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Boo hoo it's the Oscar de la crew!
They think they're cool but they're really not
One day, if u try real hard, u might maybe be as cool as me.Please point out where I or anyone else on Spurstalk has done this. Or are you just throwing a strawman out there to feel vindictive about something? You gotta keep up that cynicism or you might not be as cool anymore.
I'm not sure how one connects the dot between being cynical and cool… I prefer realist though
Boo hoo it's the Oscar de la crew!
They think they're cool but they're really not
You just can't do things like that!!
Timvp has some relatives in Chile, right?
Chile is not Haiti. Chile is on its way to becoming the first developed nation in LatAm. They'll probably get there in 10 years. And yes, their infrastructure is spretty similar to the US'.
At first, the quake was so strong, people thought deaths were going to be counted by the thousands. Officially, the number is 700+ and it will probably get to 1000+. The miscalculations are understandable.
It's also important to understand the nature of how earthquakes happen, and how their severity is calculated. We now use the Moment Magnitude Scale, which is not a measure of how much the earth actually "shakes", but the total energy released in the quake.
This means you can have an 6.5 magnitude earthquake that delivers severe damage and shaking to one small, confined area. The converse of this is a very widespread Earthquake that might be a 7.6 or even an 8, but is spread out over the entire length of the fault, which causes less damage over a wider area, but releases much more energy, so is rated higher on the MMS.
Add to this that the earthquake that hit Haiti was very shallow and centered directly under the condensed population area, and you begin to get an idea of how differently these quakes were in nature.
But make no mistake: No major metropolitan city is designed to withstand a magnitude of over roughly 8.0 on the MMS. Despite our advances in technology, if an 8.8 ruptured directly underneath L.A. (especially at a relatively shallow surface depth), you would see damage that rivals anything we've seen. China has building codes that far exceed the standard of Haiti, and yet the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake delivered phenomenal devastation and killed ~70-80,000 people.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...earthquake.jpg
An 8.8 would have shattered that building, instead of just rocking it off it's foundation.
This is definitely one time I'm happy that I appear to be wrong.
Looks like pretty sensational damage to me. I wonder what happens if that quake is just 30 miles closer to Concepcion?
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casualities AND fatalities!!!This is probably going to cause massive casualties and fatalities.
but we get it, you just wanted to be the first one to call it cataclysmic. Too bad it didn't pan out for you, maybe next time.
If you're implying that casualty and fatality have the same meaning, you just failed
gmafb
fail
I know, maybe cry havoc will get it right next time
And sisk, you can be right there to cheer him on again
well you and chode have been circle jerking since the thread began
but still, cryhavoc > you
i'm no fan of sensationalism, but he obviously just destroyed you with those pictures
Did you see tens of thousands of dead people in those pictures?
I can get you a picture of a ed up building from every earthquake in the past 30 years. Dummy
Did you see tens of thousands of dead people in those pictures?
I can get you a picture of a ed up building from every earthquake in the past 30 years. Dummy
Nope, I saw what you saw in the pictures
of course i agree 10k was a bit of a high estimate, but jumping on cryhavoc like a in heat was a bit pathetic
Casualty (kazh-oo-el-te)
n. pl. ca·su·al·ties
1. An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
2. One injured or killed in an accident: a train wreck with many casualties.
3. One injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy. Often used in the plural: Battlefield casualties were high.
4. One that is harmed or eliminated as a result of an action or a cir stance: The corner grocery was a casualty of the expanding supermarkets.
It helps to know your definitions before ridiculing someone for using the correct term, but good on you for broadcasting your limited knowledge of the language you speak.
Last edited by Cry Havoc; 02-28-2010 at 08:34 PM.
Kinda like how cry havoc jumped on the earthquake story at 4 in the morning?
Dude, you're so totally making your point. Being up at 4 am on a weekend is definite basis for... uh... whatever it is you're trying to do by making that statement. And judging by the MiamiHeat thread, I wasn't the only one awake while everything went to (pun intended).Kinda like how cry havoc jumped on the earthquake story at 4 in the morning?
You're not allowed to talk about earthquakes between the hours of 2 AM and 9 AM.. forgot about that rule of the internet
you mean there are casualities AND fatalities involved with earthquakes? Come to spurstalk for all the common knowledge you can stomach!!Casualty (kazh-oo-el-te)
n. pl. ca·su·al·ties
1. An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
2. One injured or killed in an accident: a train wreck with many casualties.
3. One injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy. Often used in the plural: Battlefield casualties were high.
4. One that is harmed or eliminated as a result of an action or a cir stance: The corner grocery was a casualty of the expanding supermarkets.
Helps to know your definitions before ridiculing someone for using the correct term. But good on you for broadcasting your limited knowledge of the language you speak.
TENS OF THOUSANDS AT MINIMUM! good call
It's interesting to note how much pleasure thispego takes when someone is wrong on the internet, and admits as much.
Did you feel important though, cry havoc? For a few hours there when you thought you were scooping stories and dropping hurricane knowledge? :Rollin
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