Argh....time to think about moving!
I wonder what they'll want us to give up in our lifestyles to prevent the "big one".
Women and minorities hardest hit!
I grew up in L.A.
The L.A. County Sheriffs are the toughest cop force I’ve seen.
When they started having practices for predicted food riots for after the big one hits I decided to leave.
There is NO food grown in the L.A. area. It is all trucked in.
The water comes from 400 miles north from a river called the feather river. If a real big quake hits and disrupts the water supply and a quake knocks out the freeway system, how ya gonna get food and water to those 20 or so million folks?
hmm previous models said it would be complete and utter destruction.... as opposed to this new model that shows ... utter and comple...er... um...
"One pleasant morning I was searching through garden paths for roses I heard a far off smothered, rumbling sound, that I scarcely noticed, for I thought I was growing dizzy, and not understanding why I should feel so, I started for the house. As I stepped across a narrow stream, the opposite bank seemed first to recede from me, then instantly to heave upward against my feet. As this threw me from my equilibrium, the water emptied out on either bank, and hearing an Indian's voice in loud supplication. I turned and saw our Lothario on his knees, the ground rising and falling in billows around him. At the same instant I saw my parents and sisters clinging to large trees, whose branches lashed the ground, birds flew irregularly through the air shrieking, horses screamed, cattle fell bellowing on their knees, even the domestic feathered tribe were filled with consternation. Voices of all creatures, the rattling of household articles, the cracking of boards, the falling of bricks, the splashing of water in wells, the falling of rocks in the mountains and the artillery-like voice of the earthquake, and even that awful sound of the earth rending open---all at once, all within a few seconds, with the skies darkened and the earth rising and falling beneath the feet---were the work of an earthquake. It passed---we rejoined each other, thankful that life was spared, and looked around with trembling. upon the scene, where utmost terror had reigned." - Reminiscence by Augusta J. Crocheron, 1885
"A large rent in the earth was traced by Mr. Warner a distance of eight leagues [about 40 kilometers]. When on the high ground by Elizabeth Lake it could still be discerned running in an easterly direction towards the Colorado river. This rent was in some places five to 10 yards wide, the earth at times filling it up like ploughed furrows; at others the ground stood apart, leaving a deep fissure. Its course was in a straight direction, across valleys, through lakes and over hills, without regard to inequality or condition of surface. On either side, the ground had been more or less disturbed for a long distance."