Ah, the retina television.

"your conspicuous shit stew is splattered all over our menu"

We will not let you go.

With all these well-armed Americans protecting their families from all those other well-armed Americans, you'd hope the homicide rate was lower than in those wussy European countries where they are not trusted with the right to own lethal firearms. But it's 3 to 5 times higher. [en.wikipedia.org]

and Olympus, too

Given how far away you were from the epicenter (and the aftershocks too, I imagine), that could be consistent with the dogs hearing/feeling the P-wave which would arrive several minutes before the S- (shear) wave.

A couple of things I noted when looking at this:

From the title I was hoping that this was going to be a gizmo that incorporated a live snake in some way. Disappointed!

Actually, if the vast majority of people are vaccinated (85% or more), the few people who are not vaccinated are too few in number to sustain an outbreak of the disease. The immunity of the many protects the few. This is known as 'herd immunity'.

I prefer jet fuel to planes raining from the skies, I must say.

By moving a large chunk of the crust at the surface in the earthquake, the position of the center of mass will have moved a small distance, and so every point on the Earth's surface will be a different distance to the center of mass from where they were before. Since gravitational acceleration is inversely…

It wasn't originally published in the CS Monitor, silly. The work was conducted by Japanese researchers and is published in a well-regarded geophysics journal. And redistribution of mass on the Earth's surface will change the gravity field, even if the total mass stays the same.

That quote would probably be enough to get a commenter banned.

Looks like the highest reported intensity was VII.

You did the right thing! The last people to die in an earthquake in the US had a brick facade from a clock tower fall on them as they ran outside.

OP: "it's a whole new metric"

logorhythmic - Rhythms formed by words, such as in rap music (logos - word, Ancient Greek)?

I would think that NYC skyscrapers would have been built with high winds in mind, however. They have to be strong enough to withstand the occasional hurricane (e.g. the one that's heading towards the East Coast right now).

Hi to all the first graders! (Incidentally, the Richter scale is a local magnitude scale only applicable to southern California. I aim to be educational.)

That's true up to a point, but the probability of damage drops off appreciably with distance. Within 10 miles, there's a good chance of damage to masonry buildings. Within 10-100 miles you might see damage to unsecured structures (chimneys, tiles). If you are over 100 miles away, chances are that you didn't experience…