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But I just finished giving my sympathy monies to Haiti!!!! 

Wow, I'm glad Southern California isn't near any major fault line. 

text 990f347 if you think the chile earthquake was bigger than the haiti earthquake. if you think the haiti earthquake was bigger, text 342haitiisbigger.com 

Oh great, here we go again. 

Shit, the US is next.. PNW. 

8.8?

God damn. That's intense. 

64 times the Haiti quake. 

Scallywag said:

64 times the Haiti quake.

Not to nitpick, but the Haiti earthquake was a 7.0 on the Richter scale, and this is an 8.8, so it's 80 times the energy, if I'm not mistaken. I know an 8.0 is ten times the energy of a 7.0, and a 9.0 would be 100 times the energy of a 7.0, so an 8.8 would be 80 times the energy, right? 

Actually, that's not right, because my math would mean an 8.1 is 10 times a 7.0.

All I know is, shit is fucked. 

http://5z8.info/click-on-this-and-youll-be-taken-to-page-that-will-create-pop-up -windows-until-your-browser-crashes_u4a9d_michaelangelo-virus 

mediaphile said:

Not to nitpick, but the Haiti earthquake was a 7.0 on the Richter scale, and this is an 8.8, so it's 80 times the energy, if I'm not mistaken. I know an 8.0 is ten times the energy of a 7.0, and a 9.0 would be 100 times the energy of a 7.0, so an 8.8 would be 80 times the energy, right?

Moment Magnitude Scale, not Richter 

You piss on Mother Gaïa's face, expect some payback. 

Just wait until the Missouri fault line cracks causing Yellow Stone's super volcano to go off! The US does everything better, even destroying itself with the forces of nature! 

Chile Con Carnage = best headline in a while. 

DorgoDorato said:

Just wait until the Missouri fault line cracks causing Yellow Stone's super volcano to go off! The US does everything better, even destroying itself with the forces of nature!

New Madrid fault line and I'm just a few miles away from it. According to wiki it may be shutting down but you never know. It fucked some shit up in 1812. Made the Mississippi river flow backwards for a day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone 

Chile Con Carnage :(

ha... too soon. 

GonnaSin said:

Chile Con Carnage = best headline in a while.

Really? I thought it was the work of a total cunt personally.

Irreverence is one thing, but to trivialise an event in which over 80 people so far have lost their lives with a lame pun is a shitty thing to do.

But hey, who cares? They're just a bunch of foreigners. Right? 

Levity is a way to cope with unimaginable tragedy.

Say what you want about Cleveland, but shit like this never happens here. 

"The planet isn't going anywhere....... WE ARE." -Carlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Miv4NHsDo 

arothman said:

Levity is a way to cope with unimaginable tragedy.

Cool. So where was the 'Jenga' headline after September 11th or the 'Katrina and the waves' after New Orleans got hit?

If it happens in America = serious business
If it happens in the rest of the world = teh funny

Another example? The 'classic' tag he gave to footage of the 1985 Bradford fire disaster in which 56 people lost their lives. [Fazed Feb 14 2009].

I don't know why you would even defend shit like this. 

Like people losing their shit over a few beach homes in Hawaii that are at the risk of being flooded 

Argentina just got hit less than an hour ago too.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/S_America.php 

mally said:

Cool. So where was the 'Jenga' headline after September 11th or the 'Katrina and the waves' after New Orleans got hit?

If it happens in America = serious business
If it happens in the rest of the world = teh funny

Another example? The 'classic' tag he gave to footage of the 1985 Bradford fire disaster in which 56 people lost their lives. [Fazed Feb 14 2009].

I don't know why you would even defend shit like this.

I admire your balls, but really? 

Who let the nutless pussy into the front page? 

I love the headline. Too bad people don't have a sense of humor like they used to.

I am curious about this Hawaii hubbub. They are already evacuating people there. 

STOP PLATE TECTONICS!!!!!! 

Argentina just got hit less than an hour ago too.

Caramba! Mother Nature is pissed off today! 

So the wall street journal is reporting that the tsunami is traveling at a speed of 550 mph, "or the speed of a jet plane."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704231304575091611248294970.html?m od=WSJ_latestheadlines

That's not correct...right? 

mally said:

Cool. So where was the 'Jenga' headline after September 11th or the 'Katrina and the waves' after New Orleans got hit?

If it happens in America = serious business
If it happens in the rest of the world = teh funny

Another example? The 'classic' tag he gave to footage of the 1985 Bradford fire disaster in which 56 people lost their lives. [Fazed Feb 14 2009].

I don't know why you would even defend shit like this.

Haha...Jenga after Sept 11th would have been epic. 

Anyone know where can I find info on the tsunami from this? 

Live tsunamicam from Hawaii

http://www.khon2.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=3299&navCatId=4 

bFTE said:

8.8?

God damn. That's intense.

totally this. 

Oh my lord! Are we out of butter? 

mally said:

Cool. So where was the 'Jenga' headline after September 11th or the 'Katrina and the waves' after New Orleans got hit?

If it happens in America = serious business
If it happens in the rest of the world = teh funny

Another example? The 'classic' tag he gave to footage of the 1985 Bradford fire disaster in which 56 people lost their lives. [Fazed Feb 14 2009].

I don't know why you would even defend shit like this.

I was here on Fazed all day long on 9/11. There were plenty of inappropriate remarks made to try and lighten the mood then too. 

mally said:

Cool. So where was the 'Jenga' headline after September 11th or the 'Katrina and the waves' after New Orleans got hit?

If it happens in America = serious business
If it happens in the rest of the world = teh funny

Another example? The 'classic' tag he gave to footage of the 1985 Bradford fire disaster in which 56 people lost their lives. [Fazed Feb 14 2009].

I don't know why you would even defend shit like this.

maybe it should have been. I think it may have been better for this country if they had taken a more philosophical stance towards those tragedies instead of turning them into political battle flags to be used to advance someone's agenda. Besides, the things that sucked about those incidents is that they were both, to some degree, made worse by our incompetence.

Chile was well prepared for an earthquake. It sucks that it happened, but their country will be fine. More jokes of questionable taste please! 

Bad timing on Chile's part, we've used up all the best jokes on Haiti 

mally said:

I don't know why you would even defend shit like this.

I defend shit like this because I remember the constitution! 

There was also an earthquake in Japan yesterday that rated 7.0 Same as the one in Haiti but almost no damage apparently. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/26/japan.okinawa.earthquake/index.html? hpt=T2

Holy crap! CNN Just twittered than mally is sensitive. Breaking news! 

http://on.cnn.com/cY0IDD Clicky. 

those roads look like the end of ghostbusters and the overpass wreckage was just gnarly. every time i'm stopped under one in l.a., i always hope a good shaker doesn't come along and pancake me

why does god hate under developed nations? 

fuck, they're closing in on California. good thing i can swim. 

Chile is far from under developped 

Guys, stop being upset with mally. A sandy vagina is no laughing matter. Don't hate the haters, hate the gritty snootch. 

mally said:

Another example? The 'classic' tag he gave to footage of the 1985 Bradford fire disaster in which 56 people lost their lives. [Fazed Feb 14 2009].

Classic can, and is, used in multiple ways. When something is reposted, it's Classic. When something is old/historic, it's Classic. When something is "Hah! That's classic!", it's Classic.

This headline choice has nothing to do with the fact that this happened outside of the US. It has everything to do with the fact that I play with words for a living and that was the first thing that popped into my head. Had I posted the New Orleans link, Katrina and the Waves might have been good, but personally, I probably would have opted for Bourbon (and Water) Street. I'm not too sure about Jenga, though. There's only one tower of blocks there, so it wouldn't quite fit. My headlines don't mean that I don't feel for the people and appreciate the tragedy. And before you get upset, I used the definition of "appreciate" that means "understand the scope of" not the one that means "am thankful for".

If you can't take the fact that sometimes you have to laugh at something so you can deal with the horror of it and if you want to insist on SRS BSNS with your news and headlines, you should probably stick with CNN or The Wall Street Journal.

Next thing you know, you'll be complaining that we're not giving enough respect to something because of the links that are posted before or after it or the fact that we posted something after it too quickly so that it doesn't get the obligatory "moment of silence". 

"Chili con Carnage" got a chuckle out of me.
And you know what? I don't even feel bad about any of it. 

Oregon coast live

http://www.katu.com/news/live 

NobodyHome said:

So the wall street journal is reporting that the tsunami is traveling at a speed of 550 mph, "or the speed of a jet plane."

That's not correct...right?

In the deep water they can travel incredibly fast but have very little vertical displacement. As the water gets shallower near the shore they slow down but rise up. 

In the deep water they can travel incredibly fast but have very little vertical displacement. As the water gets shallower near the shore they slow down but rise up.

This makes more sense. Thanks 

NobodyHome said:

So the wall street journal is reporting that the tsunami is traveling at a speed of 550 mph, "or the speed of a jet plane."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704231304575091611248294970.html?m od=WSJ_latestheadlines

That's not correct...right?

That is absolutely correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami#Characteristics 

So we can blame Chile for the forthcoming Hawaiian tsunami, right?

Bubba, you better start thinking of some tropical puns.