Re: Big-Ass Earthquake in China

Mary wrote:
> 
> On May 12, 10:44 am, Greg Goss <go...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Mary <mrfeath...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >On May 12, 3:22 am, Bill Turlock <"Bill Turlock "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > >wrote:
> > >> Invisible Lurker wrote:
> >
> > >> > Magnitude 7.5
> > >> > 90 km (55 miles) WNW of Chengdu, Sichuan, China
> >
> > >>
>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008ryan.php
> >
> > >> Curiously, USGS "Did you feel it? Tell us" re****ts 248 responses
> > >> at their site so far. US!
> >
> > >> This here internets thing is quite the something isn't it?!
> >
> > >Holy ****.  Chengdu's not even on the coast, that's central China.
> > >And they felt it in California?  Are you sure this wasn't just
> > >sympathetic labor pains?
> >
> > A lot of people in Beijing supposedly thought it was a local quake.
> > And I suspect that a lot of people in Beijing are on the net, so long
> > as they only go to sites that are approved by the government (google
> > "Great Firewall of China")
> 
> Yeah, I know about the internet in China.  But what I was questioning
> was the idea that people in the US felt it, which Bill suggested.  Is
> that possible?
> 
> Chengdu to San Francisco is almost 7000 miles.
> 
> Mary

Bill was suggesting that it is curious that Chinese would go onto
a USGS website to re****t it. I think that it is likely, but
curious. I seriously discount the likelyhood of Californians
having felt it. Sorry for the confusion. 
Bill