"Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager" (Nighthawkwill7)
08/12/2014 at 23:17 • Filed to: None
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"Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager" (Nighthawkwill7)
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A 4.9 magnitude earthquake.
norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager
08/12/2014 at 23:18 |
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I love this.
vdub_nut: scooter snob
> norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
08/12/2014 at 23:23 |
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The... part where it's an earthquake? Or that google is so on their shit that they warned him?
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norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
08/12/2014 at 23:26 |
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No I thought it said Run the Boot, I misread it.
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vdub_nut: scooter snob
> norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
08/12/2014 at 23:28 |
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I am 40000% lost.
Carry on.
W8, norsk racer? Are you from the Way of the Nor's?
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norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
08/12/2014 at 23:30 |
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The Boot is part of Watkins Glen, the part NASCAR doesn't run.
Well kinda, I'm American by birth but of Norwegian descent.
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vdub_nut: scooter snob
> norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
08/12/2014 at 23:33 |
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I feel like I should know that, seeing as the Glen is only a few hours from my house.
And, are you the creepy guy from Hell On Wheels?
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norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
08/12/2014 at 23:35 |
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It's only a couple hours from me too,
and no I'm not.
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vdub_nut: scooter snob
> norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
08/12/2014 at 23:38 |
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Are you from Central PA? Also, good. He is the worst person ever.
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norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
08/12/2014 at 23:40 |
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No, I'm from NY, right on Lake Ontario.
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vdub_nut: scooter snob
> norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
08/12/2014 at 23:44 |
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My only point of reference there is slightly upriver/upseaway. Thousand Islands area is the shit.
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norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
08/12/2014 at 23:47 |
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Well I'd post a picture of a map, but kinja.
I live in Oswego, it's like 45 minutes of Syracuse. Thousand Islands are neat. Adirondacks are too.
BoulderZ
> Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager
08/12/2014 at 23:48 |
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Help my colleagues a bit and log it on the USGS "Did you feel it" site. Every report helps! http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dy…
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Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager
> BoulderZ
08/12/2014 at 23:52 |
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Sure thing!
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BoulderZ
> Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager
08/13/2014 at 00:10 |
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Thanks! You wouldn't believe how helpful that data is in attempting to get a handle on quake mechanics and severity.
Ferrero1911
> BoulderZ
08/13/2014 at 00:12 |
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I do this every time I feel one. Glad to know someone is actually using that data!
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Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager
> BoulderZ
08/13/2014 at 00:17 |
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Anything to help you guys out.
I just hope I'm not around when the subduction zone north of us decides to rupture.
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BoulderZ
> Ferrero1911
08/13/2014 at 00:29 |
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You bet! That data gets intensely mined. Quakes release a ton of energy, not quite in a delta-t-approaching-zero time span, and not quite in exactly a point, but pretty close. What happens to it as it moves and travels, though, is amazing and it gets focused in very unexpected ways. That's where it gets interesting, and useful to everybody. This can have one neighborhood seeing almost no damage from a large quake, and a very short distance away it will flatten everything. For example, I was very fortunate to do a few analyses getting me a co-authorship on a paper a few years ago re: the Haiti quake that showed a low line of hills acted like a perfect seismic lens causing a shaking intensity way more severe than what was seen in the surrounding areas.
There are a lot of reasons why we can't get instruments in place to measure it all more conventionally, making the crowd-source DYFI the best, and sometimes only, source of information on shaking severity of a quake over meaningful areas. The hope is with enough info we can get better models of predicted shake intensity, giving better warnings, and more focused advice for development and preparedness. We have a lot of people, and there are plenty of quakes, and cell/smart phone tech is ubiquitous enough now to link it together usefully. The race is to get it understood faster than the rise of damage and fatalities.
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BoulderZ
> Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager
08/13/2014 at 00:32 |
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Yeah, the ones we know about are huge, and there are a bunch more we haven't mapped, or can't (yet?). Stay safe!
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Ferrero1911
> BoulderZ
08/13/2014 at 01:17 |
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That's some really cool science. I'll make sure to keep reporting and make sure my friends do too. I live in SoCal so we have quite a few quakes.
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BoulderZ
> Ferrero1911
08/13/2014 at 13:54 |
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Well, I actually found the journal article for that Haiti work: http://digital.ipcprintservices.com/publication/?i… (starts on page 909). The text is pretty dense (it is a research journal article, after all), but the visuals make for a good quick look. The short press-release version from my USGS colleagues is here: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/artic…