Another one. Countryside of Hualien. Alert.
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marasan considering his life choices in the last 48 hours right now 
Take care!
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Ha! It’s tombsweeping. Duties finished and bored to death. Well, maybe not to death! Not drinking. And there is a huge 1.75 liter bottle of decent 12 year Kirkland whisky close by. Lots going on in my mind right now. I wish I had a fat joint.
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Does anyone know how they sense it? Dogs and birds too…
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Do they do this before normal sized earthquake? I felt like I could feel the earthquake about 4 seconds before it started because there was an up down movement.
Yeah nah, you just felt the actual earthquake, it started with a bit of up and down then switched to some swirly swirly action.
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was that another one?
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Yeh? If the expert didn’t specify the yield of the atomic bomb he was using as a reference, then he’s an expert in the art of the meaningless statement.
Hiroshima might be the default reference standard, I suppose.
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I reckon some of them might sense disturbances in the magnetosphere.
I noticed “the dog that didn’t bark” here in Tainan, because a neighbour has a (neglected I suppose) dog thats shut up in the house a lot and barks all the bloody time, but was silent while the houses were shimmying, which they did for what seemed a longer time than previous quakes. (I wasn’t here for “The Big One”).
I guess it was scared into silence.
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An M7 eq translates to about 2.1 x 10^15 joules, which is ~500 kilotons of tnt.
You’re looking at 32 15 Kt warheads, at the very least.
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As I said, the yield wasn’t specified, though I suppose this might have been in the original Chinese, and thus just a lost in translation thing rather than a totally meaningless thing.
Hiroshima is said to have been between 12 and 18 Kt, so taking it as 15Kt, that would be about about right as the unstated reference standard.
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Do you remember this, from 2021?
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That was brutal. 
Guy
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I sure remember. We discussed this several times the last few days.
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2 more found dead.
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We would be talking about hundreds, if not more, of deaths if the earthquake happened during the long weekend.
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