I felt prettty sick all day, so I was unable to attend our local boobquake dinner. But I have been monitoring the seismographs. It is in fact somewhat rare to have an earthquake of 6.0 or greater on a given day. There are about 200 a year at that level, and they are random, and thus cluster somewhat as random things do. So the daily expectation of one or more earthquakes is less than 4/7. Nonetheless, the single 6 magnitude earthquake that happened on Boob Day (using the international time coordinates) was not impressive. We can conclude:
Intense praying by Islamic clerics reversed the effects of several hours of boob quaking!
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Along with the stories of tragedy in Italy, there are also stories that the earthquake was predicted, and that the predictions were ignored. Was the tragedy made even worse by authorities who wouldn't listen to a scientist who knew what he was talking about?
The Great San Francisco Earthquake(s)
On October 8th, 1865, the "Great San Francisco Earthquake" hit south of the city of San Francisco, magnitude 6.3.
In the wake of Monday's earthquake in the L'Aquila region of Italy that killed over 200 people, news emerged that one Italian scientist had predicted the earthquake less than two weeks earlier.
I think the fact that you were not at La Casita (pictures to follow) accounts for the fact that the world didn't move.
We missed you at Boobquake dinner. I socialized and did all kind of potentially offensive shit (okay, nothing actually offensive).
Jaf: Well, Mike's sending pictures, and I can check the morning newspapers, so we'll see....
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/1045063/bookquake-off-to-shaky-start
Actually, Ben will be the one to send the pictures.
You guys got pwned. Not that I completely agree with the scholar, but running to the "statistics" hill is so pathetic. I nearly ROTFLMAO'd on the train today.
Running to the statistics hill? Jen's intent, from the moment she discovered there would be more than a few women taking part in Boobquake, was to run the statistics. Which she did.
http://www.blaghag.com/2010/04/and-boobquake-results-are-in.html
Or were you silly enough, Shadow Caster, to think that anyone expected a day without earthquakes? Those don't actually happen.