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I am very confused with you classifying earthquakes under "weather thingies"

• aaronharnly 3y ago
  Natural disaster thingies
  • bee_rider 3y ago
    We can have natural disasters they just have to schedule beforehand.
• bee_rider 3y ago
  The thought process was: I know earthquakes aren’t really weather, so I’ll tack on “thingies” to make it clear that I’m making up some new more generalized term. The point was to group all the… I dunno, whatever, surprising attacks by the planet into one thing. I can’t think of a real term for this, I think there might not be one, I guess I could call it something like “weather or geological surprises” but that’s just dull.
  • deleted 3y ago
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  • mikeocool 3y ago
    Sim City "Disaster" menu items
    • graypegg 3y ago
      A taxonomy my monkey brain can actually understand.
    • tomxor 3y ago
      The SC2K siren sfx file just played itself in my head.
  • triceratops 3y ago
    Natural disasters
  • atonse 3y ago
    Acts of God as the insurance industry calls them!
• lucky_cloud 3y ago
  It just illustrates how people in the NE think about natural disasters. Basically any big natural event is weather-related. When the 2011 Virginia quake happened, I was somewhere in the Boston area sitting in my parked car, and at first I thought it was a strong wind rocking my car side-to-side. It took a few seconds for me to realize the shaking wasn't a "weather thing"
• dredmorbius 3y ago
  Natural phenomena, extending beyond what's strictly weather, often get lumped into "meteorology", including earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. One fairly well-known case is the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), whose remit includes not just weather by hydrology, seismology, and volcanology. Generally: concerns of an extra-human, non-biological origin. E.g., JMA doesn't address pandemics. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency>