An Earthquake With a Preliminary Magnitude of 7.8 Struck Off the Coast of Alaska Early Wednesday Morning. (cnn.com) 34
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 struck off the coast of Alaska early Wednesday morning. From a report: The earthquake was centered 60 miles, or 98 kilometers, south-southeast, of Perryville, Alaska, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake is considered shallow at about six miles, or 10 kilometers, deep. "Anything below 70 kilometers is considered a shallow quake," CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar previously said. "That's important, because shallow earthquakes often cause the most damage, compared to the ones that are deeper, regardless of the strength." A tsunami warning had been issued following the earthquake, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The warning was in effect for south Alaska and the Alaska peninsula -- Pacific coasts from Kennedy Entrance, Alaska (40 miles southwest of Homer) to Unimak Pass, Alaska, according to the Tsunami Warning Center. But all tsunami warnings and advisories were canceled early Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
Tsunami? (Score:2)
Headline: Tsunami warning issued
Article summary: all tsunami warnings and advisories were canceled early Wednesday morning
Thanks Slashdot
Re: Click bait is click bait. (Score:2)
Hey hey hey it was from the breaking-news dept.
On a sadder note: I think Iâ(TM)m going to disable my slashdot account because itâ(TM)s time to take action and take my money from their monthly recurring users
Re: Click bait is click bait. (Score:2)
They also havenâ(TM)t fixed iPhone Unicode bullshit.
Bye. Dont let the door hit me on the way out
Re: Click bait is click bait. (Score:2)
With reason. It allows easy identification of iDiots.
Re: Click bait is click bait. (Score:2)
My first iPhone is an iPhone 8, purchased 2 years after the iPhone X was released. And thats only because I need it for work.
13 years later we can suddenly show love for Microsoft but not fix a damn Unicode problem? Get real, this site is done.
Re: Click bait is click bait. (Score:2)
I can respect the "if it ain't really broke, why fix it" attitude. We all know about the Unicode limitation and have taken it in stride. Why add Unicode and introduce a new set of bugs? Will Unicode support bring in more revenue?
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The lack of Unicode also means Slashdot is accessible in China.
Since it can't be used for peer-to-peer anonymous discussions in Chinese, it isn't blocked.
So please, no Unicode.
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Is Slashdot still based off of Perl? I would think you can do a basic text replace with all the filters, just for a basic modern systems.
Re: Click bait is click bait. (Score:5, Interesting)
You know over 20 years ago when I created my Slashdot account, If I were to say in the future people will be using mobile devices for most of their internet browsing, people would say that is possibly be true. However if I were to say that Apple has taken a version of BSD Unix Kernel and made it one of the top Mobile OS's used, and its competitor from Google uses a version of the Linux Kernel for an other equally if not more competitive OS, and that Microsoft would be releasing a version of office for these platforms and mostly left the mobile technology market because it couldn't compete with Apple and Google. I would probably have been called a radical Microsoft hater, with a unrealistic future, although I would probably get upvoted because this would seem like the Slashdotter dream computer future.
But what I found out what Slashdotters really hate isn't the technology, just the fact that is is popular, and those people who made fun of them in Grade School are using these products as well.
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I said all those things years ago - pretty much. I still think them now.
The problem is that if you are, say, anti-idiot... and then the president turns out to be an idiot... you get tarred as anti-presidential.
Similarly, I'm against large IT corporations doing silly - and unnecessary - things to the average home user. I'm also against people vastly overcharging for what is a simple technological product.
That means that, back in the past, I have been both for and against Microsoft, and against Apple for mo
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After this boring Covid 19 episode ... (Score:2)
... God just wanted to shake things up a little bit.
*Tadum* *Crash* *Thud*
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week. Try the fish and tip your waiter.
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Why no tsunami? (Score:2)
Re:Why no tsunami? (Score:5, Informative)
Because... It didn't..
Unless you have sufficient vertical displacement in the seafloor and the resulting wave isn't headed in the right direction, you don't get the tsunami. So an earthquake that is deep, or is just horizontal displacement doesn't produce them.
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Can anyone explain why I spilled my coffee today. I use the same mug I normally use, I put in the same amount of coffee that I do every morning. But today I happen to had spilled it, while I haven't spilled my coffee in years.
A tsunami is a combination of multiple complex systems working together, a tiny variant can change the outcome.
Wave Propagation (Score:4, Interesting)
You'll learn! (Score:1)
A 6.4 hit on PR on January and it was scary AF... (Score:2)
... I know the Richter scale is exponential so I can't imagine how terrifying a 7.8 must be.
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Log 0.8 times more terrifying
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...10^0.8 times. Math, how does it work?
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Fear does not work on a linear scale, so just converting Richter scale to linear as a fear ratio does not work.
An analogy is hearing. The decibel scale is logarithmic, but so is human hearing, so doubling the decibels sounds twice as loud even though it is exponentially more amplitude and energy.
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Will it affect three gorges dam in china? (Score:4, Insightful)
Good thing the quake is so far away, but ... still makes one shudder to think what could happen if a quake affects that dam.
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"affecting the rotation of earth" is only noticeable because we have atomic clocks and thus can detect a change of 60 nanoseconds per day. That's not a lot. Weather has similar effects.
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Well let's see (Score:2)
...what's next, is that rain of frogs or river of blood?
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...what's next, is that rain of frogs or river of blood?
Death of every first born, from a virus.