Quite literally the middle of nowhere for everyone else.
The big red circle is where this happened.
Posted on 04/20/2006 7:47:49 PM PDT by SierraWasp
I used to talk to Sergi on Sakalin Island, which shouldn't be too terribly far from there. Of course, everything in Siberia is "terribly far" from ANYTHING!!!
I meant talk to him on my Ham Radio, that is!!!
*shrug* I've only posted a total of 221 threads and 45,248 replies...
Quite literally the middle of nowhere for everyone else.
The big red circle is where this happened.
that should be east northeast.
Sakhalin is indeed pretty far from this earthquake....some chance he may have felt a little something I guess, but certainly no damage.
Very sad. I hope help is on the way.
Well, he's 11 time zones away, I think he's safe ;)
Way to go, "null and void!"
Yep! And I saw you on it just a moment ago!! So if you started experiencing quakes in 1941, thats about the same year Dr. Frank held me way up in the air by my slippery ankles and started beating on me butt to make me bawl!!! See! I really do remember bein born!!!
Go for it! Heck, I like thread chains.. beats tire chains.. unless the roads are nasty and icy and ya need tire chains.
Before the cable god brought us broadband, I remember getting 46.7K on my dialup,, wooo & eeeee , baby , now that was flying.. :)
I also remember 14.4K and 26.7K too. ouch.
Good reference. We had our own pet names for some of those places on the Risk board, such as "Bananastan".
Do ya need some Visene??? (grin)
Not yet...
Din't that have sumthin ta do with Eve in the garden??? Oh wait! Like the great female philosopher Roseann Roseannadana of SNL fame once said: "Nevur Mind!!!"
What are you on now with your god-like speed? A direct dish aimed at an internet satalite??? I just cannot figure out how you can bear to rub shoulders with us mere modem bound mortals!!! Honestly!!!
Huge Quake Rattles Russian Hinterlands
MIKE ECKEL, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/ap_on_re_eu/russia_quake
MOSCOW - A major earthquake hit a distant, sparsely populated region of Russia's Far East early Friday, causing unknown damage and possible casualties, an emergency official said. The U.S. Geological Survey and Japan's Meteorological Agency estimated the quake's magnitude at 7.7.
The quake hit at around 12:30 p.m. local time in the Koryak region, nearly 4,350 miles east of Moscow and some 625 miles north of the largest city in the area Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, said Oleg Kotosanov, a duty officer with the regional emergency situations ministry.
Kotosanov told The Associated Press by telephone that there were reports of damage in some villages of the Pacific region, and that emergency officials were flying by helicopter to several locations. Federal emergency officials in Moscow said they had no information about the quake.
Russian news agencies said buildings had been damaged in the coastal village of Tilichiki, including a school, a hospital and an airport. The agencies said there were also some injuries.
Russia's north Pacific coast sits along a major tectonic plate and is frequently hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
"It's the largest event in this area since 1900," A.B. Wade, a spokeswoman for the USGS, told the AP. "It's a sparsely populated area; up to 2,000 people were exposed to intensive shaking."
By comparison, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which destroyed more than half of the city's buildings and left between 3,000 and 6,000 people dead 100 years ago this week, was estimated at a magnitude of between 7.7 and 7.9.
The Russian quake, centered about 30 miles below the surface, posed no tsunami risk to the western United States and Canada, according to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.
We had Affagistan, and western Soviet Union had the urinals...
When we started bombing over there, someone on here was calling it "Ashkanistan!!!"
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