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7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by Jcowell »

mlindner wrote: post #148
joshuahaglund wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US State Department has already adopted the new spelling, so you're wrong. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/08/1147704945/the-state-departme... It's silly to think things don't change and rude to call people names they don't want to be called

Wikipedia is a better source for common usage than the US state department, and they've explicitly resisted changing the spelling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey And even then all major US publications use Turkey: https://www.wsj.com/articles/powerful-earthquake-strikes-tur... https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/05/world/turkey-earthqu... https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/turkey-earthquake-l... https://…

> Wikipedia is a better source for common usage than the US state department, and they've explicitly resisted changing the spelling.

Why would common usage matter for something that recently changed? Of course the former name is more commonly used. The State Department is the better source since they’re the ones dictating how the US government as a whole interacts with Türkiye.

It doesn’t matter what the people in the US call countries if we’re not the ones making deals and talking to their leaders. I can convince everyone that Russia would be call Assuria but that doesn’t make it’s name. The only ones that have authority of the name of a country is the country itself.

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by heavenlyblue »

jamiek88 wrote: post #100
csomar wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two ways to verify this: - Enough data that the correlation becomes strong enough. - The physics community chimes in? I mean the effect could only be due to gravity unless there is another mechanism we don't understand. But given how small the earth is, and how big other planets are, I'd suspect the physics people to see this effect somewhere else?

No, absolutely not - gravity is an inverse distance squared force. The sun dominates our gravity environment and planets at those distances have negligible effects (really effectively zero) certainly not seismic size perturbations! The gravitational force from the other planets does slightly affect the Earth's orbit , but the gravitational pull from the other planets and the Moon is still very small. The gravitationa…

> The gravitational pull of the Moon on the Earth is only 0.55% of the gravitational force between the Sun and the Earth, other planets even less than that. Unlikely, very unlikely to trigger earthquakes!

Playing the devil's advocate, but doesn't Moon affect the movement of water on Earth (i.e. low-high tide) and these are massive movements of mass which could potentially trigger an earthquake?

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by earthling8118 »

Gibbon1 wrote: post #157
arp242 wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not uncommon to have various diacritics in loanwords; e.g. über, führer, señor, façade, crème brûlée, or proper names such as Schrödinger, Gödel. All of these can be spelled without the diacritic too, but also with it.

Native English speaker have literally no idea what umlauts means. And the connection between how a word is spoken vs how it's spelled is tenuous indeed. So really there isn't any point.

This is the important part. Sure, go ahead and add whatever decorations to the characters you want. 99%+ of us will have no idea what they mean and treat them like they don't exist. Pronouncing those isn't taught to the vast majority because they are not even remotely commonly used. What use is any extra indication when nobody knows what it means?

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by bamboozled »

mikrotikker wrote: post #165
bamboozled wrote: post #164

Meanwhile Russia continues it stupid war Ukraine…when something this shit happens. It’s a shame we can’t let out differences go.

You think its about differences? It's about oil and gas. Nothing gets in that way of that.

This is an unnecessarily vague comment. Either way, if it wasn't about differences then we'd either just share access to the resources we need, and if it wasn't for differences, there would be no way to justify the war?

Why would Russian invade Ukraine for gas and oil, when all the gas and oil is already in Ukraine.

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by bamboozled »

cjensen wrote: post #45
anonu wrote: post #33

This guy somehow predicted it? https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuu... Lucky or good?

That's not a prediction that can be evaluated. For example, I could say "there will be a 7+ magnitude quake somewhere in the Pacific Rim tomorrow" and if I publish the same prediction every day it won't be long until my prediction is true. I might even be right the very first time. A real prediction should include exact time period, magnitude, and geographic area. And every prediction made must be documented. This le…

Look at his youtube and Twitter for 5 minutes, he draws "bands" all over the world predicting nonsense everyday, and probably has a positive prediction rate of 0.5% and he bases everything on some nonsense call "Atmospheric Fluctuations"?

Quacks like a duck.

Re: 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

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Post by mrtksn »

dylan604 wrote: post #26
gorkemcetin wrote: post #15

I have never seen an earthquake covering such a wide area. I confirm collapsing buildings in at least 5 cities. There is a big chaos on social media as well - many people asking for help since they are stuck under debris. What a disaster!

Are you saying that people are asking for help in general or that the actual people stuck inside collapse buildings are using their socials in search of help? What kind of infrastructure is in place that would survive to allow network connectivity for people to access socials to ask for help?

> actual people stuck inside collapse buildings are using their socials in search of help?

This one. On the previous large quake in the country, the networks collapsed and there was a huge public uproar because the network operators were claiming disaster readiness in their ads, even showing drone swarms flying to the disaster area to provide network services.

Maybe they actually hardened their networks but in general, the internet connectivity seems more resilient as the regular phone calling was restored much later than the internet connectivity last time.

This time there are many tweets and instagram stories of people posting text, selfies and videos from under the rubble, together with their address, their condition and the number of people in the house.

Here are a few examples:

https://twitter.com/lilalayd/status/1622604576019849216

https://twitter.com/Erhan_Dogan23/status/1622477226754064389

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