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Strong Earthquake Kills 17 People in Iran-(are these guys firing of nukes)
ap ^ | 3.31.06 | ALI AKBAR DAREINI,

Posted on 03/30/2006 9:31:26 PM PST by Flavius

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To: Publius

Northridge was only 6.7? I thought it was more. :-P


21 posted on 03/30/2006 10:02:44 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers

It was 6.7, but it was shallow, which made it very destructive. I lived through the 6.8 here in Seattle five years ago. That one was deep, so it did much less damage.


22 posted on 03/30/2006 10:05:05 PM PST by Publius
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To: BunnySlippers

Northridge was indeed "just" Magnitude 6.7

Keep in mind the energy release, and thus destructive power of a quake, goes up 1.4 times for each .1 magnitude, 3 times for each .3 magnitude, 5.5 times for each .5 magnitude, and 32 times for each full magnitude point.

Northridge was 32 times more powerful than this quake in Iran, for example.

The biggest credible quake you could get directly under LA is in the 7.2 to 7.4 range, or upwards of of 5+ times more powerful than Northridge.


23 posted on 03/30/2006 10:06:20 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Publius

Funny as the Whittier quake extracted more damage on my house than Northridge. Although Northridge was a wild ride.


24 posted on 03/30/2006 10:08:31 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: Flavius
This is the warning to the Mullah régime just prior to the final coming showdown.


25 posted on 03/30/2006 10:09:11 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is not free)
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To: Publius

It was much shallower than the Nisqually quake but not REALLY shallow; it was still fairly far underground on a blind thrust.

Also, most of the energy of Northridge was actually directed into fairly uninhabited mountains.

It could have been much, much worse...in timing as well.


26 posted on 03/30/2006 10:09:29 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Publius
That is so cool.


ROVE PRODUCTS

27 posted on 03/30/2006 10:10:26 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: BunnySlippers

Quakes actually direct their energy in many cases like rayguns. It's not surprising at all that you would have had more damage from Whittier....I presume you are further south in the LA area.


28 posted on 03/30/2006 10:10:27 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

That scares the heck outta me. Although my family came here from Germany in the 1870s and not one was hurt in any way by a quake.

Maybe I am in denial.


29 posted on 03/30/2006 10:10:38 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers
I was living in Simi Valley, just across the street from the Reagan Library, for the Northridge event. My apartment building was on granite, so I took minimal damage. The liquifaction zone, however, ran through the golf course across the street and wrecked the clubhouse.

I was living in La Crescenta for the Whittier event, and that one scared the hell out of me. But other than the mirror separating from my chest of drawers, I did all right.

31 posted on 03/30/2006 10:12:02 PM PST by Publius
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To: Strategerist

My home is on a newly discovered fault that runs under downtown LA. I am in the Silverlake range ... an off shoot of downtown LA.

The Whittier quake appeared to "twist" the structure ... not so much shake.


32 posted on 03/30/2006 10:12:57 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers

There's some evidence that the Los Angeles basin has been in an unusual seismic lull for the last 150 years or so.

Unfortunately, that's when everyone moved there.

In part because they've trenched a lot of faults and found a lot of prehistoric earthquakes, and also because the total stress release of the earthquakes in the last 100+ years hasn't been nearly enough to relieve the stress in the region.


33 posted on 03/30/2006 10:13:44 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: BunnySlippers

Silverlake? The "swish alps"?


34 posted on 03/30/2006 10:14:17 PM PST by Publius
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Yup, the Swish Alps. But my living room has a killer view of the downtown skyline, the Hollywood sign and the beach in the far distance.


35 posted on 03/30/2006 10:16:06 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: Publius

But you are in WA. You used to live here?


36 posted on 03/30/2006 10:16:53 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: Flavius

We HAARP'd em'!


37 posted on 03/30/2006 10:16:54 PM PST by Pro-Bush (One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.)
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To: BunnySlippers

I have a friend who lives in Los Feliz.

They found an assortment of blind thrusts under LA once they started looking for them after Northridge...Elysian Park, Puente Hills, etc. I presume that's what you're referring to.


38 posted on 03/30/2006 10:16:58 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: BunnySlippers

I lived in the L.A. area from 1974 to 1989, and then from 1993 to 1997.


39 posted on 03/30/2006 10:17:54 PM PST by Publius
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To: Strategerist

Yah, but my family is in Ventura for all these years. But then, that is not so far away.


40 posted on 03/30/2006 10:18:16 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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