On 12 May 2008 16:10:36 GMT, xhoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>Mary <mrfeathers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On May 12, 10:44=A0am, Greg Goss <go...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > Mary <mrfeath...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > >On May 12, 3:22=A0am, 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.p
>> > >> >hp
>> >
>> > >> 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 ****. =A0Chengdu's not even on the coast, that's central China.
>> > >And they felt it in California? =A0Are 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?
>
>I didn't think that that is what Bill was suggesting. But I couldn't
>figure out what he was suggesting. Something along the lines of "We're
so
>cool we make these web pages and let other countries use them, too."
>
>
>>
>> Chengdu to San Francisco is almost 7000 miles.
>>
>> Mary
There are presently 505 re****ts on the USGS page; most from China, a
few from Taiwan, Vietnam, and Thailand. None from California.
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