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OT---help about an earthquake sight!! Picture, also.
keets
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I know this is off topic, but at about 3:20 PM EST my house shook for a second or two here on the shores of Lake Erie about 45 miles east of Cleveland. It felt similar to one we had maybe 17 years ago that I felt. Can someone hook me up to a sight where I could find out if it was picked up . After i get the link I'll delete the thread.
I figured the guys on the west coast could help on this!!!!
Al H.
Oh yeah, here's a coin pic for relevance.
I figured the guys on the west coast could help on this!!!!
Al H.
Oh yeah, here's a coin pic for relevance.
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does anybody know the toning affects of radiation on coins?? this one was small compared to the big shakes out west, but thrilling nonetheless.
thanks for the help, guys.
al h.
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
<< <i>the problem with East Coast earthquakes is that everything is made of brick, not the chicken wire and stucco they use out west. >>
Hey now... not only am I out west but I've put many buildings together with that Lath and Plaster.
Honestly, I'm from NJ, but I've been out here for 10 years. We have 2-4.0 quakes all the time, nothing to get worried about. That's not even strong enough to knock a picture off the wall.
Michael
finally, FINALLY, we get around to the subject of perspective!! it's a constantly danced around topic here at the forum with our general tendency to be myopic---sorry DK---and not willing to stand in the other guy's shoes. lately, it's been dipping vs. original/toned. in the past it's been modern vs. classic and any number of similarly comparative subjects. this side standing firm against that side, like some kind of silly war, each side pointing out where/why/when/how the other is wrong or missing the boat. heck, i even fall victim to it, though i try to be objective and open-minded.
i'm trying hard to learn here and to express my understanding of all that is Numismatics as i learn. sometimes it's hard and your simple tongue in cheek response is in a way what i was looking for. of course this was a little quake. it lasted all of 2-3 seconds at the very most and i was almost directly on top of it. we just don't have them here. PERSPECTIVE might be an interesting topic if someone from L.A. posted around December that the city was paralyzed by 2 inches of snow!! we get that routinely here and just chuck another log on the fire, roll up our collars and drive to work.
it's so simple to think we hold the high ground intellectually in similar ways when talking about coins. things seem to function better around the forum when we agree or express that we have experienced something different in a non-confrontational manner. but, i digress.
BTW, we did have one back around 1985 that was less than 4.0 which did in fact last close to 10 seconds and knocked anything not secure over and down to the floor.
al h.
My first quake was 1 month after I arrived in LA. I was sitting in a Contracts class in my law school, when a roller hit. It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up on end. It actually moved like a wave through the building and you could sense it coming like a train. Finally it reached me, move past me and out of the room I was in. My heart was in my throat! I was sweating and worried that it caused a gas leak or something and we had to get out of the building immediately...
My professor very calmly and professionally said in a studious professor like manner -- "now that was a roller... if you're not from California, that's probably your first earhtquake, enjoy, there'll be more. Now open your books to page 36, ah, Ms. Jones can you define acceptance for the class?"
And with that I learned perspective!
Michael
DOESN'T ANYONE UNDERSTAND!!!
Hey Keets, that's a great dime! Is it in a holder or is it raw? Did you get that from the Bower's Sanctuary Sale? Does it have a pedigree?
the dime is raw. the local guy watches out for me!! he had it marked 40 cents on the holder but when he rang up my bill a few weeks i believe he just threw it in the pile, another nice, early 70's PL.
al h.
<< <i>We have a big fault here in southern Missouri....New Madrid fault. I guess that it's bigger than the one you guys have California (San Andreas). >>
Yeah, and when yours goes off, the whole country will rock and roll (literally).
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You are only a "real" man if you hit with a 6.0 or greater every 10 years or so. lol
jom - CA
My second trip to California, San Francisco April 1990, 5.4 on the Richter scale (aftershocks from October quake).