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California Earthquakes; what's coming?
Topic Started: Apr 29 2008, 08:51 AM (330 Views)
big al
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A USGS report: Forecasting California’s Earthquakes—What Can We Expect in the Next 30 Years?

Big Al
Location: Western PA

"jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen."
-bachophile
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The 89th Key
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Very interesting, thanks Al.
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jgoo
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Interesting. Is there anything like this for the Washington / Oregon / British Columbia Cascadia region? Must go look....

(PS it's all Bush's fault..... ..... ..... :rimshot: ..... ..... ...... :tomato: ..... ..... ..... :whome: ..... ..... ......)
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
I'm better able to understand the report after reading this:

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This book is not for everybody; much of it is quite dry and technical, and it jumps from topic to topic too much. But man, I learned a lot about geology.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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Daniel
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HOLY CARP!!!
We had a noticeable one last night. 3 something?
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Mikhailoh
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As much as I like California, I am so glad I don't live there anymore. Earthquakes, 13 million people in an area that hasn't the water for 1 million - Southern California has so many disaster scenarios.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Luke's Dad
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Oceanfront property in Arizona...



I almost took a job in as an assistant manager of a huuuge store in Orange County. M&M's and I were even researching housing and towns out there. The town we had narrowed things down to ended up on the news that week because of the brushfires. Half the town was endangered. Did a little more research, and saw the same town in the news the year before with mudslides. We decided Californy wasn't where we ought to be.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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QuirtEvans
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I've mentioned this before, but I used to work near the top of one of the large series of buildings in San Francisco that are built on rollers. You know, so, when an earthquake hits, they'll roll with it, instead of falling down. And the buildings were designed to be flexible.

The only problem ... the engineers forgot that when the buildings hit the end of the rollers, they'd flex, and snap back. So, everyone in the buildings (especially at the upper floors), if they are in an exterior office, will get flung out the windows.

There are also projections that the most dangerous place to be, when the big one hits, will be on the street in downtown San Francisco. Narrow streets, tall buildings ... the streets will be two feet deep in glass shards, even if the buildings stay standing.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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