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To: americanophile

Caltech team mulls worst-case scenario after next big earthquake

October 11, 2008

CAJON PASS – A magnitude-7.8 quake rips out of the Coachella Valley, heads west along the San Andreas Fault, severs power lines, cuts a hole in the 15 Freeway and knocks out rail tracks – leaving Southern California isolated from the rest of the West Coast.

http://westcoast911.com/wp/2008/10/11/caltech-team-mulls-worst-case-scenario-after-next-big-earthquake/


Here’s another one - also look up liquefaction maps.

http://sciencedude.ocregister.com/2008/01/14/san-andreas-quake-could-shake-oc-for-60-seconds/2205/

Bottom line is it doesn’t have to be a 9.0


22 posted on 03/13/2011 3:36:04 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (SL I believe hes a remarkable race-car driver, I think some people in the world have forgotten that)
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To: WestCoastGal

Bad enough, right.


28 posted on 03/13/2011 3:52:53 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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