http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/03/03/another_day Comments On: Another Day by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Geni]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:05:18 -0800 The Stranger
A Seattle Fault quake would probably cause more intense local damage from Bainbridge to Issaquah. A Cascadia would produce minutes of relatively low mag (.25-.35g) shaking from BC to possibly Northern California, with resulting tsunamis.
Posted by Big Sven]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:49:07 -0800 The Stranger
This one doesn't appear to be even close to that size.
Posted by Prof. Pearson of Princeton]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:06:05 -0800 The Stranger
What should give us pause, Mr. Mudede, is that the Seattle Fault is 1,100 years *overdue* for a Magnitude 9 earthquake, going by the geologic record of past seismic events. And this fault goes right through downtown. Bay Areans got nothing on this. We live IN the bear trap.
Posted by nisqually]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:49:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Vince]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:25:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by morgan]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:09 -0800 The Stranger
I'm a crack head. Pleae help
Posted by muhdik]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:40:17 -0800 The Stranger
Probably crafting some hopeless "I Saw You" ad right now while spilling a glass of Svedka and Sprite across a well worn copy of Twillight of the Idols...

no, the asteroid will not sleep tonight, not this night...
Posted by ringworm]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:12:46 -0800 The Stranger 2) scientific pop bullshit that you're spouting; please read some actual scientific literature before you post
Posted by god you're a fucking embarrassment]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:43:11 -0800 The Stranger
Hit near Hawaii, for instance, and you'd get 20-50m breaking waves at La Push. The Juan de Fuca would break up the wave energy and you'd probably see just a few meters at the ferry terminal.

Land strike, you're probably talking thermal and concussive destruction 30-50km from impact but pretty much nothing else.

This is the size of the rock that formed Meteor Crater in Arizona, for comparison.
Posted by Big Sven]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:30:55 -0800 The Stranger I don't think that big enough to send so much dust up that it would block out the sun...
Posted by jove]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:13:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Magnatar blast will get us first]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:06:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by balderdash]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:01:47 -0800 The Stranger
and we could burn all the oil we want. Everyone could have bought Hummers and fixed the economy, too.

DAMN ASTEROID! NEXT TIME HIT THE EARTH!
Posted by robot2501]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:01:17 -0800 The Stranger
Personally, I'd much rather not know anything about the asteroid from hell until the sun dimmed, I looked up at the sky, and said "What the fuc...."

And that would be that. Vastly preferable to a million other kinds of endings I could conjure up.
Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:31:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Jesus Fucking Christ]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:25:56 -0800 The Stranger Posted by 1Timothy523]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:20:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by NEO enthusiast]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:15:40 -0800 The Stranger
That would be bad.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:58:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Layne]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:57:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Bubbles]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:44:17 -0800 The Stranger
how embarrassing

Posted by The Internet Race]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:39:23 -0800 The Stranger