I felt one in manchester a few years ago, this was the appeal

A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE MEASURING 3 ON THE RICHTER SCALE, HIT ON MONDAY 21 OCTOBER 2002. IT EPICENTERED ON MILES PLATTING, MANCHESTER

Victims can be seen wandering aimlessly muttering : "Sorted", 'Top' and 'Arr Kid'

The Earthquake decimated the area, causing approximately £30 worth of damage. Several priceless collections of mementos from the Balearics and Spanish Costas were damaged. Three areas of historic and scientifically significant litter were disturbed

 

Many were woken well before their giro arrived.

 

Thousands are confused and bewildered, trying to come to terms with the fact that something interesting has happened in Manchester.

One resident, Donna-Marie Dutton, a 17 year old mother-of-three said "It was such a shock, little Chantal-Leanne came running into my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Tyler-Morgan and Megan-Storm slept through it. I was still shaking when I was watching Trisha this morning."

 

Apparently though, looting did carry on as normal.

 

The British Red Cross have so far managed to ship 4000 crates of Sunny Delight to the area to help the stricken masses. Rescue workers are still searching through the rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings including benefit books and jewellery from Elizabeth Duke at Argos.

 

* HOW YOU CAN HELP

 

This appeal is to raise clothing and food parcels for those unfortunate enough to be caught up in it.

 

Clothing is most sought after.

 

Items required include: -

* Baseball caps

* Fila Jackets

* Heavy Twill Trousers (Male)

* Shell Suits (Female)

* Boots.

 

Food parcels may be harder to put together but necessary all the same.

 

Required foodstuffs include: -

* Hollands Pies

* Black Peas

* Tripe and Onions

* "Pigs Blood Pud"

* Boddys Bitter

 

£2 buys chips, scraps and blue pop for a family of four

 

£10 can take a family to Salford for the day, where children can play on an unspoiled canal bank among the national collection of stinging nettles

 

22p buys a biro for filling in a spurious compensation claim

 

Please do not send tents for shelter, as the sight of "posh" housing is unfair on the population of neighbouring areas of Newton Heath and Moss side.

 

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

uhhhh

 

there's a lot of earthquakes in southern california--we sit right on top of the san andreas fault...

 

when i was a baby there was a 6.sum'n earthquake here, and i was sleeping through a 5.sum'n one when i was 11...

 

When was that really big one? like 8.something, where you in that? coz we were learning about that in school. It was in the 90's some time.

I've been in about 20million floods, some quite major as well, it floods quite a lot here. A girl in my class had her brother killed in the last one. :cry:

The part of Scotland I am in get's very high winds. Last year the ferry was blown onto the roadside from out of the Loch.

bump

 

 

today there was an earthquake at the north of the country...

 

I'm really afraid of earthquakes.. even if it's not weird to hear about things like that here...

 

and people there was really scared because the chances of a tsunami in that place are really high

 

 

 

 

are earthquakes and that kind of stuff common there where you live?

No earthquakes here, but I have been through many hurricanes. When I was a kid, no one ever evacuated like they do now. If it was going to be a big one, you might go to a local school for shelter when the wind was the worst, but people didn't leave town like they do now. When I was about 5 I can remember seeing the trees in my front yard bending almost completely over with the top almost touching the ground during the high winds. When Hurricane Rita hit, the oak tree in my yard was relocated to my roof. Thankfully I wasn't there, I was at the Coldplay show in Dallas.

 

There are lots or tornadoes here. Closest I have come to one of those, it hit the house 4 houses down from mine, bounced over me and hit the school at the end of my street. Sounded like a freight train.

uhhh... when I watch news about hurricanes and tornados I feel very glad for not living in a place with those things but then I realised that we have earthquakes so I guess there's no a place free of natural disasters

True. Hurricanes are easy as they are detected when they are far away and you have plenty of time to leave town. Tornadoes are scary because they can happen at any time, any where, but they are pretty isolated and don't last long. Earthquakes must be way freaky, no place to hide from that shit.

Earthquakes are totally scary, some wall in my room cracked,l it was awful :bigcry:

Earthquakes are totally scary, some wall in my room cracked,l it was awful :bigcry:

 

*hugs renato*

 

ohhh today in tv some journalist were comparing this earthquake to the Peru one.. but in Peru there was more people in the place where the earthquake happened so it was worst :(

*hugs Lore back*

 

Yeah here was worse cos it happend where lot of people lived, more than 600+ casualties, it was so sad :(

 

I saw in the news that there were 2 casualties today in chile :bigcry:

*hugs Lore back*

 

Yeah here was worse cos it happend where lot of people lived, more than 600+ casualties, it was so sad :(

 

I saw in the news that there were 2 casualties today in chile :bigcry:

 

yeah :(

 

and people is scared of tsunamis... tsunamis are the worst thing ever

yeah, here was a huge red alarm cos of that if we'd had a tsunami then it would've been chaos and that would've covered a whole town, scaaaary for sure.

Have you ever experienced an earthquake?A tornado?A flood?a volcanic eruption?

 

 

Well...I can remember that we once had a weak earthquake.....it was not that bad...I live in an area where things like that are rare....so I can't imagine experiencing something like a real tornado or something like thta....I'm glad about that...

 

earthquake: at least 3.

tornado: i think that never... :thinking:

flood: one... but i was lucky.

volcanic eruption: there are not volcans in my area.

i've experienced a weak earthquake --- well actually i didn't even feel it, but okay. there were terrible earthquakes 50 km away from here. and things were dreadful so no thanks, i don't wanna experience that.

 

flood? not here, but northern-west parts of our country have been flooded BIG TIME. again, awful.

 

We do have strong winds, but no tornados ... and we don't have volcanos either. :)

I use to live in Papua New Guinea. The island sits along a plate boundary so is very prone to volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis. Totally a case of taking the good with the bad as I absolutely love the place. Miss it so much actually.

 

Okay, so anyway a tsunami resulted from an earthquake of around 7.0 and killed thousands of villagers there in 1998 in Aitape, north of PNG. It was horrific. Luckily I was in the captial, Port Moresby so wasn't directly affected, didn't matter though, the whole country felt the tragedy.

 

In 1994 2 volcanoes erupted in Rabaul. Something I remember even though I was really young at the time :/

 

Also, while I was living there, would often experience earthquakes but very subtle to the point you knew something happened but maybe wasn't that sure lol. Anyway, now I'm in Australia and nothing really happens here except drought. Something totally foreign to me now that I've moved out of the tropics lol.

No earthquakes or tornadoes around this area :(

 

And they say per square kilometre, the UK has the most tornadoes

No earthquakes or tornadoes around this area :(

 

And they say per square kilometre, the UK has the most tornadoes

 

hm? :stunned: really? isn't that a bit ... strange?

Have you ever experienced an earthquake?A tornado?A flood?a volcanic eruption?

 

No, no, no.

 

Thanks to this lovely place i have never experienced any of those.

No, no, no.

 

Thanks to this lovely place i have never experienced any of those.

 

I'm moving to there then :P

Not too many earthquakes in the American Midwest :)

...or northeast. :nice:

But you have to deal with Canadians :D just kidding!

hm? :stunned: really? isn't that a bit ... strange?

 

Not really, as most of the tornadoes they class are nothing more than a strong wind.

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ah, i know how that is. we have a strong wind and each time a wind blows from NE, they say that it's the strong wind. but it isn't.