Posted on 01/07/2011 4:12:50 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast
Nice shaker. Looking for seismograph reports now.
One could expect an earthquake or two.
Sounds like no injuries - that's good.
>>>>I don’t think our midwest buildings are built for em.
Not only that, the structure of the earth’s crust is different in the Midwest, and a quake will be felt over a much larger area and do much, much more damage.
No your buildings are not built for them. Don’t know where you are but I lived in Oklahoma for 10 years and had people tell me all time about how they wouldn’t want to be in California during a quake.
I always laughed and said it’s better than sitting around praying for God’s mercy from a Tornado watch, flood, freezing, fires and all the other things, like June bugs, that happen in the Greenbelt.
Plus there is a fault called the New Madras Fault that is expected to go off anytime and it will affect a huge swath of the Midwest.
My Mom and Sister still live in OK.
Guess they didn’t get the memo:
Oklahoma sucks so Texas won’t fall into the Gulf of Mexico.
LOL
God’s warning to Silicon Valley.
calaveras fault [parallel to hayward fault]
Emergency services are training for the big midwestern one.
It’s a SCARY prospect. A LOT of people could die.
I look forward to moving into a one-story house.
>>>>Emergency services are training for the big midwestern one.
Indeed. The CERT team I volunteer with is likely to be called up to assist when/if the New Madrid lets go.
We don’t hear a lot about the training...but I have family in EMS and Fire.
Some of the things they are telling me about training/potential damage ... well, I guess it’s better NOT to know.
If it happens...EVERYONE will be CERT.
You will be digging your neighbors out and providing aid to the best of your ability.
Thnx. Of course I have USGS Nor-Cal bookmarked after that 5 something from about five years ago.
I have friends in Gilroy basically saying I’m telling a fairytale about feeling it.
Whatever. Told em to go lok at my vanit and the 3 which preceded mine by mere seconds.
The biggest I’ve had the pleasure of was the upper 4 Morgan Hill quake in the mid ‘80. Had the cars bouncing all over the parking lot at Ft. Ord LOL
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