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To: bd476

"If they called it anything but "great" it would be more fitting. Monstrous, Extra large... something like that. :)"

How about Super Sized?


91 posted on 12/25/2004 8:15:01 PM PST by Chu Gary (USN Intel guy 1967 - 1970)
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To: Chu Gary

If the aftershock locations are in fact accurate on NEIC the sequeance of 6.0 quakes in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal are really remarkably distant from the source of the quake....

Though of course the length of fault that lets go in an 8.5 is a lot longer than a single point of an epicenter.


92 posted on 12/25/2004 8:18:19 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Chu Gary
There is the Richter Scale for measuring quakes. There's another, I forget the name at the moment, that deals with physical destruction and human response. 8.1 in a populated area means extreme destruction and near panic.

Anyone near this is probably all shook up.

105 posted on 12/25/2004 8:34:47 PM PST by BIGLOOK (I once opposed keelhauling but have recently come to my senses.)
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To: Chu Gary

How about calling it THE WIDOW MAKER

That would be unfortunately accurate.


1,033 posted on 12/27/2004 12:19:35 PM PST by trussell (I Never Frown, even when I am sad, because I never know who is falling in love with my Smile!!!)
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