[Ready4Freddy]

Waiting for more info

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Whole lotta shakin’ going on around the world. Atlantic and Pacific zones.

[mazda77]

~240 miles ENE of Caracas near town of Sucre.

[Charles Henrickson]

PJ, is your wife down in Venezuela right now? Is she alright?

[SunkenCiv]

Zero will be on the first aid plane. Haiti, well, he doesn't give a damn about them. Maybe if the Haitians had built a decent golf course...

• Venezuela's economic slide surprisingly worse than expected
• More Venezuelan private banks targeted: Chávez
• The Dubai File: Is Venezuela Headed for a Default?
• Iran building terror network in South America
• Minister to resign as Venezuelan bank probe widens
• Chávez Spurs Bank Fears (Venezuela may nationalize its banking system)
• Chávez To Automakers
• Venezuela Threatens to Expropriate Toyota Plant
• Venezuela's Chávez threatens to kick out carmakers
• Venezuela blames U.S. for destabilizing Iran
• Travel Restrictions Crimp Shopping Sprees (Chávez Tightens Spending Abroad)
• Venezuela's Chávez announces currency devaluation
• Venezuela Devalues Bolivar 17% To 50%
• Nervous Venezuelans panic buy TVs after devaluation
• Chávez Hits The Poor
• Venezuela faces risk of devastating power collapse
• Chávez Watch--Welcome to "Bolivarian" socialism.
• Chávez Calls on Venezuelans to Prevent Price Increases
• Venezuelan Stores Closed for Boosting Prices after Devaluation (Inspected 96, Closed 70)
• Venezuela Approaching Humanitarian Disaster As Chávez Expropriates Food Retailers
• [Venezuela's] Chávez calls for socialist soap operas

[Feline_AIDS]

Maybe Chavez will get his rolling blackouts after all! Who knew tectonic plates were socialists? (ME!)

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, sorry, I meant to thank you for this topic and not ping ya. [blush]

[Our man in washington]

What we need is a “government-control-adjusted” Richter scale. Take what the Richter scale number is. Add one for a welfare state. Add two for a socialist state.

The result will likely give an approximation of the actual death and destruction due to the earthquake. A 5.7 earthquake in Venezuela will likely do as much damage as a 7.7 earthquake here.

[Rocky]

Oh, let’s be sure and send them some money. Right.

[Feline_AIDS]

How the richter scale works: http://science.howstuffworks.com/earthquake6.htm

[FreedomPoster]

235 miles from Caracas, per the USGS. Currently showing 5.6

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010rmbz.php

[OrangeHoof]

There goes our tax dollars in more aid...Obama to Chavez.

[rrrod]

I dont care.

[the Real fifi]

Any thoughts about this from Hugo’s friend Danny Glover?

[the Real fifi]

Any thoughts about this from Hugo’s friend Danny Glover?

[the Real fifi]

Any thoughts about this from Hugo’s friend Danny Glover?

[JPG]

Danny Glover just sacrificed a chicken.

[concretebob]

Maybe the Halliburton Spacebased Earthquake Machine was mis-targeted the first time. You know how tricky that targeting software can be.

[bert]

Nuclear test not yet ready for prime time

[TaraP]

Update time = Fri Jan 15 19:06:21 UTC 2010

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 5.6 2010/01/15 18:00:49 10.421 -63.495 11.7 SUCRE, VENEZUELA
MAP 2.8 2010/01/15 17:43:28 18.919 -65.959 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.0 2010/01/15 17:34:49 19.406 -155.306 14.4 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.7 2010/01/15 17:03:44 19.802 -155.340 30.6 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 5.3 2010/01/15 15:44:48 43.617 146.661 35.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.8 2010/01/15 15:27:02 35.569 -97.277 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 4.0 2010/01/15 15:18:26 35.592 -97.258 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 2.9 2010/01/15 14:20:50 36.037 -117.846 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 2010/01/15 14:17:43 32.189 -115.367 6.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.1 2010/01/15 13:42:18 32.147 -115.374 6.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.6 2010/01/15 13:41:44 18.401 -72.816 10.0 HAITI REGION
MAP 3.4 2010/01/15 13:39:31 36.036 -117.848 1.2 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 2010/01/15 12:06:41 18.851 -65.675 80.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.9 2010/01/15 12:05:37 19.070 -65.340 16.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.3 2010/01/15 11:08:37 26.728 126.395 127.0 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 5.0 2010/01/15 10:38:26 -31.902 -175.740 10.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.6 2010/01/15 10:29:59 36.029 -117.840 1.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.4 2010/01/15 10:14:03 -31.945 -177.371 10.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.5 2010/01/15 09:28:19 36.024 -117.839 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 2010/01/15 09:25:13 36.034 -117.851 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 2010/01/15 09:25:01 19.123 -65.612 6.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.7 2010/01/15 08:56:07 18.470 -73.020 10.0 HAITI REGION
MAP 2.5 2010/01/15 08:44:38 36.030 -117.843 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

[The Toll]

That’s the smell of busted gas lines, not sulfer you moron!