Carrie gets a well-shaken no-prize for bringing us news of just how far the affects of the recent tsunami-inducing earthquake reached:

The South Asian earthquake that spawned deadly tsunami waves also shifted water levels by at least 3 feet in a geologically sensitive Virginia well some 9,600 miles away from the epicenter, researchers say.

While I have no way to confirm it, after several beers a person who worked on the Titan missle system as it was coming on line in the early sixties had a similar tale to tell. Seems the shock from the Alaskan earthquake of 1964 was severe enough to crash the gyroscopes in all the Air Force's missiles. No gyros meant no way to target the missles, which meant there was no real way to aim them. It took a few days to recover, but during that time the nation's land-based ICBM force was essentially grounded. At the height of the cold war, this was no small thing.