Sunday, September 01, 2024

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21 comments:

  1. ‘Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds [Click] Lidded vessel is star object in rich Galloway Hoard; its silver came from a mine in what is now Iran
    ——Alan

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  2. Michael Popok video: Trump laughed out of federal court by judge [Click] His lawyers are [big surprise] incompetent. I am very much looking forward to sentencing on Sept. 18th. I doubt it will happen, but I would be well pleased if TFG should become the second person to campaign for the Presidency from his prison cell.
    ——Alan

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  3. Good luck persuading Netanyahu. He has never given a damn about the hostages.

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    1. The people of Israel are FURIOUS with Netanyahu. He may well not survive this one. He never should have been allowed back in office as it was. He should have been in jail all this long while.

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  4. The little earthquake this morning (3.8) in Quebec was felt down this way too. I slept through it.
    Quebec earthquake

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    1. A good strong dish rattler close to the epicenter; remember that the Richter Scale is exponential. Back on the North American Craton earthquakes can be felt at a considerable distance; out here in California the geology is so complicated that the shocks don't travel far.
      -----Alan

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  5. We get small quakes all the time. Waiting for the Big One.

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  6. --nordy...a 9.0. There was one on January 26, 1700. The next?

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    1. Yeah, you're way overdue...I hear it's supposed to happen every 500 years or so. Maybe the climate changing is on your side (in this regard) for some strange reason?

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    2. As memory serves me, the average interval between great earthquakes on the Cascadia Fault [Click] is 250 years. The movements of the areas inland are very complicated. On another note, most of the school buildings in the range of the Cascadia Fault's activity are not built to a high earthquake resistance standard. After the Long Beach quake of 1933 (which struck on a Saturday, thank Heaven) California established school earthquake resistance standards, which have continued to improve over time. No school building built to even the initial standards has ever failed.
      -----Alan

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    3. Nordy--- Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country is a good preparedness book.
      -----Alan

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    4. This source [Click] says great earthquakes occur on the Cascadia Fault at intervals of about 500-600 years.
      ——Alan

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