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[the_dark_snack]

When did weather become and event? I know that when we had the Atog doing weather in the morning he would never say it's raining or it's snowing, he'd say we were having a rain event or a snow event.

I just walked past the tv and rather than say there was an earthquake in California, they said there was a "seismic event" instead.

It never ends.

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[friendstephen]

"Seismic event" makes sense sometimes because you can see something happen on a seismograph (the line went all squiggly) but until you get reports from an area you might not be 100% sure what really happened. Calling something an "earthquake" might be a bit more specific than calling a squiggly line a "seismic event".

One possibility: if some country conducts an underground nuclear test, that will be detected on seismographs. That might be a seismic event but not an earthquake.

"Snow event" and "rain event" ... I'm not even going to try to defend that. If you see snowflakes falling out of the sky, then it's snowing. There's not much ambiguity there.

[falnfenix]

i agree. seismic activity is significantly more rare than rain or snow, and therefore deserves the title "event" - normal weather patterns, however, do not.

[kprincesskrys]

Today we're having a sun-event with partial cloud events interspersed...