Posted on 05/06/2016 7:42:51 AM PDT by JimSEA
Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.
The San Andreas fault is one of California’s most dangerous, and is the state’s longest fault. Yet for Southern California, the last big earthquake to strike the southern San Andreas was in 1857, when a magnitude 7.9 earthquake ruptured an astonishing 185 miles between Monterey County and the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles.
It has been quiet since then — too quiet, said Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center.
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In before the mass disaster celebrants due to location, politics, population, etc. the entire USA west coast seems primed for a natural disaster caused by plate tectonic movements. The plate segments are "locked up" and the residents are poorly prepared. Probably unwisely, I'm not a big preper but we keep a couple weeks food, medications, camping equipment along with ammo stocked more for the geological hazards than for civil disturbances.
Quick...send a bus to get the decent folks out of California...
Hopefully, it won’t wait until after November.
Truthfully, the greatest issue is decades of teaching by our lovely government to discard any and all personal responsibility. Here’s cable, cell phones, internet, food, rent, health care, and cash, all taken from your fellow hardworking citizens and handed to you with virtually no strings attached. You can sit on your rump and all of these wonders will be delivered to your door or your debit card.
As we’ve already created one of the largest social disasters, a natural disaster would simply dislodge all these parasites who find themselves with cards that do nothing, internet that doesn’t stream in their entertainment, and cell phones which ceased to work.
Therein lies the real danger that is locked and loaded. Real disaster preparation has to start with defusing the bomb that our social experiments has created. We can handle the broken highways and roads, but without personal responsibility, the scale of the disaster will be devastating and affect a broad swath of the US as we transfer these bombs everywhere after the disaster.
I remember the ‘hippies’ back in the 60’s saying California was going to be falling in the Ocean and Nevada would have beaches...we just might still get lucky...
If you predict a earthquake every month someday you will be right.
There we go, let’s hate on CA.
Wish death and destruction on millions of people. Funny stuff, right.
Jim, I, and the rest of the CA Freepers thank you for your concern.
Exactly right you are.
My mother lived through the 1933 Long Beach quake, and I’ve made it through the 1971 Slymar quake, the 1987 Whitter Narrows quake, and 1994 Northridge quake, as well as numerous other shakers. Hopefully I’ll make it through the next big one. If not, given the state of the world today, I won’t be missing much anyway.
Mexico here we come. So welcome us into your schools, homes and treasury.
Mexico here we come. So welcome us into your schools, homes and treasury.
Kalifornias been good to me.... hope it dont fall into the sea... apologies to Tom P.
71 was a great quake. That shook us up real good and most don’t know of it.
I was a young dinosaur at the time.
The fault runs thru San Francisco, so the big one there before the election might put California in play.
get those FR servers out of Cali pronto!
Your assessment in post #4 is spot on.
We have been lucky. Our biggest events have hit outside major population centers or major infrastructures. I assume some day we will get smacked. Every body back home in Kansas said we were crazy for going to CA and all the quakes. I sure don’t miss the tornados.
I was growing up in North Orange County then, now I’m in South OC. I’ve always felt that I’m far enough away from the San Andreas fault that even a really major quake should not be too disastrous for me personally. Stud frame houses, absent any liquification of the ground they stand on, tend to ride out temblors pretty good. Now if I’m unlucky enough to be in downtown LA when the Big One hits....
But then the Yellowstone caldera goes off and you can’t enjoy the beach...always a spoiler.
I heard they exploded the underground blast
What they say’s gonna happen, gonna happen at last
That’s the way it appears
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
So that may be, that may be, what’s gonna happen, gonna happen to me
That’s the the way it appears
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
Atlantis will rise, sunset Boulevard will fall
Where the beach use to be won’t be nothin’ at all
That’s the way it appears
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
So that may be, that may be, what’s gonna happen gonna happen to me
That’s the way it appears
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
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