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An earthquake devastated Santa Barbara 100 years ago. It holds urgent lessons for the next ‘Big One’
Los Angeles Times ^ | June 29, 2025 3 AM PT | Rong-Gong Lin II

Posted on 06/29/2025 11:43:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 06/29/2025 11:43:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Preparing for an earthquake? Don’t bother.

If you’re in a well built building... Everything will be fine... A poorly built building... You’re screwed. That’s about all you’ve got... And they’ll never be able to warn you ahead of time... By the time they figure out that an earthquake is happening... Well... It’s happening.


2 posted on 06/29/2025 11:47:25 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Would it be wrong to hope that California falls in to the sea?


3 posted on 06/29/2025 11:49:32 AM PDT by rod5591
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Would it be wrong to hope that California falls in to the sea?

Yes, because it would kill a lot of innocent people, including the founder of Free Republic.

4 posted on 06/29/2025 11:53:29 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: rod5591

“”Would it be wrong to hope that California falls in to the sea?””

Not if you’re a hell-bound demon or ghoul that cares nothing for human life. You’re not, are you?


5 posted on 06/29/2025 11:55:46 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I experienced the Santa Barbara quake in 1978. As I recall it was a 5.2? Enough to get your attention but not too much significant damage overall.


6 posted on 06/29/2025 12:08:31 PM PDT by moreisee (The Media is the enemy.)
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To: rod5591

I don’t think so personally.


7 posted on 06/29/2025 12:09:39 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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8 posted on 06/29/2025 12:12:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: jerod

That’s right.


9 posted on 06/29/2025 12:15:44 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BenLurkin
1989 Oakland CA


10 posted on 06/29/2025 12:18:56 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: jerod

In an earthquake zone, a well built building is not rigid. Brick buildings have great vertical strength, but a little lateral movement and it comes down.


11 posted on 06/29/2025 12:28:23 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Time to dump out the Treasury drawer and throw out all the junk that is wasting our money.)
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“Would it be wrong to hope that California falls in to the sea?”

Sure man. Whatever makes you feel tingly. We don’t need all those military bases and innocent people.


12 posted on 06/29/2025 12:31:33 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Texas balladeer Vernon Dalhart, Vernon Dalhart, the most popular American singer of the 1920s, chronicles the disaster in his Columbia Records release:

The Santa Barbara Earthquake--Vernon Dalhart (1925)

And this tune was the flip side on Columbia. However, the version featured here was released on the Cameo label and has a better quality than the ones on Columbia, Edison and other labels available on Youtube. Dalhart tells the story of the sensational "Monkey Trial" of John T. Scopes, a teacher who dared to teach Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.

The John T. Scopes Case

13 posted on 06/29/2025 12:49:20 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: rod5591
Would it be wrong to hope that California falls in to the sea?

Yes, it would. I don't want to have to swim to Arizona.

14 posted on 06/29/2025 12:51:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: dljordan; fidelis; rod5591
Day After Day--Shango (1969)

Day after day, more people move to LA
Don't you tell anybody, the whole place is shaking away.
(There she goes!)
Where can we go when there's no San Francisco?
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho!

15 posted on 06/29/2025 12:59:37 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Huge oil field off the coast of Santa Barbara no drilling allowed sometimes oil washes on the beaches not a stable area.


16 posted on 06/29/2025 1:00:42 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Newsom and Karen Bass and their fellow fraud-elected Democrats have made earthquakes obsolete when it comes to destruction in California.


17 posted on 06/29/2025 1:05:13 PM PDT by KamperKen (u)
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To: Fiji Hill

Scopes was a science teacher and football coach. He was recruited by the ACLU to test the unconstitutionality of the BUTLER ACT.
He was never put in the stand in the trial cause they knew he would not be able to answer any questions on biology. He was substituting and read from a textbook which discussed evolution. After the trial he admitted that he did not remember if he had actually taught evolution...but the case garnered national attention for Dayton, Tennessee. Brought in lots of money. Although the case was framed as a “backwoods hillbilly hick” vs. “intelligent fair minded science” ...it was about a state taxpayer being able to have influence on what their children are being taught.
It did expose the modus operandi of the ACLU..which is what they seem to still do.
See Tennessee museum, 5 things you didn’t knout Scopes trial website
IMHO. FYI. Freegards.


18 posted on 06/29/2025 1:43:43 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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Well, we hope not

But that’ll be the day I move back to Annandale

I can’t seem to get to you through the U.S. Mail


19 posted on 06/29/2025 1:48:41 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Getready

knout. = know about


20 posted on 06/29/2025 5:12:53 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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