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Earthquake strikes near Bali climate conference
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Bali on Friday, where it rocked a conference centre hosting more than 10,000 delegates for a key UN climate change summit. Gee, I sure hope none of those private jets were damaged. I want to save those for the reverse engineered gamma-ray laser tests. The earthquake struck southwest of the Bali resort of Nusa Dua, where nations are meeting to craft a strategy to combat climate change, Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said. Whole nations packed into such a small area? I forgot, only elites count. The quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres and there was no threat of a tsunami, the agency said. We wouldn't want to infringe on Halliburton's patents. "This is too small to trigger a tsunami," geophysics agency head Suharjono told AFP, adding that the agency had received no reports of damage. The quake did not cause any panic at the conference centre. Many delegates had already left for the day, while those who remained said they either did not feel anything or just a slight rumbling. Deep into the Napoleon brandy, were they? "It just felt like the floor was shaking, but I thought it was something that was going on next door. It felt like the feeling of a truck passing by," said Yamil Bonduki, a delegate from the United Nations. "Just some serfs acting up, I thought, so I ignored it." "I looked around and nobody said anything," he said. Maybe it was Chivas Regal. The Indonesian archipelago sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, where continental plates meet and cause frequent seismic and volcanic activity. Well, duh! It would have looked a little suspicious to conduct this test near, say, Ottawa. Indonesia was the nation worst hit by the earthquake-triggered Asian tsunami in December 2004, which killed some 168,000 people in the country's Aceh province. That was close. Good thing they were so eager to blame Bush, who wouldn't know a space modulator from an interdimensional quantum cloak. Posted by: Angique Gonque2974 2007-12-08 |
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