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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2010, 04:35:29 PM »
It's Bush's Fault!!!!!! All the bombing in Afghanistan. Same as the one in Haiti. Just ask the dear leader. He'll set you straight.  ;D

Glad everyone/thing is ok.
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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2010, 12:45:31 AM »
Just a Cartel's meth lab.
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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2010, 07:31:38 AM »
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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2010, 07:29:58 AM »
we had one here Friday night

whole house was shaking for about 5 seconds   

MIL  called about 1 min after  and she felt it at her place   ( she is about a 20 min drive away )


http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/story/0,668,26997552-2682,00.html

they are talking about more to come 

apart from having a a kit with food, water, Ect. 

is there much you can do to the house to help protect it.
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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2010, 10:07:43 AM »
Quote from: philw on April 18, 2010, 07:29:58 AM
we had one here Friday night

whole house was shaking for about 5 seconds   

MIL  called about 1 min after  and she felt it at her place   ( she is about a 20 min drive away )


http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/story/0,668,26997552-2682,00.html

they are talking about more to come 

apart from having a a kit with food, water, Ect. 

is there much you can do to the house to help protect it.
Move it to tasmania!  ;D
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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2010, 11:24:05 AM »
Quote from: philw on April 18, 2010, 07:29:58 AM
we had one here Friday night

whole house was shaking for about 5 seconds   

MIL  called about 1 min after  and she felt it at her place   ( she is about a 20 min drive away )


http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/story/0,668,26997552-2682,00.html

they are talking about more to come 

apart from having a a kit with food, water, Ect. 

is there much you can do to the house to help protect it.

Not after it's been built, but TAB would know more about that.
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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #16 on: April 18, 2010, 01:56:48 PM »
I did read an article that contradicted some conventional guidelines about what to do in a quake.

It was written by a guy who has been involved in many rescue operations in the aftermath of a quake.

One point he mad is that in a school he went into after a quake, he found the kids had ducked under their desks and all were killed.

He said that the roof collapsed onto the desks crushing them to the floor with the kids underneath.

He said that between the desks in the aisle there was enough clear space for the kids to have survived.  

He said don't get under something big and solid, like a workbench. bed or desk, get next to it.

He talked about how in the recent bridge collapses,  those who stayed in the cars perished while those on the roadbed next to the cars survived.



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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2010, 02:11:30 PM »
That makes sense Solus. I never thought of it that way. Not that I really have to worry about it. I only heard about 2 tremors here. I slept through one and I think I was out of country for the other.
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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2010, 05:43:30 PM »
that makes sence  Solus  

however not what I have seen kids taught in earthquake prone area's

 :-\ :-\



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Re: We Just Had An Earthquake !
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2010, 07:05:27 PM »
Quote from: philw on April 18, 2010, 05:43:30 PM
that makes sence  Solus  

however not what I have seen kids taught in earthquake prone area's

 :-\ :-\


Not really a contradiction.

The report I read was about going into collapsed structures and finding those who took cover under something sturdy died.

Both the videos assume the structure you are in will not be collapsing.  One even mentions covering your head with a bed pillow.   They assume falling pieces of plaster, ceiling tiles, lamps and other objects will be what will hit you, not collapsing structure itself.

If it were me and I was without a doubt, positive that the building would not collapse, I'd hide under something sturdy.  If I wasn't that sure, I'd curl up next to it and take the beating from the plaster.
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
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"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
— Daniel Webster
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