BREAKING: USGS official on CNN confirming earthquake.

[Subdivisions]

[pinto]

1. USGS link:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/...

[XemaSab]

2. That's a pinner quake

on edit: or does that mean they blew something up?

[haele]

4. 4.2 with a depth of 0 km?

Hmmm... that's either a large explosion or half a mountain decided to come down along some ridge fault.

I wonder what was at that location.

Haele

[XemaSab]

8. I sent a snarky remark

before the brain synapses connected.

In short, I am a dork.

[haele]

11. No problem...

So am I.




Haele

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. A whole lot of nothing, by the looks of it.

It's in the middle of a very mountainous region that appears, at least from satellite photos, to be relatively unpopulated.

[EFerrari]

3. Because the USGS links take forever to load

it's a real pain in the @ss when the OP gives no location, especially for those of us living in high risk zones.

[Garbo 2004]

5. North Korea. n/t

[Peggy Day]

6. Didn't I read he tested his nuclear weapon today?

Could that be it?

[Garbo 2004]

13. That's the signficance of USGS confirmation of other reports that

something happened in N Korea that showed up on seismic monitors along with N Korea saying it tested a nuke.

[EFerrari]

7. I live in a tsunami zone. Last time there was an alert,

the guys at San Francisco City Hall weren't minding the fax machine -- if you can believe that.

Because I was on the net, I had enough warning to get my animals secured and ready to go.

Had I relied on our local warning, I would have had less than 15 minutes to get clear.

We really are on our own, so let's do a good job.

[Swamp Rat]

10. Yep

That's why I am studying GIS, cartography, etc. We can't rely on the govt. for anything these days.

[EFerrari]

12. Hey, Swampy

We are on our own, like it or not.

Let's go a good job.

[file83]

9. Here's the Google Map of 41.311°N, 129.114°E....

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=+%0941.311%C2%B0...

I wonder if it's coincidence or North Ko-boom-cidence?