Posted on 08/23/2011 7:15:36 PM PDT by PROCON
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling and books stopped thumping to the floor, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side of the continent. "Really all this excitement over a 5.8 quake??? Come on East Coast, we have those for breakfast out here!!!!" wrote Dennis Miller, 50, a lifelong California resident whose house in Pleasanton sits on an earthquake fault line.
On Twitter and Facebook and over email, people circulated a photo of a table and four plastic lawn chairs in a serene garden setting. One of the chairs flipped on its back. The mock image carried the title "DC Earthquake Devastation."
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When my parents lived in Tahoe it was a normal winter morning to wake up to 2 to 3 feet of fresh snow.
We had skiing at our local ski resort for 4th of July this year. Too bad that CA doesn’t get any snow.
Earthquake????, 5.8 isn’t much more than an earth fart that you had better be sitting stil or you will miss it..
Yeah that "non snow" closes all the Sierra passes until June usually...last time I drove through Sonora Pass it was open just a day before I got there due to snowpack and that was the second weekend in June...like driving through a white tunnel...and I too went skiing on July 4th at Mammoth more than once... sure glad we don't get any snow here in CA....
The difference is that structures here are NOT built for earthquakes. I was on the second floor of my building when it hit. The shaking wasn’t what I was worried about, it was the thought that our building was constructed without an inkling that an earthquake was possible.
Lots of structures in CA not built to withstand earthquakes also...but stick homes do better than brick and mortar...
We are quakists, I admit it.
Well aren’t you special!
“Earthquake????, 5.8 isn’t much more than an earth fart that you had better be sitting stil or you will miss it..”
It isn’t the 5.8 that I’m concerned about, it’s that it’s unusual for it to even occur in this area. I would be more concerned for you in California now.
A few years ago we were up in Lassen Natl Park. They opened highway 89 through the park a day or two before we we drove it. It was the first week of Aug. There was at least 2 feet of snow higher than my van on either side of us through sections of the road. It was hard to believe that it was August.
Our building codes here are such that even a 7.0 quake inflicts minimal damage.
Like i said, ones over 7.0 are good for business!!!
52 and 71 quakes kept over 30 of my employees busy for over 2 years repairing quake damage in commervial structures.
Yes 5.8 out west would be nothing but they forget that we sit on bedrock here that makes a small one feel much bigger than it is.
“Like i said, ones over 7.0 are good for business!!!52 and 71 quakes kept over 30 of my employees busy for over 2 years repairing quake damage in commervial structures.”
Pretty sad that destruction for others makes money for you....and you’re proud of it!
No doubt...I had to use Sonora to get to Coliumbia as Tioga and all the other east-west passes between Bishop and Tahoe were still closed due to snowpack...mid-June...and that is not unusual...
East and West coast - they’re all a bunch of whiners.
(Says me, safe in Texas. *ducks for cover*)
EARTHQUAKE
SF Bay Area
11:36 p.m.
Felt like a 4 point something. Hayward Fault. Epicenter near Fremont.
Quick seat-of-the pants estimate.
Windows were rattling
USGS says:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71625060.php
3.9
San Leandro
Hayward Fault
A historic “first” for me!
Thank you. We hope that you have mild seasons also.
Now I live in earthquake country. There is something particularly unsettling about the solid earth giving way under your feet. I'll take bad weather anytime.
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