I just sat through a big earthquake here- East Med

[metreo]

"The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected." - Xenophanes

[thinkpadx]

and a good bottle of wine is still a good bottle of wine - me

:-)))))

[Stuart_M]

Magnitude 7.0, 15 km NNE of Néon Karlovásion, Greece
2020-10-30 07:51:27 (UTC -04:00)
21.0 km depth

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes ... 9,84.90234

[Sparky]

Turkey got it bad, many buildings fell and people died. In the Greek island of Samos 2 kids died, and there was a mini Tsunami with cars floating freely on the roads.

[metreo]

Yeah, apparently there are 2,570,000 people within 100km of the epicenter.

[Stevo]

I'm pretty sure Poseidon is to blame here:

Poseidon, Olympian god of the sea and king of the sea gods; also god of flood, drought, earthquakes, and horses.

Any word from anti?

[JayM]

I was in an office on the 12th floor of an old 1920s-era 14 story office building when the 2001 magnitude 6.9 Nisqually Quake happened. Luckily they'd been working on a seismic retrofit in that building and were about halfway finished. The City Engineers said if it weren't for that the building probably would have collapsed. There was damage everywhere in downtown Seattle, broken glass all over the sidewalks, and one or two old brick buildings like ours did in fact collapse. One, the Fenix Underground, was a nightclub and live music venue so luckily it wasn't open for business at the time. I think the other also contained a business that hadn't opened yet.

Then I was at home for the 2013 magnitude 7.2 Bohol Quake (Bohol is one island over from Cebu where I live, and has several famous tourist attractions: the Chocolate Hills, a tarsier preserve, a big butterfly sanctuary, what's reputed to be the world's largest snake, plus many beach resorts, old Spanish churches and stuff.) It didn't damage the house but it was strong enough in Cebu City that a building's roof collapsed somewhere in the Port of Cebu killing several people, and the steeple or bell tower of the Santo Niño Basilica (another tourist attraction as well as a working church) fell down. Parts of Bohol were devastated. (Then three weeks later we got hit by Supertyphoon Yolanda or Haiyan, the one whose storm surge completely destroyed the port city of Catbalogan in East Samar province. It passed over the northern tip of Cebu but at our house it was still at typhoon strength with horizontal torrential rain at the peak of it. We had a tree in our neighborhood blow down and someone's outhouse got knocked over, otherwise no damage other than palm branches and banana leaves all over the place. I was afraid the big old jackfruit tree in front would blow down the way it was swaying back and forth, but it held.)

I vaguely remember that we felt the magnitude 9.2 1964 Alaska Earthquake clear down in Western Washington when I was a small boy. All I remember is that my mother and I stood in an interior doorway (which you shouldn't do, you should Drop, Cover and Hold: get down low, get underneath a sturdy table or desk or something or at least lay next to a taller piece of furniture that isn't going to fall on you such as a bed or something, and hang on to it) then I got to stay home from school that day which gave me an unexpected three day weekend. One of my cousins in Kodiak Alaska was drowned in the tsunami, we found out later.

[jackdanielsesq]

Greetings

We missed the 2004 tsunami in Phuket by the skin-of-my-teeth
Fifteen of us were supposed to spend Xmas/NY on Phi-Phi - we
had already made reservations and were ready to fly out ...

We had assembled in Pattaya for various reasons - a different gulf,
because of some young lady, I postponed our departure to New Year
The horror of that Boxing Day apocalypse was simply frightening
Still is, to this day .... RIP

Regards

Jack

[Huckleberry Finn]

I'm pretty sure Poseidon is to blame here

[anticapitalista]

I'm pretty sure Poseidon is to blame here:

Poseidon, Olympian god of the sea and king of the sea gods; also god of flood, drought, earthquakes, and horses.

Any word from anti?

Hi! I'm safe in Thessaloniki (Northern Greece) and we didn't even feel the shakes.
Very sad to read about the loss of life both sides of the border (Greece/Turkey).