It's earthquake weather

[onewhippedpuppy]

Having experienced a few very mild earthquakes I’m with Glenn. I’ll take tornadoes and hurricanes all day long. What a creepy and disorienting feeling.

[Tobra]

I was in SF in 1989, it was impressive

[vash]

earthquakes are awful.

but in general, CA is sorta prepared. our infrastructure is designed against catastrophic failure. it doesnt mean you wont get beaned in the head by a brick. but the new bridges wont disappear below your car. that's the plan.

that said, it would still be a nightmare. most people i know, live "ready". i wont even let my truck fuel gauge drop below half. (till i get to AZ)

[JavaBrewer]

I'm in North county San Diego ~ 20 years and just a few rumbles and shakes now and then so far... My understanding is that our location is on lots of bedrock and should a big one hit SA we will hopefully be somewhat protected. My home Santa Barbara likely not as much, but it's a stick home built in the '60s and has gone through several good sized quakes with no damage.

I was in Tokyo for the big quake, in the bus heading to Narita. We pulled out of the hotel entrance and at the first light in front of Starbucks it hit. I was stranded there for 24 hours...managed to find operating transport to Narita for the next day departure. Plane was at 10% capacity...most could not get there for the flight.

Growing up in SoCal I have lived through a few memorable quakes. The Japan quake was very different. Many hours after the initial big hit the ground was still moving. We were stranded in the bus terminal (T-CAT) the night of and the coat hangers never stopped moving. I headed to a Japanese equivalent of 7-11 for some beer, sushi, and chips and made it a party in the middle of the terminal. I was not aware of the loss of life far North due to Tsunami...so sad.

[vash]

Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

I'm in North county San Diego ~ 20 years and just a few rumbles and shakes now and then so far... My understanding is that our location is on lots of bedrock and should a big one hit SA we will hopefully be somewhat protected. My home Santa Barbara likely not as much, but it's a stick home built in the '60s and has gone through several good sized quakes with no damage.

I was in Tokyo for the big quake, in the bus heading to Narita. We pulled out of the hotel entrance and at the first light in front of Starbucks it hit. I was stranded there for 24 hours...managed to find operating transport to Narita for the next day departure. Plane was at 10% capacity...most could not get there for the flight.

Growing up in SoCal I have lived through a few memorable quakes. The Japan quake was very different. Many hours after the initial big hit the ground was still moving. We were stranded in the bus terminal (T-CAT) the night of and the coat hangers never stopped moving. I headed to a Japanese equivalent of 7-11 for some beer, sushi, and chips and made it a party in the middle of the terminal. I was not aware of the loss of life far North due to Tsunami...so sad.

tokyo is wild!! i was in the train station and i noticed these HUGE columns in the underground areas. i was thinking..that makes no sense to put a column that big in a crowded walkway. until i went outside..it dawned on me that those giant columns were the foundations to the skyscrapers built above the underground city. blew my mind. i bet it is an extra pucker factor when the world shakes over there.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

When the big one comes, head to Barstow.
When I consulted for the DoD, I saw the maps.
The USMC @ Nebo & Yermo have layouts for giant tent cities. The spot I staked out will be called Nebo Heights when I get there to my corner lot

[GH85Carrera]

It has to suck real bad at home to ever WANT to go to Barstow. Maybe another garden spot like Boron, CA or Needles. For sure not the mental picture people think of when they think of California.

The good news for Barstow is it is the start of I-40 headed east out of there.

[sammyg2]

LOL detail of faults under and around Barstow:

[sammyg2]

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Last year they had a 7 in Lone Pine which I felt here in LV..then there were literally hundreds of after shocks which I could feel a slight swaying in the house.

Go directly west of Lone Pine and see that that fault zone intersects the San Andreas just south of San Louis Obispo in the Coastal mountain range.

[sammyg2]

The 1872 Owens Valley earthquake – also known as the Lone Pine earthquake – struck on March 26 at 02:30 local time in the Owens Valley (California, along the east side of the Sierra Nevada), with the epicenter near the town of Lone Pine.

Its magnitude has been estimated at Mw 7.4 to 7.9, with a maximum Mercalli Intensity of X (Extreme).
It was one of the largest earthquakes to hit California in recorded history and was similar in size to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Twenty-seven people were killed and fifty-six were injured.

The earthquake resulted from sudden vertical movement of 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6.1 m) and right-lateral movement of 35 to 40 feet (11 to 12 m) on the Lone Pine Fault and part of the Owens Valley Fault.
These faults are part of a twin system of normal faults that run along the base of two parallel mountain ranges; the Sierra Nevada on the west and the Inyo Mountains on the east of the Owens Valley.
It created fault scars from north of Big Pine, 55 miles (89 km) north of Lone Pine, to Haiwee Reservoir (30 miles (48 km)) south of Lone Pine.

the wik


The white dots are sites of earthquakes of mag 3.0 or larger during a 10 year period.
Not zackly stable

[sammyg2]

Does anyone else find this kind of creepy?

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Me too. I'd never noticed one until I was about 21 years old. I always thought they were those things that made the house plant leaves waver a bit, or gave you that "wooo too much coffee" feeling.

Then, post Christchurch earthquake, all the earthquakes have been big ones. Walls moving 100mm back and forth, a bit hard to stand up. One even made the sea recede about 200 meters

100 mm?

[Evans, Marv]

Tehachapi 1952. I think it was around 11 people killed that morning in town (pop. less than 2K). A few funny stories were told to my dad who was the manager of the Standard station at the main intersection in town. One: A guy came into his station a couple of days later with black eyes. Told my dad he slept on the outside of the bed with his wife. When the quake went off, he stood up in bed and jumped out right into the wall. The quake had walked the bed across the room so his side was near the wall. Two: Of course everyone was paniced to get out of their houses. Two neighbor couples ran out of their houses and were standing out in front. The men were standing together talking as were the wives. The men noticed the women snickering and looked at each other and realized they were both naked.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by Tobra

I was in SF in 1989, it was impressive

I fell asleep reading about Nostradamus earthquake prediction and woke up to news reports of that earthquake. Very freaky.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

100 mm?

Yes, a bit scary. I kept thinking is this going to get worse, there are much more fun things to die of than an earthquake. Quite lot of noise too. Someone said it's the nails in the house pulling out then back into their original locations. Cats and dogs don't know whether to run or not so they stared at me for an example.

It's a wooden house so doesn't crack like concrete.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Does anyone else find this kind of creepy?

Yep, that's a lot of people to die in an earthquake.

[Evans, Marv]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Yes, a bit scary. I kept thinking is this going to get worse, there are much more fun things to die of than an earthquake. Quite lot of noise too. Someone said it's the nails in the house pulling out then back into their original locations. Cats and dogs don't know whether to run or not so they stared at me for an example.

It's a wooden house so doesn't crack like concrete.

In the earthquake we went through in 1952, I was awakened in the beginning light of morning by what sounded like a freight train bearing down. My bed started moving, & I jumped out & looked out the window. A big tree outside had a large, horizontal limb that started moving violently up & down & I realized what was going on,even though I'd never experienced one. I ran to my sisters' bunk beds & woke up my sister on the top, who jumped down to the floor from the top. We had to struggle to wake up our little sister on the bottom bumk. As we ran into the hallway, we could see our parents (one bare bulb in the center) running toward us from the other end, but none of us were making any headway. It was really loud and supposedly lasted 40+ seconds. Finally as we were all running through the front room toward the front door, one of my sisters sat down on the couch & we had to pull her up & outside. Ouside on the front porch, my dad wanted to go in for jackets, but every time he tried there was an aftershock. Eventually he just went inside & got jackets for us. My cat disappeared for three days before and came nonchalently walking in a couple of hours afterwards. I remember seeing horses rearing and neighing in their pens (sort like they were panicked) for a few days before as we drove by & asked my mother what was wrong with them. We had a long, side yard with some fruit trees lined up. I remember sitting on the yard days later when a "rolling" aftershock came and could see the ground slightly undulatiing.

[Tobra]

That is a lot of dead people Bill, especially an earthquake in a sparsely populated area like that.

Originally Posted by dad911

I fell asleep reading about Nostradamus earthquake prediction and woke up to news reports of that earthquake. Very freaky.

At least we know who to blame now.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

If your TV is still working, the earthquake was in the desert or mountains.
No TV means L.A. region was epicenter

I always turn off my house power, the Big bear quake in 95 had the neighborhood down to 70 volts. All of my neighbors had microwaves and TV's that were toasted.