Seriousness Run for the Hills! Swine Flu! - Page 4

columbus · 04-27-2009, 01:11 PM

Population of Mexico City I saw reported as 21 Million!

Edit - 1/3 of the population of the UK!! in such a small place

GeoffC · 04-27-2009, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

So..., what's your connection to the USGS? Is there an interesting story here?

I have an account set up, with usgs.gov, that sends me world-wide reports of 3.5+ quakes.

columbus · 04-27-2009, 01:22 PM

Two cases now confirmed in Scotland

DixieGal · 04-27-2009, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by columbus

Population of Mexico City I saw reported as 21 Million!

Edit - 1/3 of the population of the UK!! in such a small place

Have you been there? It isn't small. It sort of dwarfs the huge scary volcano sitting in the middle of the city.

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I have an account set up, with usgs.gov, that sends me world-wide reports of 3.5+ quakes.

Interesting. Why?

GeoffC · 04-27-2009, 01:38 PM

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Interesting. Why?

the ladies of the house are geologists, and we have a seismometer set up at home (though the ring of fire quakes need to exceed 6.2 before we 'pick' them up) ....

DixieGal · 04-27-2009, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

the ladies of the house are geologists, and we have a seismometer set up at home (though the ring of fire quakes need to exceed 6.2 before we 'pick' them up) ....

That is interesting indeed! Last week, we had 2 quakes here, actually one county southwest of here, where Tim's brother lives in Bibb County. They were 3.8 and 4.0 magnitude, didn't do much beyond rattle some dishes and cracked the main highway down there. Were you able to notice them?

columbus · 04-27-2009, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC;

the ladies of the house are geologists, and we have a seismometer set up at home (though the ring of fire quakes need to exceed 6.2 before we 'pick' them up) ....

Er' Um' (sorry Harry) but the expression "did the Earth move for you" springs to mind

columbus · 04-27-2009, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal;

Have you been there? It isn't small. It sort of dwarfs the huge scary volcano sitting in the middle of the city.

No I have not ( & I don't intend to go just yet!) but compared to the surface area of the UK Mexico city is tiny. so many people in such a small area.

DixieGal · 04-27-2009, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by columbus

Er' Um' (sorry Harry) but the expression "did the Earth move for you" springs to mind

groan

GeoffC · 04-27-2009, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

That is interesting indeed! Last week, we had 2 quakes here, actually one county southwest of here, where Tim's brother lives in Bibb County. They were 3.8 and 4.0 magnitude, didn't do much beyond rattle some dishes and cracked the main highway down there. Were you able to notice them?

No, they would not have been energetic enough ....

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Originally Posted by columbus

Er' Um' (sorry Harry) but the expression "did the Earth move for you" springs to mind

it does, frequently .....

wodin · 04-27-2009, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

There is little reason to feel "scared" by it. There seems little evidence that, outside Mexico, this flu variant is any "nastier" than the typical winter flu (and this last winter's was, in the UK at least, a pretty nasty one). It is being postulated in several sources that I've seen that the reason it's killing people in Mexico is that it's interacting with some other virus that's already endemic in the local population and that, by itself, it's not a particularly nasty virus.

The CDC has a history of crying wolf. The more panic they can create the more funding they can get.

What me cynical?

GeoffC · 04-27-2009, 01:50 PM

me thinks with global warming, a financial hiccup, an earthquake in Mexico City and a flu outbreak - Mother Earth is having fun with us ....

DixieGal · 04-27-2009, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by wodin

The CDC has a history of crying wolf. The more panic they can create the more funding they can get.

What me cynical?

You are echoing the guy in the cube diagonally from from me. But I said, "Well, it's worth a bit of panic and over-cautiousness if it saves a life." He knows that I get excited about things, so he excuses me.

columbus · 04-27-2009, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC;

it does, frequently .....

Lucky you !

DixieGal · 04-27-2009, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

me thinks with global warming, a financial hiccup, an earthquake in Mexico City and a flu outbreak - Mother Earth is having fun with us ....

Yes, Chris, there's all four of the horses men. HIDE!

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