Posted on 08/21/2007 4:22:00 PM PDT by blam
Ah...the happiness of chip manufacturing. We detected seasonal yield variations at our Houston site. We still hadn’t figured it out when I retired at the end of 1994.
"One pleasant morning I was searching through garden paths for roses I heard a far off smothered, rumbling sound, that I scarcely noticed, for I thought I was growing dizzy, and not understanding why I should feel so, I started for the house. As I stepped across a narrow stream, the opposite bank seemed first to recede from me, then instantly to heave upward against my feet. As this threw me from my equilibrium, the water emptied out on either bank, and hearing an Indian's voice in loud supplication. I turned and saw our Lothario on his knees, the ground rising and falling in billows around him. At the same instant I saw my parents and sisters clinging to large trees, whose branches lashed the ground, birds flew irregularly through the air shrieking, horses screamed, cattle fell bellowing on their knees, even the domestic feathered tribe were filled with consternation. Voices of all creatures, the rattling of household articles, the cracking of boards, the falling of bricks, the splashing of water in wells, the falling of rocks in the mountains and the artillery-like voice of the earthquake, and even that awful sound of the earth rending open---all at once, all within a few seconds, with the skies darkened and the earth rising and falling beneath the feet---were the work of an earthquake. It passed---we rejoined each other, thankful that life was spared, and looked around with trembling. upon the scene, where utmost terror had reigned." - Reminiscence by Augusta J. Crocheron, 1885
"A large rent in the earth was traced by Mr. Warner a distance of eight leagues [about 40 kilometers]. When on the high ground by Elizabeth Lake it could still be discerned running in an easterly direction towards the Colorado river. This rent was in some places five to 10 yards wide, the earth at times filling it up like ploughed furrows; at others the ground stood apart, leaving a deep fissure. Its course was in a straight direction, across valleys, through lakes and over hills, without regard to inequality or condition of surface. On either side, the ground had been more or less disturbed for a long distance."
Myth. Have taken earthquake classes as well as written an article or two about San Andreas Fault and earthquakes on the Central Coast of California. That whole chunk of California west of the falut lines will eventually be much further NORTH. The "collapsing into the Pacific" scenario is a myth that amuses earthquake scientists no end. I often drive over the San Andreas Fault where it is very, very visible for miles and miles ... very pretty country (in eastern San Luis Obispo county, a RED-on-the-presidential-election-map coastal county which is located about halfway between L.A. and San Francisco). The truth is that Paso Robles wine country (in SLO County) will someday LITERALLY be on a par with Napa County north of San Francisco! :^)
Er ... I mean on a par with Napa VALLEY wine country. :^)
I knew what you meant. The Paso soil will remain the same, just in a different location. The grapes and the wine they produce will remain distinctive and, hopefully, remain a better value than the Napa Valley wines, for the benefit of our descendants.
I’m sure the Africans and Bangladeshees and Kosovans will fly it all in with a fleet of helicopters. /sarcasm
I doubt more than 10% of the people who mention that California will fall into the Pacific actually believe it. It is a joke. Were not all dumb rubes. That would mean you aren’t anymore enlightened than you may think.
“The next book to read is Curt Gentry’s Last Days of the Late, Great State of California (1968). Gentry’s book is built around the premise that “the Big One” has finally hit and that the part of California which lies west of the San Andreas Fault (the part that most people think about whenever they think about the state) has been destroyed by a gigantic earthquake. “Looking back” from that cataclysmic point, Gentry launches into an elaborate run-down of the many things that made California unique and the many ways in which what happened there was, time and again, a preview of what would one day be happening coast to coast.”
You’re right. Thanks for the reminder!
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