It's all cracking open!

[Baclava]

run away!



just like I perdicted

Repent sinners!!!


200 threads, really?

[gateley]

1. It's a big scary deal to those who experienced it, and others

are concerned. You really have nothing better to do than make fun of people and COUNT THREADS?

[Baclava]

2. I made that number part up. Best comment yet...

from a guy in LA -- "we use 5.3 quakes to stir our coffee in the morning"

Everybody is wishing for disaster porn, that's all this is.

[gateley]

6. There HAVE been some clever posts, and I don't think for

a minute people would be joking if there had been injuries or serious damage.

[Baclava]

10. Well no, of course not...real disasters are very real.

Like a lot of people here almost begging/steering, hurricanes to hit the U.S., just so they have something to talk about.

I see it here all the time come hurricane season.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. If you do not get why a 5.9

is more serious in the East Coast than in the West coast, I cannot help you, but you are not being funny.

[Baclava]

13. bullshit - I had to bump a major hurricane occuring 3 pages back for this

If it's NEWS on the East coast you want - git yur disater porn here

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. IF there was any strucutural damage that will do more damage

and I live in the WEST COAST, where 7.0 make us nervous... while the same is what they stir their coffee in Mexico City.

You make all the fun you want... but the OP is insensitive.

[pintobean]

15. ...

[Baclava]

17. Insensitive? Did anything even fall off a shelf? Everyone freak out!

If a dish wasn't even cracked I'm going to go out on a limb and say buildings will remain structurally sound.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Actually YES

there was damage... laugh it up...

Start with the National Cathedral...

And a few DU'ers have reported buildings off foundations.

Oh and add, Mineral VA, the epicenter, seems physical damage is quite extensive.

[rosesaylavee]

3. apparently OP has nothing better to do

:eyes:

[hobbit709]

4. Actually the split will be where the Rio Grande turns north at El Paso

[tridim]

5. Seeing Texas sacrificed to the sea is nice.

[johnd83]

7. This is concerning for those of us on the East coast

because our buildings are not built to handle earthquakes. A 6.0 is nothing in CA because the building codes are designed to handle much stronger quakes.

[uppityperson]

8. Here is a link for you...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1798350&mesg_id=1798350

[pintobean]

11. 201 threads. I unrecced this one

200 is my limit.

[Myrina]

12. It would be nice to be closer to a body of natural water than I am now ...

(stuck in Indiana, surrounded by 'retention ponds' and manmade 'lakes') ...

[dtexdem]

16. "Flood" by Steven Baxter.

Also: "Where will you go, when there is no San Francisco? Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho."

[hedgehog]

27. I have wondered for 30 some years what that line was. Thank you.

[RockaFowler]

18. Hey what happened to Florida in your picture??

No Hurricanes here, so we aren't going under water yet!!

[Earth_First]

20. Looks to me like a rising sea-level map to me...

:shrug:

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[Baclava]

24. Unrec! Unrec!...oh nooooooes! what ever shall I do?

Get a grip people.

look, I know the dirty little secret around here is that people want to see the U.S. destroyed, but this won't do it.

[Stinky The Clown]

29. "I know the dirty little secret around here is that people want to see the U.S. destroyed"

Yeah?

Who?

[lindysalsagal]

23. Funny post. I don't believe compassion and humor are mutually exclusive.

Those are the reddest states that are underwater, however. That's what makes it funny.

[Baclava]

25. well then, if I'm going to be the villain...

Stunning Photo Of The Damage Caused By The Great East Coast Earthquake of 2011.

[myrna minx]

26. Do you believe that the infrastructure of the USA is in tip top shape?

A bridge collapsed in my town, killing our people due to willful neglect. There are budget cuts and layoffs and deregulations. Do you not think that the infrastructure of the east coast could be compromised as a result of this? But by all means, mock away since it didn't happen to you.

[Baclava]

28. What does that have to do with people running around like chickens with their heads cut off?

OMG - I saw a crack in the wall!

We're DOOMED! > the navel gazers

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. a crack in the wall might be cosmetic

or indicate more serious, as in structural, damage.

But go ahead laugh it up... I till remember one hospital that had a crack in the wall after a seven pointer, none took it too seriously... same damn attitude...



Nope a 5.9 will probably not cause that damage, but it was the same attitude after a smaller earthquake that led to UNSEEN damage.

But laugh it up...

I really hate this atitude, and so far damage is going to about 100 million... but chuckle.