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Dec. 27th, 2004 01:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annuinWhile the news of the devastating quake in S-E Asia is horrible and so sad, I have to say that I did get a giggle out of this one snippet from a CNN article:
Some of the tsunamis reached as far as 1,600 kilometers (91,000 miles)
Someone needs to either watch their typos, or redo their conversions, because at 91,000 miles, that tsunami would have been around the planet a good couple of times...
(http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/26/asia.quake/index.html)
Some of the tsunamis reached as far as 1,600 kilometers (91,000 miles)
Someone needs to either watch their typos, or redo their conversions, because at 91,000 miles, that tsunami would have been around the planet a good couple of times...
(http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/26/asia.quake/index.html)
