A magnitude 8.2 hit today, with an epicenter near December's 9.0. This quake is being considered an aftershock to December's.

Coastlines should be under evacuation now; hopefully, the have moved inland and will let us know that they're ok.

Edit: It was at 11:09 am EST. That means that there should be reports from Sri Lanka soon about whether any tsunami have been generated.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/usweax/

The page says an 8.7...

Oops, NYT said 8.2.

And that's quite a significant difference.

They're still debating the magnitude.
8.2 was the initial report.

It's been upgraded to 8.7.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/2...uake/index.html

You're so right, Officer. The Richter scale is logarithmic, which means an earthquake of 8.2 has an amplitude 30,000 times that of a 4.0 earthquake. An earthquake of 8.7 is approximately twice the intensity of an 8.2. These are massive magnitudes here. Does anyone happen to know the measurement of the most powerful earthquake ever recorded?

Sorry to be so pedantic, but I have a personal interest in massive natural disasters.

I live 200 miles away from the world's largest active volcano, and it's 60,000 years overdue to erupt.

I'd move.

What!!! And leave all this?!?!

Do it now before its claws are in too deep. Trust me on this.

In the US: Mag 9.2 on 3/28/62 in Prince William Sound, Alaska

In the world: Mag 9.5 on 5/22/60 in Chile

Me too.......

you're a Rosie™ fan?

Palm?

Finish filling out your fucking profile, so we know where you live.

Et tu, Brute?

Thanks, MeenMullet.

The Beast lives!!

Yup - Jellystone is a supervolcano.

Any word on this?

Me and the missus are, of course, fine.

Stupid quake made my boss call me up in the middle of the night and get me out of bed so that I personally could go to work and personally make sure that the rest of the Americans in the area knew to move to higher ground. I talked to some very sleepy people that night.

Let this be proof that Your Government Never Sleeps.

Well, at lest for those of you not living in CanuckyFuckyLand or EuroFuckyLand. You guys are just plain fucked.

Your 1000th post.

Took me fucking long enough. At least I got one monkey off my back today.

Quality is more important that quantity. Otherwise we would be dirnking Filterated Czeckerland Xit.

Or the epitome would be an icon by now.

As would the Tardo.