[QUOTE=Uncwilly;315553]It did directly drive away one of your greatest minds.[/QUOTE]

Hugh Laurie is indeed a first-class mind (in addition to being a fabulous comic and fine actor), but is such hyperbole really warranted?

Or did you mean Graham Greene? My understanding is that Greene left Britain for mostly non-meteorological reasons (being conned out of much of his life's savings by a swindler).

[QUOTE=ewmayer;315558]Hugh Laurie is indeed a first-class mind (in addition to being a fabulous comic and fine actor), but is such hyperbole really warranted?[/QUOTE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke"]Sir Clarke[/URL]

[QUOTE=Dubslow;315550]That should be in the wacky news thread. WTF.



Let he who could have done better (i.e., told the future) be the one to lock them in jail.[/QUOTE]

don't worry:

[URL="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/italian-disaster-experts-resign-shaken-predecessors-convictions-quake-175231514.html"]Italian disaster experts resign, shaken by predecessors' convictions in quake trial[/URL]

[QUOTE]Four top Italian disaster experts quit their posts Tuesday, saying the manslaughter convictions of former colleagues for failing to adequately warn of a deadly 2009 earthquake means they can't effectively perform their duties.


A court in the quake-devastated town of L'Aquila convicted seven former members of Italy's so-called "Great Risks Commission" and sentenced each of them to six years in prison, prompting predictions that experts would be discouraged from working in Italy for fear of similar risks of prosecution.[/QUOTE]

7.7 North coast of British Columbia. [url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usb000df7n.php#details[/url]
Hawai'i under a tsunami warning [url]http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/?region=2&id=hawaii.TSUHWX.2012.10.28.0613[/url]
:leaving:

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;316260]7.7 North coast of British Columbia. [url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usb000df7n.php#details[/url]
Hawai'i under a tsunami warning [url]http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/?region=2&id=hawaii.TSUHWX.2012.10.28.0613[/url]
:leaving:[/QUOTE]

doesn't help that of the top three earthquakes ( by magnitude) in the last 7 day this was also the closest to surface.

Burma!
 

I panicked!

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20285901[/url]

[QUOTE=xilman;317904]I panicked!

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20285901[/url][/QUOTE]
The earth moved in anticipation of Obama's visit to Burma.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;317923]The earth moved in anticipation of Obama's visit to Burma.[/QUOTE]

Was the quake close enough to the date of the visit for this to be considered a "close [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave]Burma-shave[/url]"?

[Love the pic of the Route 66 rhyming signs at the above wikipage.]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;318225]Was the quake close enough to the date of the visit for this to be considered a "close [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave"]Burma-shave[/URL]"?

[Love the pic of the Route 66 rhyming signs at the above wikipage.][/QUOTE]

LOL!

He used a match/to see the gas tank/that's why they call him/Skinless Frank

Drowsy?/Just remember pard'/That marble slab/Is doggon hard

7.2 near Indonesia
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pt12345000[/url]

6.3 nearish to California
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/c000e9sl/us/index.html[/url]