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Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by tundewoods(m): 4:36pm On Jan 24, 2010

Rumour of an impending earthquake that reverberated across the country woke the whole of Ghana up at dawn Monday January 18, 2010.

While no one seems to know the source of the rumour, friends, families and neighbours made phone calls, sent text messages and knocked on doors to send warnings for people to wake up and leave their rooms.

One of my neghbours called and simply said, “they say there will be an earthquake and everyone should get out of their rooms and sit outside,” without giving further details and there was no time to ask questions as he moved to alert other neighbours who were fast asleep.

But Geologist and earthquake expert Prof. E. Otchere-Amamoo formerly of the University of Ghana Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services told ghanabusinessnews.com on the phone that “the information could not be true.”

He said “it is difficult to predict the precise occurrence of an earthquake,” adding, “unlike an eclipse which is easier to predict because it is the movement of the earth in relation to other planets, earthquakes are movements of the earth happening 500km or 700km deep down the belly of the earth.”
He also said if indeed there was going to be an earthquake, it would have happened within the period that people were rudely woken from their sleep.

While most Ghanaians are still wondering where the rumour started from, most citizens would have to catch on some sleep on a Monday morning.

http://ghanabusinessnews.com/2010/01/18/earthquake-scare-wakes-ghana-up/

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by strangleyo: 4:42pm On Jan 24, 2010

You can't predict an earthquake.

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by bkbaybe99: 4:51pm On Jan 24, 2010

But u can always predict the stu.pidity of Ghanians!lol

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by tundewoods(m): 4:58pm On Jan 24, 2010

bk_baybe99:

But u can always predict the stu.pidity of Ghanians!lol

I don't think that its fair to blame the actions of the ghanians as stupidity.If only you know the impact of earthquakes,
I bet only Haitians are in the best position to explain what it feels like.

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by strangleyo: 5:27pm On Jan 24, 2010

You can't predict earthquakes.

Sleeping outside because someone said there might be an earthquake is silly.

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by tundewoods(m): 5:43pm On Jan 24, 2010

strangleyo:

You can't predict earthquakes.

Sleeping outside because someone said there might be an earthquake is silly.

Contrary to your thought. Earthquakes can be predicted scientifically.I dont know the source of the rumour the ghanians in accra got.But to face the fact one of the only things those scare people could have done was to stay outside.

http://www.wisegeek.com/can-earthquakes-be-predicted.htm:

Earthquakes happen when the tectonic plates underlying the continents slip past each other violently, causing severe vibrations. Unlike eclipses, predicting earthquakes was entirely impossible prior to the 1970s. However, some headway has been made in recent decades.

In February 1975, scientists predicted an earthquake five hours in advance. The earthquake occurred in Haicheng in northeast China and it was the first time an earthquake prediction bore true. Millions of people had time to evacuate their homes and factories before the earthquake hit, saving tens of thousands of lives. Although many towns were totally destroyed, only a few hundred people died.

For futher reading about earthquake predictions

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by ochukoccna: 6:12pm On Jan 24, 2010

No body wan die even though heaven sweet pass grin

What a paradox.

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by Nobody: 6:20pm On Jan 24, 2010

I heard it on bbc last week and i wondered why ghanaians could be so shtupid,anyways i dont bame 'em.everybody wan go heaven but nobody wan die

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by twinskenny(m): 8:48pm On Jan 24, 2010

thats not funny though

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by abadaba(m): 9:39pm On Jan 24, 2010

Can some one tell Ghanians that Earthquakes is not Africa's portion.

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by twinskenny(m): 9:46pm On Jan 24, 2010

abi oo please

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by mamagee3(f): 10:08pm On Jan 24, 2010

Earthquake in Ghana? shocked

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by twinskenny(m): 10:09pm On Jan 24, 2010

i dont think it will ever happen

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by Nobody: 11:32pm On Jan 24, 2010

there's some kind of fault line in that general zone.

Honestly, nowhere is safe.

However, in this particular instance, there doesnt seem to be a basis for the fear, unless there's something we dont know.

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by An0nimus: 12:01am On Jan 25, 2010

If theres an Earthquake scare in Naija,what do you think Nigerians would do?

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by Outstrip(f): 4:23am On Jan 25, 2010

Can you guys stop with Ghanaians are stupid crap. Was it not in Nigeria that people were scared to answer their phones because phone numbers that started with certain numbers were making people drop dead if they answered the phone? LOL

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by twinskenny(m): 7:13am On Jan 25, 2010

Outstrip:

Can you guys stop with Ghanaians are silly crap. Was it not in Nigeria that people were scared to answer their phones because phone numbers that started with certain numbers were making people drop dead if they answered the phone? LOL

lol i never heard that one

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by Gbawe: 9:15am On Jan 25, 2010

tpia.:

there's some kind of fault line in that general zone.
Honestly, nowhere is safe.

However, in this particular instance, there doesnt seem to be a basis for the fear, unless there's something we dont know.

Well informed indeed !!! I know folks who have actually experienced the movement of the earth beneath them in Dansoman, greater Accra !!!! Ghana , in fact , has a history of seismic activity (see link below) and there have been documented 'substantial' earth movement so people are justified taking this warning seriously given occurences in the past . Better safe than sorry.

http://www.earth-prints.org/bitstream/2122/778/1/16Amponsah.pdf

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by nacom2(f): 10:11am On Jan 25, 2010

Outstrip:

Can you guys stop with Ghanaians are silly crap. Was it not in Nigeria that people were scared to answer their phones because phone numbers that started with certain numbers were making people drop dead if they answered the phone? LOL

LOL !

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by twinskenny(m): 11:00am On Jan 25, 2010

;d ;d ;d ;d ;d

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by Nobody: 1:10pm On Jan 25, 2010

At least they can afford to sleep outside. Can we try that in Naija?
If you dare sleep outside, you may wake up naked, with all your clothing stolen; or in a babalawo shrine for ritual or kidnapped for ransom etc etc.

Re: Ghanians Sleep Outside Due To Earthquake Scare Rumours by nacom2(f): 1:20pm On Jan 25, 2010

osaass:

At least they can afford to sleep outside. Can we try that in Naija?
If you dare sleep outside, you may wake up naked, with all your clothing stolen; or in a babalawo shrine for ritual or kidnapped for ransom etc etc.

LMOA !

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