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Quake to Hit Los Angeles By September 5th (6.4 Richter or Higher)
Sydney Morning Herald & Agence France Presse ^
| April 15, 2004
| wire staff
Posted on 04/15/2004 2:01:12 PM PDT by threat matrix
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To: Junior
Beaumont, CA just had a 3.4 last evening about 7:30pm. It was a nice little jolt. Guess it time to check our emergency earthquake supplies.
Red
To: John H K
It's literally physically impossible to have a 10.5 quake in California, or anywhere else for that matter.Geez...I hope you are correct.
Red
To: threat matrix
Hopefully, it will be centered in the desert.
Hopefully NOT ! My ass lives in that desert! Lots of publicity on this the last month or so.
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:37:44 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Because Democrats are liars, they assume Republicans are too...)
To: N. Theknow
DOOMED!
44
posted on
04/15/2004 2:37:46 PM PDT
by
Johnny Gage
(Just say NO.... to cheese eating, beret wearing, wine sipping surrender monkeys.)
To: threat matrix
45
posted on
04/15/2004 2:39:01 PM PDT
by
RS
(Just because they're out to get him doesn't mean he's not guilty)
To: xusafflyer
Kurt Russell will save us all.Our man of rescue choice is Mel Gibson.
Red
To: Eala
The scale technically doesn't have an upper end, but physics basically puts the maximum possible quake from any world fault in the low 9s.....energy generation is based on fault length and area of slippage. There isn't a fault or combo of faults on earth that can generate a 10+ (and remember the scale is logarithmic, a 10 is 10 times the energy release of a 9.)
The San Andreas itself actually isn't capable of anything above 8.5 or so even if the entire fault went. It's a strike-slip fault, doesn't have the surface area......all REALLY large quakes are subduction quakes like Alaska, Chile.....which have a similar structure to the Pacific Northwest.
Actually, it probably IS possible to get a 10+ quake from ONE source..not a conventional quake, but a really, really, really, really big asteroid hitting the earth, so I mis-spoke a bit earlier. Can't get one from a regular tectonic quake without an asteroid hitting or something, though.
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:39:55 PM PDT
by
John H K
To: Conservative4Ever
Christopher Reeve is out of action on this one, no taking Margot Kidder and reversing the earths rotation..maybe Dean Cain can step in
To: ErnBatavia
did you feel last nights quake?
Red
To: Conservative4Ever
We more like heard a crack, but I think it was earlier than 7:30.
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:44:41 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Because Democrats are liars, they assume Republicans are too...)
To: xusafflyer
Escape from LA coming soon to reality near you Unfortunately, they're coming to my home state of Az.
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:44:55 PM PDT
by
Mogollon
To: ErnBatavia
To: threat matrix
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:45:05 PM PDT
by
RS
(Just because they're out to get him doesn't mean he's not guilty)
To: WinOne4TheGipper
What mistakes will Bush make?
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:45:38 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: threat matrix
Yep - we be just west of Indio...actually since the Northridge quake (when we lived in Santa Clarita which got hammered), we're still in the "shoes by the bed" habit.
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:47:29 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Because Democrats are liars, they assume Republicans are too...)
To: RS
They just put a low end (6.4) on it, they didn't specify a high end.
The Southern San Andreas is in the forecast area and could easily knock out an 8+, and is pretty much due to do so.
Still, as I've mentioned, because of where most of it is located, a smaller quake much nearer LA or SF would be much, much worse.
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:47:58 PM PDT
by
John H K
To: John H K
Note to self: buy future ocean front property in Yuma.
To: RS
Im going to start wondering if UCLA gets this one too..
To: threat matrix
To: threat matrix
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