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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: midnight Target on December 22, 2003, 01:26:32 PM
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6.5 Central Cal. Didn't feel a thing. :(
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I felt it here in Ridgecrest.
http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Maps/121-36.html
Nine minutes later... 4.7 in Cambria...
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Lots of activity. Two more.
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Hope everything is okay.
(http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/121-36.gif)
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Okay here... I think we schedule these events to scare off the East-Coasters. :D
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look at the bottom of rip's pic.
umm 60 quakes on map from looking like 1 week.
wtf do people live there?!?! lol
guess i'll never understand.
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Ya know...I lived just outside of Palm Springs for 2 months (long vaca) and the "Seismic" page of the paper, showing all the activity was alarming. I suppose its something you just get used to...but wow.
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With every quake, its a little closer to dropping off into the ocean.
I am gonna invest in some soon to be oceanfront property in Nevada. :D
dagoooooooooo
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Lived in the San Luis Obispo area for about 10 years, including Morro Bay. Can't reach friends yet, but I heard the old clock tower in Paso Robles fell.... sad.
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I hope you have your water wings.. Ya'll gonna end up in the drink..one of these earth quakes becomes the grand daddy.
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"Some people are hurt at the Wildhorse Winery, some wine barrels fell over.
Alcohol is bad.
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they think they're gonna surf to my front door but they forget about the mountains, soon to be seaside cliffs in their way....
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Originally posted by midnight Target
6.5 Central Cal. Didn't feel a thing. :(
I don't get outta bed for anything less than an 8.
You guys wanna see the faultlines where I live. Apparently we're overdue for 'the big one', the only thing I'm not sure about is whether the side we live on goes up or down next time.
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look at the bottom of rip's pic.
umm 60 quakes on map from looking like 1 week.
wtf do people live there?!?! lol
guess i'll never understand.
It's actually pretty easy to understand. 99% of those quakes can't be felt, and constant flow of small tremors can be a good thing. What you don't want to see is a fault line with little to no activity for extended periods (like the one that runs through town here), because that means the pressure is building up, and you will most certainly feel the next one. But one sizeable shake every 10-20 years or so sure beats the heck out of the annual severe weather that most people have to deal with across the country.
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so sure beats the heck out of the annual severe weather that most people have to deal with across the country.
I'll second that, an ocasional earthquake beats the hell out of freezing to death or tornados.
we have it pretty good up here, the very rare small quake, maybe a flood now and them but they always hit the same neigborhoods so you know where not to live. and thats about it. not too cold in the winter or hot in the summer. if grey skys and rain don't bother you it's great
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Now reporting 2 or 3 deaths.. Paso Robles was hit hard.
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OK I saw this show on PBS (wich means it HAS to be true) and this scientist guy said california will never fall into the ocean and that's impossible.
More seriously I live near lancasteer SE of the quake and I didnt feel a thing. I heard about it from my mom calling from Nebraska who saw it on the news.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
More seriously I live near lancasteer SE of the quake and I didnt feel a thing. I heard about it from my mom calling from Nebraska who saw it on the news.
Not surprised... I'm 80 miles north of you (or so) and I felt it. My next door neighbor didn't notice it. Hell... even my son sitting five feet away didn't feel it. Had another friend in town that said he felt dizzy.
It was very light here, but it lasted a long time. I wasn't surprised to find that it was a big one.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
OK I saw this show on PBS (wich means it HAS to be true) and this scientist guy said california will never fall into the ocean and that's impossible.
More seriously I live near lancasteer SE of the quake and I didnt feel a thing. I heard about it from my mom calling from Nebraska who saw it on the news.
The guy reporting that must live in Wisconsin. California is split (mind you this is the generic version, not to be confused with minute details and specifics) around the San Andreas fault. The Western side is on one plate, the eastern side is on another. The Western side is actually sliding under the Eastern plate.
Fall into the ocean? Not likely, but slip under the plates a real possibility.
Now, I could post facts, figures and links, but geez I'm just too damn lazy to pull it up.
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IIRC, the Pacific Plate is moving northwest.
http://transfer.lsit.ucsb.edu/geol/projects/emvc/cgi-bin/dc/list.cgi?description,03socalcities.mov
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Originally posted by Ossie
What you don't want to see is a fault line with little to no activity for extended periods
according to the map 1/2 way down this:
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/EarthSC202Notes/quakes.htm
page we in wisconsin are in greater danger than 2/3's of california.
we've had nothing in liek 100 years maybe 200. guess that "big one" is coming huh?
(I'd STILL rather live here than somewhere i might die from falling debris almost any day of the week)
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
OK I saw this show on PBS (wich means it HAS to be true) and this scientist guy said california will never fall into the ocean and that's impossible.
That's true... the ocean will rize. In his quatrains, Nostradamus prophesizes "In the first decades of the third millenium the waters will rize to swallow the city of false images..."
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of course nostradmaus said it. why didnt we plan for this???
better look out. it will happen. it's written. unlike the almighty TV the written word never lies or is wrong.
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I cross referenced Confucius, and there is a related passage...
"Man who makes living in industry of false image may drown in hugmungous flood of irony"
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YIKES i work for
Xerox.
im doomed.
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Slept right through it, just found out about it now in this thread... :)
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lol people from europe tould me about it;)
i feel nothing
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OH Geesh!
Confucious and nostrawhatsisname definatly outrank the PBS guy. We're all screwed.....I WANT A TRANSFER....it wasnt my choice to live here
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in california quakes have become more of a feature and less of a problem.
they rock you to sleep at night. kinda like the old hotel rooms with "majic fingers", without all those quarters.
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
in california quakes have become more of a feature and less of a problem.
they rock you to sleep at night. kinda like the old hotel rooms with "majic fingers", without all those quarters.
It sure does when the roof collapses on you... :rolleyes:
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Yet another prediction, from an independant source...
What is at the very heart and center of existentialism, is the absolute character of the free commitment, by which every man realises himself in realising a type of humanity — a commitment always understandable, to no matter whom in no matter what epoch — and its bearing upon the relativity of the cultural pattern which may result from such absolute commitment. One must observe equally the relativity of Cartesianism and the absolute character of the Cartesian commitment, thus predicting the aquatic destruction of Hollywood.
-- Jean Paul Satre 1946
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Check out the clip for "The Day After Tomorrow"
at apple.com.
Wonder when/if something like that will happen?
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I thought this was going to be a post about the N1K. I feel cheated.
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Originally posted by Ossie
What you don't want to see is a fault line with little to no activity for extended periods
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according to the map 1/2 way down this:
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/EarthSC202Notes/quakes.htm
page we in wisconsin are in greater danger than 2/3's of california.
we've had nothing in liek 100 years maybe 200. guess that "big one" is coming huh?
(I'd STILL rather live here than somewhere i might die from falling debris almost any day of the week)
I'm pretty sure that the midwest is either due or overdue for a big one. You just need to be prepared with emergency supplies, and the knowledge of what not to do. People generally like to forego an earthquake kit, and they generally like to run outside for fear of a building collapse, even though they've just exposed themselves to falling debris and powerlines when the aftershock hits. Unless there's a big empty field or parking lot you can go to, I'd stay inside. They also like to call 911 "to report an earthquake", but you can chalk that one up to hysteria. You just have to know that the phone lines will be clogged (although less so now thanks to cellular), and emergency services will be largely unavailable.
Of course, we are talking about people, and therefore complacancy, so even in an earthquake zone, we make stupid choices. The store that I work at likes to stack boxes on top of the shelves, sometimes six-high, for backstock and display purposes. If a sizeable quake hits, while the building will remain standing, any customers in those aisles (or workers like me) are going to be screwed, all because either the managers there are completely oblivious as to where exactly we live and work, or because the store is part of a national chain, and the policy of stocking goods was made by somebody living far away from an earthquake zone. Really though, earthquakes are easy to prepare for. All somebody has to do is take those boxes down and put them somewhere else, or rig up something to secure them in place, but that won't likely happen until just after people are killed as a result.
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yeah.. an earthquake kit..
and why not an atom-bomb kit, terrorist kit, plague kit, etc etc etc... ? never ends.
like I need an earthquake kit
oh.. and I stack boxes pretty high
:eek:
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There was one quake I felt here in IL maybe 15 years ago. Does anyone remember that loon who predicted a massive quake on the New Madrid fault 'bout 10 years ago? (Something about the moon being in the right spot?)
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AS I Said before
Just like Shawn Stern from the "Youth Brigade" said in there famous song
"Im gonna sink with Kalifornia when i falls into the sea" :aok
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Originally posted by boxboy28
AS I Said before
Just like Shawn Stern from the "Youth Brigade" said in there famous song
"Im gonna sink with Kalifornia when i falls into the sea" :aok
boxboy did not make this up. Youth Brigade was actually a real band.
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Qand they have a song called "Sink with california" LOL
Not to mentions there Canadian born but live around the LA area!
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One day everything east of the San Andreas fault will slide into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Originally posted by Dune
One day everything east of the San Andreas fault will slide into the Atlantic Ocean.
"ocean front property in Arizona!"
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I keep telling ya' that the mountains here will be the ocean-front property :)
just imagine.. best of both worlds...
the best skiing, ocean-front property and no californians :eek: