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I am new to the Grasshopper canon, but I had to e-mail my delighted thanks for your Dreamchasers adjective "Eeyorian". Thanks.
ciao, Bill
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Here's my favorite Eeyore quote:
"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily, "And freezing. However," he said brightening up a little, "We haven't had an earthquake yet."
And, if that's not bad enough, his tail is always falling off.
 GH
"You have your way. I have my way. As far as the right way, the correct way, and the only way - it doesn't exist."
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>"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily, "And freezing. However," he said brightening up a little, "We haven't had an earthquake yet."
We haven't had an earthquake lately!
It's funnier like that, because in fact we practically never get earthquakes in the UK. But from what Eeyore says, you'd think we had them every week.
--Board pedant extraordinaire 
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I beg to disagree. We get loads of earthquakes in the UK. Little ones. Tiny ones. Mere junior tremors. So small you have to be positively waiting for them 24/7. But get them we do. And it's because we get all those little ones, we don't get the really quite annoying earth-shattering major ones. 
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Mike.g:
>And it's because we get all those little [earthquakes], we don't get the really quite annoying earth-shattering major ones.
I'm not convinced that just because we have small ones, it's the reason we don't get big ones. I was always under the impression that we don't get many, small or large, because we're not near the edge of a tectonic plate; nor is the one we are closest to (the border between the North American and the Eurasion plates) in any way scraping or colliding -- the plates are moving apart. It's when plates scrape or collide that pressures build up, then release in earthquakes.
David
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Ah, seems I'm not entirely right. Most earthquakes (especially major ones) are at the edge of plates (interplate earthquakes), but there are other, less frequent and violent ones, inside plates (intraplate earthquakes).
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraplate_earthquake:
>Nobody is exactly sure what causes these earthquakes. In many cases, the causative fault is deeply buried, and sometimes cannot even be found. Under these circumstances it is difficult to calculate the exact seismic hazard for a given city, especially if there was only one earthquake in historical times. An especially dangerous form of earthquake, which has been involved in many deaths is the blind thrust earthquake, although this is more associated with interplate earthquakes. Some progress is being made in understanding the fault mechanics driving these earthquakes.
I guess all we can conclude is that there aren't a lot of intraplate faults around the UK. And if anything, by being far from the edge of an interplate fault, we should still have fewer earthquakes overall, not just smaller ones.
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So now I gotta worry about an earth quake? Ill be an emotional wreck when your thru with me.
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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... is because they are associated with geological faults - and as everyone posting here should know by now, we Brits are absolutely free from faults of any description whatsoever! So there!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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