#3021: Seismologists
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[Megan, Ponytail and Hairy are playing beach volleyball using a beach ball rather than a volleyball. Megan has her arms outreached; she has just hit the ball across the net towards Ponytail. The beach ball, shown with black and white pattern, is drawn three times to indicate its path, each rotated differently. Four dashed lines are drawn to indicate the movement: From Megan going above the net, then heading towards Ponytail, then one line down to her head (without showing the ball as it hits), and finally after bouncing off Ponytail’s head where the ball bounces towards the bottom of the net. When the ball hits Ponytail it makes a sound, which is written inside a wavy frame above her head. Hairy is running towards Ponytail from behind her with his arm outstretched. Wavy lines are shown on the ground to indicate the sandy surface they are playing on.]
Ponytail: Ooh, a strike-slip fault!
Ball hitting her head: Bonk!
Ponytail: Ow!
[Caption below the panel:]
Why seismologists are bad at beach ball volleyball
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:And even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.