Thread: Earthquake !!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Now why would you quote an overseas website rather than the Australian one? Earthquakes@GA (click on the big red -> orange -> yellow blob on the SA border.

1st (only) site that came up when I googled it that had information about the earthquake

That's Google for you!

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Traveling on the extensive under ground .... it crossed my mind a couple of times, even though they have safety measures like the train will stop, but the thought of a city falling on top of the trains was a something you don't want to think about.

Yes, counterintuitively if a big quake hits and you're in the subways you're probably better off staying down there, because:

1. the subway exits all narrow down and are serious crush points when 10,000 people try to exit at once;

2. there'd be glass, AC units and all sorts of other stuff crashing to the ground at street level;

3. the deeper you are the less severe the earth movement.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

We visited a temple and there was this big buddha up on a hill, and we read about it being knocked by a tsunami hundreds of years ago, and i though that must of been one mother of a wave to get all the way there

Sounds like the Daibutsu (Big Buddha) at Kamakura that used to have a huge temple around it but which got washed away by a tsunami. And, yeah, it's a long way from the beach.