Where's the new beach front gonna be again?

[Locutus]

via Fark:

The same predictive signs that were observed in Japan before the big tsunami and earthquake are now being observed in California

Finding a giant oarfish washed up on the beach is a rare occurrence, since the fish is a deepwater species that's rarely seen at all. So when a second oarfish was found just five days later, the rumor mill kicked into high gear.

An 18-foot-long (5.5-meter) oarfish carcass discovered on Oct. 13 was considered a once-in-a-lifetime event for beachgoers on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California. But that event was followed five days later by a second oarfish, measuring 14 feet (4.3 meters), found on a beach in San Diego County.

Now, some are claiming that oarfish washing ashore is a sign that an earthquake will soon follow. Shortly before the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, about 20 oarfish stranded themselves on beaches in the area, Mark Benfield, a researcher at Louisiana State University, told LiveScience in an earlier interview.

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[skookumchuck]

So, the Oarfish say, there is gonna be a bad earthquake, we best kill ourselves......um ya:roll:

 

[taxslave]

It is about 100m verticle from my house to the beach. Little better than 500m as the crow flies. Should I leave the boat on its mooring bouy or bring it home and tie it to a fencepost?

 

[Cliffy]

It is about 100m verticle from my house to the beach. Little better than 500m as the crow flies. Should I leave the boat on its mooring bouy or bring it home and tie it to a fencepost?

Tie it outside your bedroom window. My cousin used to hang his canoe outside his second story bedroom window when he lived in Ditchmund in case of earthquake.

 

[BaalsTears]

I live on the coast of California. I'll be swept out to sea if this happens. Well, I guess we all get what we deserve.

 

[Cliffy]

I live on the coast of California. I'll be swept out to sea if this happens. Well, I guess we all get what we deserve.

Take up surfing and ride the wave, Dood!

 

[petros]

It's from frakking San Andrea's fault but in reality all the windmills are lifting the North American plate to the NW.

The new beach will be exactly like where you are right now only much much nicer.

 

[Blackleaf]

I don't really have to worry about earthquakes here. The deadliest earthquakes ever to strike Britain caused the deaths of....... two people. They occurred in 1580 and 1940.

On 6th April 1580 people in Kent, in the far south eastern corner of Britain, said they heard a ‘marvellous great noise’ coming from the English Channel, followed by a ‘fierce and terrible’ shaking. A passenger on a boat reported seeing a wave 50 feet high, and up to 30 vessels were sunk.

Parts of the White Cliffs of Dover collapsed, as did sections of the wall at Dover Castle, while there was damage to churches at Broadstairs and Sandwich. A few miles across the Channel, Calais, Boulogne and Lille also suffered structural damage, while at Oudenaarde in Belgium, people were killed and injured by falling chimneys and tiles.

There was also flooding at Boulogne and Calais, where a number of people drowned. The total death toll was said to have run into hundreds, although only two of those deaths occurred in England - two people were killed in London when masonry fell on them from Christ's Church. The fun-hating Puritans blamed the quake on the growing popularity of the capital's theatres.

Just over a decade later, it, was still significant enough to get a mention in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with the Bard noting it was 11 years ‘since the earthquake’.

Two people were killed during Britain's other deadliest quake in 1940. One had a heart attack and the other fell down some stairs.