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oromis:

Lawl...my first and olny earthquake was super small, but the glass on my windows started making a shaking noise and the fan started to twirl, i was scared like stuff cause i had no idea what was going on XD

Kalphiter:

So you live a couple hundred miles from the fault.
What if you lived in California?

zz_tophat:

Death toll? Graphic images of destroyed buildings? A brief anecdote about having to go out to get water because basic infrastructure has been destroyed?


No?


I am downgrading your story from "earthquake" to "minor seismic event".




Illidan:


--- Quote from: zz_tophat on November 17, 2009, 07:25:57 PM ---Death toll? Graphic images of destroyed buildings? A brief anecdote about having to go out to get water because basic infrastructure has been destroyed?


No?


I am downgrading your story from "earthquake" to "minor seismic event".




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that part of the earth shook. maybe it wasn't so large of one, but it's still an earthquake.

zz_tophat:


--- Quote from: Illidan on November 17, 2009, 07:33:10 PM ---that part of the earth shook. maybe it wasn't so large of one, but it's still an earthquake.

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Semantics aside...

By my measure a wave that does not kill is not a tsunami, a plane losing a wheel on landing but still coming to a safe stop is not a crash and a tremor that does not have a news broad cast featuring grieving families recounting what they were doing when "the fissure swallowed grandma" is not an earthquake.


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