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i let go of a massive fart around 25 mins ago... kinda felt myself levitate in my chair....  

maybe it was the earthquake and not my release of 500psi of methane outta my ass?

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25 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

i let go of a massive fart around 25 mins ago... kinda felt myself levitate in my chair....  

maybe it was the earthquake and not my release of 500psi of methane outta my ass?

500psi?

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I'm in my hometown right now and probably physically closer to the epicenter than 99% of Surlyites (~55 miles SW of the epicenter), but I didn't feel a thing.

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

People in West Texas who are inexplicably in the UTC time zone may have felt it, but I live in God’s True Timezone, CST.

Tell me you don't know anything about time zones without telling me you don't know anything about time zones.

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1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

not the preferred nomenclature.

 

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

asian-american peppers?

No disrespect to the orientals.

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4 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

Did nobody else feel that one?

 

 

Y'all don't have the CalTech lady to come on your TV and tell you what happened.  You're missing out.  

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12 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Y'all don't have the CalTech lady to come on your TV and tell you what happened.  You're missing out.  

This one?

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3 hours ago, shakahorn said:

Tell me you don't know anything about time zones without telling me you don't know anything about time zones.

A little part of West Texas is in that heathen Mountain Standard Time zone.

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9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

People in West Texas who are inexplicably in the UTC time zone may have felt it, but I live in God’s True Timezone, CST.

what do you do in the summer when most of the state is in eastern but pretends to still be in central?

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13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Not enough apparently, I need to up my sacrifice game.

Living under the Texas political elite has you covered on that sacrifice thing. 

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On 9/16/2024 at 10:38 PM, bolverk said:

M 5.1 earthquake about 20 miles north of Midland this evening.

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I thought this happens all the time out there now? I remember being in Snyder around 2011 (please don’t ask me why) and they had one you could definitely feel. 

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6 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Dang. Eight point zero, in the Caribbean, between Cuba and Honduras.

 

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The quake’s strength has been revised downwards. Now saying seven pint six.

That is still a mean ass quake. Got flat plains in Central America and covs in PR/Hispanola. Cuba would be fucked.

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55 minutes ago, 3adays said:

I thought this happens all the time out there now? I remember being in Snyder around 2011 (please don’t ask me why) and they had one you could definitely feel. 

 

I know of Kick'em Jenny near Granada but I don't think there are a lot out there.

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Here is the latest from the USGS:

Tectonic Summary

The February 8, 2025, M7.6 earthquake southwest of the Cayman Islands occurred as the result of strike slip faulting in the shallow crust near the boundary between the North America and Caribbean plates. Focal mechanism solutions indicate that rupture occurred on a steeply dipping structure striking either west-northwest (right-lateral), or west-southwest (left-lateral). At the location of this earthquake, the North America plate moves to the west-southwest with respect to the Caribbean plate at a rate of approximately ~20 mm/yr. Local to the February 8, 2025 earthquake, this motion is predominantly accommodated along the Swan Islands transform fault, a left-lateral structure. The location, depth and focal mechanism solution of today’s earthquake are consistent with rupture occurring along this plate boundary structure, or on a nearby and closely related fault.

 

While commonly plotted as points on maps, earthquakes of this size are more appropriately described as slip over a larger fault area. Strike-slip-faulting events of the size of the February 8, 2025, earthquake are typically about 140x20 km (length x width).

 

Large earthquakes at this location of the plate boundary are not unexpected. Ten M6 or larger earthquakes have occurred within 250 km the February 8, 2025 earthquake over the preceding century. Notably, on January 10, 2018, an M7.5 earthquake occurred nearby with a similar mechanism. This 2018 earthquake caused some damage and a small tsunami. Luckily, the remote location of these earthquakes limits the potential for significant damage due to shaking.

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