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Started by HisMajestyBOB, August 23, 2011, 12:55:46 PM

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HisMajestyBOB

August 23, 2011, 12:55:46 PM
Holy shit! :o
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MadImmortalMan

#1
August 23, 2011, 12:58:11 PM
Felt on Wall Street a minute ago apparently. Nothing to do with Lloyd Blankfein either.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

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"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

MadImmortalMan

#2
August 23, 2011, 12:58:43 PM
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

The Minsky Moment

#3
August 23, 2011, 01:00:06 PM
Report is about 5.0 in midtown Manhattan.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

HisMajestyBOB

#4
August 23, 2011, 01:02:07 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 23, 2011, 12:58:43 PM
Magnitude 5.8

Epicenter not that far south of me.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/280_40.php

Relatively speaking, of course. This isn't exactly earthquake central.
Some things fell off the shelves here, but otherwise things are okay. Didn't even lose power.

It was a lot bigger than the one I felt in Korea. That one was ~3.
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MadImmortalMan

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August 23, 2011, 01:03:34 PM
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zerohedge zerohedge
S&P upgrades earthquake from 5.8 to 6.0


:lol:
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Razgovory

#6
August 23, 2011, 01:03:55 PM
I didn't even know there was a fault line in Virginia.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Josephus

#7
August 23, 2011, 01:04:59 PM
felt it briefly in Toronto. Was very weird. Sitting at my desk, and my chair felt wobbly and my desk started shaking.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

DGuller

#8
August 23, 2011, 01:07:18 PM
Quote from: Josephus on August 23, 2011, 01:04:59 PM
felt it briefly in Toronto. Was very weird. Sitting at my desk, and my chair felt wobbly and my desk started shaking.
Same here.  First I thought it was somebody heavy sprinting, but after a while it seemed too strong and continuous to be that. 

DontSayBanana

#9
August 23, 2011, 01:20:05 PM
Strange.  Felt like the whole house was on a teeter-totter.  Just strong enough to be worrying, but not strong enough to knock anything down.
Experience bij!

HVC

#10
August 23, 2011, 01:20:16 PM
Quote from: Josephus on August 23, 2011, 01:04:59 PM
felt it briefly in Toronto. Was very weird. Sitting at my desk, and my chair felt wobbly and my desk started shaking.
Didn't feel anything :( . i always miss the earthquuakes.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

DontSayBanana

#11
August 23, 2011, 01:25:14 PM
Sounds like it fell off fast toward the northwestern portion of the plate.
Experience bij!

garbon

#12
August 23, 2011, 01:29:18 PM
My building was evacuated - well everyone just took the opportunity to evacuate.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

#13
August 23, 2011, 01:31:06 PM
Actually there was one woman, who when they told us it was safe to go back in, who said: "That's what they said on 9/11! I ain't being scary just being cautious."
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HisMajestyBOB

#14
August 23, 2011, 01:32:44 PM
Total damage: a pepper shaker fell off a high shelf and shattered. A couple of other things (stack of CDs, pictures that were placed on shelves and leaned against the wall) fell but didn't break.
The cats are cowering under the bed and I don't expect to see them until dinner. :lol:
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