Just had a 6.9 earthquake...

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De Plano

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Interesting. Does make me realize I need emergency food for the house and a stash outside someplace for if I have have to have fuel to be able to sift through the remains of my place (dive) for the rest of my goodies.
 
I recently came to the same conclusion. Now starting to store fuel, food, tools, etc. away from the house instead of just in the house and garage. 6.9 is getting up there. 6.6 is the highest I have experienced. A former secretary of mine was killed in the Northridge earthquake.
 
You guys would be better off buying surfboards and learning how to surf really well because when you finally drop off into the ocean, all that other stuff is going to be useless. Or you could just move away to someplace nice and not have to worry about whether you're going to be killed when the structure you're in falls down and flattens you. Just sayin'. :)
 
JBass, I did mean fuel for me. My gas is already kept in an out building.

Sorry to hear about your secretary. I had some friends who lived in North ridge who got home from a trip a bunch of us was on twenty minutes before it hit. Thankfully they were o.k..

For as big as it was it wasn't that bad. Let's hope the rest of the aftershocks are mellow
 
I'm just grateful that we live in a truly Great Nation that has building codes and that our construction crews actually meet them (most of the time).
Some of what we call "tiny" quakes level villages on the other side of the globe causing indescribable pain and destruction to the masses.

My wife was in a Hotel in the Northridge earthquake. Other than being scared and not knowing what it was, she was a kid and it was her first morning in California, she and her family was alright.

Seems like this one was off the coast, and fairly deep, but there may be aftershocks for weeks.

Here's hoping everything goes smoothly, or as smooth as an earthquake can be.
 
6.9 is a good sized quake, but from what I have read, the magnitude doesn't mean that there will be a lot of damage.
I was living in No. Hollywood when the Sylmar quake hit in 1971. We were lucky and had no damage, but the house across
the street was a mess. We were living in Goleta when the earthquake hit there in 1978. I think it was about 5.6 and we
had a lot of broken stuff. Again, we were pretty lucky. A lot of houses in our area has cracked foundations.

There is nothing much in the way of quakes here in north central AZ. There was a 2.7 quake here last year. I didn't
even feel it.
 
So far no calls from our daughter and grandson in Humbolt county. She used to call after each one. I guess she's used to them and they just don't phase her anymore. Glad to hear there doesn't appear to be much if any damage. +1 for building codes and the contractors that follow them.
 
I was stationed in Turkey in 1968. There was an earthquake of serious magnitude which really messed up wherever it was. The New York Times reported it was in the city I was in. Days later someone said his parents called to find out how he was -- so we all called home to reassure our families. :)

Thanks, professional journalists!
 
Are certain portions of California coastline at a higher risk for earthquakes? What's the risk for San Diego?
 
DB731 said:
Are certain portions of California coastline at a higher risk for earthquakes? What's the risk for San Diego?
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Probably Santa Cruz up to Eureka since that area sits right on the San Andreas fault. However, lots of smaller fault lines up and down the coast. A lot of fault lines are mapped but some remain unknown until there is a big quake.
 
De Plano said:
Interesting. Does make me realize I need emergency food for the house and a stash outside someplace for if I have have to have fuel to be able to sift through the remains of my place (dive) for the rest of my goodies. <<< dive? haven't heard that description of a man's castle since I was back in Georgia... have you ever considered that you might just be a redneck? :) Just kidding, of course!
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Saw the headline on the news this morning. So did you feel it?
It's a good reminder to have supplies to last for a week or more on your own (especially water). It's not just an earthquake that can cause that situation. Still, I think the bigger threat to California's future is in Sacramento, but that's just my opinion.
 
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In the Sacramento area I heard that the flood potential is a pretty scary proposition.
 
Like I Said for as big as it registered it did not feel that violent. We had a 6.5 not that long ago that felt worse.

Not much of California is a subduction zone. Most of it is getting pushed up and the majority of the rest is being pushed North.

The San Andreas fault is pretty far inland and a bit North of San Diego.

If you're curious Google "California earthquake map". I usually check that first after an earthquake.
 
WOW.

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DB731 said:
Are certain portions of California coastline at a higher risk for earthquakes?
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Absolutely. It depends on what faults are near you and how big a quake that fault is capable of generating.

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What's the risk for San Diego?
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Depends on where you live in San Diego.

IIRC, the largest local fault is a fault that runs up along I5 near La Jolla. I seem to remember it is capable of generating about a 6 quake, but no worse than that. There are a lot of little faults, but they won't do much more than a 4.

On the other hand, the San Andreas and other major faults run out through the desert off to the East, and as Mexicali found out a couple of years ago, those major faults can generate a 7+.

You can look and see where the faults are by looking here:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

If you fool with the settings (looks like a gear) you can get it to show all US faults and you can then zoom to your area.
 
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