6.2R this time. [URL]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010uhay.php[/URL]
I have a friend born in Chile but grew up in Tasmania. She's back there at the moment and said she slept through it . . . right . . . Pretty wobbly bit of land they parked themselves on, eh? Kev
Wait until you get your first temblor in Sydney. I remember one that woke me up with the bed shaking and the sliding door to the balcony rattling like ****. When I got into work my colleague from Bundeena reported that he'd woken his wife, "Darling[1], everythings shaking!" She replied, "Oh, it's probably just an earthquake," and rolled over and went back to sleep. Turns out she'd grown up on Norfolk(?) Island, where earthquakes are common, and the saying had passed into her family tradition. [1] Can't remember her name ATM. He died some years later when a branch broke off a gum tree as he was driving to work out of the national park to go to work, and came through his windscreen. -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
I was living in Sydney when the Newcastle earthquake hit in 88(? about then can't be arsed looking it up). I totally missed it because I was lying on my back under an equipment rack cabling up a new video edit suite and was in such a weird position that anything could have arrived. I was working for a company that had the largest sound stage in Oz at the time and our lighting guy was on a scissor lift up in the lighting grid at the time. Apparently that was rather entertaining ... Kev
I *like* Norfolk Island Pine trees. Something a bit prehistoric about them. http://blog.ratestogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/norfolk-island-pine. jpg
Me too, my street is lined with them: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...oid=dl9_1aUI1eti-pbMVmA37Q&cbp=12,319.82,,0,5 There are only three Araucaria species, Chile pine (monkey puzzle tree), NI Pine, and the prehistoric Wollemi pine[1]. I'd love to have a Wollemi, but they are still a bit expensive. A cousin had an NI pine as an indoor plant in Sydney -- it was stunted to about six feet. I was also quite surprised to see several NI pines in Trani when I went to a conference in Bari. You can see one on the hill here: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...wdOq5XUTrDD69uBdH_uquQ&cbp=11,312.88,,0,-17.5 but the one in the botanic gardens isn't in StreetView. #Flat chat, Pine Gap, #In ev'ry home a Big Mac, #And no-one goes out-back, #That's that! [1] http://www.wollemipine.co.uk/ -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dr Ivan D. Reid Fucking Hell. Australia, where even the fucking *trees* will try to kill you.
We only try to get rid of Pommy Bastards, google "drop bears" [1]. Kev [1] I doublechecked that before posting and Wiki has the first attribution to Terry Pratchett and I know for sure it goes way back further than that. Terry picked it up when he visited here in the 90s. Anyway, we've got shitloads of stuff wot will kill ya.
FFS, and this is even on topic, but http://www.dropbears.com/ predates the Pratchett nonsense by a good few years, IIRC.
