Strongest earthquake in decades a reminder that California is "way overdue" for the "big one"
Way over due
I have to wonder about an expert who makes disaster recommendations to make sure you have internet access. If "the big one" hit LA, people will be lucky to have power, much less internet.
“Be prepared, basically, because it will happen.”
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Get out now while you still can.
Yeah, have that talk right after you have the conversation on race. Aldo after you have the conversation about non-binary gender self-identification.
7/04/2019 — Large M6.4 (M6.5) earthquake strikes Southern California Volcano - Coso Volcanic Field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuqAcQvJt0&t=19s
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Oh goodie! When is it going to happen? please let it crack and separate CA from the civilized world, and let it sink into the ocean.
Seattle is way overdue for a major earthquake.
The New Madrid fault in Missouri is overdue as well.
I’ve heard just about everywhere is prone to some sort of natural disaster. I’ve heard that Florida has among the least earthquake risk of any state, yet is prone to hurricanes, for example.
If it’s big enough you have to get in doorway, you prolly can’t.
Quiescent, the earth is not....Worldwide Earthquakes from 2001 through 2015
30 years ago we were 30 years overdue.. sooooo...
FRom close proximity to 3 faults .. WE Salute You!!
If the wildfire don’t get ya, the quake will.. eventually.
The next Ice Age is overdue too.
I lived in SF in 1989 when the Loma Prieta quake hit,
AKA the World Series Quake. 6.9
I lived in a high-rise apartment complex near the beach, several buildings. A few minutes before the quake, I decided to drive up to a lookout point in Seaview, which overlooked the Golden Gate. Golf course nearby, expensive homes etc. On the way there, while driving thru Golden Gate Park, I felt like I had a flat tire. BUT, I wasn’t moving so it was probably a quake. No biggie. Continued my drive, lots of people running out into the streets from homes, apis on the way there.
I thought, “must be a lot of new people here if they think that was a big one.” Got to my destination, golfers waved as they kept playing, (one reason I love golfers) a man joined me on the bench and started telling me about big quake. Wasn’t big, I said. Yes, just turn around, see that smoke? Buildings fallen down, gas mains broken and burning, chaos.
I drove back home, along the beach route where there was not much traffic nor stoplights. Got to my building, people milling outside, elevators broken. I ran upstairs to my 5th floor apt, halls full of debris from fallen ceilings. My next-door neighbor, with whom I shared the long common wall, was screaming for help, couldn’t open her door. I gave it a good shove and it opened, her apartment was a. mess with the china cabinet overturned broken glass, lots of damage. Then we went to my apt. Door opened easily. We both gasped. NO DAMAGE. Zero. I had a china vase on the coffee table that fell off but didn’t break.
My cat was fine, just rather irritated that I’d left him alone to hold it together. Hero cat.
Because we were on sandy soil, buildings in our complex were among the worst damaged, with refrigerators flying out windows, etc. Red Cross set up stations in them.
You’re better off to be on rocky soil, where you feel a quake as a sort of a bounce, and you feet might even leave the ground. But stuff tends to stay in place. The most personal damage in quakes is caused by BOOKS, heavy objects with sharp corners, so don’t have a bookcase near your bed.
The good news about Thursday's 6.4-magnitude quake... is that the CA governor and elected representatives will protect and provide for their beloved serfs no matter what the consequences of a the global-warming caused "big one" are...
Their biggest concern is the adverse economic impact on their home country of mexico that might be caused by a magnitude 9 earthquake in CA...
I know that 3-4 million will be conservatives, but if they are still in CA, tough.
Sodom and Gomorrah was tough, but needed.
OK, after re-reading before posting, maybe I'm being too casual because of the rum, but if it happens, maybe I might shed a single tear.
Or not.
BTW, I have no control over earth quakes, but if I did, kalifornikator would be in serious trouble.
Seriously though I have read it’s better to have multiple small earthquakes it reduces the stress and prevents the ‘big one’.
I know 6.4 is not small but didn’t it and all the aftershocks reduce stress?
Oh no! Just eleven years and days left.
Maybe someone should ask the fool Congress critter who thought putting more people on Guam would tip the island over what his plan is for when The Big One rips California in two from west of Los Angeles through San Francisco and that part goes floating off into the Pacific Ocean if it will tip over and everyone will drown. If that Congress critter is not available, I am certain we can get AOC to opine.
Surprised the Calicommunnistas haven’t blamed geological activity on climate change...yet.