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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The subject was natural disasters. Not health issues. You have a wild imagination. Again, you’re talking about something that has never occurred in modern history.
It’s a well known fact, in modern American more are killed in U.S. by tornadoes, storms and hurricanes than in earthquakes.
“The subject was natural disasters. Not health issues. You have a wild imagination. Again, you’re talking about something that has never occurred in modern history. It’s a well known fact, in modern American more are killed in U.S. by tornadoes, storms and hurricanes than in earthquakes.”
I was talking to another FRiend was about tornadoes vs earthquakes in America, but YOU started talking about “natural disasters in modern America”.
Amazing......FReepers feel free to wish the worst for the home of Free Republic.
Sorry no, my last movie was Star Wars which was probably more scientifically accurate than The Rock’s film. I actually believe in Hobbits and Orcs though. I’ve got an Orc living next door.
Thank you.
Talking to you is like calling the dial an argument call center.
Glad I do not live in Chile; Indonesia or Vanuatu.
On a yearly basis, there is no doubt you’re correct. However the potential for massive loss of life that tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides, and volcanoes is much worse in an incident to incident basis. Mount Shasta or Mount Ranier in particular, could cost in the hundreds of thousands of lives.
“Talking to you is like calling the dial an argument call center.”
I apologize and will issue you a full refund.
Uh no, that won't happen for about 24 million years.
The potential always exists for just about anything. Same with getting impacted by a 4 mile wide asteroid or Yellowstone going off. Not real likely, but the potential is there.
No need, your opinion is free and worth every penny.
Yes, or even Japan!! I’ve read that there are six volcanos likely to erupt on the Kamchatka peninsula at present. That could create havoc in air traffic at the very least.
Yeah, I think we can rule that out as an immediate concern.
“That is something that’s never occurred and they been saying that for decades.”
That Cascadia Fault earthquake occurs on average every 300 years.
Last one was 316 years ago.
If you live on rhe Santa Ana River flood plain...
360 years ago when there were few inhabitants, no infrastructure etc. I’m referring to modern America, with big population centers, big league infrastructure, but with strict building codes etc. CA has had big events over the past 100 years and its stood up relatively well. Look at the low death rates compared to weather events.
So my comment, this is something that has never occurred, is correct, in regards to modern times U.S., i.e. with the epicenter under a major population center, getting a direct hit by some cataclysmic 9.1 class event. Fortunately I don’t think that’s happened in the U.S. But I am sure the potential for that happening somewhere is real. So there ya have it.
The movie is pure entertainment but its edge of your seat the whole two hours. LOL!
I can’t view the flood maps well enough on my phone to check but I don’t think so. I’m at 875 feet above sea level and well east/south of the Santa Ana River, near the base of Saddleback. Even if the Prado dam went it would have to flood a hell of a long way and up a hell of an elevation to reach me. I don’t think there’s much chance of Irvine lake spilling over and even the reservoir behind my house would flood down into the arroyo below it and then down Santa Margarita Parkway before to went up the hill where I live.
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