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Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on February 22, 2011 at 3:17pm

You weren't local to the 6.5, I hope?

You have internet, so I suppose that's a good sign...

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Permalink Reply by Omega on February 22, 2011 at 3:46pm

I was.

Power's up here, and phone lines. I'm in the lucky 20% of the city - power and water.

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Permalink Reply by nathan_p on February 22, 2011 at 4:46pm

Jesus, man. Glad you're still with us.

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Permalink Reply by Omega on February 22, 2011 at 5:00pm

Yeah, me too. current death toll is 65. 200+ missing. Ongoing aftershocks, some in the 4.'s but mostly in the 3.'s - Guy down the road died. He was in his car and the front of a building fell on him.

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Permalink Reply by o0_flying high_0o on February 22, 2011 at 8:42pm

It looks... just horrifically terrifying.

I'm so glad you're okay....

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Permalink Reply by Omega on February 23, 2011 at 4:52am

Thanks, aye. Heard your news coverage is pretty good.

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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on February 23, 2011 at 1:44am

Damn. Glad to hear you weathered the rough part.

I hope things get fixed down there easily enough, and that the aftershocks stop. I was in a pissy .5ish quake in Kobe, Japan, but I can't even imagine how nuts a 6+ would be.

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Permalink Reply by Omega on February 23, 2011 at 4:53am

Thanks.

The aftershocks are really hard though. The longest we've had all night without one is an hour and a half - so not much sleep.

5.'s are terrifying enough!

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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on February 23, 2011 at 7:09am

Oy. I did a little research, and supposedly the magnitude of aftershocks follow a graph similar to 1/x, expanded for whatever magnitude you're dealing with, which means that you may be dealing with this for a few more days in diminishing ammounts.

Not 5, .5 (1/2). It felt like a subway was going by.

In other news, the folks at GNS say that this quake is itself an aftershock of a 7.1 in the area from last September, and that you stand a 1:3 chance of getting a 5 later on in the year.

Here's a link from the CDC about during-earthquake reccomendations. I'm sure you already have most of this covered though.

http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/earthquakes/during.asp

Again, I hope that the situation improves.