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| Quakewatch 2010-11! | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 16 2010, 01:04 PM (697 Views) | |
| Kenny | Jun 16 2010, 01:04 PM Post #1 |
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Hey everyone, with all the earthquakes hitting southern California lately, and the local media absolutely convinced that the Big One is just around the corner, I thought it might be a good idea to set up this thread to give you guys a firsthand account when we all start to sink into the Pacific Ocean. Stay tuned for further updates! :dumbass: |
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| Snefaldia | Jun 16 2010, 04:18 PM Post #2 |
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No one's hotter than Bea.
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Bets on if Cali falls into the ocean? I hope this whole earthquake thing doesn't put a damper on my plans for a visit to CA in September. It'd be a bummer to arrive and find the state under water. |
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| Kenny | Jul 7 2010, 04:13 PM Post #3 |
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Shaking, rattling and rolling once again! Magnitude 5.4 near Borrego Springs (NE San Diego county). I don't think we're underwater just yet, but I'll report back in 10 minutes.
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| Iron Felix | Jul 7 2010, 08:39 PM Post #4 |
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Kenny? |
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| Kenny | Jul 8 2010, 08:23 AM Post #5 |
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Sorry, I got distracted by something shiny. Also by pretty colors: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/ (I live about 50 mi SW of the big blue square.) |
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| Zarquon Froods | Jul 8 2010, 05:53 PM Post #6 |
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I was looking at that map the other day and I was sort of shocked at first, then I thought about where it was. The whole plate system in that part of the world is a hot bed of activity, and where you are is right in the epicenter of three plates. Coincidentally, there is a fault line running under the county I live in where the piedmont meets the inner coastal plain. We've never had any movement, but there's a study that says we are due. |
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| Cottia | Jul 9 2010, 03:04 AM Post #7 |
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I have already resigned to my fate of dying in an earthquake.
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| The Palentine | Jul 9 2010, 07:33 AM Post #8 |
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Welcome Back Cotta! buck up, my friend. It could be worse...Its better than being eaten by a shark.
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| Cottia | Jul 9 2010, 09:51 AM Post #9 |
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Yes, thankfully I was able to come back, 'cause the dangerously dirty Manila Bay has no sharks. :lol: But we do have earthquakes, typhoons, landslides, floods, massacres, volcanic eruptions, avalanches of a different sort, stampedes, fires, epidemics, terrorist bombings. The only thing I'm sure of not dying from is getting killed by a six-kilogram hailstone. But seriously, I dread the day when "the Big One" comes to my city. Metropolitan Manila lies underneath an active fault system, and there are several others in the vicinity. And next week I'll start to live in a high-rise building! <_< |
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| The Palentine | Jul 9 2010, 10:10 AM Post #10 |
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Try to get an apartment on the top floor. That way, you could be one of those near the top of the rubble pile if, God forbid, a quake happens.
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| Cottia | Jul 9 2010, 10:47 AM Post #11 |
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The question is when will it happen. I'm in the middle floor, with more than twenty stories above me, yet still high enough that water from the fire trucks can't reach us when we have a fire!
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| Kenny | Jul 10 2010, 09:29 AM Post #12 |
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You guys have a "Big One" coming too? Wonderful! We can drown together. |
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| Iron Felix | Jul 10 2010, 10:05 AM Post #13 |
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They've been threatening us with earthquakes since I was in high school. "We're overdue for a BIG ONE! Look out!" Meh. We've had three this year, all in the 2.0 - 2.6 range. I didn't feel them. Then there's the New Madrid fault that's supposed to destroy Memphis someday but that's on the other side of the state so I'm not worried about it either. |
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| Cottia | Jul 11 2010, 03:14 AM Post #14 |
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I'll drown in rubble. Or if I'm lucky, get drafted to help those who have drowned in rubble. <_< Marikina Fault (actually two faults, called the Valley fault system), located in the eastern part of the metropolis, produces a magnitude 6-7 earthquake roughly every 200-400 years; some say the last one was in 1863, when the Manila Cathedral was damaged. (There were strong ones in 1880, 1968, and 1990, but these were from adjacent faults.) This says:
That is, we're f*cked, really. <_<
The problem with the New Madrid Fault System is that it lies in the middle of solid bedrock. (IIRC it is a failed rift that gets active every time the North American Plate is being stressed. The Connecticut River and the Rhine River flows in such failed rifts.) Unlike in California, where the bedrock is stressed and fragmented, solid continuous bedrock will transmit vibrations much easier than fragmented bedrock; thus an earthquake of the same magnitude would cause greater devastation across a wider area of the central US that it does in California.
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| The Evil Smurfs | Jul 11 2010, 06:51 PM Post #15 |
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We've been waiting for The Big One in Illinois for a century or so. I still remember doing "earthquake drills" in middle school because some crank decided that The Big One was coming. Of course, nobody thought his cutesy numerology was bogus. One of those 12:34:56 July 8th, 1990 type deals. :dumbass: |
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