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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
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| Sunday morning...about 10:53 |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| Blind Willie wrote: |
| Real Reality wrote: |
Tremor Exposes Korea's Flawed Early Warning System
The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) put out a tsunami warning a full 27 minutes after the earthquake occurred, exposing serious flaws in the early warning system. The KMA is supposed to put out warnings within 15 minutes of a temblor, but Sunday��s warning came 12 minutes late. The KMA earthquake center said it took some time to analyze the location of the epicenter and effects the quake would have in Korea. The KMA said it would upgrade equipment and personnel so that as to be able to issue warnings within 10 minutes of an earthquake by 2007.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200503/200503200016.html |
This didnt take long... |
Yes. I saw the tsunami warnings. They were saying that the tsunamis might be about 50cm. That is 20 inches.  Am I crazy or what? A 20 inch tsunami warning. Why? Because it might knock down a sand castle that is too close to the water?
Or, maybe so if one his heading your way and you are at the egde of the water, you will know to back up a couple of feet?
Please someone. Why is a 20 inch wave a big danger???
Like chicken flue. One chicken sneezes in Viet Nam (probably a dust alergy) and they go on a mass muder campain and kill them by the 100's of thousands. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Three minutes ago, at the stroke of midnight, another several seconds of tremors rocked the apartment building. The walls creaked and I can just imagine what's happened to the large crack that had begun in the concrete along the stairwell.
Maybe all these tremors are precursors to a big one yet to come, larger than any in modern recorded history. |
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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Location: Dont have a clue
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
Three minutes ago, at the stroke of midnight, another several seconds of tremors rocked the apartment building. The walls creaked and I can just imagine what's happened to the large crack that had begun in the concrete along the stairwell.
Maybe all these tremors are precursors to a big one yet to come, larger than any in modern recorded history. |
Yeah that was a pretty good aftershock...felt another smaller one just after it. Watching the news tonight, the Japanese officials in charge of such things dont expect there to be another big one. They explained that Sundays earthquake was the result of hundreds of years of tension released suddenly. Apparently, the last major earthquake on this fault was in 1700 or so... Felt the earth moving all day...getting kind of sick of it now. |
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buymybook
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Location: Telluride
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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I talked to my senior high school students about it today, most had no idea, or did not care. I mentioned that the reason we felt it here, was because of a strong quake in Japan....
I proceeded to tell them that there were a number of injuries and a person had died....
They laughed very loudly and made jokes, and told me that it was Japan's punishment for Dokdo....
And these are high school students...  |
Remind them(the high schoolers) that Busan/Pusan had an earthquake too(just ask Whatthefunk)! So maybe that is their punishment as well.
Whatthefunk, I did live there for almost two years in the late 90's. It was cool, great place in the summer(Bluegrass)! Ya must be able to ski to enjoy. A five minute walk to the slopes. |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
Maybe all these tremors are precursors to a big one yet to come, larger than any in modern recorded history. |
You are 100% on the mark. |
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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Location: Dont have a clue
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Kwangjuchicken wrote: |
| VanIslander wrote: |
Maybe all these tremors are precursors to a big one yet to come, larger than any in modern recorded history. |
You are 100% on the mark. |
No, the tension has been released, wouldnt worry about the big one just yet. |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| Everyone says they could feel the earthquake. I didn't. I've always wanted to feel an earthquake. I feel cheated. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:23 am Post subject: |
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| Kwangjuchicken wrote: |
Please someone. Why is a 20 inch wave a big danger???
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It sounds laughably small, like the wake from a passing ship, but I'd assume it would hit with concentrated power. Consider too that the east coast experiences virtually no tidal action, so there are lots of homes & businesses on coastal flats.
When Typhoon Raisa caused rivers here to crest their banks by mere inches, the water pooled & inundated downtown within minutes, trapping & drowning people in basements & underground parking arcades, flipping & stacking cars, & devastating groundfloor businesses.
Granted, a 20-inch tsunami would be nowhere near the scale of the SE Asian one last december, but could still be damaging. A 3 or 4-footer would be disastrous in Sokcho. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| Was there a minor aftershock this evening? Just noticed that a lot of grout fell off my bathroom wall just now. |
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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:04 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| Was there a minor aftershock this evening? Just noticed that a lot of grout fell off my bathroom wall just now. |
Yes, there was a pretty good one this afternoon at about 4. My school shock enough to make the kids cry. |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:50 am Post subject: |
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OMG I just checked the date for the largest quake in history. The alaska one that weatherman's father was there for. It was 3/28/1964.
I recently learned it was on Good Friday. Which is tomorrow this year. And, it was lunar 2/15. FULL MOON. And today is Lunar 2/15/2005.
Talk about signs. That one was Good Friday and a full moon.
Indonesis 9.0 was full moon. And Christmas (in the west).
What's next? |
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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Location: Dont have a clue
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| My coworker said that before an earthquake, a special kind of cloud forms...anybody know anything about this???? |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| whatthefunk wrote: |
| Kwangjuchicken wrote: |
| VanIslander wrote: |
Maybe all these tremors are precursors to a big one yet to come, larger than any in modern recorded history. |
You are 100% on the mark. |
No, the tension has been released, wouldnt worry about the big one just yet. |
that's marvellous. stop it. yer gettin' spooky. |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| whatthefunk wrote: |
| Kwangjuchicken wrote: |
| VanIslander wrote: |
Maybe all these tremors are precursors to a big one yet to come, larger than any in modern recorded history. |
You are 100% on the mark. |
No, the tension has been released, wouldnt worry about the big one just yet. |
That's what they said after the big one hit in El Salvador on 1/13/2001. And then just one month later 2/13/2001 they got hot by another big one. |
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