Why is this still all-caps - in 2013? It's not like there are any teletype lines left that cannot process lower case.
Is this some kind of tradition or does NOAA still use EBCDIC mainframes?
8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami
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Re: 8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami
#22Is it crazy to think that there may be a pattern for all these strong earthquakes in the past few years since the Haiti one, and that they may be linked?
Could it be that the Haiti one was the first earthquake you started paying attention to?
Re: 8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami
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#25Is it crazy to think that there may be a pattern for all these strong earthquakes in the past few years since the Haiti one, and that they may be linked?
It's the Pacific Ring of Fire, which includes Haiti, Japan, Chile, New Zealand, Solomon Islands and Indonesia (list goes on) which have had deadly quakes in the last few years - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire
*edit, not Haiti which has its own crazy deep-earth stuff going on in the area
Re: 8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami
#26Updated with more information, there won't be a tsunami (probably) http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/PAAQ/2013/05/24/mnafyn/2/W...
Supplementary data to your link in case of a change: historical tsunami travel times in hours: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsu_travel_time_events.shtml...
Most relevant: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/icons/1923_0203.jpg
Re: 8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami
#27Why is this still all-caps - in 2013? It's not like there are any teletype lines left that cannot process lower case. Is this some kind of tradition or does NOAA still use EBCDIC mainframes?
These messages are always in caps to send faster over slower systems.
http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/Computing/Capital_Letters....
I spent a decade as a communicator in the navy and radio teletype is still the primary method of communication at sea.
Re: 8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami
#28Is it crazy to think that there may be a pattern for all these strong earthquakes in the past few years since the Haiti one, and that they may be linked?
It's incorrect but not crazy: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=patternicit...
Re: 8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami
#29Is it crazy to think that there may be a pattern for all these strong earthquakes in the past few years since the Haiti one, and that they may be linked?
I have read speculation about that too. I don't think it's crazy, but I don't think it's widely accepted as a significant correlation by seismologists either.
Re: 8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami
#30Why is this still all-caps - in 2013? It's not like there are any teletype lines left that cannot process lower case. Is this some kind of tradition or does NOAA still use EBCDIC mainframes?
These messages are always in caps to send faster over slower systems. http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/Computing/Capital_Letters.... I spent a decade as a communicator in the navy and radio teletype is still the primary method of communication at sea.
That makes sense.
However, I argue that the NOAA could serve their warnings on the web in all lowercase for the sake of readability. Then again, that could be a quick hack for someone.