Posted on 03/16/2011 8:53:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
LOL
You are so not worried as am I.
Everyone’s looking at Cali. But, what about New Madrid? If that went it could be a real doozy. People there are not prepared for a huge earthquake. The homes and buildings are not up to the same code that Cali’s are.
Well, the 9.0 to 10.0 quake for the Pacific Northwest will put them all to shame ... hoo-boy! ... that’s the Cascadia Subduction Zone quake ... get ready folks!
Where will you get the extra power to shut it down? The problem is that there is very little excess generating capacity, and even less transmission capacity.
Reminds me of an old song from some 1969 TV show..
“Where can you go,
When there’s no san Francisco?
Better get ready,
To tie up the boat in Idaho”.
So California might not break off and fall into the Pacific like I heard a lot when I was a kid? ;-)
I don’t wanna be anywhere near 75% of that city when anything larger than 7 hits. There’s simply nowhere to run.
California has a very different plate boundary than does Japan, Sumatra or Chili. Additionally, small and medium quakes occur daily along the length of the faults. Perhaps this lessens the risk of a 9.0 quake. However, I don’t think anyone really knows for sure. Scientists can make educated guesses but don’t take them as guarantees.
I wouldn’t want to either. But living in San Jose and my work taking me from Hollister to Marin, when it happens I’ll be in it.
On another note, the quake in October that was 4.7 that had a fit, start and then just stopped had me and my friend who is 100 laughing.
For some reason we thought it was funny and we kept on doing what we were doing.
Long as the buildings fall on Illegals, then no damage done.
They’ve been predicting “The BIG ONE” since the sixties.
Its not the quake I would worry about but the super volcano known as Yellowstone would likely go at the same time, the entire region could be gone in less than a day.
Boy that is nice. Orange Co is one of the most conservative counties in the USA and you are killing all those people, including me and my family.
Wishing mass death is kinda sick don’t you think?
Looking at that picture in post 10 most of the area around the Salton Sea is below sea level. So that means the Pacific Ocean would rush in a fill everything below sea level down to around the Mexican border. That would make for a lot of sea front property in the desert areas.
Japan’s “big one” would have been a lot better without the tsunami.
What could possibly be worse than those modern day Sodom and Gomorrah
Sacramento, the seat of loony left coast political power.
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