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     | Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 04:15 pm Ladies and gentlemen, it was around 11:45 a.m pst when earthquake measuring 6.8 richer scale hit western washington. Earthquake of such mangtitude could have been disastrous but fortunately nobody i've heard that have been killed. I was working-out at the local gym when I felt the quake.What an experience it was. I would live to remember this event. At first I thought it was a bomb that went off but when I rushed outside the building that I realized it was a quake. Anyway just wanna know if anyone have experienced similar situation like what occured here in Seattle.
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| | Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 05:04 pm Give thanks to Allah many people in similar circumstances did not survive; in other regions of the world. You have been given a second chance at life. Do better tomorrow then you did yesterday and today.
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| | Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 06:32 pm THANK ALLAAH, WE HAVE SURVIVED FROM A WILD QUAKE, ANONYMOUS WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN GYM AT THIS DAY OF TIME. WHEN THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPEN I WAS IN SCHOOL, SO EVERYONE FREAK OUT, PEOPLE STARTED CRASHING TO THE TABLES, IT WAS A HORRIBLE MOMEMENT TO WATCH AND TO EXPERIENCE BY THE WAY. HAVE ANYONE OF YOU HAVE ANY IDEA, WHY THE QUAKE. I THINK GOD IS SHOWING SEATTLE THE BAD THINGS THEY HAVE BEEN DOING LATELY! YOU GUYS HAVE ALL SEEN WHAT WAS GOING ON DOWNTOWN SEATTLE LATELY AT MIDNIGHTS! SO I THINK IS A SIGN OF PUNISHMENT FROM ALLAAH, NOW THEY CAN REALIZE THE POWER OF GOD! AND THE WRONG THINGS THEY HAVE BEEN DOING? HEY I AM SCARE, I AM MOVING OUT OF THIS STATE, ANYONE OF YOU GUYS WITH ME, I AM BOOKING MY TICKET TO SOMEWHERE SAFER, LIKE IN SOMALIA WHERE THERE AIN'T NO EARTHQUAKE. I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAY THAT. YOU GUYS KNOW WHEN YOUR TIME COMES, YOU CAN'T HIDE...YOU GO.I DON'T KNOW WHERE THOUGH. I PRAY FOR THE BEST OF US MUSLIMS AROUND THE WORLD, AND SPECIALLY IN SEATTLE. WE ARE IN A DANAGE ZONE OF THE WORLD. SEATOWNPLAYABOY@HOTMAIL.COM
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| | Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 02:24 am i was in egypt when the earhquake hit cairo 1992 and lot of peole died.we did not sleep in our homes that night.it was the scariest moment in my life. thank god i survived.
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| | Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 02:48 pm Do you know that Washington State and British Colombia Province sit on a time bomb! As predicted by many scientists who follow underground movements and changes, that region is bracing for an earth-quake much greater any other quake in the past 200 hundred years. The one they predict is similar to another one that shook the region in 1700s and was felt as far as Japan. They say it will happen in this decade or the coming ones! I am not a scientist neither am I in the region - I am just passing the news to those of you who are in the area.
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| | Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 03:13 pm Well Wilka to answer your question, I was working-out at the gym, trying to keep in shape you know what I'm sayin'. I can really concur with all of ya, I think it was a wake-up call from THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH. The only advice I've is to strive to be the best muslims in terms of action and deeds. Alot of us assume that we are inevitable from natural calamities, but people let's repent and turn towards our creator. Personally i've to be the best muslim I can be. Thanks every one for your thoughful inputs.
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| | Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 05:34 pm QUAKE, THE STATEMENT YOU WROTE IS BELIEVED TO BE TRUE, I READ THE SAME ONE IN A NEWSPAPER. WHO KNOWS IF WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS TRUE, ONLY ALLAH DOES. MARKA QUAKE WHAT ARE YOU THINK? ARE YOU LEAVING THE STATE? BUT CHECK THIS OUT, IF THEY THINK ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE IS COMING THAT WILL DESTROY THE REGION IN COMING DECADE, WHY THEY DIDN'T PREDICT THE ONE THAT HIT US ON WEDNESDAY, ALL I AM SAYING IS THAT DON'T LET THEM GALLO FOOL YOU, YOU PROBABLY CAN OUT RUN THEM,AND OUT THINK THEM WHEN THE QUAKE HITS NEXT TIME, AND YOU ARE HEADED BETTER PLACE OVER ALL. BUT INSHA ALLAAH, THERE WON'T BE NEXT TIME, I HAD ONE PERSON TELLING WHEN THE QUAKE WAS HAPPENING THEY WERE DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY, THEY FELT SOMETHING WAS WRONG, BUT THEY DIDN'T'T'T REALIZE IT WAS A EARTHQUAKE, SO THEY STOP THE CAR AND STARTED TO CHECK UNDER THE CAR, THEY THOUGHT THE ENGINE HAD FELLING OFF. FINALLY PEOPLE STARTED YELLING DIG DOWN DIG DOWN. MY POINT I AM TRYING TO GET IS THAT YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHEN IS TIME TO GO, SO IS BEST TO BE PREPARED. ONE EXAMPLE, WHEN YOU ARE PLANNING A TRIP YOU START THINK ABOUT WHAT ARE NECESSARY THINGS AND NEEDED THINGS FOR THE TRIP. AND YOU START COLLECTING THE STUFF YOU NEEDED, MONEY, CLOTHING, TIME YOU ARE GOING TO SPEND, LIKE HOW LONG YOU GOING TO STAY, WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO STAY AND OTHER NECESSARY STEPS, IN ORDER FOR THE TRIP TO BE A SUCCESSFUL ONE. NEXT TIME PLAN AHEAD, AND STEP BY STEP YOU CAN ACHIEVE TREMENDOUS CREDIT TOWARD ALLAH BY TAKING BABY STEPS,EACH AND EVERY DAY YOU CAN GET CLOSER TO ALLAH'S HEAVEN, SEE IS BEST TO DIE WHILE YOU ARE PRAYING SALAD. INSTEAD, YOU ARE CUT IN DOING BAD ACTIONS, AND DIE. SEE THE DIFFERENCES. I HOPE I AM NOT WASTING MY TIME WRITING THIS, HOPE YOU GUYS GET IT, YASMIINA, NEXT TIME SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN, I THINK WE CAN COME OVER YOUR PLACE, TO DISCUSS SOME USEFUL TIPS, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THE QUAKE, SINCE YOU HAVE A DEGREE, YOU HAVE EXPERIECED HOBBILE ONE, THAT PEOPLE DIED, AA'WAYE ANONYMOUS MRS, AMA MR. ADIGA YAA TAHAY, WAXAAN KU WAYE DIIN LA HA GYM KA AAD AA'DO HALKEBU KU YAALA, MYSELF I AM TRYING TO GET IN SHAPE, I AM OVERLOAD, I THINK YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING. MAYBE WE CAN PARTNER UP IN THE MEANTIME, IF YOU DON'T MINE. SEATOWNPLAYABOY@HOTMAIL.COM
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| | Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 05:36 pm God must be the most inefficient diety ever imagined: 1) He could have sent a quake to Washington, D.C. when both George Bush's decided to bomb Iraq 2) He could have sent a quake to Israel in protest of their treatment of the Palestinian Muslims 3) He could have sent a quake to Somalia when Muslims were killing Muslims 4) In fact, He could have made the Seattle quake so severe that it killed more than a mere dozen people! Far more Muslims die every second. The earthquake wasn't caused by God. It's a perfectly natural phenomenon. Unexpected maybe. But entirely natural.
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| | Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 06:50 pm pramatigal Sweety get your dirty tongue away from God.Can't you see the irony of your post?
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| | Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 06:51 pm I pray everybody to be ok,take care you all.
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| | Friday, March 02, 2001 - 03:26 am WIILKA, Good poitns bro! Gal, which god is in question here?
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| | Friday, March 02, 2001 - 12:23 pm are there any somali casualties of the quake , ihope every one is okay out there , especially the somali folks. peace
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| | Friday, March 02, 2001 - 01:31 pm well am glade that you suvived, and everyone else. here is how the Earthquaks work. How Earthquakes Work by Tom Harris An earthquake is one of the most terrifying phenomena that nature can dish up. We generally think of the ground we stand on as "rock-solid" and completely stable. An earthquake can shatter that perception instantly, and often with extreme violence. Up until relatively recently, scientists only had unsubstantiated guesses as to what actually caused earthquakes. Even today there is still a certain amount of mystery surrounding them, but scientists have a much clearer understanding. Photo courtesy USGS A section of Interstate 880 in Oakland, California, damaged by the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that shook the San Francisco area in 1989. There has been enormous progress in the past century: Scientists have identified the forces that cause earthquakes, and developed technology that can tell us an earthquake's magnitude and origin. The next hurdle is to find a way of predicting earthquakes, so they don't catch people by surprise. In this edition of How Stuff Works, we'll find out what causes earthquakes, and we'll also find out why they can have such a devestating effect on us. Shaking Ground An earthquake is a vibration that travels through the earth's crust. Technically, a large truck that rumbles down the street is causing a mini-earthquake, if you feel your house shaking as it goes by, but we tend to think of earthquakes as events that affect a fairly large area, such as an entire city. All kinds of things can cause earthquakes: volcanic eruptions meteor impacts underground explosions (an underground nuclear test, for example) collapsing structures (such as a collapsing mine) But the majority of naturally-occuring earthquakes are caused by movements of the earth's plates, as we'll see in the next section. We only hear about earthquakes in the news every once in a while, but they are actually an everyday occurrence on our planet. According to the United States Geological Survey, more than three million earthquakes occur every year. That's about 8,000 a day, or one every 11 seconds! Photo courtesy FEMA Residential damage caused by the 1994 earthquake in Northridge, California. The vast majority of these 3 million quakes are extremely weak. The law of probability also causes a good number of stronger quakes to happen in uninhabited places where no one feels them. It is the big quakes that occur in highly populated areas that get our attention. Earthquakes have caused a great deal of property damage over the years, and they have claimed many lives. In the last hundred years alone, there have been more than 1.5 million earthquake-related fatalities. Usually, it's not the shaking ground itself that claims lives -- it's the associated destruction of manmade structures and the instigation of other natural disasters, such as tsunamis, avalanches and landslides. Photo courtesy NGDC Residential damage in Prince William Sound, Alaska, due to liquefaction caused by a 1964 9.2-magnitude earthquake. In the next section, we'll examine the powerful forces that cause this intense trembling and find out why earthquakes occur much more often in certain regions. Sliding Plates The biggest scientific breakthrough in the history of seismology -- the study of earthquakes -- came in the middle of the 20th century, with the development of the theory of plate tectonics. Scientists proposed the idea of plate tectonics to explain a number of peculiar phenomenon on earth, such as the apparent movement of continents over time, the clustering of volcanic activity in certain areas and the presence of huge ridges at the bottom of the ocean. The basic theory is that the surface layer of the earth -- the lithosphere -- is comprised of many plates that slide over the lubricating athenosphere layer. At the boundaries between these huge plates of soil and rock, three different things can happen: Plates can move apart - If two plates are moving apart from each other, hot, molten rock flows up from the layers of mantle below the lithosphere. This magma comes out on the surface (mostly at the bottom of the ocean), where it is called lava. As the lava cools, it hardens to form new lithosphere material, filling in the gap. This is called a divergent plate boundary. Plates can push together - If the two plates are moving toward each other, one plate typically pushes under the other one. This subducting plate sinks into the lower mantle layers, where it melts. At some boundaries where two plates meet, neither plate is in a position to subduct under the other, so they both push against each other to form mountains. The lines where plates push toward each other are called convergent plate boundaries. Plates slide against each other - At other boundaries, plates simply slide by each other -- one moves north and one moves south, for example. While the plates don't drift directly into each other at these transform boundaries, they are pushed tightly together. A great deal of tension builds at the boundary. Click here for a great plate-boundary diagram. Where these plates meet, you'll find faults -- breaks in the earth's crust where the blocks of rock on each side are moving in different directions. Eathquakes are much more common along fault lines than they are anywhere else on the planet. In the next section, we'll look at some different types of faults and see how their movement creates earthquakes. Faults Scientists identify three types of faults, characterized by the position of the fault plane, the break in the rock and the movement of the two rock blocks: In a normal fault (see animation below), the fault plane is nearly vertical. The hanging wall, the block of rock positioned above the plane, pushes down across the footwall, which is the block of rock below the plane. The footwall, in turn, pushes up against the hanging wall. These faults occur where the crust is being pulled apart, due to the pull of a divergent plate boundary. Normal fault The fault plane in a reverse fault is also nearly vertical, but the hanging wall pushes up and the footwall pushes down. This sort of fault forms where a plate is being compressed. A thrust fault moves the same way as a reverse fault, but the fault line is nearly horizontal. In these faults, which are also caused by compression, the rock of the hanging wall is actually pushed up on top of the footwall. This is the sort of fault that occurs in a converging plate boundary. Reverse fault In a strike-slip fault, the blocks of rock move in opposite horizontal directions. These faults form when the crust pieces are sliding against each other, as in a transform plate boundary Strike-slip fault In all of these types of faults, the different blocks of rock push very tightly together, creating a good deal of friction as they move. If this friction level is high enough, the two blocks become locked -- the friction keeps them from sliding against each other. When this happens, the forces in the plates continue to push the rock, increasing the pressure applied at the fault. If the pressure increases to a high enough level, then it will overcome the force of the friction, and the blocks will suddenly snap forward. To put it another way, as the tectonic forces push on the "locked" blocks, potential energy builds. When the plates are finally moved, this built-up energy becomes kinetic. Some fault shifts create visible changes at the earth's surface, but other shifts occur in rock well under the surface, and so don't create a surface rupture. Photo courtesy USGS Crop rows offset by a lateral strike slip fault shifting in the 1976 earthquake that shook El Progresso, Guatemala. The initial break that creates a fault, along with these sudden, intense shifts along already formed faults, are the main sources of earthquakes. Most earthquakes occur around plate boundaries, because this is where the strain from the plate movements is felt most intensely, creating fault zones, groups of interconnected faults. In a fault zone, the release of kinetic energy at one fault may increase the stress -- the potential energy -- in a nearby fault, leading to other earthquakes. This is one of the reasons that several earthquakes may occur in an area in a short period of time. Photo courtesy USGS Railroad tracks shifted by the 1976 Guatemala earthquake Every now and then, earthquakes do occur in the middle of plates. In fact, one of the most powerful series of earthquakes ever recorded in the United States occurred in the middle of the North American continental plate. These earthquakes, which shook several states in 1811 and 1812, originated in Missouri. In the 1970s, scientists found the likely source of this earthquake: a 600-million-year-old fault zone buried under many layers of rock. The vibrations of one earthquake in this series were so powerful that they actually rang church bells as far away as Boston! In the next section, we'll examine earthquake vibrations and see how they travel through the ground. Making Waves When a sudden break or shift occurs in the earth's crust, the energy radiates out as seismic waves, just as the energy from a disturbance in a body of water radiates out in wave form. In every earthquake, there are several different types of seismic waves. Photo courtesy USGS Structural damage caused by vibrations from the 1964 Alaska earthquake Body waves move through the inner part of the earth, while surface waves travel over the surface of the earth. Surface waves -- sometimes called long waves, or simply L waves -- are responsible for most of the damage associated with earthquakes, because they cause the most intense vibrations. Surface waves stem from body waves that reach the surface. There are two main types of body waves. Primary waves, also called P waves or compressional waves, travel about 1 to 5 miles per second (1.6 to 8 kps), depending on the material they're moving through. This speed is greater than the speed of other waves, so P waves arrive first at any surface location. They can travel through solid, liquid and gas, and so will pass completely through the body of the earth. As they travel through rock, the waves move tiny rock particles back and forth -- pushing them apart and then back together -- in line with the direction the wave is traveling. These waves typically arrive at the surface as an abrupt thud. Secondary waves, also called S waves or shear waves, lag a little behind the P waves. As these waves move, they displace rock particles outward, pushing them perpendicular to the path of the waves. This results in the first period of rolling associated with earthquakes. Unlike P waves, S waves don't move straight through the earth. They only travel through solid material, and so are stopped at the liquid layer in the earth's core. Click the play button to start the earthquake. When P and S waves reach the earth's surface, they form L waves. The most intense L waves radiate out from the epicenter. Both sorts of body waves do travel around the earth, however, and can be detected on the opposite side of the planet from the point where the earthquake began. At any given moment, there are a number of very faint seismic waves moving all around the planet. Surface waves are something like the waves in a body of water -- they move the surface of the earth up and down. This generally causes the worst damage because the wave motion rocks the foundations of manmade structures. L waves are the slowest moving of all waves, so the most intense shaking usually comes at the end of an earthquake. In the next section, we'll see how scientists can calculate the origin of an earthquake by detecting these different waves. Pinpointing the Earthquake's Origin We saw in the last section that there are three different types of seismic waves, and that these waves travel at different speeds. While the exact speed of P and S waves varies depending on the composition of the material they're traveling through, the ratio between the speeds of the two waves will remain relatively constant in any earthquake. P waves generally travel 1.7 times faster than S waves. Using this ratio, scientists can calculate the distance between any point on the earth's surface and the earthquake's focus, the breaking point where the vibrations originated. They do this with a seismograph, a machine that registers the different waves. To find the distance between the seismograph and the focus, scientists also need to know the time the vibrations arrived. With this information, they simply note how much time passed between the arrival of both waves and then check a special chart that tells them the distance the waves must have traveled based on that delay. If you gather this information from three or more points, you can figure out the location of the focus through the process of trilateration. Basically, you draw an imaginary sphere around each seismograph location, with the point of measurement as the center and the measured distance (let's call it X) from that point to the focus as the radius. The surface of the circle describes all the points that are X miles away from the seismograph. The focus, then, must be somewhere along this sphere. If you come up with two spheres, based on evidence from two different seismographs, you'll get a two-dimensional circle where they meet. Since the focus must be along the surface of both spheres, all of the possible focus points are located on the circle formed by the intersection of these two spheres. A third sphere will intersect only twice with this circle, giving you two possible focus points. And because the center of each sphere is on the earth's surface, one of these possible points will be in the air, leaving only one logical focus location. For a more thorough discussion of trilateral calculation, check out How GPS Receivers Work. Rating Magnitude and Intensity Whenever a major earthquake is in the news, you'll probably hear about its Richter Scale rating. You might also hear about its Mercalli Scale rating, though this isn't discussed as often. These two ratings describe the power of the earthquake from two different perspectives. Photo courtesy NGDC Destruction caused by a (Richter) magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela. The 1967 earthquake took 240 lives and caused more than $50 million worth of property damage. The Richter Scale is used to rate the magnitude of an earthquake -- the amount of energy it released. This is calculated using information gathered by a seismograph. The Richter Scale is logarithmic, meaning that whole-number jumps indicate a tenfold increase. In this case, the increase is in wave amplitude. That is, the wave amplitude in a level 6 earthquake is 10 times greater than in a level 5 earthquake, and the amplitude increases 100 times between a level 7 earthquake and a level 9 earthquake. The amount of energy released increases 31.7 times between whole number values. The largest earthquake on record registered an 9.5 on the currently used Richter Scale, though there have certainly been stronger quakes in Earth's history. The majority of earthquakes register less than 3 on the Richter Scale. These tremors, which aren't usually felt by humans, are called microquakes. Generally, you won't see much damage from earthquakes that rate below 4 on the Richter Scale. Major earthquakes generally register at 7 or above. For more information about the Richter Scale and seismographs, check out this Question of the Day. Photo courtesy NGDC Damage to a school in Anchorage, Alaska, caused by the 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake. The earthquake, which killed 131 people and caused $538 million of property damage, registered an 9.2 on the Richter Scale. Richter ratings only give you a rough idea of the actual impact of an earthquake. As we've seen, an earthquake's destructive power varies depending on the composition of the ground in an area and the design and placement of manmade structures. The extent of damage is rated on the Mercalli Scale. Mercalli ratings, which are given as Roman numerals, are based on largely subjective interpretations. A low intensity earthquake, one in which only some people feel the vibration and there is no significant property damage, is rated as a II. The highest rating, a XII, is applied only to earthquakes in which structures are destroyed, the ground is cracked and other natural disasters, such as landslides or Tsunamis, are initiated. Richter Scale ratings are determined soon after an earthquake, once scientists can compare the data from different seismograph stations. Mercalli ratings, on the other hand, can't be determined until investigators have had time to talk to many eyewitnesses to find out what occurred during the earthquake. Once they have a good idea of the range of damage, they use the Mercalli criteria to decide on an appropriate rating. Photo courtesy NGDC Damage from a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that hit Niigata, Japan, in 1964. Dealing with Earthquakes We understand earthquakes a lot better than we did even 50 years ago, but we still can't do much about them. They are caused by fundamental, powerful geological processes that are far beyond our control. These processes are also fairly unpredictable, so it's not possible at this time to tell people exactly when an earthquake is going to occur. The first detected seismic waves will tell us that more powerful vibrations are on their way, but this only gives us a few minutes warning, at most. Photo courtesy USGS Damage in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, caused by the 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake. Scientists can say where major earthquakes are likely to occur, based on the movement of the plates in the earth and the location of fault zones. They can also make general guesses of when they might occur in a certain area, by looking at the history of earthquakes in the region and detecting where pressure is building along fault lines. These predictions are extremely vague, however -- typically on the order of decades. Scientists have had more success predicting aftershocks, additional quakes following an initial earthquake. These predictions are based on extensive research of aftershock patterns. Seismologists can make a good guess of how an earthquake originating along one fault will cause additional earthquakes in connected faults. Another area of study is the relationship between magnetic and electrical charges in rock material and earthquakes. Some scientists have hypothesized that these electromagnetic fields change in a certain way just before an earthquake. Seismologists are also studying gas seepage and the tilting of the ground as warning signs of earthquakes. For the most part, however, they can't reliably predict earthquakes with any precision. So what can we do about earthquakes? The major advances over the past 50 years have been in preparedness -- particularly in the field of construction engineering. In 1973, the Uniform Building Code, an international set of standards for building construction, added specifications to fortify buildings against the force of seismic waves. This includes strengthening support material as well as designing buildings so they are flexible enough to absorb vibrations without falling or deteriorating. It's very important to design structures that can take this sort of punch, particularly in earthquake-prone areas. See this article on How Smart Structures Will Work for more on how scientists are creating new ways to protect buildings from seismic activity. Photo courtesyUSGS Bridge columns cracked by the Loma Prieta, Calif. earthquake of 1989. Another component of preparedness is educating the public. The United States Geological Society (USGS) and other government agencies have produced several brochures explaining the processes involved in an earthquake and giving instructions on how to prepare your house for a possible earthquake, as well as what to do when a quake hits. To find out what you should do to prepare yourself, check out this online guide from the Red Cross. Photo courtesy USGS The great San Francisco fire of 1906 was initiated by a powerful earthquake. The earthquake vibrations and catastrophic fire destroyed most of the city, leaving 250,000 people homeless. In the future, improvements in prediction and preparedness should further minimize the loss of life and property associated with earthquakes. But it will be a long time, if ever, before we'll be ready for every substantial earthquake that might occur. Just like severe weather and disease, earthquakes are an unavoidable force generated by the powerful natural processes that shape our planet. All we can do is increase our understanding of the phenomenon and develop better ways to deal with it. To learn more about earthquakes, check out the USGS Web site, or any of the other sites listed in the Links section
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| | Friday, March 02, 2001 - 02:41 pm June 1990, Castelli Romani, Near Rome Italy. 8:15 PM, I was watching TV, leaning back on the dinner chair as usual, when all the sudden the ground moved, my chair gave way and before I could remember I was on the floor, banging my head on the way to the floor, the room moved, the furniture creaked and moved, the light twitched and before I knew I was outside, outside the building along with the entire neighborhood. People talked and asked questions and after 30 minutes everybody was back to their homes. I guess that's what you get when you live on old volcanoes. For those of you who think Somalia is safer interns of earthquakes, think again. Somalia sits on the Indian plate, while Ethiopia sits on the African plate. The Rift Valley which marks the territorial limit of Somalis passes to the west of the Ogaden. In the rift, the two plates meet and is the source of geo-friction(quakes). In 5 million years, the horn of Africa is calculated to separate from Africa, can you imagine the entire territories. of the Somalis will go into the sea as an Island. Guess ALLAH is saving us from the Ethiopians or the saving the Africans from our ignorance and hostile character. In short Somalia could have the worse regional quakes, only Allah is keeping our home save from quakes, but not from our filth. With love
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| | Sunday, March 04, 2001 - 12:46 pm <In 5 million years, the horn of Africa is calculated to separate from Africa, can you imagine the entire territories. of the Somalis will go into the sea as an Island. Guess ALLAH is saving us from the Ethiopians or the saving the Africans from our ignorance and hostile character. In short Somalia could have the worse regional quakes, only Allah is keeping our home save from quakes, but not from our filth. > In 5 million years!!?? Why should anyone care what happens so far from now? In just 4 billion years our sun will explode and swallow up the whole solar system! Besides, I thought Doomsday was just around the corner..... Basra, <Sweety get your dirty tongue away from God.Can't you see the irony of your post? > I am not licking God darling. And the only irony I see is you (of all people) calling someone else dirty-tongued!
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| | Sunday, March 04, 2001 - 12:49 pm Heeeeeyyyy Somaone is using my nick.Loooseerrrrr! Pramaticgal sis that was not me.What a loser.Both of you.
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| | Monday, March 05, 2001 - 07:07 am PRAMATICGAL YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND, I THINK YOU HAVE BEEN READING A LOT OF FICTION BOOKS, THE WAY I SEE IT, AND BELIEVED. YOUR HEAD IS FULL OF FALSEHOOD, LIES, UNTRUTH, ILLUSION, AND UNREALISM THOUGHS ABOUT ALLAAH, AND THE WORLD. IN FIVE MILLION YRS WHO KNOW WHAT THE WORLD WILL BE LIKE, AND LISTEN NEVER QUESTION GOD'S WILL? YOU NEED TO COME TO REALITY SHORTY, AND STOP ASSUMING THINGS! MUCALIM, THANKS FOR THE BOOK, WHEN IS THE PUBLISHING COMING OUT! MAN YOU WROTE A WHOLE BOOK, I WANTED TO READ IT, BUT I LOSE INTEREST OF IT, TOO LONG! NEXT MAKE IT SHORT! FOLKS IN SEATTLE EID MUBAARAK SEATOWNPLAYABOY@HOTMAIL.COM
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| | Monday, March 05, 2001 - 07:18 am LOL nigga! you must be from the future then! LOL... I wonder how it is i 20001? Tell me more about it....
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| | Monday, March 05, 2001 - 09:05 am ANYONYMOUS, YOU CAN PLAN A PERFECT PICNIC, BUT YOU CAN'T PREDICT THE WHETHER, SAME AS THE FUTURE, THAT WAS FROM THE OUT-KAS, ALLAAH HAS MADE AS SET OF RULES TO FOLLOW, AND TO OBEY HIM, THE WAY HE WANTS US TO BE OBEYED, YOU ARE UNDERSTANDING ME! WE CAN NEVER OUTLOOK GOD, NOR DOUBT HIS POTENTIALS,....ALLAAH TOLD TO MAKE OUR EXPECTATIONS HIGH BY PRAYING HIM WHENEVER WE NEED SOMETHING, OR WANT SOMETHING DONE! WE FOR ALLAH THE NATURE CREATION, UNIVERSE, LIFE, WORLD, AND ALL OTHER LIVING THINGS.. WE HUMAN BEINGS HAVE TO LEAVE THE PROSPECTS OUT! TILL NEXT TIME, BELIEVE IN YOU AND YOUR CREATOR!
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| | Monday, March 05, 2001 - 09:27 am Yaa salaam!
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| | Monday, March 05, 2001 - 03:38 pm Salam Folks I wanna say something good to Pragalig or paramedic what ever his name is. Son remember whether u believe is god or not is your problem although I will love to see u BOW 4 your creator, who created u when u never exesisted. Now you can talk with denial but the truth will come u with tremendouse surprise when u least expected. the Creator said "charge your self before I charge" meaning take a look at actions before I charge u on them. Now is the time to believe him, only him is the 1 worhty washiping. If u are muslim Pra then come back seek 4giveness if NOT come to ISLAM before a "CALLER calls you from a near place" what ever type of person u are or relegione u may be in ALLAHA KU SOO HADEEYO and anaka oo dhan
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