Earthquake north of cali

la campiña says on Sep 9, 2007, 18:59:

yea got it very small but wobbled hope my pool doesn't loose to much water has done in the past

arthur brode says on Sep 9, 2007, 19:09:

so that was the wave that rolled my computer chair.i thought it was my neighbor upstairs moving furniture again:)

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fugdis says on Sep 9, 2007, 20:08:

Yeah,that was a good one,seemed to go on for a long time. I was ok until all the colombians in the room started holding hands and praying out loud.
Perhaps living in a 6th floor apartment in an earthquake zone is not such a good idea.

arthur brode says on Sep 10, 2007, 00:26:

crazy world

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Buongone says on Sep 10, 2007, 01:34:

What would you say on the Richter scale? How big. My Novia was telling me about it. Did not know how big it was.

scotty says on Sep 10, 2007, 02:18:

anymore news? anyone hurt? any deaths? any structure damage?

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Michael_B says on Sep 10, 2007, 03:44:

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific Coast of Colombia on Sunday night, collapsing homes and injuring at least four people in the country's rural southwest, but causing no reported deaths, officials said.

The quake hit at 8:49 p.m. local time and was centered about six miles beneath the ocean floor just off the coast, some 295 miles southwest of Bogota, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. No tsunami warning was issued.

It was felt across several states in western Colombia, including the cities of Cali and Popayan.

In the town of El Charco, near the epicenter, Caracol Radio reported there were four people injured after some 20 homes near the coast collapsed or were damaged by flooding.

"We'll know more when the sun rises and can do a full survey of the hardest hit area, but it doesn't appear to have caused any deaths or major damage," said Carlos Sanchez, a seismologist for Ingeominas, Colombia's geological institute.

Earthquakes are frequent occurrence across the Andean nation, though they are rarely deadly.

podborski says on Sep 10, 2007, 05:28:

wow 6.8 is big, but it depends how close you are to it.

I was close to a 5.6 in Tokyo, it was scary, thought my building was going to come down (but nothing happened at all).

6.8 is much bigger (a few times stronger than a 5 something), if I recall, they use a logarithmic scale.

arthur brode says on Sep 10, 2007, 06:53:

Frank,that slide you were talking about connecting the Penthouse with the Pool doesnt sound like a bad idea after all:)

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kalder says on Sep 10, 2007, 09:13:

Good show fugdis. Stiff upper lip!

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Frank Rizzo says on Sep 10, 2007, 09:25:

jajajaja Art...we're checking the jacuzzi and waterfall for leaks now...it was full so we'll see....gotta get more insurance..jajajajja