Description : Please share your experiences of earthquakes, has your area ever been hit by a strong one?
Last Answer : Red Deer had a 4.0 magnitude earthquake 2 years ago, most likely from fracking. I didn’t notice.
Description : Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes?
Last Answer : answer:Fracking USGS Paper on the relationship between Fracking and Induced Earthquakes Yes I do.
Description : Has anyone noticed these influx of earthquakes, etc? Media ploy or an actual sign of more trouble to come?
Last Answer : Devastating earthquakes, volcanoes, floods and tsunamis are constant. Look into any period and you will find them.
Description : What has been happening in the Caribbean?
Last Answer : Uh, this is a pretty broad question. Just limiting the answer to hurricanes would take several paragraphs.
Description : If you HAD to experience one or the other, would you prefer an earthquake or a tornado?
Last Answer : Well, the tornado. If everything is going to be destroyed, it might as well look cool while it’s happening. Having said that, if a tornado happened and I experienced it I would probably totally forget that it’s cool while I was busy shitting in my knickers.
Description : In light of the recent earthquake: Are you concerned with the Yellowstone Caldera (Supervolcano) at Yellowstone National Park?
Last Answer : answer:I live on the world's most active volcano. There is one thing we can be sure of. Volcanic eruptions cannot be predicted with pinpoint accuracy. It's possible to say an eruption is likely. ... a very long time. It will take a lot more investigation to determine if an eruption is imminent.
Description : Suppose you are in a helicopter when an earthquake takes place. Is there any danger to you?
Last Answer : If it moves the air that much you’re going to have bigger problems then a little turbulence.
Description : What do you think about nuclear power plants to generate electricity?
Last Answer : We should have been doing renewable energy sources like solar, wind, wave, & geo-thermal we all know these have been possible for a very long time.
Description : Can anyone identify this Hopi messenger/elder? (Details)
Last Answer : If you have a youtube account you could email the poster, chich234 and hopefully he can tell you who it is. Bottom left hand corner, by his picture, there’s an option to send a message to him.
Description : Does it annoy you when people claim that the most recent earthquake / volcano / heat wave / flood / whatever is a sign that it is the end times?
Last Answer : Yes. It annoys me. In fact, I really do not much like people like that, and I generally like everybody.
Description : Did Hurricane Irene (or some other extreme event) get you into emergency preparedness?
Last Answer : Every spring I move all the crap away from the cellar door so we have free access to it. That’s about it.
Description : How bad should a natural disaster be before you totally freak out?
Last Answer : A lot as I am a trained first responder. I would have to find a loved one dead and that would probably make me freak out!
Description : What is it with an earthquake that messes with your mind?
Last Answer : Could it be that earths gravity has something to do with it? That earthquakes somehow makes earths gravity have an effect on a humans equalibrium?
Description : Anyone else just feel the earthquake? Where are you and what did you feel?
Last Answer : I am in northern NJ. I didn’t feel a thing and neither did anyone else in my household, but yet everyone a town over felt it. Hm.
Description : Did anyone else just have an earthquake?
Last Answer : Well, it was epicenter Mineral VA and was a magnitude 5.8. Here is MD, it shook our building pretty good.
Description : Anyone in the Mid-Atlantic feel that earthquake about 15 minutes ago?
Last Answer : I didn’t feel it, but supposedly everyone else in my area did. My husband was outside and he felt nothing. I was inside, and I felt nothing… but the local news is blowing up about it “shaking” our area.
Description : Is it too much to ask for a moment of silence for those in Sendai and greater Japan?
Last Answer : I’ve been thinking of them and praying for them all day. My daughter has friends there.
Description : Have you read or heard about the 8.9 magnitude quake off the northeast coast of Japan, that struck today (Friday, March 11, 2011) at 05:46:23 UTC?
Last Answer : Apparently an earthquake was recorded in Hawaii not long ago, including subsequent aftershocks. I have a good friend who is in Hawaii on business right now, and the last update that I heard ... ground. That's all that I know. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
Description : Have people forgotten about Haiti already?
Last Answer : The “news” industry has moved on; the real rescue operation has yet to begin, and the suffering grows ever more intense.
Description : Earthquake in Haiti and now Chili... a bit too close together?
Last Answer : Same thing that always causes them – it’s just coincidence.
Description : Anyone else feel the earthquake?
Last Answer : Yeah, I felt it. I got to school in Dekalb and it was centered around 5 miles from me. My house was shaking for good 5 seconds.
Description : Do you worry about the supervolcano below Yellowstone?
Last Answer : Not much you can do about it! What’s to worry?
Description : I am worried about experiencing an earthquake. Do you have any advice?
Last Answer : Don't be scared of an earth quake. I've been living in CA 12 years. I've been awake for 2 earthquakes. I've never seen a single bit of property damage from any of them. Buildings ... are built specifically to withstand earthquakes. Unless it's an 8+ magnitude, I think everything should be fine.
Description : The Greater Los Angeles Area (Hawthorne)
Last Answer : I live in Sacramento, 400 miles away, and some friends called to ask me about it. To them, California is where I live – duh.
Description : Do you have a bug out bag?
Last Answer : I just started working on a Go Bag, but have stored a bunch of stuff at home (mainly water and food). The City of San Francisco has a website with useful information for earthquake (and other natural ... including suggestions for what to include in a Go Bag. Let's hope we never have to use them.
Description : Will the olympics still be in china?
Last Answer : answer:Beijing is unaffected by the earthquake so there won't be much of a reduction in tourists and olympic teams due to physical damage, I'd be more worried about boycotts due to human ... have been being made, the costs of such extensive planning and construction of venues must be astronomical.
Description : Did anyone in SoCal just feel the earthquake?
Last Answer : yes yes Soo long.
Description : What do you think about parents having unusually large amounts of children? Im talking like 10 plus.
Last Answer : If they have the money and space, why not? More love to go around. I wouldn’t want to be the parents, but that’s me. I would, however, love to have fifteen siblings.
Description : What is an unusually small or unusually large observation in statistics?
Last Answer : It may be an outlier, but if not, it is probably the moreinteresting feature of the observations.
Description : Which of the following would not fit the description of a related-party transaction? a. An unusually large sale of merchandise to the company's best and largest customer. b. Sales of merchandise ... person. d. Loans to corporate officers at market rates of interest with a regular repayment schedule.
Last Answer : An unusually large sale of merchandise to the company's best and largest customer.
Description : Haiti, Japan and now Chile. Why do you think earthquakes are happening so often and randomly lately?
Last Answer : Plate-tectonics must be having a race.
Description : Blood analysis of a patient reveals an unusually high quantity of carboxyhaemoglobin content. Which of the following conclusions is most likely to be correct? The patient has been inhaling polluted air ... content of (a) carbon disulphide (b) chloroform (c) carbon dioxide (d) carbon monoxide.
Last Answer : (d) carbon monoxide.
Description : Have you ever received an unusually specific compliment?
Last Answer : Not sure if this counts But this was around 1999 since I wanted to go to Europe before Y2K destroyed all of us. We were in the theater area of London and there was a big neon Buddy Holly sign promoting ... to the Burger King. But I kept getting asked for pictures. I do not think I looked like him.
Description : Is anyone else having problems with insects due to the unusually warm late winter we've had here in the Midwest and eastern US?
Last Answer : No insect invasions, yet, but, the frogs are roaring in all the ponds and creeks and, just now, the cat brought in a baby deer mouse. I live in a rodent wonderland, always a mouse or vole or gopher coming in via the cat door. lol
Description : Do I just have problems chewing or is it possible to have an unusually small throat?
Last Answer : Have you considered the possibility that your molars don’t occlude properly? You may not be chewing your food as thoroughly as you think you are. Have your dentist check your bite the next time you go.
Description : Are unusually long arms beneficial for a boxer?
Last Answer : Couldn’t it slow you down as well? I don’t think the length of his arms would have any noticeable effect. His skill is likely to be far more important. Then again, I don’t box.
Description : Metal carbonyls have the metal ions in zero or unusually lower oxidation states. This is because :
Last Answer : Metal carbonyls have the metal ions in zero or unusually lower oxidation states. This is because : A. ... . D. carbonyl is a strongly p-acidic ligand.
Description : Blood analysis of a patient reveals an unusually high quantity of carboxyhemoglobin content. Which of the following conclusion is the most likely to b
Last Answer : Blood analysis of a patient reveals an unusually high quantity of carboxyhemoglobin content. Which ... disulfide C. Chloroform D. Carbom dioxide
Description : What causes the U.K. to have unusually mild climate?
Last Answer : The climate in UK is mild due to the influence of the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is one of the strongest and most important ocean currents in the world.The Gulf Stream currents move warm ... are estimated to be more than 5C cooler, bringing the average December temperature in London to about 2C.
Description : A small founding population of a few hundred Europeans in North America had an unusually high frequency of an allele that causes polydactyly (six fingers). Many generations that followed had cases of polydactyly. What is this an example of?
Last Answer : the founder effect.
Description : Which of the following conditions indicates that a lead-acid battery is being charged too rapidly? A. Sparks occurring at the positive terminal. B. Unusually high electrolyte specific gravity. C. Low plate potentials being developed. D. Excessively high temperatures and gassing rates.
Last Answer : Answer: D
Description : A lead-acid battery cell sustaining a short circuit _______. A. will be indicated by lime accumulation on the terminal posts B. will have unusually high cell voltage C. will become excessively heated while being charged D. cannot be completely discharged under load
Last Answer : Answer: C
Description : Where a thermal-acting breaker is required to be used in an area of unusually high, low, or constantly fluctuating temperatures, an ambient compensating element must be used. This element consists of ... arm B. conical spring on the contact arm C. second bimetal element D. second electromagnet
Description : When considering fraud risk factors relating to management's characteristics, which of the following is least likely to indicate a risk of possible misstatement due to fraud? a. ... portion of management's compensation represented by bonuses based upon achieving unduly aggressive operating results.
Last Answer : Use of unusually conservative accounting practices.
Description : He argues that human beings have an essential nature that presses to emerge, much like acorns germinating to become oaks. His quarrel with psychoanalysis stemmed from his belief that their focus on ... currency--including the notion of peak experiences', moments of deep self-awareness. Who?
Last Answer : Abraham Maslow.
Description : An epidemic that becomes unusually widespread and even global in its reach is referred to as a) Pandemic. b) Hyperendemic. c) Spanish flu. d) Endodermic.
Last Answer : a) Pandemic.
Description : A child may have hearing impairment if Options: A) he speaks loudly unusually B) he comes nearer to the speaker during conversation C) he generally says, "Please repeat" to the teacher D) all of the above
Last Answer : D) all of the above
Description : Have you been to a live performance in a large venue lately, and if so, do all of the cell phones in the audience annoy you?
Last Answer : answer:That would seriously perturb me at Radio City. Those tickets are expensive, and it's a theatrical performance - not a concert. At a concert I don't mind as much. Of course, most of the shows I go ... I just get to the front. The pit is too crazy to allow for recording for any length of time.
Description : Why has there been an increase in Earthquakes recently?
Last Answer : Because mother nature is coming to get you. Either that or plate tectonics.
Description : What causes earthquakes? (a) Occurrence of underground water (b) Volcanic eruptions (c) Occurrence of cracks and fissures in rocks (d) No definite cause has been found so far
Last Answer : Ans: (b)