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Post by elle on Feb 6, 2023 8:22:09 GMT -6
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Post by byjove on Feb 6, 2023 9:09:17 GMT -6
My heart breaks for Turkey- near by Syria is also incredibly affected.
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Post by Minerva on Feb 6, 2023 9:15:17 GMT -6
The images coming out of Turkey and Syria are devastating. Those poor people. 😔
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Post by kbw on Feb 6, 2023 9:29:46 GMT -6
This is absolutely devastating. It was felt as far away as Lebanon. They said aid efforts may be hampered as well because aid organizations were underground already due to the civil war in Syria. I saw a headline that they expect it to possibly too 17,000 fatalities. I can’t even imagine.
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Post by AmyG on Feb 6, 2023 11:48:32 GMT -6
Bad earthquake news
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Post by sifl on Feb 6, 2023 12:01:03 GMT -6
Oh geez. That’s awful.
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Post by dc2london on Feb 6, 2023 12:28:34 GMT -6
A campaign volunteer alleges that Santos sexually assaulted him
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Post by kbw on Feb 6, 2023 13:03:05 GMT -6
There was also an earthquake near Buffalo this morning. I believe it’s the strongest they said in 40 years in that area.
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Post by byjove on Feb 6, 2023 13:09:01 GMT -6
I also read that it may not have been a coincidence that these both happened on the same day- something about the full moon. Interesting!
(not that the two earthquakes were specifically related)
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Post by dc2london on Feb 6, 2023 15:57:35 GMT -6
I've just seen videos from the earthquake in Turkey and OMG
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Post by blurnette989 on Feb 6, 2023 16:20:31 GMT -6
The earthquake is awful and devastating. I feel for all the survivors too because they've had so many aftershocks and from such a large quake they are all ones they probably can feel. There have been 10 quakes in the last hour above a 3 on the Richter scale. It's all so frightening.
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Post by athn64 on Feb 6, 2023 16:22:01 GMT -6
That's really devastating. I remember learning about the fault systems in Turkey in my tectonics class. It's situated where three plates are joined, making it an unstable and high risk region.
It's such a terrible loss of life and cultural history.
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Post by sifl on Feb 6, 2023 16:28:26 GMT -6
The earthquake is awful and devastating. I feel for all the survivors too because they've had so many aftershocks and from such a large quake they are all ones they probably can feel. There have been 10 quakes in the last hour above a 3 on the Richter scale. It's all so frightening. My heart still races when we get a 3+M shaker here. Old timers here say the 1997 quake was scarier because there were so many aftershocks while they were still trying to clean up. Add in trying to rescue folks out of rubble and yeah. Does anyone know if the US is sending any support?
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Post by enchanted on Feb 6, 2023 16:29:40 GMT -6
The news out of Turkiye is devastating. I cannot believe the pictures I've seen.
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Post by elle on Feb 6, 2023 17:00:45 GMT -6
The earthquake is awful and devastating. I feel for all the survivors too because they've had so many aftershocks and from such a large quake they are all ones they probably can feel. There have been 10 quakes in the last hour above a 3 on the Richter scale. It's all so frightening. The early aftershocks were still huge, 6 something and then a 7.5. Just devastating.
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Post by dc2london on Feb 6, 2023 18:59:19 GMT -6
The news out of Turkiye is devastating. I cannot believe the pictures I've seen. Videos of huge apartment buildings just crumbling. Just completely tragic.
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Post by kbw on Feb 7, 2023 7:24:35 GMT -6
NPR had an article earlier explaining the shifts in plates and why it probably occurred the way it did.
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Post by elle on Feb 7, 2023 8:25:47 GMT -6
The news out of Turkiye is devastating. I cannot believe the pictures I've seen. Videos of huge apartment buildings just crumbling. Just completely tragic. This video of it while it was happening is terrifying. The noise when it crescendos to it's most violent point is stomach dropping. (spoilered so people can avoid)
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Post by mathlete on Feb 7, 2023 10:50:02 GMT -6
I cant imagine. It was dark out, so once the power cut, you can't see anything but now buildings are crumbling. And it's freezing there now. My heart just goes out to all.
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Post by cakewench on Feb 7, 2023 10:53:27 GMT -6
Oh God that footage is just horrible. The sound, and then when the lights go out... holy shit.
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Post by dc2london on Feb 7, 2023 11:01:34 GMT -6
Things in Syria were already so dire, this is a humanitarian crisis like nothing were seen.
Apparently my county's search and rescue squad are going to help out.
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Post by dc2london on Feb 7, 2023 11:19:59 GMT -6
As we await tonight's State of the Union, an MVP appreciation thread
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Post by byjove on Feb 7, 2023 11:37:39 GMT -6
As we await tonight's State of the Union, an MVP appreciation thread It makes me really cranky how her accomplishments are going ignored, even by the left.
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Post by clucky on Feb 7, 2023 11:42:12 GMT -6
They had one job and there are so many red places they could have used. Instead, they use California. 💀
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Post by dc2london on Feb 7, 2023 11:51:07 GMT -6
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Post by loony on Feb 7, 2023 11:55:04 GMT -6
This hits home. 3/5 neighbors on my block are second home owners that purchased similar sized homes to ours for 3-4x the cost we paid in 2010. Only one switched from remote/commute to full time resident with a local job.
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Post by sifl on Feb 7, 2023 12:26:37 GMT -6
We *very briefly* considered buying a summer home up here when I was trying to convince H to move. But ultimately I would feel like a huge piece of shit owning two homes. I don’t think anyone should own more than one house.
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Post by SweetPotato on Feb 7, 2023 15:24:35 GMT -6
We *very briefly* considered buying a summer home up here when I was trying to convince H to move. But ultimately I would feel like a huge piece of shit owning two homes. I don’t think anyone should own more than one house. I think there are so many variables to two home situations. Sometimes it’s a dick thing to do. Sometimes it’s not.
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Post by elle on Feb 7, 2023 17:09:08 GMT -6
I had heard rumblings about this last week but The NY Times has now confirmed. Absolutely sickening.
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