Author Topic: Earthquake (Read 769 times)

SirLoin · « **Reply #15 on:** July 12, 2007, 09:14:05 AM »

I lived in Northridge CA till the 72 quake...It freaked my mother out so much my dad quit his job as head of Lockheed's PR dept(Horizons) and we moved to canada...Yeah,it was a big mistake but he put his family ahead of his career.

All i remember from the quake was walkin from the kitchen with a bowl of honeycombs to watch cartoons when the house started shaking and the bowl went flying.We had elastic bands on all the cupboard doors but everything was still smashed.

We waited it out inside the car on the driveway...

My other memory was that of a mountain fire where it was literally raining ashes for days.

evenhaim · « **Reply #16 on:** July 12, 2007, 10:50:13 AM »

i happened to be in ca for 3 weeks when the 94 quake struck and boy everything was shattered and my cousins and i slept in the street

ROC · « **Reply #17 on:** July 12, 2007, 12:03:03 PM »

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My other memory was that of a mountain fire where it was literally raining ashes for days.

Ya! You could see a Ring around the hills, just surrounded by it. Honeycombs and cartoons eh? Sounds about right, I was 9 at the time. Remember the oil refinery fire? They used film from that fire in alot of the old TV shows.

Gawd I hated SoCal

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 12, 2007, 01:22:27 PM »

I've never been in an earthquake. Always wondered what it was like.

thndregg · « **Reply #19 on:** July 12, 2007, 01:50:31 PM »

I've experienced my share of them while living in Alaska for 14 years (mainly in Palmer and Anchorage) in the '80s and early '90s as a kid. Each one is different.

SirLoin · « **Reply #20 on:** July 12, 2007, 01:51:33 PM »

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Originally posted by ROC
Ya! You could see a Ring around the hills, just surrounded by it. Honeycombs and cartoons eh? Sounds about right, I was 9 at the time. Remember the oil refinery fire? They used film from that fire in alot of the old TV shows.

Gawd I hated SoCal

You were nine,i was 7..Hope you weren't the bully down the street named Shane who smashed with rocks my next-door neighbour's collection of Red-Eared turtles(while i watched)

i'm having child-hood flashbacks now that i think of that earthquake..lol

swoose · « **Reply #21 on:** July 12, 2007, 02:34:53 PM »

I remember going through one in western North Carolina in the 60's. Pretty scary stuff when the house moves. But at least they come and are then gone. A hurricane on the other hand can last for days. But at least you can see them coming.

Swoose

Roscoroo · « **Reply #22 on:** July 12, 2007, 03:01:02 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I've never been in an earthquake. Always wondered what it was like.

If its a big quake , your pritty much at the mercy of it until the main shake is over . about all you can do if your lucky is get to a door way and watch all your stuff come flying off shelves ect .

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #23 on:** July 12, 2007, 03:52:23 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I've never been in an earthquake. Always wondered what it was like.

Shake your body. there, you know that it feels like.

ack-ack

ROC · « **Reply #24 on:** July 12, 2007, 05:51:44 PM »

Nono, Not Shane

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 12, 2007, 05:53:38 PM »

What about after the quake is the west coast prepared for a tsunami?

Vulcan · « **Reply #26 on:** July 12, 2007, 05:56:59 PM »

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Originally posted by RAIDER14
What about after the quake is the west coast prepared for a tsunami?

How can they have a tsunami if they've already sunk into the pacific?

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 12, 2007, 06:06:30 PM »

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Originally posted by Vulcan
How can they have a tsunami if they've already sunk into the pacific?

From what I've heard, California is going to slowly drift off into the pacific. It probably won't sink.

However, a more deadly and explosive fault line that lies beneath the SE USA will one day rip open and sink all of it. They have no idea when.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #28 on:** July 12, 2007, 06:47:40 PM »

if we have another full "Cascadia" shift then the tsunami heads toward Japan ,Hawaii , ect

the only biggie is it will be trigged from a 9.0 + quake , this will pritty much flatten the west coast just from the quake we wont need the tsunami.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #29 on:** July 12, 2007, 06:50:51 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
From what I've heard, California is going to slowly drift off into the pacific. It probably won't sink.

However, a more deadly and explosive fault line that lies beneath the SE USA will one day rip open and sink all of it. They have no idea when.

The San Andreas Fault is a right-lateral strike-slip fault and the part of California west of the fault line will not slip into the Pacific and become an island. The part west of the fault travels north when the fault slips, so in about few dozen million years or so, San Diego will be in the Yukon, not in the Pacific Ocean.

Here's a nice color picture that makes it easy to understand.

ack-ack