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Default Can some building guru explain how the earth can move but causeno structural damage?

The Medway Handyman wrote:
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Yes, I can believe that. But having experienced that tremor as the
first in my life,


SNIP

Totally mind-boggling to me, that tremor last night.

Sorry to highjack your post, but am I alone in 'Tremors' being my favourite
all time film?


First earthquake I noticed was the Lleyn Peninsula one back in 1984. The
building I was in (had got in to work very early) was a concrete 1950s
thing in Fleetwood. When trolleys were pushed up and down the corridors
the whole building sounded (and to a very minor extent, felt) like an
earthquake. Funnily enough, the earthquake sounded and felt like a
trolley... but a very big one. :-)

I saw it many years ago knowing absolutely nothing of it beforehand.
Brilliant. (Not so sure I would wish to view it again - case of right
film, right time.)

Damn sight better than Dune. Which should have been sunk in Waterworld.

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Rod