A to Z Of The Weirdest Longest Stuff (A-M)

E) Longest Earthquake

The Sumatra Earthquake in December, 2004 was the longest-lasting earthquake ever recorded.

Charles Ammon a professor of geosciences said “…normally, a small earthquake might last less than a second; a moderate sized earthquake might last a few seconds. This earthquake lasted between 500 and 600 seconds (about 10 minutes)… Globally, this earthquake was large enough to basically vibrate the whole planet as much as half an inch, or a centimeter. Everywhere we had instruments, we could see motions”

The quake smashed out the same sort of energy as a 100 gigaton bomb. In Sri Lanka, which is more than 1,600 kilometres from the epicenter, the ground moved nearly 10 centimetres. Holy moly.

When the surface waves from the Sumatra quake reached the far off coast of Alaska they triggered another 14 separate earthquakes in the Mount Wrangell area. What a beast of a quake.

F) Longest Fingernails

Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City, for some reason, started to grow her finger nails in 1979 and carefully manicured them to reach a totally disgusting and reptilian length of 8.65 metres on 23rd February 2008. Lee lost her nails in an automobile accident in early 2009. I hope she wasn’t hurt badly of course, but I’m also pretty glad those monsters aren’t creeping around anymore. I wonder if she kept them?

But now the lord of the manicure is a Las Vegas wannabe pop idol called Chris Walton (pictured above). In total she has almost 20 feet of unnecessary and creepy finger planks. They’ve taken 18 years to grow, and some might say they are a wasted effort. But, as long as she’s happy etc.

G) Longest Grindcore Band Name

So, there’s this band called “Intracerebrally Consuming Cephalalgia Through The Cranium Macerating Debrisf*cked Manure Ingested Remains Of The Mindf*cked Cataplexic Wicked Mankind Whom Fistf*cked The Progenies From The Deepest Depths Of The Analmaggot Raped Human Pieces Of Erotic Sh*tmasses Which Gave Birth To Worthless Eunuchs As Travesty For Cumstained Whorefaced Sluts Enslaved By This Stupid Society Full Of Fetal Garbages”.

Completely ridiculous. They shorten it to 55Gore, which is actually pretty cool, they should probably just go with that. Here’s what they sound like, even though I’m sure you don’t want or need to know:

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