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The earth just moved...
No seriously, it did!!! Just two minutes ago... Sat here in bed in South Manchester browsing the wanderer as you do....and my whole room started to shake and couple of things fell off my desk.... frightened the living daylights out of me it has!! I'm waiting for the aftershock....
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Phew.. I thought for a moment you were going to describe an amorous encounter to us....!
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Reportedly 30 miles south of Hull, felt as high as Consett and as low as London.
I didn't feel anything.
I didn't feel anything.
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Don't think it was damage worthy, well not in Manchester at least!
Don't think it was damage worthy, well not in Manchester at least!
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Twas about one-o'clock and I was lying there in the dark dozing, when it felt like someone had sat down on the bed and then the cane drawer chest at the end of the bed started rattling. Gave me a bit of a jar, enough to make me leap out of bed and wonder what the hell was going on. Didn't know till this morning it was an earthquake, but thankfully I'm calling off the exorcism.
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Up late watching The Last King of Scotland, Mrs B thought a burglar was rattling the back door. Thankfully she didn't wake her husband, who'd been slumbering peacefully for an hour or more. I had, however, been awoken by that 6am explosion at a Hemel Hempstead oil planet the other year - that boomed against the windows.
There are folk in Brighton who claim to have felt last night's tremble, but they might just be lonely and want to talk to people on the telly. Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...
There are folk in Brighton who claim to have felt last night's tremble, but they might just be lonely and want to talk to people on the telly. Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...
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Don't think so, although I think it has a 'more correct' name now - they probably found out recently that Richter was a pornographer or something.Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...
I know the guy from the BGS who always gets rung up at god-forsaken hours to comment on these seismic events - 4am this morning on 5Live. I used to feel sorry for him until I discovered he's on a tidy wedge for such out of hours calls.
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I thought he was a WWI flying ace!Little Green Man wrote:Don't think so, although I think it has a 'more correct' name now - they probably found out recently that Richter was a pornographer or something.Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...
I know the guy from the BGS who always gets rung up at god-forsaken hours to comment on these seismic events - 4am this morning on 5Live. I used to feel sorry for him until I discovered he's on a tidy wedge for such out of hours calls.
I was watching the telly when the floor wobbled, as it's been said, like a lorry going past. It was still as windy as buggery so I checked to see that my chimney hadn't fallen down. Then I went to bed, unfazed.
Here I stand foot in hand...talkin to my wall....I'm not quite right at all...am I?
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the term richter scale is only used by the media.Little Green Man wrote:Don't think so, although I think it has a 'more correct' name now - they probably found out recently that Richter was a pornographer or something.Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...
I know the guy from the BGS who always gets rung up at god-forsaken hours to comment on these seismic events - 4am this morning on 5Live. I used to feel sorry for him until I discovered he's on a tidy wedge for such out of hours calls.
Seismologists use similar measures that fit with his basic premise but extend the area of measurent of magnitude from the seismograph, but they measure differebt aspects of the wave function created by the event at different points in the earth's crust/mantle etc.
Common measurement is "surface-wave" - "Ms"
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Sorry, my misunderstanding, I thought DSB meant that a change had been made to the scale that media uses to present earthquake magnitudes to the great unwashed. There are of course other more scientifically meaningful ways of measuring such things.communistworkethic wrote:the term richter scale is only used by the media.Little Green Man wrote:Don't think so, although I think it has a 'more correct' name now - they probably found out recently that Richter was a pornographer or something.Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...
I know the guy from the BGS who always gets rung up at god-forsaken hours to comment on these seismic events - 4am this morning on 5Live. I used to feel sorry for him until I discovered he's on a tidy wedge for such out of hours calls.
Seismologists use similar measures that fit with his basic premise but extend the area of measurent of magnitude from the seismograph, but they measure differebt aspects of the wave function created by the event at different points in the earth's crust/mantle etc.
Common measurement is "surface-wave" - "Ms"
Unfortunately my degree in geology has eroded to a degree of geology so I recall very little about seismology these days. I still know what slickensides are, though, not that it's any help here.
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