Earthquakes
 

It's been 1 year since the devastation in Haiti.
I just watched NOVA, in which they showed just how possible a massive quake in California really is. In fact, all along the west coast.

Those of you in Cali, do you think about this at all?

we generally don't think about earthquakes until they happen.

no point living in fear every day, we've got enough other shit to fear already. :2 cents:

In this culture we dont think of them until they happen. Thats why double decker highways gave way and smashed people inside their cars. They make them to shake and not fall down now. As much as they can predict.

I liked the guys idea that there needs to be an alert system that automatically rings a unique tone and message on everyones handheld device, warning of imminent shaking.

I live in Northern California, more or less away from the earthquake zones.

However, I lived about sixty miles from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and it was a real eye-opener. I was at work at the time and we all ran outside - the fucking pavement was rolling like it was on ocean. Very little damage locally near me, but phones and power was out. Lines were down, making it difficult to get around. No power means you can't cook and you can't go to stores. Everything shut down. No telephone for like three days, and the only news we had was a little battery powered radio.

I quickly learned that after two days with without power everything in your fridge melts.

I was lucky because I worked catering at the time and I had a lot of canned food and sterno.

To this day we maintain a large bank of canned food and sterno, and water too.

I'm also signed up for the USGS earthquake emails. There was a 7.3 this morning at the "Loyality Islands", which I'm guessing is east of Austrailia.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh until someone gets a hold of that and creates chaos

I experienced two small earthquakes in LA, one in the penthouse of a building in beverly hills I felt the building sway back and forth. You can actually go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/ and see real time seismic events all over California, I was shocked to realize how many small tremors there are all the time, almost everyday...

I've never experienced an earthquake... And, to be honest, I'd love to go through one. I have no idea why, but that's just something I'd love to experience...

they are very uncool, trust me on this one.
when the whole building around you is moving like liquid, you will never want to go through another one.

I go through several a year, not that bad, Americans are funny.

Those small tremors should be great news to you. When they stop happening, watch out! The big one is coming!

It means the plates are hung up... and there's some real energy building up down there... and it will likely be released in one massive quake...

I saw the overhead pictures of the built-up areas in Port-au-Prince, and wondered how that would go over in a dense Los Angeles area. NOT good. Definitely nothing you'd want to experience.

Frightening, in fact.

The time I have spent in the Bay area, I thought it added a bit of 'live life' attitude to the people there that I don't see many other places.

I lived in Northridge during the Northridge quake of '94. Never want to experience that again. And hey... I probably won't!

Wow, what a retard!! :helpme

Same here. I use EMSC - that's more for European earthquakes. I have the site open in a tab browser and I keep it like that from 3-4 years by now. Keeps me informed and alert :)

xenigo, your theory is somehow true but not all seismic zones are the same and huge earthquakes have much more precursors.