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Morning Somewhere

2025.07.30: Scale Problems

Morning Somewhere

Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns

Society & Culture

4.9614 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Burnie and Ashley discuss the Russian earthquake, the Richter scale, magnitudes, the danger of alert fatigue, erroneous nuclear warnings, Reagan's open mic gaffe, Alien:Earth, and zombie vampires from space.


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0:00.0

You do the math, you solve one problem, and you solve the next one.

0:05.6

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

0:08.6

Shut up.

0:09.8

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning, September.

0:17.5

For July 30th, 2020, 5.

0:20.6

My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there.

0:24.9

She's doing the math.

0:26.0

It's actually burr-da-d-d-r-br-b-b-b-b-b-b-h.

0:27.8

Look, a lot of math to do today.

0:29.6

A lot of math to do.

0:30.4

We woke up to the news that there had been an earthquake off the coast of Russia.

0:36.3

And as a result, everyone anywhere near the Pacific needs to move to higher grass.

0:41.6

That is an insane warning radius of if you live near the Pacific Ocean, start paying attention.

0:49.7

Go up.

0:50.4

Yeah, it was, you know, and it's interesting when you get an earthquake and the majority of the damage or the major concern for, I guess, most people, the earthquake is always of concern to some people, but for like the majority of people, the concern isn't the earthquake, it's the water that the earthquake just pushed.

1:10.5

What's the furthest south that you heard of a warning for that?

1:15.3

Because the furthest south I heard was Santa Barbara, California.

1:18.4

Ecuador.

1:19.3

Ecuador. Wow, really. Okay. But not like Australia. That would be insane.

1:22.6

No, no. And in fact, Malaysia, which has very famously suffered from major tsunami in the past,

1:30.0

was talking about how they're okay.

1:32.0

Oh, really? Yeah, they would have to tell people, sure.

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