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To: topher

2 separate quakes. 6.6, and one minute later 7.2
Per MSNBC


31 posted on 09/29/2010 12:12:39 PM PDT by donozark (It's hard to afford a psychiatrist when you work at a gas station.)
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To: donozark

I worked at a mine on the west side (Indonesian) of Papau New Guinea. Another engineer there was designing a wall to keep the haul trucks from falling over the edge of a dumping area.

He designed it to withstand an 7.4 EQ which was a fair possibility of happening. His boss at the mine laughed and said “If we even get a 6.4 here the whole place is toast. Just build it so it won’t fall over if a truck hits it at 20 mph.”


34 posted on 09/29/2010 1:08:02 PM PDT by 21twelve ( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
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To: donozark
USGS has the 7.2 as well.

Map of location of 7.2:


35 posted on 09/29/2010 1:10:01 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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