holy crap

[substitute]

That quake in Indonesia was an 8.9. I can’t even begin to imagine 8.9. I was 60 miles or so from the Northridge quake (6.7) and it scared me silly.

And then a 10 meter high wall of water arrives across the Ocean in Sri Lanka. Brr. Tsunamis frighten me. I have nightmares about them.

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[oohahh.livejournal.com]

Pr0kland, Oregon is supposed to get an 8 someday. I live just south of the West Hills, where three major fault lines run together, where we haven't had anything worse than a 4.something in ages. One of these days, Alice, one of these days.

I actually do have suppemental earthquake insurance on my house. Not sure it'll mean much if we get a city/life razer but...

Krakatoa, east of holy shit

[zebulon-y.livejournal.com]

My landlady was here two weeks ago.

That is a ridiculously powerful earthquake.

[mr-flippant.livejournal.com]

yikes.

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

Oh shit. So many countries at once. This is not easy to take in.

Dry land is a myth.

[mr-flippant.livejournal.com]

[nogoodusernames.livejournal.com]

i used to have nightmares about tsunamis too...

[cordiloquy.livejournal.com]

God, 8.9 is unbelievable. What freaked me out last year was that the San Simeon quake was very close in magnitude (six point something) to the Bam quake in Iran a couple of weeks later, but the body counts were 2 and 30,000, respectively. I've never been so grateful for seismic retrofitting and, you know, the dumb luck of being born here...

MeFi

[mr-flippant.livejournal.com]

Now I can see it but I still can't imagine...