Earthquake!!

I'm officially unimpressed. First off, everything here in Australia is either trying to eat me, poison me, suck my blood or burn me to death.

Now they drop an earthquake on me.

No idea how big it was but I was having a bath at the time and it threw the room, and the water, around something rotten. Lots of rattling noises.

Scared me bloody witless for a few minutes. Only lasted a few seconds but that was long enough.

Of course, tomorrow it'll turn out to be a 1.1 or something equally piddly but it was big enough for me.

So how are your days going?

Cheers

EDIT: It's now offcial www.theage.com.au/national/earth-tremor-rocks-metropolitan-melbourne-20090306-8rgc.html


EDIT: WOOO! Apparently it was a 4.7! is that big?
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:20, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Pfft
that was no earthquake, you'd just released a violent expulsion of gas in the bath, and it seemed like the end of the world. That's all.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:24, Reply)

Yay! for living life on the edge.
I may get to New Zealand next year and have a little danger of my own.
( girlinthehole, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:29, Reply)

the fat cunt in our office
fell over about an hour ago, that would explain it.
(Halfy By light alone, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:30, Reply)

If It
was me I'd be proud.

Had all the neighbors running outside saying:

"Did you bloody feel that?"

I couldn't join them on account of being all wet and naked....

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:30, Reply)

New Zealand's all sheep and Maoris
If only there were a way of combining the two, then we'd have the greatest Rugby playing wool factory on Earth.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:31, Reply)

Bert
That is fucking genius.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:39, Reply)

I have my moments
You have to wade through a lot of shit to get there, though.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:40, Reply)

i've always
had a mild worry/interest when I'm in the bath of an earthquake hitting, and they bath falls through the floor, me and water still in it, like what happens in cartoons. I'd end up in the lounge, in the bath, startling my in laws, me in a shower cap and a loofer scrubbing my back, as the cartoon would dictate.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:41, Reply)

Ooooo
4.7 is pretty big as earthquakes go.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:46, Reply)

Yeah..

but any second now someone will be along saying:

"He's making it all up. *Nobody's* life is that interesting...."

I'm fucking Cassandra I am. Doomed to tell the truth and have no one believe me....

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:51, Reply)

He's making it up!
Nobody's life is that interesting.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 11:40, Reply)

4.7
isn't so impressive when it's in inches though.

Mrs Monkeysex cries with disappointment every time.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:52, Reply)

4.7 isn't terribly big

As it's important to remeber that the Richter scale is is a base-10 logarithmic scale, therefore a 2 is ten times as powerful as a 1.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:53, Reply)

So by your logic
a 4.7 is almost 10,000 times more powerful than a wimpy 1. That's pretty powerful in my book.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 11:39, Reply)

Not my logic simply the truth
and yes you be correct, but I did a fart once that measured 1 as it is so tiny
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 11:43, Reply)

It may be tiny
but 10,000 times the power of an average chair rumbler is pretty strong.

Put it this way, it shakes building and knocks things over. That's pretty powerful for an earthquake.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 11:45, Reply)

Dunno, but
4.7 is a pretty good shake. when I was living/imprisoned in California experienced many, including a 6. Usually they ended before one could realize what was happening. Once was at shopping mall and thought it was a *fat cunt* sitting on the bench beside me that caused the disruption. oh well.
( cackers, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 13:52, Reply)

Earthquates are the grounds' way of saying "Get the fuck off me"*

I may have heard this somewhere
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 6 Mar 2009, 14:25, Reply)

Is it big?
Big enough to rock your world!


badum tish
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 18:58, Reply)