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7.5 Quake On Puente Hills Thrust Fault Could [Could] Be Disastrous
AP) ^ | March 30, 2014 1:22 PM

Posted on 03/30/2014 5:06:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night’s magnitude-5.1 quake centered in La Habra and well over 100 aftershocks by Sunday, stretches from northern Orange County under downtown Los Angeles into Hollywood — a heavily populated swath of the Los Angeles area.

A magnitude-7.5 earthquake along that fault could prove more catastrophic than one along the San Andreas, which runs along the outskirts of metropolitan Southern California, seismologists said.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that such a quake along the Puente Hills fault could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people and cause up to $250 billion in damage. In contrast, a larger magnitude 8 quake along the San Andreas would cause an estimated 1,800 deaths

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1 posted on 03/30/2014 5:06:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

A .5 is very series! Oh, the Hugh Manatee!

Beebers are stuned!


2 posted on 03/30/2014 5:10:12 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: BenLurkin

0.5 Quake? Isn’t that like, a cat jumping off a porch somewhere? [Ask the Mods to fix the title.]


3 posted on 03/30/2014 5:11:18 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Oh my. Should read 7.5.


4 posted on 03/30/2014 5:11:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

7.5 would be destructive most anywhere, even Japan where they reasonably anticipate one of that magnitude every few years. Hopefully the recent earthquakes have relieved stress.


5 posted on 03/30/2014 5:11:47 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: BenLurkin

Gad, you’ve got to love the hyperbole attached to ANY news item. We have a 5.1 EQ - fairly insignificant in a place with great structural engineers and know-how. ‘We COULD all die.” There is a snowstorm - ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it, IF it snows forever.” We have a drought - ‘The land could shrivel up and blow away.” Coupled with, of course - ‘No amount of rain will ever be enough.”


6 posted on 03/30/2014 5:12:15 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: BenLurkin

Not sure I could feel a .5. That’s about like an SBD.


7 posted on 03/30/2014 5:12:19 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: FredZarguna; Admin Moderator

please fix title. Should be 7.5


8 posted on 03/30/2014 5:12:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Perhaps this article will prompt some “flood geologists” to study up on thrust faults. ;-)


9 posted on 03/30/2014 5:15:54 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Yep ... a 0.5 quake would be hugh and series!


10 posted on 03/30/2014 5:16:52 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: bboop

If you are on the West coast— Flee!! NOW!!


11 posted on 03/30/2014 5:32:18 PM PDT by SADMILLIE
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To: bboop

If you are on the West coast— Flee!! NOW!!


12 posted on 03/30/2014 5:32:30 PM PDT by SADMILLIE
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To: BenLurkin

.5 is nothing..now 7.5 could be disastrous..that fault line goes from Puente Hills all the way to Downtown LA..imagine if Northridge instead of it being at 4:30AM had happened at 4:30PM, the death toll would have been much higher


13 posted on 03/30/2014 5:40:42 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: BenLurkin
The Puente Hills

In Whittier, adjacent the south slope, they're called the Whittier Hills.

14 posted on 03/30/2014 5:44:34 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Jack Hydrazine

o.5 warp ?


15 posted on 03/30/2014 6:05:34 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: BenLurkin

The Russians gave it a 6.9


16 posted on 03/30/2014 6:06:20 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: Fiji Hill

And they can blame it on the now biggest land fill ever


17 posted on 03/30/2014 6:07:11 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I was next to lax living on the 5 floor first quake that scart the pelosi out of me power was out had to get to my folks all the gates were chain drive no Emergency release plus it was dark huge park west apt complex well i had a big ass pair of bolt cutters and in the trades as a civic duty i took them and cut and opened all 5 gates ha ha

Yes any time from about 6 am to 7 pm the death toll would have been imho in the 1000s also i spent the next five years quake proofing homes it was good times


18 posted on 03/30/2014 6:12:26 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: BenLurkin

If the newport inglewood fault popped a 6 to 7 t would not be pretty either that fault brought you the 33 long beach quake


19 posted on 03/30/2014 6:14:13 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: al baby

I have this fear that one day, after a monster rain storm on top of the Puente Hills Landfill, there will be the big earthquake, and all that trash goes into liquefaction and the hillside fails, swallowing up the 60 freeway and Congressman Calderon’s (D) office along the north side of the 60.

Speaking of things seismic, Why I am reminded, dunno, but we used to live right there in Avocado Heights. In 2006 IIRC, one of the strangest things I ever saw, wife and I young boys were at McDonalds on Valley Blvd at Workman Mill road.

This McDonalds has step-down into the dining area. While we were waiting for our order, we heard the sound of bricks klinking together. We looked down into the dining area and we saw the brick tiles folding upwards slow-motion along a crack line the entire length of the dining area.

Whoa! Maybe there was fault line right there?


20 posted on 03/30/2014 6:36:14 PM PDT by AlexisHeavyMetal1981 (Z)
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