On May 12, 3:33=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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> >> > >> 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=
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> >> > >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
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> >> > 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.
I just talked to my friend in China, who is on the east coast, and
they did not feel it. He is on a class trip to Con****ius' birthplace
at Qufu, in Shangdong province.
NPR re****ters, actually ATC anchors, happened to be 60 mi. from the
epicenter, Melissa Block actually doing an interview, when it
happened. The rumbling, the recognition, the ground undulating
beneath her, the running outside while shaking is still going on ...
had to last 45 sec, a hugely long time (I was driving while listening
to this, so I could be wrong, but my clock ticked to the next minute,
I know.)
Then, later, her re****t from a middle school which totally collapsed
and killed apparently the majority of children inside. Her
descriptions are evocative but measured, yet you can still hear her
voice is on the verge of cracking. Heavy stuff. An elementary school
very nearby was practically untouched.
Mr C
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