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05/29/2008 01:23:56 PM · #1 |
//www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/29/iceland.quake.ap/index.html
I hope all of our Icelandic friends are okay, it hit near Reykjavik.
Message edited by author 2008-05-29 13:24:33. |
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05/29/2008 03:47:03 PM · #2 |
| Just seen this on the BBC news website and DPC'ers were my first thought too! Everyone ok?? |
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05/29/2008 03:52:53 PM · #3 |
Crazy Icelanders!
Who would choose to live on an island formed because the earth's crust is splitting apart there and the crack is being filled by molten rock spewing up from the deep?
I would have nightmares.
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05/29/2008 03:56:26 PM · #4 |
Just what they need - an even more dramatic landscape! :P
They're saying this was a 6.2 or so.
"The country's last major earthquake, in June 2000, measured 6.6 on the Richter scale. It knocked down a dozen houses but caused no serious injuries."
Everyone's probably fine, but maybe all their cameras fell and broke. ;-)
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05/29/2008 03:59:28 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Everyone's probably fine, but maybe all their cameras fell and broke. ;-) |
And to most Icelanders that's a complete disaster ;o)
Quick, everyone else enter all the challenges they can this week... ;o) |
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05/29/2008 04:00:05 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Just what they need - an even more dramatic landscape! :P
They're saying this was a 6.2 or so.
"The country's last major earthquake, in June 2000, measured 6.6 on the Richter scale. It knocked down a dozen houses but caused no serious injuries."
Everyone's probably fine, but maybe all their cameras fell and broke. ;-) |
Wow 6.2 is kinda a low score just above average in DPC terms
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05/29/2008 04:44:56 PM · #7 |
Having been through an earthquake myself, measuring around 6 , I can understand how they felt!
My question is, how many were out taking photos afterwards? :-) |
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05/29/2008 04:51:24 PM · #8 |
| If you'll notice though, it seems like there have been few, if any Icelanders on the front page lately. Maybe that's a precursor or an indication that there will be an earthquake - you know, like cats & dogs running away and acting all weird. Just a thought. |
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05/29/2008 04:52:10 PM · #9 |
| Maybe the rest of the world will have a chance in the Night sky challenge now :) |
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05/29/2008 04:53:24 PM · #10 |
We had a 6.8 here in Washington state back in 2001, fortunately it was a pretty deep quake so didn't cause a tremendous amount of damage but it sure gets your attention!
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05/29/2008 04:56:22 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by antares1966:
We had a 6.8 here in Washington state back in 2001, fortunately it was a pretty deep quake so didn't cause a tremendous amount of damage but it sure gets your attention! |
Yeah, I remember that - I was living in Seattle, but working in California at the time of the quake. And in '89 I was living in the Bay Area, but was visiting Colorado when that big quake hit. Quakes are scared of me. |
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05/29/2008 05:01:27 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by marbo:
Maybe the rest of the world will have a chance in the Night sky challenge now :) |
I doubt it. Many of the Icelandic hotshots have stabilized lenses. |
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05/29/2008 05:07:58 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by marbo:
Maybe the rest of the world will have a chance in the Night sky challenge now :) |
I doubt it. Many of the Icelandic hotshots have stabilized lenses. |
Maybe we'll see this in the new ad pitches for IS lenses :)
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05/29/2008 05:13:41 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by marbo:
Maybe the rest of the world will have a chance in the Night sky challenge now :) |
I doubt it. Many of the Icelandic hotshots have stabilized lenses. |
I can see where that mite suck. Trying to get a shot of the chaos with a semi blurry photo showing people running for their lives and trees shaking and bending as buildings crumble around them only to be thwarted by forgetting to turn the IS off so you end up with what looks like a sereen shot of joggers running around in the afternoon with a gentle breeze blowing the trees near a building construction site...
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05/29/2008 05:17:11 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by marbo:
Maybe the rest of the world will have a chance in the Night sky challenge now :) |
I doubt it. Many of the Icelandic hotshots have stabilized lenses. |
To say nothing of the fact that it doesn't get dark overnight there this time of year. The sun goes down, but not by much. :)
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05/29/2008 05:30:21 PM · #16 |
We had a 6.8 here in Washington state back in 2001, yeah, that was the one I was referring to. The chandeliers were swinging, cupboard doors were swaying...I knew what it was, as we had a similar one in 1998-9?
Still..it was unsettling.
It made me think of a huge runaway freight train rumbling along very fast behind the house, to give an example. |
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05/29/2008 05:35:59 PM · #17 |
I remember it vividly, I was at work at the time, it was the first time during an earthquake that I could actually feel the rolling action of the shock waves. Strangely, it didn't freak me out too bad, I was more scared by a mag 5.0 we had back around 1995 or so, but probably 'cause that one was shallow and my house was less than 1/2 mile from the epicenter 8-/
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05/29/2008 05:50:51 PM · #18 |
C'mon.....who is going to be the first Icelander to post some pics!?? Hurry and beat CNN!
-Chris |
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05/29/2008 06:15:02 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by Montereykiddo:
-Chris |
Look what the earthquake shook out of a tree. Welcome back, Chris. |
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05/29/2008 06:54:45 PM · #20 |
So the winning shot in the Night Sky Challenge is going to be of hot lava spewing from the top of a mountain. At least that mystery is solved.
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05/29/2008 08:30:24 PM · #21 |
| Icelanders drink so much that they find the floor always moves a lot... this quake is nothing out of the ordinary. |
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05/29/2008 08:46:30 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Just what they need - an even more dramatic landscape! :P
They're saying this was a 6.2 or so.
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That's a little low for Iceland standards. They are usually in the 7 territory aren't they?:)
Hope all is well. |
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05/29/2008 08:49:49 PM · #23 |
lol :) hi im from iceland and there has been no mature injury on ppl, from usa they found out that the earthquake was 6.7 but the icelanders got the number 6.1 on thier meters, but there has been no mature injury and we are just waiting for the big 1 to come after the other earthquake, at least my camera is fine and i think everyone else's camera in iceland too, no damage on houses, (our houses are built for this) aaanndd, yes, everything going well i think, the rescue team has camps all around the country now, ready for the next 1 if it will be bigger and do more damage, but most of the damage was in Selfoss and Hveragerði where the quake came up :)
here are some photos (Not taken by me)
//ljosberinn.livejournal.com/2722.html
Message edited by author 2008-05-29 21:20:28. |
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05/29/2008 09:43:20 PM · #24 |
kristensen20 thanks for the photos, I hope that VHS tape survived that was in the pics, I thought those were extinct by now. Whoever shot those has to be a DPC'er. I think he is as no other normal wife would prob put up with cleaning up a mess like that while the husband photographs her doing that :P
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05/29/2008 10:17:07 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Quakes are scared of me. |
Move in with me, please. |
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