We just got rocked in the bay!
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2hawks,
Posted on: 2007-10-30 20:07 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Pfft While living in the Pacific Northwest we do not get very many quakes (had one 5-6 years which we all felt) we do wait for the ONE to hit.......the earthquake that will make Idaho into coastal property
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heh...brings to mind Walter from Jeff Dunham..."weeee loooove iiiit heeeerrrrreeee"
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Oh, the Midwest isn't too bad what with the tornadoes, blizzards floods and earthquakes. They're usually not too close to the surface, though. The first one I ever went through was a weak little 4.6. It shook the house and our dinner plates, but that was about it.
Ah, New Madrid Fault, how we love you.
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I've done the hurricanes and earthquakes. Never realy experienced a tornado (even live in tornado alley for a bit). The closest I got to them was watching 7 come down along a front out in the ocean. I was looking through a periscope.
Glad everyone is ok out in Cali.
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How do you fight an eathquake, anyway?
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Heh, fight the earthquake. That's funny.
You can't fight an earthquake, you can only prepare your buildings and infrastructure to minimize damage; ie. buildings that flex (frame connectors and wired together concrete masonry blocks), gas, water and power lines that shut off when broken, LOTS of redundant safeties (valves, switches etc.).
Very stringent building codes are the number one lifesaver in earthquake areas. A couple years ago there was a little rumbler (to an Alaskan or Californian) in Iran that killed something like 11,000 people. On the news you would see bodies being pulled out of piles of CMU (concrete blocks). The quake hits, breaks apart the cheap mortar, and all these block buildings come tumbling down.
In the 7.9 quake I had a link for earlier, damage was mostly minimal. There were some liquor store owners sobbing, but the most serious injury was a 70+ year old granny who sprained her shoulder sprinting from her cabin. The Trans-Alaskan pipeline, which runs right over the faultline, jumped around like a garden hose and busted a bunch of supports, but it held together.
Sometimes, though, Mother Nature just opens a can of whoop-[censored] on you.
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/usa/1964_03_28.html
http://www.vibrationdata.com/earthquakes/alaska.htm
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This earthquake just rounded off my exposure to natural disasters. All I need now is a volcanic eruption to complete the set.
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Sounds like it's time for a trip to the Big Island of Hawai`i! 
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I was there last year and got hit by a big QUAKE. The epicenter was off KONA just where I happen to be at. We were driving to see the Volcano that morning. I thought it was the Volcano erupting.
I've lived in the Bay Area my whole life. Experience the big one in '89. I still cross my fingers everytime I cross the damn Bay Bridge. 
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(21 years there. Florida now. I actually want to go *back.* I miss seasons - yes, even with shoveling. Heck, I remember this as being a light snow.)
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You're right. That is a light snow.
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I drove through Wyoming during summer a couple years ago. I'd never seen that part of the country at all, let alone at any particular time of year.
But the whole 350 miles through the state there were those big old Snow Fences along the ENTIRE FREEWAY.
Making me thankful that I wasn't trying to drive through 15 feet of snow in winter, eh? noooooo thank you. Beautiful during summer, oh my god hell during winter.
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Okay, I just gotta say...as a Canadian living in California, that earthquake scared the SNOT out of me.
I'm totally not ashamed to admit it.
I had three kids, a roomate, and a husband looking at me and saying, "Are you kidding me with this? Knock it off, you're scaring the cat."
That was totally not fun. It was the opposite of fun. It was unfun. But...I'm fine. I'm aaaaaaaaaalllright. Ohhhhkay. Just peachy.
Phewwwww.
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As a Brit by birth and User of the "U" I can attest to the initial shock (pun intended) of earthquakes. Still, they don't happen very often round here and since I've been a long term transplant to Cali I've become somewhat casual about the odd occasions when the house shudders slightly as though a huge truck just barrelled by.
However, having lived in Santa Barbara most of my cali life and having been there for the Northridge earthquake .... THAT was something I will never forget. The ground actually groaned, rolled like a sleeping giant and my baby woke up screeeching as though she had been dreaming of nightmare on elm street, 30 seconds before the quake hit us. I snatched her up into my arms and watched the entire house rock and shake like nothing I have ever felt before. The fish in their tank were thrown from one side to the other and the house shook lke some giant hand was tryng to tear it loose.
I dd once wake up in New Zealand to find the bed I was sleeping in was crawling casually across the floor to the beat of a tremblor, but nothing compares to the violence of the Northridge one.
Still - it's pretty damn funny to hear people who live in an area of the country where tornadoes regularly tear through every YEAR (!) ask me if I'm not scared living in earthquake country!! Naaah - I'll take my chances with the once a decade or so plz thx.
*just moved from Tornado Season to Earthquake Land*
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heh...brings to mind Walter from Jeff Dunham..."weeee loooove iiiit heeeerrrrreeee"
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Or Peanut... "We're going to hell, aren't we? Well... Here we are!"
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*looks around*
And these are our Hell-mates!