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6.0 Earth Quake - Hope My Ppl In The West Is Safe
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--In this downtime, I'd just like to say or point out that we all live lives and its a TRIBBLE at times. So I hope all my Cali Gamers are Safe as well as the STO Staff, much love from the Mid-South. If you out there & have news, feel free to post it
-V
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No no, not that kinda topic guy. You missed it. Its a General Discussion on the possible server status plus noting "shxt happens". Try not to live in the 'Game World' to much... like the Police pulling someone over for J-Walking near their own house, putting a flash light on them and saying "No, you kant do that!".
Sarcasm, but serious, no the topic isnt launch room chatter... its status updates plus showing its actually Humans behind the walls that most ppl dont see or simply forget about. If their Office was hit, thats surely Game + Business related and then some
-V
Whaaa?!! What the heck is launch room chatter? I don't even think anyone at NASA knows! What I do know is that this nonsense is from outer space.
If it's not lunch room chatter, it can go in one of the several existing threads. But your OP is lunch room chatter and has squat to do with STO's gameplay or story, so it belongs in Ten Forward.
EDIT: Whaddaya know? The mods thought it belonged in Ten Forward, too.
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Trendy responded on twitter she felt it and went back to sleep. Taco also replied so he's okay as well
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The bad news is there were dozens of people injured (at least three critically) and the damage is severe enough that the Governor has declared a state of emergency.
http://news.msn.com/us/3-people-critically-injured-after-california-quake?gt1=51501
Thoughts and prayers with the people of Napa.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1323980/california-rattled-by-strong-earthquake 3 critically injured and at least 50,000 homes without power according to this news story
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I'm in LA and I felt nothing. No shock waves or aftershocks. Granted, the epicenter was WAY far away...but so was Northridge and I TOTALLY felt that one. Point is, it wasn't that bad. Our buildings are designed to withstand moderate-to-large earthquakes. It's rare a 6-pointer does a lot of damage. Im not gonna wory unless it's a 7 or bigger. Those almost never happen.
EDIT: I was referring to actual property damage. The majority of injuries in earthquakes are from stuff falling on people, not building collapses. So...yeah. The reports so far are pretty normal. If buildings collapsed everywhere and bridges had catastrophic failures and explosions happened due to broken pipes and whatnot...well, then I'd care. Not to be cold, but I've lived here all my life. I've seen fault lines do MUCH worse then a few fires and random injuries.
Hardly. Just another weekend as far as the San Andreas Fault is concerned.
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The Bay area is almost four hundred miles away. For you to feel it at that distance would require something more along the lines of a magnitude 11+ quake.
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It was. The August 23, 2011 earthquake (5.8) was felt by more people than any other in US history. I was working roughly 400 miles to the south-southwest and felt it for about 10 seconds. It was the first earthquake I'd ever felt, and I live within shaking range of the Brevard fault, which has often had lower level quakes.
They say the reason we in the east felt it so far away was that our coast is more solid plate and not broken up as much as in California.
Actually I felt the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake (the one that collapsed the Oakland Bay Bridge and postponed the World Series) when I was living in Orange County at the time. According to the USGS is was felt as far away as San Diego and Western Nevada, and that was a 6.9 on the Richter.
How far away quake can be felt depends mostly on the strength of the quake and the type. Hardness and/or density of the ground doesn't have as much to do with it. (Although the Mississippi basin is much spongier than California and seismic waves do travel farther when there's water involved, which is why earthquakes off the coast of Chile or Alaska trigger tsunami warnings in Hawai'i.)
The Richter scale is logarithmic and based on the ratio of the shaking amplitude, - not the energy released. A 7.0 has ten times greater shaking amplitude than a 6.0 but it actually releases about 32 times the amount of energy. That means a 7.0 quake is plenty strong enough to be felt at the top and bottom of California if it strikes around the Bay Area.
An 11.0 would release somewhere on the order of 500 gigatons of surface energy, or approximately the impact force a sizeable hunk of asteroid and much, much larger than the largest recorded quake in history. Depending on how much ground it moves, the actual total energy output could easily top the Chicxulub impact. (The 9.1 earthquake that hit the Indian Ocean in 2004 released somewhere around 200,000 times it's estimated surface energy between the total seismic displacement and the subsequent tsunami.) You'd feel it wherever the hell you are on this planet, possibly even in low-Earth orbit.
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The problem with quake insurance isn't the cost of the insurance premium to the customer--it's the fact that any quake big enough to cause enough damage to be worth a claim is ALSO big enough to damage any similarly-constructed building for a dozen miles around, meaning that tens of thousands of claims are being filed at once. Smaller insurance companies often go instantly bankrupt when this happens, because literally all of their customers are filing claims at the same time.
The surface soil and water don't matter as much for long-distance wave propagation, since the bedrock is only a few hundred feet down at most in most places. Compared to a distance of hundreds of miles, that's paper thin. Most of the wave energy is transmitted deeper underground than that--sometimes through the Earth's mantle for transcontinental distances.
^ this
I mean common its a 6.0 and yet everyone wets thier pants over it ...except for us californians lol