On May 12, 2:33=A0pm, Jeff Lanam <jeff-dot-la...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 12 May 2008 16:10:36 GMT, xhos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Mary <mrfeath...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> On May 12, 10:44=3DA0am, Greg Goss <go...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > Mary <mrfeath...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > >On May 12, 3:22=3DA0am, Bill Turlock <"Bill Turlock
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> >> > >wrote:
> >> > >> Invisible Lurker wrote:
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> >> > >> > Magnitude 7.5
> >> > >> > 90 km (55 miles) WNW of Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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> >> > >>
>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008ryan=
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> >> > >> >hp
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> >> > >> Curiously, USGS "Did you feel it? Tell us" re****ts 248 responses
> >> > >> at their site so far. US!
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> >> > >> This here internets thing is quite the something isn't it?!
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> >> > >Holy ****. =3DA0Chengdu's not even on the coast, that's central
Chin=
a.
> >> > >And they felt it in California? =3DA0Are you sure this wasn't just
> >> > >sympathetic labor pains?
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> >> > 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")
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> >> Yeah, I know about the internet in China. =A0But what I was
questioning=
> >> was the idea that people in the US felt it, which Bill suggested.
=A0Is=
> >> that possible?
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> >I didn't think that that is what Bill was suggesting. =A0But I couldn't
> >figure out what he was suggesting. =A0Something along the lines of
"We're=
so
> >cool we make these web pages and let other countries use them, too."
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> >> Chengdu to San Francisco is almost 7000 miles.
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> >> Mary
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> There are presently 505 re****ts on the USGS page; most from China, a
> few from Taiwan, Vietnam, and Thailand. =A0None from California.-
Whew. That would have been scary.
Even Thailand's a long way from Chengdu.
Mary
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