Posted on 06/16/2005 11:37:16 PM PDT by bd476
Edited on 06/16/2005 11:53:39 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Thanks for the good information. Do you live in northern California?
Please add me to your earthquake ping list.
Thanks
How inconvenient that must have been for you.
I climbed over broken doors and glass bare naked to get to my flashlight, bleeding. A cigarette lighter was all I had to determine spatial relationships. Flashlight, pants, shoes and a crescent wrench for the gas mains came next. I grabbed a guy wearing shoes to help me. When we got back, a bunch of people in their underwear were standing around in front of this complex. Told them to go home and consume all the milk because there won't be any electricity for a while. The next day, people were BBQing all their meat. Sort of a block party. I found water, soda and beer for all.
LOL!
We are so fortunate that they are not happening at that size under major cities.
Wonder if this will continue?
Seems we have a cluster going.
Nope. Maryland.
Maryland? Good place for a strategizer...
Add me to the list, please.
I didn't feel this one either. Again I hear about it on the radio on my way into work.
California has been unusually lucky for the brief period of time it's been heavily populated; the 1906 quake left a "stress shadow" in the SF Bay area for a long time, during which the population exploded there; this stress shadow has basically ended.
And the big quakes in Southern California haven't been all that big, or out in the desert, or on the fringes of densely populated areas with the energy directed away from heavily populated areas (Northridge and Sylmar.)
Based on paleoseismic studies from trenches cut on faults, etc., that luck won't last.
Please add me to the list.
That would ruin a lot of people's days...
>>You could have a 9-9.2 quake on the Cascadia subduction zone offshore Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
Simple rule.....do NOT live west of the big crack in the ground.
You know how Federally all the bankrupsy laws are changing, so you can't soon really get out of debt or walk away from what you owe.
Soon Califonria and nationally bankrupsy law will be more like Texas.
Meaning, if there is major home damage, big loans and little or no insurance... Lots of people are going to be stuck with a $600,000 loan on a house they can't live in, with a debt they can't dump either by a bankruptsy.
It's going to be some strange times.
>>I'm not native (only been here for the past 5 years)
I've been here about the same amount of time. I think the biggest I felt was a 5 or 4.5--I was sitting on the couch reading, and saw (and felt) the floor roll like a small wave on the ocean. Weirdest feeling.
Not sure I want to experience ALL California has to offer.
KCAL 9 spent a lot of time on the shakers last night. Alan Mendelson the money guy was talking about the phones were ringing off the hook for earthquake insurance yesterday. They were quoting rates like $1500 a year with a 15% deductible.
In another story, there were several people that had recently moved to CA that said they wanted no part of it and wanted to leave.
...and that wasn't even a big quake yesterday (Yucaipa)
I'm just hoping Smogger stays off this thread ... after yesterday.
4.7 quake today . . . Rocking and rolling under the deep blue sea.
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I think my earthquake insurance is around $500 a year, I hope they don't raise my isurance 300% somehow next year.
Come on people- lighten up. It is well known we have a tendancy towards 'gallows humor' here.
No on means any harm or wishes ill to anyone... OK??
They said prices are all over the place, the guy was just talking about an imaginary home in Pasadena.
Also said that there would be a freeze on writing policies for a while.
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