Posted on 10/15/2006 10:34:29 AM PDT by colorcountry
Son just called. Does anyone know anything?
Aloha BIGLOOK,Glad to read your OK:)
Did you just hear the emergency services guy in Hawaii on Fox just now? He said, "If you have a loved one in Hawaii, don't worry, we're going to take real good care of them."
Thank you, I apprecaite the news. Managed to talk to one friend in Pahoa, elec. out, only radio availabe. He didn't know anything about Oahu elec. etc. Where he was (out of Pahoa a bit) felt it pretty strong.
How did you do that? I would love to know, since we have a quake risk in Seattle...I tried right-click under "Properties." Is there someplace else I should look?
Awww, very nice of him to say that.
That's what the New Orleans idiot Mayor said too!
it sounds like a long quake....wow doubtful it was 2 minutes as some initially reported....many are saying at least a minute.
Turning into an interesting Sunday, that is for sure.
Hopefully the reports of no deaths continues.
USGS now saying it was 6.6
HAARP RAWKS!!! ;-)
(insert evile laugh here...)
While the Hawaii Channel feed (which is what's also being simulcast on CNN) keeps reporting this as a 6.5, the USGS apparently just upgraded the initial quake back to a 6.6.
I also receive USGS earthquake reports, and the three quakes which came through on my phone were the initial one (which had an initial Richter-scale rating of 6.7), a 5.8, and a 6.3. Now, nobody else is reporting on the other two quakes, and I'm still searching for information - I'm wondering if perhaps three separate quake stations on the islands measured the same quake three different ways, but that would make no sense. Regardless, I know there's been at least 10-12 smaller aftershocks, including a 4.2 just about 20 minutes ago.
I heard that! I thought..what an old-fashioned, kindly thing to say..
Ouch! Wasn't that just before the Volcano starting going off (the eruption that took out the houses?)
Thanks, kingu!! Will keep for reference!
My poor son arrived in Hawaii a couple of days ago on business. It's his first trip. I was talking with him on the phone when it hit. He said "Oh my God, an earthquake". He was on the 13th floor of his hotel in Honolulu. He said the building swayed. He said there is no water or electricity. I last talked with him about an hour ago.
I just got off the USGS site and I counted 27 aftershocks since the initial quake. Yikes.
Oh yes, they were shellshocked all right. When I moved back to CA from overseas it was about 6 weeks after the Northridge quake, and we were only a handful of miles from it. Damage was all around and my little rented house had lost its chimney. All my friends with little kids had them in the parents' beds at night still, and the topic on everyone's lips in public six weeks later was still the quake.
I'd be in the locker room at the gym: everyone was talking about it. In the grocery store: everyone was talking about it. It was kind of surprising to me, but then again, I did not experience it. Instead, I experienced the man-on-the-moon sensation of watching the quake on CNN International; it was like my world (all my loved ones) blowing up and I was watching it from the moon.
Really? I just got here myself.
Didn't read the thread or feel a thing. :-)
27 aftershocks sounds a lot more accurate, actually, than what info I had - I was going off of the direct USGS mails I'd gotten, and hadn't gotten to the USGS site. I was mostly trying to find out if the three major quakes I'd gotten notice of were accurate - any idea?
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