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Another Massive Earthquake.

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  • 20-03-2010 10:17pm
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    JONJO THE MISER
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    Breaking News.
    :eek:Another Massive earthquake has hit this time in Cuba, Just reported on RTE.


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    They must be cracking up down there.


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    Biggins
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    Not good. Hope the damage is minimal.


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    billy the squid
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    I don't see a MASSIVE earthquake on USGS feed. a 5 and a 4 - unless these were foreshocks before the one being reported on the news.

    there was this one

    Recent Worldwide Earthquake List - USGS : M 6.2, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea http://bit.ly/bGrHiZ Full http://bit.ly/dqKgAD

    where is new ireland anyway.


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    Red Hand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Biggins wrote: »
    Not good. Hope the damage is minimal.

    Yep, though no casualties reported yet, so hopefully they will come out of it better than Haiti.


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    liah
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    billy the squid wrote: »
    Recent Worldwide Earthquake List - USGS : M 6.2, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea http://bit.ly/bGrHiZ Full http://bit.ly/dqKgAD

    where is new ireland anyway.

    Papua New Guinea, I'd imagine..


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    Pacing Mule
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    From RTE .....

    There were no immediate reports of casualties or serious damage.
    A spokesman at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay also reported no damage there.


    Not quite the massive disaster thank God. :)


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    The Aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Just reported on RTE.

    and you believed it, all their news is second hand from over paid hacks, like chinese whispers for poor people.


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    Pacing Mule
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    The Aussie wrote: »
    and you believed it, all their news is second hand from over paid hacks, like chinese whispers for poor people.

    They reported it accurately - the OP sensationalised it.


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    JONJO THE MISER
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    The Aussie wrote: »
    and you believed it, all their news is second hand from over paid hacks, like chinese whispers for poor people.

    And this come from a poster called the Aussie, dear god have you seen the news in Aus, its more gossip and sensation than news and its full of slang.


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    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    Edgar Abundant Mouthpiece wrote: »
    They must be cracking up down there.

    Thanks whoring fail... Unlucky, better luck next time...

    Why is it ok to make jokes in some earthquake threads yet if you made a joke in the Haiti thread you'd get banned? I find that odd...

    Well hopefully this quake isn't a bad one.


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    Red Hand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Emmaline Elegant Lifeboat wrote: »
    Thanks whoring fail... Unlucky, better luck next time...

    Why is it ok to make jokes in some earthquake threads yet if you made a joke in the Haiti thread you'd get banned? I find that odd...

    That wasn't really a joke though. At least I didn't smile.


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    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    Jeremiah 33 3 wrote: »
    That wasn't really a joke though. At least I didn't smile.

    Seriously... Read it again then... nobody said it was a great joke, but it was an attempt at a joke, a very bad one at that... ;)


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    pokerface_me
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    OP you bleeding clown i could choke you if you were in front of me, half my family are out there at a wedding, i nearly had a heart attack when i seen it, not FUNNY AT ALL:confused:


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    The Aussie
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    have you seen the news

    NO, try not to, its for saps...


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    dlofnep
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    God, I hope there are no losses. :(


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    Pacing Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,055 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    Jeremiah 33 3 wrote: »
    That wasn't really a joke though. AH didn't smile.

    FYP


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    ejmaztec
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    The Aussie wrote: »
    NO, try not to, its for saps...

    You didn't see what happened in Australia then, it was all over the news?:eek:


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    bnt
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    Whenever you hear reports of an earthquake, the first place to check is http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ , and if it's big, check the PAGER map for it. That gives a quick estimate of how many people were affected and how badly.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    The Aussie
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    You didn't see what happened in Australia then, it was all over the news?:eek:

    No what happened, i was to busy laughing at poor people who pay attention to RTE, I must log onto A Current Affair for all the facts:pac:


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    dlofnep
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    It was a 6.2 according to that American site. 5.6 in Cuba.


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    Coriolanus
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmxyj6iInMc


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    Mr Benevolent
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    A light to moderate earthquake is hyped up as a 'massive earthquake' by the OP. OP is put on ignore.


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    ejmaztec
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    The Aussie wrote: »
    No what happened, i was to busy laughing at poor people who pay attention to RTE, I must log onto A Current Affair for all the facts:pac:

    They just caught Ned Kelly - RTE's sending Charlie Bird.


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    The Aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    I heard that one, they caught Ned after drinking to much rum and beating up his wife, he was involved in a low speed police chase in a 1974 WB Ute that ran out of fuel.


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    orourkeda
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    Edgar Abundant Mouthpiece wrote: »
    They must be cracking up down there.

    Cracking off maybe


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