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[QUOTE="BiscuitCruiser"][QUOTE="-Tish-"]
Poor turkey. And it's not even Thanksgiving yet.
GazaAli
:lol:
That was terrible.
didn't get it :(You eat turkey for thanksgiving.
Yeah it is, at least huge enough to kill quite a few people and wreck **** up. 1989 San Fran earthquake was 6.9 and it messed their stuff up pretty bad. It's just not the worst earthquake this year, but not everyone is Japan or Chile. http://www.milliyet.com.tr/Gundem/SonDakika.aspx?aType=SonDakikaGaleri&ArticleID=1454183&PAGE=1 Pictures.7.3 isn't huge. Sad to see the damage though over there.
Pirate700
[QUOTE="Pirate700"]Yeah it is, at least huge enough to kill quite a few people and wreck **** up. 1989 San Fran earthquake was 6.9 and it messed their stuff up pretty bad. It's just not the worst earthquake this year, but not everyone is Japan or Chile.7.3 isn't huge. Sad to see the damage though over there.
Ace6301
http://www.milliyet.com.tr/Gundem/SonDakika.aspx?aType=SonDakikaGaleri&ArticleID=1454183&PAGE=1 Pictures.
The easter quake here in SD/northern mexico last yearwas a 7.3. It's not a huge quake. It didn't even interrupt my TV watching. It killed people in Turkey because the buildings are ancient and poorly built.The dude who said that the world would end on 21st october should really go away. His predictions bring bad luck :(Wait no one has said its becasue the world is about to end yet?
ps3rev
It's not a huge quake. It didn't even interrupt my TV watching. It killed people in Turkey because the buildings are ancient and poorly built.
Pirate700
First of all, yes.. a 7.2 or 7.3 IS a huge quake. However, it's not all about the magnitude of the quake. Just as big a factor is the makeup of the earth in the location where the event happens. For example- A 7.3 quake in the eastern US would be far more devastating than one in California, due to the fact that the Eastern bedrock carries seismic energy MUCH more effectively than the ground in California. I don't know that much about the bedrock in Turkey, but it's possible that it transmits energy much more efficiently than in some other areas, such as California.
I'd say it's because a building isn't going to just fall over instantly, even very old ones. Fronts and that will fall off and entire buildings may collapse but it takes time and I doubt most people are willing to risk it. Now if there was a 9.0 earthquake in a place like Turkey or other places that use fairly "brittle" building materials you'd probably see what you described.Is it just me, or is there just a lack of people home during earthquakes of this magnitude? You never see headlines of a hotel being plucked dry of thousands of bodies.
leapMC
Poor turkey. And it's not even Thanksgiving yet.
-Tish-
Well jokes on you because Canadians had their thanksgiving 3 weeks ago.
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