Posted by Mitch on January 8, 2002, at 0:04:26
In reply to Re: Tornadoes Earthquakes » Mitch, posted by IsoM on January 7, 2002, at 14:09:33
> When I lived on the Prairies, I freaked so badly during tonado weather. I think the electricity in the air affected me easily. You could put me in a dark, windowless room & I could predict when an electric storm was moving in by the way my skin crawled & my 'antsiness'.
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> Now I only have to worry about the "Big One" (earthquake) coming here. We're a hundred years overdue for one on the magnitude of 8 or 9 on the Richter scale!
I read an article in Popular Science eons ago about earthquakes and all the different seismic waves they make, etc. The interesting thing (which is somewhat of a corollary to tornado chasing) they talked about in the article had to do with being in an open field when a big earthquake struck. They said it was generally safe because nothing was going to fall on you and it would great fun to "ride out" the earthquake. I work with someone who is from LA and tells me all sorts of weird quake stories, but I think they would be interesting (being in the country of course)!Mitch
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