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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Doc B. on April 23, 2014, 05:23:33 PM

Title: OT - quake from long distance
Post by: Doc B. on April 23, 2014, 05:23:33 PM

Wow, a 6.7 quake off the coast of Vancouver Island just set the pots on our pot rack swinging. Wouldn't have known otherwise. Those pots make a good detector.

Title: Re: OT - quake from long distance
Post by: JamieMcC on April 23, 2014, 08:38:57 PM

I remember being woken by several tremors when living in New Zealand all in the early hours of the morning they ranged from, did I just imagine it to holy c##p hold on.

Title: Re: OT - quake from long distance
Post by: gnnett on April 24, 2014, 12:09:51 AM

Hope you have fond memories of what we locally refer to as the Shaky Isles. 8)

Title: Re: OT - quake from long distance
Post by: JamieMcC on April 24, 2014, 12:21:49 AM

Quote from: gnnett on April 24, 2014, 12:09:51 AM

Hope you have fond memories of what we locally refer to as the Shaky Isles. 8)

I have some every fond memories of the five years spent in NZ the best memory by far was birth of my beautiful daughter in Whangarei.

Happy memories indeed.

Title: Re: OT - quake from long distance
Post by: aragorn723 on April 24, 2014, 03:21:47 PM

we don't have many quakes in jersey, but there was one about 2 years ago.  I was laying in bed and told the wife to stop shaking it lol  8)