7.6 Magnitude Earthquake hit Pakistan and India
 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...p_world _news

Seems as if there are quite a lot of natural disasters happening everywhere in the world these days.
But of course an earthquake in Asia doesn't draw that much of media attention here in the western world like for example a hurricane in the US does.

Thats a biggy - I was close to a 7.1 and I wouldnt wish that on anyone. Even Headless. :)

The scale they use is confusing to say the least - but I think a 7.6 is 50X what I went through. :(

Yikes... that dosn't sound good. :(

Hope the GFY Indian adult webmasters are safe, if there are any!

just wait until the pole shift happens...

Nah, I'm pretty sure that a 8 is like 10x a 7, a 7 is like 10x a 6 and so on

1000+ dead already

There are a few actually. I cant think of the names ATM.

Shit - Havnt we had enough crap from mother nature this year.....

can anyone get a map image of the epicenter?

Tsunami Anyone?

A 7.6 is equal to about 200 Million Tons of TNT going off.

That's equal to 400 Billion pounds of dynamite blasting.

I think that puts into into perspective. :1orglaugh

An 8.0 is equal to 2 Trillion pounds. It goes up exponentially.

If and when the San Andreas faults blows full force seismologists estimate it could reach a yield at 10.0 magnitude which would be 2 Trillion Tons which equals 4 Quadrillion pounds of TNT going off which would be the force needed to separate California west of the fault from the North American plate completely.

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2...dyae_small.gif

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/views/ev...eveday_big.gif

Red = Today

Orange = Yesterday

Yellow = Within the past 2 weeks

Purple = Within the past 60 months

this is a lady's "vision" i found on another site. with all the disasters happening lately it makes you wonder...

I am looking down on the Earth, from space, but I am just far enough out to be able to see all horizons at once, essentially. Positioned over North America, I see a line moving from the North Pole to just off the bulge of Brazil, out in the Atlantic Ocean. Then the Earth turns beneath me toward the east, until I am positioned somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, so that I can see the end point of a line moving from the South Pole to the center of India.

Now over India, the Earth turns so I am taking a trip in the skies back toward North America. As I pass over Southeast Asia, I notice that the land along the sea coasts is disappearing, being eaten away as it were, by the water. This is happening all along the coast line, as far as my view can record, from north of Korea to Indonesia. Indonesia essentially disappears in this manner. Australia has been affected even before the eating away of the coastline started, as the entire western half appears to be under water.

As the western coast of North America hooves into view, I see that the entire coastline of North America from (what I assume to be) California up into Canada is raised sharply above the water line. Central America is under water. Where (I assume) San Francisco to be, there is a water fall. This coast line is not green, but appears a beige color. As I pass over the United States, I see the southeastern coast being eaten away in the same manner as Southeast Asia. Florida is gone, as is the eastern coast all the way into the Appalachian mountains. The deep south is under water.

Now the vision changes the position of the Earth as it turns beneath me, so that I pass along familiar land masses. As I pass up through Canada and over the landmass of Greenland I see that Europe appears to be a series of islands. Moving along over the continent, I see India, or where it used to be, already frosting over. India is completely under water. Then I pass over a land mass I don't recognize (Antarctica?), which has no greenery whatsoever.

Following this I am given a vision of a house in what seems to be a hot, desert like place, with a dry wind blowing. I am told this will occur in the late spring or early summer of the year 2006. The earth will be hot and still. I can see in the vision that there is a red glow over everything. I am told that there will be crop failures, worldwide, due to drought, for 3 years in a row at this time.

My heart goes out to them :(

are you talking about the '89 earthquake in the bay area? i was there too...

heard it when I woke up...when a earthquake is felt in three countries it can't be too small

No - it was on NZ South Island.

When I moved to NZ and knew it was an EQ zone I coudnt wait to feel one.

I tought it was going to be a real adventure. Errrr no - it was fucking terrifying.

I remember half way through thinking - yep, you can stop now - been there, done that. Decided I didnt want it after all.

yea it's a pretty freaky experience. i remember talking to a friend like last week, i was telling him "look at all these hurricanes. we're probably next...due for an earthquake." i guess i predicted it right, just the wrong location...

OMG, this one was really really devasting. Check out the slide show with some of the pics already hitting the AP wire services.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051008/...pakistan_quake

They had entire high rise apartment buildings completely collapse.

There are going to be tens of thousands dead and critically injured from this monster quake.

Bloody hell. Is this some kind of crescendo?

Yep i am safe.....i stay in South India in Bangalore ( THE SILICON VALLEY OF INDIA ) and the quake basically hit the northern parts of INDIA.....majority of the parts of Pakistan!

Pakistan suffered major damage....:(

My heard goes out to our neighbours! :Oh crap :( :(

is bombay in south or north india?

Bloody fucking hell. Fucking Bush needs to stop! Bush obviously created the quake to shake the oil from the ground.

Holy shit the numbers on this one are really bad so far.

18,000 dead and 41,000 injured. 200 little kids were crushed alive when their school collapsed.

Th shitty stuff that happens to so many people on this planet is hard to deal with.

:(

you ain't seen nothing yet...

California separating from N. America = Largest Landslide Ever = Tidal Wave that would sweep the globe multiple times over = end of civilization on Earth :thumbsup

:Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap

i found this

Magnitude Equivalence of Examples
Richter energy (TNT) (approximate)

-1.5 1 gr break a little rock in a laboratory

1.0 6 oz little explosion
1.5 2 pounds
2.0 13 pounds
2.5 63 pounds
3.0 397 pounds
3.5 1,000 pounds Mine explosion
4.0 6 tons
4.5 32 tons
5.0 199 tons
5.5 500 tons Earthquake, ie: Little Skull Mtn., NV, 1992
6.0 1,270 tons Earthquake, ie: Double Spring Flat, NV, 1994
6.5 31,550 tons Earthquake, ie: Northridge, CA, 1994
7.0 199,000 tons Earthquake, ie: Hyogo-Ken Nanbu, Japon, 1995
7.5 1,000,000 tons Earthquake, ie: Landers, CA, 1992
8.0 6,270,000 tons Earthquake, ie: San Francisco, CA, 1906
8.5 31,550,000 tons Earthquake, ie: Anchorage, AK, 1964
9.0 199,999,000 tons Earthquake, ie: Chile, 1960
10.0 6.3 billion tons fault type like San-Andreas fault
12.0 1 trillion tons really really big!


maybe helps to understant how the scale of richter works

I heard those numbers on the BBC this morning and my first thought was 'if that was the West it would be all anyone heard about'.

One of my friend's daughter lives over there. Haven't heard if she is ok yet or not.

Almost 30,000 so far on the news..... :(