I felt prettty sick all day, so I was unable to attend our local boobquake dinner. But I have been monitoring the seismographs. It is in fact somewhat rare to have an earthquake of 6.0 or greater on a given day. There are about 200 a year at that level, and they are random, and thus cluster somewhat as random things do. So the daily expectation of one or more earthquakes is less than 4/7. Nonetheless, the single 6 magnitude earthquake that happened on Boob Day (using the international time coordinates) was not impressive. We can conclude:
Intense praying by Islamic clerics reversed the effects of several hours of boob quaking!
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I think the fact that you were not at La Casita (pictures to follow) accounts for the fact that the world didn't move.
We missed you at Boobquake dinner. I socialized and did all kind of potentially offensive shit (okay, nothing actually offensive).
Jaf: Well, Mike's sending pictures, and I can check the morning newspapers, so we'll see....
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/1045063/bookquake-off-to-shaky-start
Actually, Ben will be the one to send the pictures.
You guys got pwned. Not that I completely agree with the scholar, but running to the "statistics" hill is so pathetic. I nearly ROTFLMAO'd on the train today.
Running to the statistics hill? Jen's intent, from the moment she discovered there would be more than a few women taking part in Boobquake, was to run the statistics. Which she did.
http://www.blaghag.com/2010/04/and-boobquake-results-are-in.html
Or were you silly enough, Shadow Caster, to think that anyone expected a day without earthquakes? Those don't actually happen.