The dummies for the paper aren't ready yet and I eventually have to drive home.
So I'm basically sitting here killing wasting time.
I did come across this amusing bit that describes where we are:
Posted on 09/28/2004 10:19:29 AM PDT by Drago
Just felt a quake here in the Fresno area...
The image he was trying to work into his paper (which wouldn't work now) was of the WTC towers as a new bridge to Staten Island.
I'm terrified of a big quake here. The kind of soil we have will not abate the earthquake in any way. In 1811 a dome cracked on a building near Washington DC and church bells rang in Boston. The liquifaction and related structural damage here is going to be intense and very widespread.
Whenever seismologists refer to the New Madrid fault they mostly call it a "failed rift zone." How the heck do they know it's failed? Might it just have paused a bit?
What's the biggest you've been through? While I lived out there we had one 5 and one 5.8, and several smaller ones, but that's the biggest I've had. My Parents and sister's family still live in Palo Alto and my nephew is an LAPD officer and I always worry about them.
You bet! I attended a performance in Santa Rosa, inquired "where's the ladies' room?" And was pounced on by large ugly females who corrected me, "It's the WOMEN's room!" I stuck with Ladies, and they got nasty. "I'd rather pee in my shoe than go to their women's room," I told them, to much gnashing of teeth. LOL
"As President Bush says: "May God continue to Bless America!"
...and just to add, IMO, The hand of God on a Nation is not measured by the volume of hard times it goes through, but by the spirit and attitude with which it meets those times.
We felt it here in Ohio, and we have the documents to prove it. Dan Rather just faxed them to me.
Driving, didn't feel it.
I believe that's the 5, near Saugus.
Huh? What's he proposing, shut down FEMA? Geez, there's a significant bunch of Freepers who say the same.
Yea Im aware of that...but the area showing no active in the middle in comparison ... lot of small are good as they release the energy...but whats building in the middle?
Karl, you brat! LOL!!!!
People are gonna be thinking this is TODAY!!!!
"Solid rock" in the Bay Area means the bedrock that you use to support a building if you want to minimize earthquake damage. What you call "shattered rock" doesn't move much in an earthquake and is essentially "solid" for earthquake purposes unless it is right on a fault. Marin County, where I lived, sustained very little damage during the 1989 Loma Prieta quake because almost all of the buildings have their foundations tied into what you are calling "shattered" rock.
The buildings and structures in the Bay Area that suffered 99.9% of the Loam Prieta damage were poorly constructed on Bay mud or fill and were either not tied into what you call "shattered rock" and/or not built with sufficient lateral support. Prime examples are the old Marina houses, the Bay bridge, and the Cypress Freeway.
...many areas in the south bay near the waters edge have hundreds of feet of topsoil above their rock layers, so anchoring is only done on the newer larger buildings.
If by "newer" you mean built or retrofitted in the last 30-40 years you would may be correct.
Just one of the many reasons I no longer work in the Silicon Valley.
Chicken. (Just kidding.)
It's the Antelope Valley Freeway (14) just north of I-5.
There was a New Madrid earthquake a few years ago, which I felt here in Detroit.
The dummies for the paper aren't ready yet and I eventually have to drive home.
So I'm basically sitting here killing wasting time.
I did come across this amusing bit that describes where we are:
Bad part of Idaho...LOL...I can't imagine that.
In Chicago, we lock our doors for good reason. ;)
"I remember seeing video of a car just driving right into a collapsed section of highway... Of course, the most vivid memory was of Al Michaels, and then seeing the bay bridge collapsed in sections and the marina district destroyed... I am glad to be in Michigan."
Every part of the country seems to have its own weather or geological stuff. Blizzards come every year in MI. Earthquakes come very infrequently in any given area in CA, and most do little or no damage. Live in the tornado belt, and tornados are always there as a threat. In Florida or North Carolina or the Gulf Coast and you have to think about hurricanes.
Doesn't really matter where you live. Nature is out there, just waiting to pounce on the unprepared. The answer, of course, is in being prepared for these things. In my 59 years in California, I went through dozens of earthquakes. The worst that ever happened was some plates on the floor. OTOH, my brother's house jumped off its foundation and had to be completely rebuilt. But, then, lots of demolished houses in Florida.
Never mind. Live your life, but prepare for what Nature can dish out.
I suppose you have the documents to prove it straight from Dan Rather too. LOL.
That's it? Geez, you must have come just at the right time for the calm winter weather.
After the '89 Loma Prieta quake (M7.1) I was riding my bike on the bike path along the Redwood Shores - Foster City waterfront and lo and behold, I found one instance of sand volcanos in the high intertidal zone, just off of one of the levees. They dodged a bullet that time around along the bayshore. Imagine what is possible.
LMAO! I need to buy that! But it really would be better in your office, wouldn't it?
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