Well, yeah. Haven't we known for a while now that Reno was going to end life as we know it?

Fun Fact: Lake Tahoe contains an estimated 39.75 trillion gallons or 122 million acre feet of water. That's enough water to cover the entire state of California to a depth of 14.5 inches. The water that evaporates daily is 1.4 million tons, enough to supply the needs of 3.5 million people on a daily basis.

http://www.bluelaketahoe.com/page.php?p=pkf&l=1

:eek:

Surface evaporation is amazing. We need a really big "pool" cover and all our water problems are solved. :)

I was stunned when I put one of those blue bubble wrap ones on my hot tub and it stayed full more than a week. I thought I had a leak before that.

Quit making me feel old. I was just turning off my PC (after playing Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer 2.0, awesome!) to go downstairs and turn in the World Series game when the Loma Prieta quake hit.

I remember there being a quick jolt, then a hard rolling that just kept getting stronger and stronger. I had felt earthquakes before, but this one was so much longer than the rest, it was scary. Usually, the quake is over before you even notice it... but the '89 one was long enough to take action while it was happening. I went to a door jam for cover (climbing under a card table with a 200 lb computer on it seemed like a bad idea). My sister and her friend came running up the stairs (why, I have no idea), and the bookshelf at the top of the stairs was throwing paperbacks down on them.

After the quake we went over to the neighbors house and watched the news... every time there was an aftershock, the news reporters would get all wide-eyed and say "we're having an aftershock!" then like 2 seconds later we'd feel it. Then watch the water in their pool slosh all over the backyard. :lol:

Well now this is interesting...

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...IAL01/80425027

I think God is unhappy with the new Somersett developments.

I feel like some maniac Christopher Walken character and Grace Jones as a crazy amazon woman named MayDay should fly over any moment in the Zorin blimp to the strains of Duran Duran...

Thanks for clarifying that reference Dean :p

I had to go look up "Zorin" on Wiki, and had forgotten it was Walken and just went crazy with Bond mania!!! I can't wait until November for "Quantum of Solace"! Casino Royale and Daniel Craig rocked! (Which is appropriate for this thread!)

Since my lab is in the building next to the Geology folks, after the first one we went next door where the drums recording various western Nevada seismometers are located and watched the second one and aftershocks roll in.....

Does nobody care that James Bond isn't BLOND HAIRED? WTF?! Hair dye can't be that expensive.

Woah, just felt one down south just now.

HOLY CRAP ME TOO!

That was awesome!

Holy Shit

That was a big-ish one.

And I thought for a second "Damn, the force feedback on this wheel is stronger than I remember" until I realized that the whole house was shaking.

If that was centered up north again, and but was that strong down here... damn...

So that's what an earthquake feels like.

At first I thought damn those mushrooms are kicking in, but then I realized that the best is still to come.

Oh and that's what she said!

Lucky! Hahah, shroomin during a quake can't be too fun. I felt it big time here in sparks so I have a feeling that was stronger than others. There was one around 11:15 too.

It looks like that one was 4.9: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/120-39.htm

Well, now I'm up. :mad:

This seems pretty strange. There have been so many concentrated earthquakes in that area - I'm callin' volcano!

I'm waiting in anticipation for the aftershock.....grabbing cold sierra nevada

Now that I see what a 4.9 is like; it would have sucked to have been in Wells NV when that 6.0 hit in Feb.

IIRC, for every 1 point up in magnitude, the quake is 10 time stronger. So, imagine a quake a little more than 10 times tonight's.