English Earthquake.

Not ever in the UK, however, I have only been taught that we are very stable, not that we don't get earthquakes. I have recently read that NYC is built on a major quake zone. Comments?

Yes and it is far worse because of the ground some is solid rock but other sections are reclaimed and will readily liquefy. I have just been watching a program on what will happen when a hurricane strikes as it must some time in the near future. It will devastate large areas and the storm surge will go in land by up to 20 miles.

Don't worry it's just the Chinese digging under your country on their way to attack us.

No it's the French trying to close the channel tunnel. There was and still may be a truly hairbrain idea that a tunnel could be dug under the atlantic to connect GB and the US. It came up last year in a program on great tunnels.

That is truly a scary thought driving through a tunnel with the Atlantic Ocean on top!

in the plans do the have a mickey d every 50 miles or so

I would hope so! You just have to have a McDonalds ever 50 miles, or it just wouldn't be American!

Are you making a kidding? Vermin, when will our chinese prepare to attack your american?

there are lots of chinese in silicon valley I ws told, do you think they are or like terrorists?

from news reporter, we know not long before there was a terror event took place in some college in usa, a student shot more than 30 his schoolmates and teachers . its terrible. some newspaper reported he may be from China, but the last fact proved he was from Korea. So many lovely, vivid children, suddenly...

we hope this event will not take place forever. Lets pray for those children again

No, it was a crazy American movie from the fifties, where a crazy Chinese General took the Chinese army to dig a tunnel under the pacific ocean all the way to America, and the American soldiers had to fight them in the tunnel, stupid science-fiction movie.

I saw it two years ago, a 40 years old movie. Nothing to write home about (An American expression).

Vermin was joking - about the stupid kind of films that were made when America was paranoid in the era that Yuval mentions. All countries have examples of this , mainly through Government propaganda/peoples ignorant fear &prejudice. I can think of many historic UK examples (and plenty of current ones ). Such things will slowly decrease , but it is in human nature to joke about things that are different - it's a way to cope with fear of the unknown. It is no coincidence that people show their teeth in fear and in laughter. So vermin was making fun of people in the past. That is my interpretation.

wow, is it coincidence. we happened has a deep well drill project. I check its 5000M.

I know that american like to make a joke. but its really coincidence this time.

forget it!

This looks like the 5Km hole at Lianyungang in Jiangsu province.

The moho hole in Kola sounds bigger at about 12Km

I am worried that vermin was evicted from home !

Keep on digging China - set the world record !

you can search at googls this project.

The feature film I hvnt watched, its really a coincidence. many america film stories has become into true in real life. some is good but some is we dont hope it took place. I think you know what I mean. a twin skyscrapr disappeared.

their american directory has aboundant of imagination. they can do and dare to shoot film of any subject material, this is impossible in our country.

There are different versions of the story/film Transatlantic Tunnel , which seem to originate with an original German story. I vaguely recall see a film about English/Americans building a tunnel and finding that they bumped into Chinese people doing the same thing. Interestingly the Transatlantic Tunnel film starts off with a man building a Channel Tunnel - a long held dream which finally came to reality. Many people are still looking at a possible Transatlantic tunnel for real.

You are quite right about the difference between Science Fiction films that predict things we want and those that predict things we don't. Imagination is an important part of Engineering evolution.

Freedom to speak as we choose to in the West (and many other places ) is great , but also comes at a price. People have to use this freedom for the good of all people. The fact that people have different opinion on what is 'good' can be a cause of much tension. We all have to remember our individual responsibility , wherever we live in the world.

Hey , I'm rambling off topic (again ! ).

You're forgetting that in most engineering environments, engineers are free to do as they please, with the exception that marketing has a carefully placed boot on your windpipe.

I think maybe here Engineers can say as they please , but are consrained from doing what they might dream of. With Scientists it may be the other way round (think genetics + labs etc) - or am I a touch cynical ?

Just looked at the explicit UPL:

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long213.html

it's a real-life sentence, not some jibrish.

ihaveafunnycuttingsomewhereaboutthefightforthelongestdomainnamesomewhereandomgicantspellcheckthisnow

notlikeicouldunderstandanyofitanyway so iwasjustgivingitawayassomespringoffering

to mynextkinCHIMPmonk. hoo hoo hooee hee hee

Peanuts anyone?

Awfully nice of you old chap , but I have my own you know . I'd offer to share too , but I keep loosing them.

If you carefully look at my portrait, you can't hardly un-notice (double negative, I thought you'd appreciate) the bit of tongue, protruding under the cigarette:

This is directed at you. not you, YOU!

My favourite cat does that trick (no not smoking , looking at me with tongue hanging out). How can you show yours ,when you already have so much in your cheek and bitten between teeth ?

Well, it's a very, very experienced tongue. It's been in places you're not yet equipped to imagine

You have to admit, that's the most satisfied looking monkey we've ever seen.

"...most satisfied looking monkey..."

It's the wife. Look at her and imagine the kids. I'm simply happy.

And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke

hmm ,

What do you think he is ? I haven't checked yet , but he looks a bit like one of those Japanese ones that play in the sea (I think).He looks...

Hey you just popped up as I posted , now I have to change 'pensive' to 'thats very cool'. I like your priorities- you are indeed the wise one.

"...one of those Japanese ones that play in the sea..."

What are you, the immigration police?

You probably meant "Macaca fuscata" (Japanese Macaque).

No. I'm a "Macaca sylvanus", Moroccan Barbary Macaque, and we usually take offence compared to the "fuscata", only my Russian cousin is one.

Or, at least that's what I say in public.

No one however, dares to mention this to my face, in fear of some retaliatory measures taken in such occasions: A direct bite to their face, or the pulling of hair, in lesser tantrums.

In your case, I'll let you off with a mild warning, since you're a ginger, an appeasing factor in our species, besides, you're essentially virtual.

Now, since you showed the patience to bare the tales of my ancestry, I'll let you in on a secret, as a special treat given only to really patient squirrels (and sometimes, to sea-monkeys, as well):

I'm really a "Macaca fascicularis" a Crab Eating Macaque from Indonesia. We have some relatives in Bali, and neighbouring islands. Now, since we can usually pass for "sylvanus", we quietly immigrate to Europe and Asia for the occasional odd jobs, where Far Easterners cannot be admitted, so we usually take assumed identity, and try to avoid the immigration police.

On my passport, an expert couldn't tell the difference.

My cousin could and would, so we keep her chained, just in case.

Crab eater... There's a really great picture of one of your friends getting a taste of crab claw applied externally to his lower jaw. Whoops slipped!!!

You can find the picture in one of the Time/Life series books. Ouch!!!

There's a really 'foamy' link in that no - even I'm not going to open that one up (having spent a week crusading on something similar in principle - iffy questions + petrol soaked responses ).

You look more like the red-faced one that's been out on the town to long . However , your association with crabs is quite plausible , as is your Bond-like behaviour. You are probably more 'Stirred , not shaken.' though .

Just between us two, the petrol soaked variety of questions, are my favorite, you know being myself and all that, my fear is only for the occasional innocent bystander.

The petrol soaked, you can sent do my mail, and we can discuss there how to rephrase it for public exposure, hopefully to everyone's delight.

Ppolitically Ccorrect items suck so much fun out of life, that I tend to think everyone is pretty bored by it, by now. Scuse my English here.

As to my appearance, you know there is not much I can do, except for changing my avatar, to something far less resembling it, like: with the inevitable: and to be more specific:.

What am I? RastCaque? It's just isn't me.

Monkey see Monkey do....

That monkey phrase Google's some good results.

I can't take the piss out of PC until the thread has the required representation of minority groups

I now see that the rumours about Great Aunt Lucy are true. The complete link is tenuous I know. Perhaps little sister knows.

We got all the way from the ground quaking under my feet to mankind's existence ! Do you think I'm a .. Well , y'now sort of... everybodies..Go... I'm tooooo modest to even say it . It may explain why people say fu****g je*** when they see me as well. It also explains why I'm compelled to love your innocent child-like ways.

Well, what can you do? When Lucy was discovered by Johnson, it was to everyone's delight, because Ethiopia (it was found in the Afar district) was still fought over, by east-west cold war parties. It has nothing to do with humans, apes and everything in between.

Now that it's won by the west, and the skeleton demanded back for repatriation (some five years ago), the usual maggots crawl out of the woodwork to bid their usual mercantile set of items:

- Was Lucy a Jew?

- Did she have intercourse with Nazis?

- Was she connected to the nine-eleven CIA-Mossad unsuccessful attempt to incriminate El-Qaida?

Not only she belongs to a minority group (Jewish Australopithecus), she constitute a minority group of bones vital to a healthy public debate.

This is not a light-headed subject you know.

As people usually skip my inane comments , I keep them brief to match peoples attention span. The links are clearly bollocks. I shall tell The Washington Post and New Scientist to shut the feck up (reference Father Ted if curious). That way people can get the truth right here on CR4 direct from a Guest of their choosing , then we can all be blissfully happy and have our prejudice and ego massaged at the same time. I'll stick to winking - why trouble others.

Care for a rub-down ?

...Care for a rub-down ?...

This is so rude of you. Where did you get your manners from, the immigration police?

We usually de-lice for about fifteen minutes, prior to a good, old-fashioned, rub-down.

I know it was offered in a good spirit of squirrel cooperation, but so not PC, I looked around to see if anyone else notices.

Nuts?

eek

I fear the reason why CR4 lets you (and I) exist on these threads is they think of us as "trolls," and they feel we'll do less harm if we're just given a hole-in-the-wall to exist in.

You're much too modest. They probably see your posts and see the reaction to it, and try to assess the rating it would get their site.

Sites are mainly judged today by visitor traffic. True, they have to consider policies, contents, and other such factors, but all those, are way-ruled by traffic.

It's all about show-biz. If you're not a bore, or even somewhat entertaining, that's it. You're on your way to cyber immortality, which by the way, lasts for about forty to fifty minutes, the average human attention-span.

cnpower, the only fear of China that America has is that you guys may make more money than we do.

Both Kris and Yuval are right. The movie was made in the 60's, and it was also made by a British film company, I think it was Hammer Films. I knew that these guys would get the reference. It's just one of those stupid movies that you never think about until some one makes a reference. Heck during that time, we made movies about Russia, the Vietnam, the Martians, you name it. Also, at about the same time, Russia used to like making movies about being attacked by Western Powers, too.

I sure hope Chinese newspapers aren't printing headlines, like "US thinks China is Terrorist State." Nobody thinks that.

Hi, vermin,

its a misunderstand, forget it.

at that ages, there two two opposite camps. we call it as cool war times. of cause licture and film were serve for themslf's goverment. now all is past. China has a great change, which we couldnt image at past.

only from history document film we remember that days.

dont worry, most of chinese will be not as rich as your american. only a few got rich repidly. they are more rich than ordinary usa people. we are poor, no car, no house only live in a flat and little money. live by work hard.

our newspaper and broadcast and tv are belong to our goverment, its fact as all people know it. this is different from your usa and other europe countries, which is belong to private, and can publish and report anything they like to speak.

I admit its fact that at headline on newepaper and tv screen there are something like you said.

but all is caused by your some small newspaper, you are too freedom in order that they hunt curious things without responsibility. a great many people dont think that, but somebody may thnk that, after all world is colored.

dont take it serious

"...the Martians, you name it..."

These I liked the most. Later, I liked the parodies made of.

Did you ever get to see "Flash Gordon" movies from the thirties?

I spent my childhood indulging in then, some say too much so, all the way to my present oblivion...

A Chinese team is working at drilling a deep hole in China is a real fact.
the project began several years ago. and goes well, I heard from newspaper. Its a science engineering, it seems approved by un (I dont remember)
the deepth is of 5000M or 50000M, I forget,
the fact is,
after improved relationship with america by new chinese leaders, chinese economic has a great development.

so chinese would do something for the world. thats why chinese take contract of the project.
at the time, we even make a joke in our mass, lets try to run whole engines , could we drill through the earth?
if you not prompt it, we almost forget the project. after all it has nothing to do with us ordinary people.
not only in china, but in every country has a few bed men who dont like work but wish to live a good life. so they cheat, and attack others to get money. of cause include many corruption officers, most of them like to escape to your USA. but in their mouth, they alway said, usa is enemy! dont touch with them! Do you like them?

what a div how about no

Yes I have seen this it is quite an eye opener.

Crikey! I hadn't known about the one in the Norwich vicinity, My home city!

Being just a couple of miles from Folkestone , I near crapped my pants !

It lasted a good 10 seconds with a distinct explosive sound in the middle . Most people were baffled about what it was (and many were looking toward nearby Dugeness Nuclear ). Having a modicum of knowledge in the field and consulting my geologist neighbour , it took no more than a glance for us to concur. I had a good link on UK earthquakes which I have lost for now. Not that uncommon even in Kent , which has a good record of hits approx every 200 years (though the last was 1950).There is the Dover-artois fault nearby I'm told , which is probably the cause. Seismologists are rubbing their hands in glee - all that once in a lifetime data.

People out walking at the time barely noticed it , but people in buildings really noticed. A nephew is off school today , as the school fell apart a bit . Not much major structural damage that I've heard of. The TV and electric went off for a few hours , and mobile phone connection was swamped. Certainly spiced up the day.

Damn , I can't claim for a new computer on the insurance now !Me and my big mouth.

When the Dudley quake hit a couple of years back it felt like an express train travelling at high speed under ground. Have you noticed since good old uncle Tony got in we have had a definite increase in natural disasters. Earth quakes, Tornado's and floods.. So many europian builders available for cheap quotes.

Wait 'till thrifty Gordon gets to play with the reigns . OMG.

Yeah, the earth quakes will be cheap and nasty then, put out to the cheapest tender with no regard for quality.

If you guys want to see earthquakes, try moving out here! The '89 quake was the first large one I experienced out-of-doors. It's really freaky to see the ground in one direction accelerate away from you, and then you suddenly find yourself moving as you catch up to it. We're talking about 20 ft in less than 2 or 3 seconds. It's like surfing on dirt.

Of course, all the while the telephone poles are jerking back-and-forth, while the 12 KV lines are dancing above your head!

That's got to be as close as it gets to an OMG-end-of the-world feeling. One of those things that you really would have to experience to understand - all your sences lnocked about. Terrifying , but fascinating for an observer like we usually are in 'quake-free' zones.

Really! I never knew that the ground could stretch that much without rupturing! Luckily, it carried the houses and everything with it!

Give your desk a quake by sliding a forcefully pressed hand along it. The stick-slip phenomena should rattle your coffee mug in resonable simulation. You could also try this on a willing friends naked thigh , but you may experience a terrible after-shock applied to your furry face.

I'm not stupid!!!

Besides we don't need to do that. The desk started moving about three weeks ago. And there's always the occasional bed waking experience... You wait a few seconds to make sure it's not a pre-shock, then you go back to sleep.

I never knew that the ground could stretch that much without rupturing

A quake is the ground shaking . Rift formation is slightly different , being consequential to the same forces but not necasserily occuring with a quake. I doubt you observed the ground stretching without formation of fissures. Elasticity of rock is a key factor , but not on a scale you would visibly see without fracture.

Who said anything about rocks? I experienced this on land fill!

People that have done programming have the best grasp of English. They see the logic in the construction of a sentence or a paragraph. The logic is there, but it's much more subtle than the logic of any programming language known to man!!!

parsed and approved.

...telephone poles are jerking back-and-forth, while the 12 KV lines are dancing above your head!...

I will never envy a Californian again.

Ours is atop a major fault region, parting exactly where the Jordan river is, with weekly but very minute quakes, all year long.

The last "major" quake here, two years ago was 5.6 Richter, with the epicenter some 80 km south of the Dead Sea, and was felt by people for a few hundred kilometers around. In Tel Aviv, Nethanya, and other west shore cities, built on sand, objects fell from shelves and such, no biggie.

Israel's building code takes provisions of major earthquake, but hardly covers buildings prior to 1950.

Holy Land antiquities? What can one do? Pray?

While the San Andreses fault is the biggest in the area, the one that geologists and seismologist are the most worried about is the Hayward fault.

If viewed superimposed over the East Bay landscape, this suspected violent fault runs under many schools and hospitals!!! They built these facilities before the presence of the fault was known. So, if it goes, many an institution straddling the fault will go as well!!! Woof!!!

One more thing: BUILDING CODES REALLY COUNT!!!

A lot of people complain about how hard it is to get a building made in CA. It's tough, but it's all about making buildings seismic OK. The people that die in the Middle East usually live in rock bunkers, for lack of a better term. When the ground starts rolling, rock falls down. I would prefer not to end life as a squished bug. So, hail to the stringent building codes!!!

...can't claim for a new computer...

Yes you can. Bring them a doctor's note confirming that you dropped it trying to escape through the window ("My brother's dog ate my homework") in panic, then your shrink's note that what you just wrote here, is a typical aftermath bravado (also wrongly called "Shell-Shock").

But first, delete this here advice, otherwise we're both in trouble.

Me and my big mouth.

Nice one ! And you've also given me plan B - I will keep a copy of this and blackmail you for inciting me to committ fraud . Dang ,then you'll copy this and....

I can always maintain you lured me into it, myself being a retarded sheep, not capable of initiating anything heavier than the occasional crap, you know, my sister's dog forced me to brake her table-lamp.

What are you, an officer of the lure?

Dont forget , I am a victim of this quake. I have credibility !Ner.

And get out of mary-ellens bed john-boy

g'night evrabody.

Well, we all just have to accept the fact the we live on a giant heat-engine, and from time-to-time, we may get in the way. Best not to.

Like a bunch of mice living in a clock tower, it's best to watch your tail!

I live in a small town in Saskatchewan, Canada. About as far away form a fault line that you can get I think. One morning a fair number of years ago all the cattle went crazy for a few minutes outside of town. Just started to run and some broke out of a fence, for what looked like no reason. The next day the newspaper said we had a rare earthquake, too small for people to notice, but the animals sure did.

You may be here perhaps.

http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/earthquake.html

Interesting dates on this link.

So where were the pictures of carnage?! Interesting that a number of the pictures taken of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, were in fact pictures of storm damage done in other parts of the country. The media was hard up for really intense shots.

Also, the only reason why a 5.1 would do damage is because of unreinforced masonry. This was outlawed in California sometime after 1906.

I saw a documentary claiming the San Francisco shots were rigged for some kind of conspiracy (?) . Also I can't see your pic below , just a silly half square and red 'X'

No, no, you got it all mixed: the San Francisco shots were taken on the moon, while the actual landing took place in a CIA studio inside the MGM (Jewish) complex

This was way before they hoaxed the twin-tower nine-eleven November French Revolution in Moscow, to topple the Tzar Bush of Scotland.

Forgive me, I'm on a roll here

LMAO

Don't have a roll , have a 'torroidal doughnut' . They are my speciallity you know.

This is what happens when you try to paste a Windows animated emoticon into CR4 Daily. You all see a box, but I see the emoticon. Woof!!!

Oh, Kriiiissss, come out and play!

He will never play for England!

And against?

Excellent !

I would have modded the game - 2 isolated chimps playing the same screen with no Ghosts and the 2 chimps competing to collect bananas instead of dots. The original fruit would be replaced with a stun-gun when they had mastered competition in basic gathering. Would they be preoccupied with collecting rewards or go for the gun. I think they would learn to go for the gun

Your go

AHA!

Turing test with-A-chimp.

Artificial Elegance

Seriously now (as if...):

Remember this experiment some two years ago where they rigged a cage for a group of chimps, where the food was attached to a cold irritating shower, so the chimps gradually gave up their attempts to touch the food in fear of the inevitable shower, then a new chimp was introduced to the cage...

Remember? Should I continue?

Hehe. Well yes, obviously, he can play, can't he?

Hey - you didn't name the picture , sneaky.

I'm taking my revenge. It's my sister's dog. He broke her table-lamp last week. Remember?

PlbMak was not the target. I only parked the dog in his yard, until I'm on the way home.

He wouldn't even have to mind it. It's "tame".

Dont' tell him, I'll be right back. He wouldn't even know it was there.

I wondered what it was that got stuck in the mutts throat.

It's only front tooth. Human, Spooky Tooth. Implanted.

This man leans on me for advice all the time you know. Witness my cunning artistry below ! A genuinly scarey cat may soon appear.....

You temptress. Fire the make-up artist first.

Hey, BrainWave, PlbMac, Kris, and Yuval! We all reached ascendancy into Guru-hood about the same time! This call for some sort of celebration!!!

Look who's talking! Celebrating this is a bit of admittance that we are mere motor mouths. A bit embarrassing I'd say. I wouldn't mind being called a browser again, even a prowler would do.

On second thought, what the heck. Here, have a doobie!

O.K, got it, champaign. Nazdarovia!

I'm a KKris , so I'm having double . No need to worry about my millionth (some time next month at this rate ) - no pointy head , just morphing into whatever wacky creature comes to mind (Hedgehog or Echidna maybe)

Knuckles the Echidna.

nah - he's far too Playstation . And he's standing on a hole. And he's got hair like 'Predator' . And he's got knuckle-dusters. And ,,,OMG ! Green socks with a red ensamble - come here you poor darling , what have they done to you......

Bonkers. His predator dreadlocks, is a reminder of the original: "Come come, now... did Arnold bite you? here, let me lick your green blood..."

Ah - the sage Monkey one - tell me , is my photo for real or not (me and my pal 'speely') ?

Sure-nuff' do you more than mere mortal justice

heheheh

one on left is wax dummy

what is punctuation sage monkey one

who is french woman in london town

Us Hebrew need extra for to bestood, see?