Earthquake Russia

[stopper]

I'm going to get the Bacofoil to make a hat.

Really can't see how a response like that has any thing to do with an earthquake thread.

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

Tin-Foil hat.

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

We just had a 6.1 quake literally 10 minutes ago. Debating whether to sit tight or head downstairs and go chill at 7/11 for a while.

Wat, you have 7/11 in taiwan!?

 

[Fuzz]

They are on nearly every street corner

 

[thebennyboy]

And we care about this why?

 

[Thekwango]

Really can't see how a response like that has any thing to do with an earthquake thread.

spend more time in GD......you will understand soon enough


I live in Ireland......just waiting on the tsunami with my tinfoil hat on

 

[Feef]

Wat, you have 7/11 in taiwan!?

As pointed out, yes, 5000+ of them - I use them for navigation and to give people directions. Can think of 6 stores within 10 minutes walk of my flat.

Anyway, no great incidents post earthquake, my wife was panicking a bit, as she lived in this flat during the 1999 9/21 quake, and apparently last night felt similar, so we bailed to 7/11 for a bit in case of anything more happening. They're still kind of a novelty to me.

 

[dunker]

a 6.8 nuke does'nt exist. nukes are mostly 1.5-2.5 irrc.

 

[Cosimo]

The February 13, 2015 M 7.1 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge earthquake occurred as the result of right-lateral strike-slip faulting on or near a transform fault forming part of the North America:Eurasia plate boundary. At the latitude of this earthquake, the North America plate moves approximately westward at a rate of 21 mm/yr with respect to Eurasia.

The preliminary location and mechanism of the earthquake are consistent with its occurrence on the Charlie-Gibbs Transform (the seismically active section of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone),

You can relax now...

 

[Amp34]

I'm no geologist but doesn't an earthquake in the middle of the oacen cause massive tidal waves?

Only if you get significant displacement at the surface. At somewhere like the Mid Atlantic ridge that's very unlikely to happen. Earthquakes happen there regularly and none occur. The Boxing Day tsunami and the Japan tsunami were caused by much larger earthquakes (9.x) and there was significant displacement at surface, I think in the region of 3m for several dozen miles for the former.

There is an alternative way for earthquakes to cause tsunamis, which is mass transport flows, essentially large landslides on unstable slopes, set off by the quake. For the UK I'd be more worried about those happening off the coast of Norway than the mid Atlantic ridge*...

*there is significant geological evidence of this happening a fair few times over the last few tens of thousands of years.

 

[Amp34]

a 6.8 nuke does'nt exist. nukes are mostly 1.5-2.5 irrc.

That seems very small, you get those kind of equivalent magnitudes from a passing train.