78, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.54 sec, Gp=137°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source
* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2010axa9
Surf’s up in Hawaii....and Australia.
Prayers up.
I hope every one is OK
My sister in New Zealand said they were expecting and pracing for after shocks there...
I hope there are no more for a while...
The only time I was ever in Nandi was to change planes
I remember I stepped outside and it was like a furnace...
at 3AM in the morning..
LISTER: I’m not a nothing! I’ve got me plan.
RIMMER: What’s that, the plan to be the slobbiest entity in the entire universe?
LISTER: No. Me five-year plan. You see, I’m going to do two more trips. And I’ve been saving up all me pay—
RIMMER: Since when?
LISTER: Since always. That’s why I never buy any soap or deodorant or socks or anything like that, you know. Anyway, I’m going to buy meself a little farm on Fiji. And I’m going to get a sheep and a cow, and breed horses.
RIMMER: With a sheep and a cow?
LISTER: No, with horses and horses.
RIMMER: On Fiji?
LISTER: Yeah! The prices there are unbelievable.
RIMMER: Yes, because they had a volcanic eruption and now most of Fiji’s three feet below sea level!
LISTER: It’s only three feet. They can wade. That’s why the animals are gonna hafta be quite tall.
RIMMER: Nice plan, Lister. Excellent plan! Brilliant plan, Lister! What about the sheep? What are you going to do, buy them water-wings? Fit them with stilts? Better still, you could cross-breed them with dolphins and have leaping mutton. (Gesturing with his pen to represent a woolly dolphin leaping out of the water) Baa, splash, baa, splash.
LISTER: You can get a drainage grant these days.
RIMMER: Why bother, Lister? You could be the first man to produce wet-look knitwear.
LISTER: Look, this is why I never ever said anything to you, ‘cause I knew you’d say something like this.
RIMMER: Lister, you’ve got the brain of a cheese sandwich. (Miming a swimmer and putting on a Mummerset voice) “Mornin’, Farmer Lister! I’m just poppin’ down to the shops in my submarine. Can I buy you anything?”
I was going to suggest you post that bit, but I was afraid the Mods would go on another post-yanking spell because it would be “insensitive,” as they did when that fool held the Discovery building hostage.
perfect!
BTW: I got the ‘complette’ series on dvd, and it ain’t complete...
LOL
In quick succession — Haiti, Chile, China, New Zealand, Fiji...
Matthew 24:7
Don’t forget Baja California earthquake close to the California border. This is the most active I have seen the “ring of fire” in my life time. Is California itself do for an earthquake soon?
Don’t forget the Baja California earthquake close to the California border. This is the most active I have seen the “ring of fire” in my life time. Is California itself do for an earthquake soon?
California, here we come!
I wonder how this government administration would react to a major quake on the New Madrid fault?
Be Prepared: The Motto of the Boy Scouts of America
Excerpted from page 54, Boy Scout Handbook, 11th ed.
Probably the same way they react to anything else: Dial up another speech about spending another few trillion dollars, take a vacation and let the WH staff stumble around looking for somebody else to blame for both the event and the total lack of effective response.
....and no, I’m not being sarcastic at all.
Where in the heck did you take that from???
ROTFLMBO!
"Red Dwarf"....BBC comedy from the 80's...classic,classic stuff.
You’ve never watched Red Dwarf?
That’s like having never tasted chocolate!
No it isn’t. No quake in history this small has ever caused a tsunami.
Looks pretty normal to me.
There's an average of one Magnitude 6 or higher in the world every two to three days.
I'm fairly baffled as to why this quake is in "breaking." It was sufficiently far offshore that shaking in Fiji itself was minimal. Just a routine, harmless quake in one of the most seismically active regions of the world.
ping
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