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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

I lack your recent streak of restraint.
I was close to the she beast persona this afternoon, but I mellowed out some this evening.

I suppose I should care and try to do better.  But, I tried to find the shrugging smiley... and I gave up because I could care less.
When you read the same bullshit everyday, its not easy to remain unjaded. I unpacked some leather this afternoon, that helped.

Im also curious as to why others feel they have the right to ask demanding questions, or why they have the expectation of getting an answer.

Because they have low expectations and want the opportunity to take the piss. When they dont get it, they make dumarse assumptions

Something Im really going to have to work on.
its not you that needs to work on it hon

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Reasonable to you, perhaps.  Most who live along the coast know this as basic knowledge.  And with the hurricane approaching, most TV's are turned to the weather channel.  Gotta keep an eye on the sky. 

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

FR

5.9  That's a pretty good one to lose your virginity to.  On the upside, this probably covers the east coast, statistically, for another 50-75 years.  Being way overdue, as we are in my neck of the world, is kinda discomforting.

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ORIGINAL: lupineEleven

Looks more like the camera was tilted, cuz the horizon line looks uneven too. o.o

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

The New Madrid might have rung the church bells in Boston, Aylee, but it isn't what I'd consider "east coast."  What's the interval range on that one?  It's been about 200 years.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

The New Madrid might have rung the church bells in Boston, Aylee, but it isn't what I'd consider "east coast."  What's the interval range on that one?  It's been about 200 years.

I was more going with massive damage and it being unexpected. Most people (even in the state) do not equate Missouri with earthquakes.

They don't know anymore with that fault line. It does not move much, unlike the San Andreas fault line. However, I think the last report I read was next fifty years with a magnitude of over 6.0. Probably would destroy Memphis and break up the TVA area.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Probably because scientists consider the Atlantic coast possibilities for a tsunami very slim.

While I know that, just how many people have the geology education to know that?

Most people know that earthquakes can cause tsunamis and that is about it. Combine that with what happened in Japan not so long ago and I can see the concern people would have. I can see one or more of the agencies receiving a lot of worried phone calls and sending that release out to news stations for dissemination.

Putting it on their ticker seems a reasonable thing to do.

I just do not understand the feelings of "Christ on a crutch, can you believe what those idiots put on their ticker?"

Frankly I do not understand swearing to a sports guy either.

Reasonable to you, perhaps.  Most who live along the coast know this as basic knowledge.  And with the hurricane approaching, most TV's are turned to the weather channel.  Gotta keep an eye on the sky. 

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Probably because scientists consider the Atlantic coast possibilities for a tsunami very slim.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

The New Madrid might have rung the church bells in Boston, Aylee, but it isn't what I'd consider "east coast."  What's the interval range on that one?  It's been about 200 years.

I was more going with massive damage and it being unexpected. Most people (even in the state) do not equate Missouri with earthquakes.

They don't know anymore with that fault line. It does not move much, unlike the San Andreas fault line. However, I think the last report I read was next fifty years with a magnitude of over 6.0. Probably would destroy Memphis and break up the TVA area.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Probably because scientists consider the Atlantic coast possibilities for a tsunami very slim.

True Tazzy.  Tsunamis typically originate from earthquakes epicentered out in the ocean. 

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Reasonable to you, perhaps.  Most who live along the coast know this as basic knowledge.  And with the hurricane approaching, most TV's are turned to the weather channel.  Gotta keep an eye on the sky. 

You give humans a lot more credit than I do.

Anyways, I need to send you a personal mail.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Probably because scientists consider the Atlantic coast possibilities for a tsunami very slim.

True Tazzy.  Tsunamis typically originate from earthquakes epicentered out in the ocean. 

True, but your average Joe who hasn't experienced earthquakes might not know that, so the media putting up a ticker about it is probably just their way of calming potential fears.

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ORIGINAL: hausboy

The media, unfortunately, contributed to the quake frenzy.  There were some very good and clear messages they were given by local emergency mgmt authorities.....and they decided instead to focus on the more dramatic images and "joe-on-the-street".   So now....... we have a lot of education to do with the public on what to do/how to react during a quake.

We kept notifying the media that if they were going to keep showing the helicopter images of people standing outside, to at least explain that unless their building was specifically evacuated for structural concerns, do NOT go outside. 

People are generally safer inside, taking cover under sturdy objects like desks.  There are a few exceptions--places like grocery stores, for example, where the shelving is not secured.  Even then, getting to a perimeter wall is better than running outside.

Most of the unreinforced masonry that came down were chimneys and facades.  People inside these structures were fine.  It's when they ran outside that they almost were struck by falling debris.  We are very relieved that no one was seriously injured.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Again, the east coast is fixated on Irene at the moment.  I doubt anyone who heard of the earthquake in the middle of Virginia gave a second thought to a tsunami.    Maybe a river problem.... but hardly an oceanic one for the area.