tsondaboy 0 Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 I am doing my PHD on EQ here in Japan so it feals like cheating a bit. Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Shait, no wonder....I'm just terrified of them so I learn as much as I can to keep my mind of being crushed like an ant as my apartment collapses into a heap of ruble... I subscribe to the USGS BigQuake e-mail...I was SHOCKED when I saw the mail come in on the indonesia quake - i'd never seen a magnitude that big in any of the big quake mails. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 There's a few of us round here who are very terrified of them! I remember before the Chuetsu one I really didn't give earthquakes much of a thought... just experiences a few small ones and quickly forgot about them. Yappari, a strong earthquake that shakes your house close to collapsing and then 1000+ aftershocks over a period of months makes you more than a bit scaredypants of them. Which I am. Even a little tiny movement now gets my heart racing. And the sound of some trucks coming up the road that sounds very much like an earthquake sometimes gets my mind racing. I suppose that'll never change now to some extent, though I am gradually getting better at coping with these things. Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 Yea, I was in the Northridge Quake and Whittier quakes in California. And oddly enough I've had the displeasure of experiencing quakes in Taiwan (3 times), Singapore (the great Sumatra quake - although the apt barely moved in Sing), and several in Japan. I hate earthquakes! Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderbird2 0 Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 Quote: 1000+ aftershocks I remember that being on the news for like forever. How many aftershocks were there in the end. I can imagine it being total hell living with the ground moving many times a day. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 20, 2007 Author Share Posted January 20, 2007 A lot, I think it was well over 1000 for ones you can feel. It was on the news last week though that there are still a fair few each day, they are just too small for humans to feel. I remember those first few weeks we were feeling 20 or 30 or more earthquakes every single day. I wanted to run away. Where they big ones you experienced SirJibAlot? Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 Yea, they have thier own wikipedia enteries. The NorthRidge quake was only a 6.7 - but on the Shido scale, it would have been like a 5 or 6 (due to ground acceleration). NorthRidge Quake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_Earthquake Whittier Quake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier_Narrows_earthquake Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 Lucky you SirJib. Lets hope that's your lot! Link to post Share on other sites
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