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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12706747)
(there was a 5.8 off the coast of BC last night as well.)
https://ktla.com/2019/07/04/6-6-eart...n-4th-of-july/ The BC earthquakes are not connected to the CA one, as they occurred on different tectonic plates. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Robin233
(Post 12706811)
Cannabis-oil can only help with pain and may stimulate the appetite of cancer patients. But it can't help cure breast cancer, and the concept of Cannabis-oil cure breast cancer is a falsified concept.
**** there's a well-known TV program about the farm there that manufactures the mixtures. It's called "Charlotte's Web". Extremely interesting for people with cancer. we watched it on TV; it's probably available on Netflix or the Web somewhere. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
One of the biggest benefits to growing up in San Diego, haven't been in 9 years, but this is my favorite ride in the whole park, and talk about a cool job, operating a train.
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Did we all see the story about the stowaway?
Guardian columnist today Some days the news values feel all wrong. A man stows away in the wheel arch of a Kenya Airways plane, freezes to death during the flight from Nairobi and, when the wheels are retracted, falls 3,500ft into someone’s back garden in south-west London. You’d have thought the story here was who exactly was the stowaway – he is as yet unnamed – and why was he so desperate to escape Kenya that he embarked on a journey he must have known there was a high probability he wouldn’t survive. And yet the way the story was reported by most newspapers in the UK, the main issue was the distress caused to the person into whose garden the man had fallen. For it wasn’t just any garden. It was the garden of a house worth more than £2m and its owner, who had so thoughtlessly had his sunbathing interrupted, was an Oxford graduate. And as we all know, Oxford graduates are much more sensitive than other mortals and find it much harder to cope with having their paving slabs broken by a desperate man frozen into a block of ice. The message to all other stowaways is clear: if you’re going to be inconsiderate enough to die in transit, at least have the grace to fall out over the Thames where there’s a chance your body may never be found. But failing that, fall out somewhere where house prices are lower and you’re less likely to disturb Oxford graduates. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12707024)
Did we all see the story about the stowaway?
Guardian columnist today I don't know why where you live should make a difference to how distressing it was for the bloke who had a dead body crash right next to him in his garden. What was he supposed to do, mutter 'oh deary me' and pour himself a stiff drink? Whataboutism journalism. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12707035)
I hope the columnist didn't get paid for that piece of crap. I'm sure further info will emerge about the poor soul who fell - bit hard to print anything about his story and motives before he's identified
I don't know why where you live should make a difference to how distressing it was for the bloke who had a dead body crash right next to him in his garden. What was he supposed to do, mutter 'oh deary me' and pour himself a stiff drink? It seems it was other media sources that went down the route of the status of the resident and that's what he was having a pop at. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ruction-manual |
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It happens more often than you'd think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...owaway_flights |
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This teenager 6 years year ago climbed the fence at the San Jose, California airport, hid in the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines plane and survived the 5 1/2 hour flight. There is video from Hawaii airport that shows the moment he jump out of the wheel well in Hawaii.
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
BC had another quake off the coast, this morning a 5.1 (other news reports are saying there were 3 this morning off BC coast.)
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/5-1-magnitude-...-b-c-1.4495529 California area that had the quake on Thursday has had over 200 aftershocks of 2.5 or more, the largest this morning at 4:07 registering a 5.4 https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/05/us/ca...day/index.html |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12707176)
BC had another quake off the coast, this morning a 5.1 (other news reports are saying there were 3 this morning off BC coast.)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...nada-1.5201165 |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
As usual, an earthquake above a certain magnitude has been followed by 3 earthquakes or aftershocks.
The ones this morning all happened within a few minutes of each other around 6 am I've just been listening to one of our local experts, John Clague, on the radio explaining how these things work At least, we're not as bad as in California where they are getting many more aftershocks. .... some expert has said that they get 200 or 300 over the next few days or weeks. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Most have been small but there have been at least 1,200 aftershocks now according to the LA Times. (likely since higher looking at the USGS website the most recent was 5:09pm)
"By midday, there have been at least 17 magnitude 4 aftershocks since the mainshock, and at least 1,200 aftershocks." https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...705-story.html California is a very active place for earthquakes, luckily most are very small and people don't always realize how active California is. May 25 to June 19 one area of So. California had 1,063 small earthquakes with the largest being a 2.7
Originally Posted by scilly
(Post 12707269)
As usual, an earthquake above a certain magnitude has been followed by 3 earthquakes or aftershocks.
The ones this morning all happened within a few minutes of each other around 6 am I've just been listening to one of our local experts, John Clague, on the radio explaining how these things work At least, we're not as bad as in California where they are getting many more aftershocks. .... some expert has said that they get 200 or 300 over the next few days or weeks. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12707279)
California is a very active place for earthquakes, luckily most are very small and people don't always realize how active California is.
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12707279)
Most have been small but there have been at least 1,200 aftershocks now according to the LA Times. (likely since higher looking at the USGS website the most recent was 5:09pm)
"By midday, there have been at least 17 magnitude 4 aftershocks since the mainshock, and at least 1,200 aftershocks." https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...705-story.html California is a very active place for earthquakes, luckily most are very small and people don't always realize how active California is. May 25 to June 19 one area of So. California had 1,063 small earthquakes with the largest being a 2.7 |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
People also don't realise that BC is a very active earthquake zone ........... Clague and another Earthquake expert said that we get many that are not felt.
I know that we do get a lot because we can't keep pictures straight on the walls of our house for longer than a couple of days at a time :nod: We're all supposed to have our Earthquake Kit ready, and kept in a place where it can be reached from outside if the house collapses. The Big One is expected "soon" ......... but they have been saying that since we got here 50+ years ago. There are undoubtedly traces showing that very strong earthquakes have happened here, but not since several hundred years ago. We have all the same conditions as California for tectonic plates rubbing up against each other, etc. BC is also on the Ring of Fire around the Pacific, which means that we have volcanoes that are still considered active not extinct. |
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