Posted on 07/16/2009 9:01:46 PM PDT by Pelham
This is the part of the world I’m worried about.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/region/S_America.php
Site of the largest quake ever recorded, a 9.5 in May, 1960
A couple of those and it will be the Island of Chile.
I worked in a build that was at that site ahown on Google map.
How can they give a center point of an earthquake when it happens along a fault line?
That’s walking distance away. No wonder it caught my attention.
I don’t care if it’s a 2.9. Baby earthquakes make my hair stand up, too.
And violent shaking at that.
I know someone who lived in Fullerton, in the hills. The Sylmar quake lifted the water out of her swimming pool and sent it through a sliding glass door and into her house. She had just walked past that door and into the kitchen. It did all sorts of damage and she probably would have been severely injured by the glass shards if she had been in front of the door. They took the pool out.
I remember the Sylmar quake waking me up. It seemed like the house was a box of Cracker Jacks that someone was shaking laterally. It was shaking so bad I couldn’t stand up so I went back to bed. The dogs were sure freaked out!
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