are you smoking crack?eagles1106 wrote:
After shocks are only right after the initial shaking, they cant come like hours or days later...d4rkph03n1x wrote:
What makes it funnier is he got owned by a downy.Col.Vind wrote:
I feel a need to say owned..
Umm, cyborg hope you and your GF are all right, and no aftershocks come and anything like that. K. BBTTYL <3.
Such a coincidence that the tsunami happened exactly 2 years before.Coolbeano wrote:
double post:
i find it funny they mention "More than 2,000 people died in a quake seven years ago." without even once referring to the tragedy 2 years ago.
Cyborg Ninja running away from earthquakes and tsunamis :
sorry bout that cyborg, God and I were just screwin aroundcyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
Such a coincidence that the tsunami happened exactly 2 years before.Coolbeano wrote:
double post:
i find it funny they mention "More than 2,000 people died in a quake seven years ago." without even once referring to the tragedy 2 years ago.
Running away is for cowards, I stood by it and let it pass through me, and in the end, only I will remain.Mogura wrote:
Cyborg Ninja running away from earthquakes and tsunamis :
http://www.stardock.com/products/lwninj … ts/lw8.jpg
ok here then, Cyborg ninja resisitning the earthquake :
Broadbandreports.com?Mogura wrote:
ok here then, Cyborg ninja resisitning the earthquake :
http://www.broadbandreports.com/r0/down … /ninja.jpg
dont worry ninja, im just kidding, in fact im happy that you get out alive :pcyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
Broadbandreports.com?Mogura wrote:
ok here then, Cyborg ninja resisitning the earthquake :
http://www.broadbandreports.com/r0/down … /ninja.jpg
Broadbandreports.com? : wtf i know, i found the pic, funny :p
Lol k then.
Update:
Everything is calm right now at 4AM, no reports of after shocks, internet is still working (duh). Goddamn, my area didn't get hit that bad, only around a 3.2 I think.
Update:
Everything is calm right now at 4AM, no reports of after shocks, internet is still working (duh). Goddamn, my area didn't get hit that bad, only around a 3.2 I think.
It depends, some can be long term, but generally most aftershocks occur right after the initial earthquake.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
are you smoking crack?eagles1106 wrote:
After shocks are only right after the initial shaking, they cant come like hours or days later...d4rkph03n1x wrote:
What makes it funnier is he got owned by a downy.
Umm, cyborg hope you and your GF are all right, and no aftershocks come and anything like that. K. BBTTYL <3.
dammit, and i went out and bought supplies for a party and everything oh well, maybe next time i guess
Yeah i heard:P last night. u were living in central taiwan and the earthquake only affected kaoshiung, pintung or something like that, but the tremor is felt through the whole of taiwan right?
I was in an earthquake once but I slept through it, lol.
Coastal cities like Sydney are still susceptible to tsunamis, and tornados. Places within Australia are also still susceptible to earthquakes.d4rkph03n1x wrote:
Good to hear. We can't lose a huge forum contributor to mother nature. She can sit down and not share her PMS. Thats fairly scary though.
Here in Australia, as i'm sure you all know, we sit in the middle of a tectonic plate, so we don't get shit. No volcanos, no tornados, no tsunamis (i think).
It was a 3.2 here in central Taiwan, GF was in Kenting...Ayumiz wrote:
Yeah i heard:P last night. u were living in central taiwan and the earthquake only affected kaoshiung, pintung or something like that, but the tremor is felt through the whole of taiwan right?
but we get the hootinest tootinest droughtscyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
A typhoon once destroyed Darwin though But it sucks for you guys to get forest fires all the time. Mother nature will never kill me!d4rkph03n1x wrote:
Good to hear. We can't lose a huge forum contributor to mother nature. She can sit down and not share her PMS. Thats fairly scary though.
Here in Australia, as i'm sure you all know, we sit in the middle of a tectonic plate, so we don't get shit. No volcanos, no tornados, no tsunamis (i think).
Australia gets plenty of tornado's (hurricanes, typhoons, whatever they're called) just not all of them hit. And when they do hit, it's usually not too serious.<<<FTDM>>>Gen.Raven wrote:
but we get the hootinest tootinest droughtscyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
A typhoon once destroyed Darwin though But it sucks for you guys to get forest fires all the time. Mother nature will never kill me!d4rkph03n1x wrote:
Good to hear. We can't lose a huge forum contributor to mother nature. She can sit down and not share her PMS. Thats fairly scary though.
Here in Australia, as i'm sure you all know, we sit in the middle of a tectonic plate, so we don't get shit. No volcanos, no tornados, no tsunamis (i think).
But to quote Corrine Grant:
Corrine Grant wrote:
Other places get hit by a tornado, and they're given aid packs and money. We get hit by a tornado, and what do we get? Expensive bannanas.
now the internet cables are screwed
Good to hear Cyborg. It'd be a shame for you to die when you're only 73 posts away from your 1000th post.
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thats because of whats called the "reverse pyramid"Coolbeano wrote:
double post:
i find it funny they mention "More than 2,000 people died in a quake seven years ago." without even once referring to the tragedy 2 years ago.
in journalism, the term refers to putting the most unimportant, boring, worthless information at the bottom, like prices, manufacturing locations, relays to the past, etc. this is so that if the story must be cut to fit on the page, nothing relevant will go.
in other words, that line could have been a page filler, or part of the story went away to make it fit on a newspaper somewhere.
Thank you earthquake, now i am going to be trapped in my country without communications whatsoever
Quake disrupts Asia communications
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Telecommunications around Asia were severely disrupted on Wednesday after earthquakes off Taiwan damaged undersea cables, slowing Internet services and hindering financial transactions, particularly in the currency market.
Banks and businesses across the region reported problems with communications, with some telephone lines cut and Internet access slowing to a crawl.
South Korea's top fixed-line and broadband service provider, KT Corp, said in a statement that six submarine cables were knocked out by Tuesday night's earthquakes.
"Twenty-seven of our customers were hit, including banks and churches," a KT spokesman said. "It is not known yet when we can fully restore the services."
Banks in Seoul said foreign exchange trading had been affected.
"Trading of the Korean won has mostly halted due to the communication problem," said a dealer at one domestic bank.
Some disruption was also reported in the important Tokyo currency market but the EBS system that handles much dollar/yen trading appeared to be working.
Global information company Reuters Group Plc said all users of its services in Japan and South Korea had been affected.
One Tokyo foreign exchange trader said: "There are many currencies in which market-making is being conducted via Reuters and such currencies such as the Australian dollar and the British pound are in a very tenuous situation now."
State secret
In China, trading in currencies and copper appeared to be normal and both the Shanghai stock market and money market were working.
But China Telecommunications Group, the country's biggest fixed-line telephone operator and parent of China Telecom Corp., said the earthquakes had affected lines "from the Chinese mainland to places including the Taiwan area, the United States and Europe, and many have been cut".
"Internet connections have been seriously affected, and phone links and dedicated business lines have also been affected to some degree," it said.
Officials declined to give further details. "Undersea communications cables fall in the area of state secrets," said a ministry of communications official in Beijing.
The main quake, measured by Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau at magnitude 6.7 and at magnitude 7.1 by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck off Taiwan's southern coast at 1226 GMT on Tuesday. Two people were killed.
Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom said two of four major undersea cables out of Taiwan had been affected. Voice circuits had been reduced to 40 per cent of capacity to the United States and just 2 per cent to most parts of Southeast Asia.
KDDI Corp., Japan's second-largest telecoms company, said communications along submarine cables out of Japan went through Taiwan before reaching Southeast Asian countries, which was leading to disruption.
But it said communications were unlikely to break down completely since there were alternative lines.
PCCW, Hong Kong's main fixed-line telecoms provider, said several undersea cables it part-owned had been damaged. "Data transfer is down by half," a spokeswoman said.
Both Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), Southeast Asia's top phone company, and local rival StarHub Ltd., said customers were suffering slow access to Internet pages.
But SingTel said traffic was being diverted and repair work was in progress, adding: "Our submarine cables linking to Europe and the U.S. are not affected."
Copyright 2006 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Quake disrupts Asia communications
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Telecommunications around Asia were severely disrupted on Wednesday after earthquakes off Taiwan damaged undersea cables, slowing Internet services and hindering financial transactions, particularly in the currency market.
Banks and businesses across the region reported problems with communications, with some telephone lines cut and Internet access slowing to a crawl.
South Korea's top fixed-line and broadband service provider, KT Corp, said in a statement that six submarine cables were knocked out by Tuesday night's earthquakes.
"Twenty-seven of our customers were hit, including banks and churches," a KT spokesman said. "It is not known yet when we can fully restore the services."
Banks in Seoul said foreign exchange trading had been affected.
"Trading of the Korean won has mostly halted due to the communication problem," said a dealer at one domestic bank.
Some disruption was also reported in the important Tokyo currency market but the EBS system that handles much dollar/yen trading appeared to be working.
Global information company Reuters Group Plc said all users of its services in Japan and South Korea had been affected.
One Tokyo foreign exchange trader said: "There are many currencies in which market-making is being conducted via Reuters and such currencies such as the Australian dollar and the British pound are in a very tenuous situation now."
State secret
In China, trading in currencies and copper appeared to be normal and both the Shanghai stock market and money market were working.
But China Telecommunications Group, the country's biggest fixed-line telephone operator and parent of China Telecom Corp., said the earthquakes had affected lines "from the Chinese mainland to places including the Taiwan area, the United States and Europe, and many have been cut".
"Internet connections have been seriously affected, and phone links and dedicated business lines have also been affected to some degree," it said.
Officials declined to give further details. "Undersea communications cables fall in the area of state secrets," said a ministry of communications official in Beijing.
The main quake, measured by Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau at magnitude 6.7 and at magnitude 7.1 by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck off Taiwan's southern coast at 1226 GMT on Tuesday. Two people were killed.
Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom said two of four major undersea cables out of Taiwan had been affected. Voice circuits had been reduced to 40 per cent of capacity to the United States and just 2 per cent to most parts of Southeast Asia.
KDDI Corp., Japan's second-largest telecoms company, said communications along submarine cables out of Japan went through Taiwan before reaching Southeast Asian countries, which was leading to disruption.
But it said communications were unlikely to break down completely since there were alternative lines.
PCCW, Hong Kong's main fixed-line telecoms provider, said several undersea cables it part-owned had been damaged. "Data transfer is down by half," a spokeswoman said.
Both Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), Southeast Asia's top phone company, and local rival StarHub Ltd., said customers were suffering slow access to Internet pages.
But SingTel said traffic was being diverted and repair work was in progress, adding: "Our submarine cables linking to Europe and the U.S. are not affected."
Copyright 2006 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
You missed an "0" on that one Ty.Ty wrote:
Good to hear Cyborg. It'd be a shame for you to die when you're only 73 posts away from your 1000th post.
Good to hear you're not dead you ninja, keep ya tip up dude.
Smartass! Hand back your OBE! *slap*Towelly wrote:
You missed an "0" on that one Ty.
73 posts away from your 10,000th post, I apologise.
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I bet Cyborg Ninja just made all of this up to make up for his shitty food fight post
i saw it on the news like 50 people died i thinkCoolbeano wrote:
I bet Cyborg Ninja just made all of this up to make up for his shitty food fight post