Earthquake!

[Russell]

Back in first-world America, everyone knows natural disasters are not caused by tourists angering spirits. They are caused by abortion and gay marriage.

Well yeah, but thems are Christian Witch Doctors making those accusations, so it's OK.

Hmm, actually not. I am as much opposed to those Christian nutcases as to those Malay-Shinto-religion-like nutcases.

Sarcasm detector broken?

Could be. Or it is the increasing temperatures...

[Russell]

OK, this popped up in the news.

California Drought 2015: Anti-Abortion Laws, Assemblywoman Shannon Grove Says, Will Bring Rain

A Republican California State Assemblywoman has a new idea for what is causing the widespread drought in her state: abortions. Assemblywoman Shannon Grove suggested that if the state were to implement more restrictive abortion laws like the 20-week ban in Texas, then California just might pull out of its unprecedented four-year drought.

She brought a bible to the podium for her speech at a pro-life banquet last week. While speaking, she held the bible aloft and said, “This is the infallible word of God. I fear him more than I fear anyone.”

[...]

Grove pointed to a 2013 bill signed by then-Gov. Rick Perry in Texas that put a limit on abortions at 20 weeks. At the time of the signing, Grove said, Texas was in a drought. The night Perry signed the legislation, it rained. "Texas was in a long period of drought until Gov. Perry signed the fetal pain bill," she said. "It rained that night. Now God has His hold on California."

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I wonder how these nutters interpret the rain period in Japan...

[Russell]

[Grumpy Gramps]

It rained that night. Now God has His hold on California

Makes one wonder, why politicians anywhere in the world need to be elected at all. They might as well just ramdomly be pulled out of a loony bin and sworn in on spot. Would save billions of election campaign bribes and the resulting "politics" wouldn't change. Neither would the earthquakes.

[Russell]

It rained that night. Now God has His hold on California

Makes one wonder, why politicians anywhere in the world need to be elected at all. They might as well just ramdomly be pulled out of a loony bin and sworn in on spot. Would save billions of election campaign bribes and the resulting "politics" wouldn't change. Neither would the earthquakes.

Who needs politicians?

We just need some people who understand God's opinion to rule us...

[BigInJapan]

Bit of a shaker here down south. The epicenter (4 to low 5 on the J scale) appears to be in Saiki-shi, Oita prefecture.

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I'm awake working to beat a deadline, otherwise I probably wouldn't have felt what was probably the biggest temblor since I moved to Fukuoka 4 years ago. It was apparently 2 - 3 on the J scale where I'm located. Nothing like 3/11 (which I experienced in Yokohama), but nonetheless, fairly big for these parts.

[Coligny]

That explain the quake alarm last night. Was too shitfaced to even stay awake until the end of the warnung. (Found a week(s) old cheezeburger in the fridge that looked perfect for a dinner... But tried to kill me instead , fever dream and all...)

[Samurai_Jerk]

That explain the quake alarm last night. Was too shitfaced to even stay awake until the end of the warnung. (Found a week(s) old cheezeburger in the fridge that looked perfect for a dinner... But tried to kill me instead , fever dream and all...)

That's the first time I've heard of anyone getting drunk off a cheese burger. It obviously wasn't McDonald's because everyone knows their "food" doesn't go bad.

[Coligny]

Lotteria... Bought it in a hurry... But when home could not resolve myself to eat it... So dutifullly forgot it in the fridge... But yesterday it was this, going outside (on week end not so fun, too much living people in the streets) or starving...


McDo keeps good long time...

[wagyl]

Once again, everyone misses the real, earth-shaking news:

... since I moved to Fukuoka 4 years ago.... Nothing like 3/11 (which I experienced in Yokohama)...

OMG you are a flyjin!
actually, not

[Mike Oxlong]

Is Kitakyushu one of the places accepting debris from the tsunami? Seems an odd choice for anyone looking to distance themselves from potential contamination.

[BigInJapan]

Once again, everyone misses the real, earth-shaking news:

... since I moved to Fukuoka 4 years ago.... Nothing like 3/11 (which I experienced in Yokohama)...

OMG you are a flyjin!
actually, not

The timing of our move down south was a bit ayashii, but it had been in the works for several months.
Virtually no quakes down here, which is nice.

Is Kitakyushu one of the places accepting debris from the tsunami? Seems an odd choice for anyone looking to distance themselves from potential contamination.

Don't know anything about accepting radioactive tidal wave waste, but Kitakyushu is home to one of the most violent yakuza gangs in Japan. I'm about an hour from there, and there's much less visible gang presence here in the boondocks (just the occasional black milk trucks blasting catchy marching tunes♪).

[Coligny]

Just in case ya missed it, yahoo japan weather and disaster IPhone app

Yahoo!天気 - 雨雲の接近や台風の進路がわかる無料の天気予報アプリ by Yahoo Japan Corp.
https://appsto.re/jp/2rlhF.i

[yanpa]

Well, guess I didn't need to set the alarm this morning...

[Coligny]

Sorry, still fapping to the flood disastur pr0n... Take a number and wait the line.

[Taro Toporific]

Well, guess I didn't need to set the alarm this morning...

At least this morning's quake was strong enough to scare Rick Perry into giving up his campaign.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Powerful Chile quake leaves at least 2 dead, sparks tsunami alert

A massive 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck the center of Chile, leaving at least two people dead and triggering the evacuation of coastal areas and warnings that tsunami waves could reach as far as Japan.

At least two people were killed and 10 hurt in Chile, where terrified residents rushed out onto the streets in the capital Santiago and beyond, as far away as Argentina.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) put the shallow offshore quake at a magnitude of 8.3 and said it hit just 228 kilometers (about 140 miles) north of Santiago, a city of 6.6 million people.

[...]

The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that "hazardous" tsunami waves were possible for some coasts, including above three meters (10 feet) the tide level along parts of Chile's shoreline.

Tsunami waves were also possible along French Polynesia, it said, as well as smaller waves as far afield as Alaska, Japan and New Zealand.

[Mike Oxlong]

Was the up-to-one-metre tsunami that reached you guys earlier this morning really destructive? We've had two smartphone emergency alerts and three neighbourhood announcements warning of possible doom this early a.m.

[Yokohammer]

Was the up-to-one-metre tsunami that reached you guys earlier this morning really destructive? We've had two smartphone emergency alerts and three neighbourhood announcements warning of possible doom this early a.m.

We had the screeching alerts, but no damage. The tsunami was around 30cm in Iwate just a little while ago, and is supposed to be arriving at our part of the coast right about now. Looks like it'll be a fraction of a meter, so no big deal.

Edit: 20 cm in our area. So assuming there's not a freak second wave, all is well.

[Coligny]

The M1 quake near Hamamastu this evening was all natural.
We were not testing nukular weapons... We swearz...

(Soon on theater, Toyohashi, the rise of a nukular superpower... And if it's not working we have cabbage farts to threaten the world)

[canman]

That earthquake was pretty long and strong! Hope Hokkaido is doing ok!

[Yokohammer]

Felt it down here, but not too strong. According to the news there may be a slight increase in seal level but no damage is expected.


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[yanpa]

Felt it down here, but not too strong. According to the news there may be a slight increase in seal level

Do earthquakes scare them out of the sea onto land or something?

[Yokohammer]

Felt it down here, but not too strong. According to the news there may be a slight increase in seal level

Do earthquakes scare them out of the sea onto land or something?

No, they make them more intelligent.

It is obviously not working on me though.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Strong quake hits Taiwan, killing 3; 221 rescued from rubble

Rescuers in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan pulled out 221 people and three dead from a residential high-rise complex that collapsed when a shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck before dawn Saturday, leaving still others trapped inside.

Firefighters and soldiers scrambled with ladders, cranes and other equipment to the building that folded like an accordion in a pile of rubble and twisted metal and extracted dazed survivors.

The emergency response center told The Associated Press that three people were killed, including a 10-day-old infant, a 55-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man. Taiwan's official news agency said the infant and the man were pulled out of a 17-story Wei Guan residential building and that both were later declared dead. The agency said 256 people were believed to have been living in 92 households.

[kagemusha]

A big one in Kumamoto. Looks like 7, not sure how close to surface.

[yanpa]

M6.4, depth 10km, max shindo 7

http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/e ... 12638.html

[Coligny]

With a 5- near the Sendai Nukaplant...
Going to hoard on some TP for the bunghole.

[yanpa]

To soak up the rectal bleeding caused by radiation?

[Yokohammer]

Looks like not much damage for a big ol' 7. Maybe too early to know though.


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