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tank_boy

earthquake

Feb 23, 2004 18:32

there was a minor earthquake, noticeable all over Switzerland... Epicenter was near Besançon (France), magnitude 5.1 [more info].

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and i came from a country... tyarky February 23 2004, 10:22:51 UTC

in the ring of fire...
i experienced 7.9....

Mt Pinatubo tank_boy February 24 2004, 08:35:50 UTC

ah, you pinoys/pinays.... just showing off with your volcano eruptions and earthquakes! Hey, Switzerland is a small and peaceful country, you can't expect us to have as impressive disasters as you!! ;)

16 july 1990 tyarky February 24 2004, 08:38:27 UTC

it was the year before pinatubo...
no way do i want to experience that again...

small and peaceful tyarky February 24 2004, 09:35:40 UTC

exactly!

that's why i was shocked to experience an earthquake so far away from the earth's ring of fire...

i didn't know how much seismic activity also occur in this part of the world...

an interesting read: this dynamic earth

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blackturtleneck February 23 2004, 10:50:13 UTC

Not sure if this is right as I've used a web translator but Holy Scheiße! (holy shit!)

You're online so I'll assume you're ok?

tank_boy February 23 2004, 12:29:52 UTC

No no... it was not strong at all. Anyways, in Switzerland, houses are built strong enough not to collapse... Not everyone noticed. I was working, staring into the screen when it started shaking gently. My lamp fell from the desk, nothing else happened.

Re: blackturtleneck February 23 2004, 14:02:08 UTC

Oh what the hell do I know? I live in canada and I haven't ever experienced an earthquake. Now, curfew inflicting snowstorms are another issue all together! Until last thursday there was barely any snow on the ground. This is NOT COMMON for this area!

(glad it was a small earthquake and that you're ok!)

tank_boy February 24 2004, 07:46:43 UTC

wow!! i would like to have more snow here. Maybe not that much, but still... We had some snow yesterday... but it's all gone today. this is how my street looked like yesterday morning at 6am: [crappy mobile phone pictures]

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karinakarina February 23 2004, 13:01:41 UTC

heh. i read this really fast and i was like "nah, i didn't feel anything." then i noticed that you said switzerland, heehee!

i live in CA 4.9 is really nothing over here.

tank_boy February 24 2004, 07:52:54 UTC

I know, California rocks! here, earthquakes with magnitude 5 are happening once in a decade! at the same time, earth was shaking in Morocco yesterday.

janette February 23 2004, 13:26:55 UTC

Oh my! I didn't know that could happen so close to me :-)

/J

tank_boy February 24 2004, 08:28:28 UTC

it's not that close :) However, Sweden has very low seismicity. You are lucky... in Scandinavia, earthquakes of magnitude 5 occur only once in 100 years. But I just discovered in the list of most recent quakes that one month ago, there was one (magnitude 1.9) in Northern Sweden!

janette February 24 2004, 13:20:30 UTC

Oh dear - an earthquake in Sweden! ;-)

And Belgium is closer that the places from which one usually hears of earthquakes :-)

/J

Älg tank_boy February 25 2004, 01:44:23 UTC

*sigh* I'd like to be in Sweden now and admire those endless landscapes... but I have to be content being at my office desk and spend my time with those elks :)

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katjunja February 23 2004, 14:13:24 UTC

I felt it. Does it happen often?

earthquakes in Basel tank_boy February 24 2004, 02:54:53 UTC

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