Earthquakes: Off The Pacific Rim or The Deep End?

If you thrilled to "angles and dangles," the series of underwater acrobatic maneuvers that skippers like CDR Rodney "Ramjet" Griffiths particularly revelled in demonstrating, you learned fairly well what a really bad earthquake felt like. If not, and you have not been a Pacific Rim dweller either, your government does not want you to be left out of a cheap, quasi- earthquake experience.

The National Weather Service has devised this virtual earthquake simulator. On that page, click the "Experience a Virtual Earthquake" button. What Richter Scale magnitude do you think is simulated?

Have you been in a submarine (regardless of depth) at the time and location of a quake, hurricane or volcanic eruption?

If you ever transited through the "Bermuda Triangle" did you receive a Compass Rose Certificate (you had to name the 32 points of the compass rose, in order). Not many got it.

posted by Vigilis @ 11:37 AM