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Sixty whole seconds, huh? Maybe that’s time enough to run to the bathroom so you don’t pee yourself when things get started?
Ha! Anyhow, last earthquake I went through was at the buttcrack of dawn, and I can’t see myself being coherent enough after 60 seconds that early in the morning, to be able to do more that pull the blankets over my head.
(and how much would it suck if you were in an elevator and heard that alarm??)
Mike, I thought so!
Joe, yes I can totally see how that would be useful. I just don’t want to be caught on the toilet during one, ack!
Adena, them quakes seem to favor times when people are asleep, don’t they? As for the elevator, I would hope that it was tied to the alarm and automatically dump you in the lobby.
Wow what good would 60 seconds do? I can’t believe it cant be more warning than that, why even bother?
Ha. That’s how it would work too. Except it would be more like
“OK four.” “beep”
“All operators are currently on the line. Please hold for the next available operator. Your call is very important to us....”
Diane, apparently people in Japan thought it was useful enough to implement on a national level.
Heather, you’re probably right! “All circuits are busy...”
60 seconds is all the warning they have? Well, I suppose any warning is better than none. I’d crap myself if I ever had to experience an earthquake.
Honestly, I thought all of you California folks would have fallen into the ocean a long time ago. I mean, that’s what the kids always said in school.
Heh. Love the scenario. 
I think 60 seconds could be a pretty long time in terms of waiting for an earthquake, or preparing for one. And I suppose in some situations it could be the difference between life and death. Having never been in an earthquake situation I wouldn’t know, and I guess the question here is, would this have prevented such horrific death toll in Thailand on Boxing Day 04? Or in Pakistan at the moment? And as you say, it must be of some help if implemented on a national level in Japan. BTW, in such a situation, I would hope that this Cal Tech Dude didn’t have the earthquake detection system. I trust it more in the hands of the Buerocracy of Meteorology (or whatever it’s called).
PS My word verification is halfwit. Geeky Dragon Girl, are you SURE this isn’t personal??
Well I know what I’d do with those 60 seconds.
Bwaahahaha...sixty whole seconds? Well, that’s just enough time for.............well, nothing! Besides, earthquakes are over in 30 seconds or so what’s the big deal? Last one that we had was barely a rumbler. LAAAAAAME. Gimme a good, hard shaker!
Donna, perhaps you could do as Joefish suggested and use the 60 seconds to relieve yourself first in the restroom?
T, oh Cali is slipping away from the continent, but it’ll be another several million years. I might not be around when that happens.
Miss Optimistic, perhaps I should consider removing the insults from my work verification, hehe.
Zoe, does it involve BP? Rowr!
KG, I haven’t been in a really bad rumbler myself. I seem to leave the area just before it happens. I wonder if I cause them? Hmm…
"Suicide Prevention Hotline, please hold.”
Heh. Funny stuff GDG!
CP
you can’t even masturbate in 60 seconds...you know...just in case it might be your last 60 seconds, you might as well enjoy it
I’ll take earthquakes over tornados or hurricanes ANY day.
Thanks CP!
Stoopidgirl, I might be able to scarf a bowl of ice cream in that time.
Tabz, I’m with you on that one!
Hmm masturbation and ice cream...ohh who would be able to choose between the two? You can be damned sure I’d end up wasting my 60 seconds trying to decide..haha!
I think it’s hilarious how a lot of us are thinking we’re gonna die in 60 seconds if an earthquake were to strike. The vasty majority of them are minor and barely even cause structural damage.
Lmao about the phone operator thing!
We have minor earthquakes but the biggest risk from a quake here seems to be being in the tinned food isle of the supermarket! (Or so I’ve heard!).
Ha ha, my word verification is ice cream-must have read my mind!
Heh, if you were to read my mind, half the time it would be “ice cream” too!
I’m pretty sure that’s exactly how that would play out.
mike | 05.31.2006 | 9:28 AM