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Earthquake in the Stan
1/18/2011 4:05:28 PM
Just checked the news but I just experienced the first earthquake ever in my life he on the outside of Kandahar. Evidently it was a 7.4 south of us in Pakistan.
1/18/2011 4:31:36 PM
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2011ggbx.php
Here's the info link.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2011ggbx/us/form.en.disabled.html
Could even fill out the "did you feel it" report. They actually use these to better understand the propagation of earthquake effects in different places and terrain types.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/65_30.php
Here's the info link.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2011ggbx/us/form.en.disabled.html
Could even fill out the "did you feel it" report. They actually use these to better understand the propagation of earthquake effects in different places and terrain types.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/65_30.php
1/18/2011 5:56:35 PM
Cool, thanks. I was weird feeling. Kind of cool here, not so much at the epicenter I'm sure.
1/18/2011 7:54:19 PM
Had a couple of those rock us a bit when I was in Kandahar.
1/18/2011 10:16:52 PM
Had a crazy one hit northern Astan one night at 3 in the morning last year––––shook the fuck out of my hooch at Salerno. Thought it was another vbied at the gate for a second or two.
Here in Anchorage, we seem to have them a few times a year––-I'm not a fan.
Here in Anchorage, we seem to have them a few times a year––-I'm not a fan.
1/18/2011 10:56:24 PM
Yeah they are pretty damn scary. After I got back from Iraq I had my first earthquake in Hawaii... then I got to Afghanistan and went through 3 that shook Bagram. I hate the things.
1/20/2011 2:05:35 AM
Originally Posted By FDC:
Had a crazy one hit northern Astan one night at 3 in the morning last year––––shook the fuck out of my hooch at Salerno. Thought it was another vbied at the gate for a second or two.
Had a crazy one hit northern Astan one night at 3 in the morning last year––––shook the fuck out of my hooch at Salerno. Thought it was another vbied at the gate for a second or two.
i remember looking up at the blocks in the ceiling, thinking, after all the dumb shit that happened that month I would end up dead because of a fucking cement block falling on my head while I was asleep...
1/20/2011 10:40:16 AM
didnt feel it in baf
1/20/2011 12:14:33 PM
Originally Posted By lokt:
i remember looking up at the blocks in the ceiling, thinking, after all the dumb shit that happened that month I would end up dead because of a fucking cement block falling on my head while I was asleep...
Originally Posted By FDC:
Had a crazy one hit northern Astan one night at 3 in the morning last year––––shook the fuck out of my hooch at Salerno. Thought it was another vbied at the gate for a second or two.
Had a crazy one hit northern Astan one night at 3 in the morning last year––––shook the fuck out of my hooch at Salerno. Thought it was another vbied at the gate for a second or two.
i remember looking up at the blocks in the ceiling, thinking, after all the dumb shit that happened that month I would end up dead because of a fucking cement block falling on my head while I was asleep...
Which is why I'm glad I never took apart the bunk beds and slept on the bottom bunk.
1/20/2011 8:40:13 PM
Last year in the stan we just got back to camp clark and I was laying down in my hooch and thought the guy nextdoor was pounding his pudd really hard. I about told him to stop when someone said "does anyone else feel that?". Thats when I knew it was an earthquake. We never get them in GA. Apparently it was like a 7.2. There was another one a few months later while at a COP.
1/21/2011 8:03:14 AM
I was sitting on my couch in Bahrain and the couch did a break dance across my living room floor. Room mates mirro was banging on his wall. Felt two tremors in Bahrain.
1/21/2011 11:40:11 AM
I am 3 hours north of KAF on highway 1 and I didnt feel shit. No one talked about it either.
Odd.
Odd.
