Earthquake...

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shappa

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Hmmm. Just had a pair of quakes here. 1:56 a.m.
Small... 3.1 for the first. Only 6 miles away. 12 miles deep.
The second hasn't been measured yet.

I've been expecting one since the hawaii quakes.

What would you rather have...quake, tornado or floods?

edit: turns out we had 4 'quakes. I only felt 2. 2.7, 2.8, and 2 at 2.0
These are classified as micro-'quakes. shrug
 
Shappa: "Which would you rather have...quake, tornado or floods."

:eek: I can't wait to see the list of choices for what I would rather NOT have. :D
 
On the average? I can't think of a tornado or flood that would leave me breathing if it hit, so maybe I'll go with a micro-quake.

I've been in two of those in New York, one in the city and one upstate. They were both epicentered in Ardsley, where my parents lived at the time. Fun. I don't know why you Californians make such a big thing about them. :)
 
Give me a good quake any day over a hurricane or tornado. Back in '92 we had a horrible 7.6 quake that went right behind my house. The most horrifying and violent experience of my life. Wouldn't sleep inside my house for weeks afterwards.

Living in the middle of the desert like I do, the earth's movement is not as damaging here. There is much more give and take and little asphalt. We also have few multi-story buildings. We still experienced a lot of damage, but nothing compared to the San Francisco and Northridge quakes.

If your house has a concrete slab and wood framing, you can pretty much ride out a quake. There will be broken items inside the house and probably some windows, but over all, nothing compared to living in the concrete jungle of a big city.

Yeah, give me a quake. I can handle it. And then I have to somehow get to work to man (woman) the command center as we try to assess damages throughout the community.

Judy
 
32 floors up during the Nisqually quake in '01... Sharp up and down several times as I was sitting in a conference room; thought it was a large handtruck, or human, walking the hall behind me... Then it clicked and I was under the table... then the building started swaying. :eek: All's I can say is that as each sway ended, all's I could think of of was if the building was gonna keep on going, all the way to the ground.:confused: .. As it slowed, I ran out to the Reception area and watched for the tidal wave.. We didn't get one. :grumpy: :D

Been close enough to several tornadoes - don't ever want to do that again!

And I've seen the results of a hurricane far enough inland to know I wouldn't want to live anywhere I'd feel a direct hit!
 
Hurricanes are deceptive. I'd never worry about a rainstorm, even though downed branches and power lines are a pretty serious hazard. But all of a sudden that rainstorm starts to pick people up off the ground ... uh-uh, I wanna get indoors.
 
Two problems with a tornado:
1) You usually have little to no warning. A hurricane you know is coming far enough in advance to prepare. A tornado gives you five minutes if you are lucky, and 5 seconds if you aren't.
2) A tornado tends to turn the indoors into outdoors. :D You really need to be underground to ride one out. If you are in a wood frame house on a concrete slab, you could land in the next county, if the house doesn't just explode.

Floods are hard to impossible to ride out, depending on the magnitude. Of course, where I live, there is no place for water to go, so at least I don't have to worry about a current carrying anything away.

Overall, I'd have to say earthquakes are the easiest to get through. Especially if you live out here where there is nothing to fall on you. :D
 
Until 2 1/2 years ago I lived near Santa Barbara, PRK. Before that I lived in the LA area almost all my life. There was a series of quakes in '71 that did a fair amount of damage, but all we had was a broken bottle of soy sauce.

There was an earthquake in the SB channel on August 13, 1978. It didn't seem that strong, but it did a lot of damage. We had 2 aquariums tip over and our water heater walked out of its closet. Our pantry and most of the dishes emptied out into a pile in the middle of our kitchen. The wierdest thing was that some of our Corelle dishes were still on the shelf and were broken. (I mailed the warrenty certificates to Corning and they replaced the dishes.)

We got off easy. Some houses a block away from us had cracked foundations and broken water and gas pipes.

There are little or no earthquakes where I live now.
 
Earthquakes are strange and unpredictable.
After one earthquake (don't remember how strong) all the storefront windows on a north/south plane were shattered...all the ones on a east/west were not.
One street all the houses on the right side were knocked off their foundations...the other side was untouched. Same style houses built by the same contractor with the same materials. Just strange.
 
I was in Lima, Peru last year. I had several Cuba Libre's and I was standing in the living room telling a joke. Earthquake occurred. When I felt the quake, I said, did anybody else feel that? Everybody else said,"yes." So after I was sure it wasn't the Cuba Libre's, we finished the party. Despite the poor construction standards, nobody was concerned about it.
 
shappa said:
Earthquakes are strange and unpredictable.
After one earthquake (don't remember how strong) all the storefront windows on a north/south plane were shattered...all the ones on a east/west were not.
One street all the houses on the right side were knocked off their foundations...the other side was untouched. Same style houses built by the same contractor with the same materials. Just strange.
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Earthquakes seem to cause directional waves. Our house in No. Hollywood didn't have any damage, but the house across the street was a mess inside.

In 1978 I was sitting in my van near the beach in Santa Barbara when the first wave hit. It felt like a strong wind was rocking the van. When the 2nd wave hit I knew something was wrong. The swimming pool at a motel down the street emptied onto the sidewalk. When I looked out the back window it looked like someone had grabbed the road and shook it like a blanket. I could see the waves coming at me. You're right. It's very strange.
 
Jeeez! Just had another! 3.2

That's 23 'quakes in the last 2 days. :eek:

I'd rather have these small ones letting off pressure than one big rocker tho.
 
shappa said:
Jeeez! Just had another! 3.2

That's 23 'quakes in the last 2 days. :eek:

I'd rather have these small ones letting off pressure than one big rocker tho.
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That can also mean a bigger one is imminent (and if you watch History channel often enough , the "big one" is on it's way).
I feel bad for you folks living in the LA or Bay areas , I hope you all are ready just in case.

It's odd , when I lived in Florida people I met would often ask me how I could live here with "all those earthquakes" , I usually said that well , every year you folks are guarenteed at least one hurricane , whereas our earthquakes are a suprise :)
When we went to visit my Aunt and Uncle in Coalinga after the quake in 83, it was like something out of a nightmare , or like one of those WW2 pics you see of a bombed out city.
 
I have to laugh when people from tornado alley tell me that they couldn't live in an area where there were earthquakes. Most of them never heard of the New Madrid fault. (look it up)

I belonged to a muzzle loading rifle club in the early '70s. We had a big one in 1971 and one of the members packed up and went back to OK. 3 weeks later a tornado went through his town. :D

I would rather have the earthquakes, but I don't live in CA anymore. :)
 
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