Another Earthquake! This time in Indonesia

Damn it, another quake :(http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/06/major-earthquake-strikes-sumatra-indonesia/Calvin_0 & the rest of RomUlation's Indonesian members, how are things at your end? Hope you guys are OK.

2012 is two years off, I suppose.

Great. Spent my life at school.

calvin? are you still there? i hope you are

Is it just me or does Earth have more frequent earthquakes than usual?

Earth has gone to hell!its the end of the world i tell yea

Terrible news, really. There was an earthquake over here in California this past Sunday and it was insane. I've never felt dizzy in an earthquake before or have gotten a major headache, but when it struck, it was one of the worst feelings I've ever experienced. I hope everyone is okay and that there's not a lot of damage.

megashell · #6Earth has gone to hell!its the end of the world i tell yea

Or maybe simply changing its shape.

alexong96 · #5Is it just me or does Earth have more frequent earthquakes than usual?

theyre just getting bigger

thanks for everyone's concern..... but i'm not from indonesia but in the middle of malaysia..... technically even if it cause a tidal wave, i'll still be safe.

alexong96 · #8Or maybe simply changing its shape.

maybe Gaia is piss off at us >.>

its time for pangea!!!

calvin_0 · #10thanks for everyone's concern..... but i'm not from indonesia but in the middle of malaysia..... technically even if it cause a tidal wave, i'll still be safe.maybe Gaia is piss off at us >.>

I thought you once said Indonesia, oh well my mistake. Sorry :(Anyway:

MessoMesso · #22012 is two years off, I suppose.

Let's not spark another debate about the "2012 Doomsday" prediction as we can only say if it would be true when we cross that river. But, let me just say that there is something going on with our planet & perhaps this is the real answer:

alexong96 · #8Or maybe simply changing its shape.

It was said in the news that after the earthquakes in Chile, the city at the focal point or epicenter of the quake moved several feet from it's original site, so yeah maybe the planet's just reconfiguring itself.Let's just be thankful it's not one abrupt massive tectonic shift where the planet reconfigures itself quickly & in a very destructive manner that life on Earth might get wiped off because of it.

alexong96 · #5Is it just me or does Earth have more frequent earthquakes than usual?

It seems that way, but it's just cause the news reports more on it, now if they reported more on how much people eat noodles then you would notice that people eat a lot of noodles. Or if I put it in a different way, if the news reports a lot about people Text messaging while Driving then you see more people Text-n-Drive when you are out and about, but in reality it's the same number just that you didn't notice them before.

Most earthquakes are not newsworthy. Case in point the one in Mexicali last week, the report mentioned that the region had been experiencing 3.0s all week. As our Mexican friend Patton said, Mexicali is always having earthquakes. The media just dont take any interest until its a big one like the 7.2 last week.I think there's been an increase in big earthquakes lately, but thats a cyclical thing that happens every so many years.

I think earth has the same number of earthquakes, but just that it's near like USA or something everyone has to make a big deal 'bout it.
If an earthquake happened where eskimos live, no one would care.

Cahos Rahne Veloza · #12Let's just be thankful it's not one abrupt massive tectonic shift where the planet reconfigures itself quickly & in a very destructive manner that life on Earth might get wiped off because of it.

Yeah a polar shift would be bad. very, very bad.

Replying to #16

if you mean the poles swapping, it really wouldnt make that much difference. Everyone would have to buy new GPS units and relearn how to read maps, but thats about it.

Replying to #17

well there is a theory that it would happen instantly and that all life would be wiped out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake#Size_and_frequency_of_occurrence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale#Richter_magnitudes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal'Tis all normal.

Ultimatefuffin · #18well there is a theory that it would happen instantly and that all life would be wiped out

It would happen instantly, and the only affect on life it would have is a lot of inconvenience. People and animals would get lost a lot more but other than being annoying it wouldnt do any harm.