Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 Only 4.4? That's an, "Oh, that must have been an earthquake." 1 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 If it didn’t swallow up Emperor Nuisance, it wasn’t big enough!! I hope nobody was injured! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 Total damage - $4.37. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Maverick Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 9 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said: Total damage - $4.37. must have spilt a half a cup of coffee. TM 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 It wasn’t even a 5.0. 5.0 and over I get a notification from my Earthquake Pro app. 4.4 gives some people something to talk about in the coffee room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 I thought twarnt much but thought I’d mention it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 (edited) 17 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: I thought twarnt much but thought I’d mention it. Anything between 3.3 and 7.0 is worth speculating if it was just a pre-shock. This based on Loma Prieta experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake That morning, I committed to dropping a coworker off at a tire shop after work to pick up his car. The quake happened at 5;04 PM. I did drop him off, workers were still finishing cars using hand wrenches and conserving compressed air for the lifts. I knew how to work the phone system to get an outside line and dial up my in-laws (old dial phone) to let them know they were my destination; no word yet from my (now) ex. After explaining how to get an outside line to others, I headed out. Ran out of gas about 5 miles from the in-laws, got to the side of the road. Got out my "go(-home) bag." Changed to fresh socks and hiking shoes, chugged a bottle of water, and started walking. Intersections were a challenge, cars had priority, pedestrians did not, and bless the untrained volunteers directing traffic as best they could. Got some more water at a Greek restaurant, shared news I knew with what they knew, and continued on. What would normally have taken about an hour took five. The in-laws had a mess. Helped get the kitchen safe, the garage would have to wait. Lots of stuff fell trapping their car in, but they had nowhere to be. Power was out regionally. My (now) ex was at home. From the in-laws, I walked home. We got power back two days later, aftershocks made cleanup dicey at times, things got sort of normal a few days later. was good to hear stores were getting stocked again, cell services were coming back on line, and a few more days had work open up again. Floors in the buildings had some permanent shifts, little bumps in the carpet where concrete slabs had shifted a bit. Quite a few died, mostly between decks of a collapsed freeway. Some cleanup took years, like getting rid of the Embarcadero. That was a big improvement for "The City." I used to sail on the bay, and enjoyed the change. Edited August 13 by John Kloehr 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 That was not an earthquake... it was a Newsom fart. Just letting off steam in lieu of The Big One. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 Just imagine an earthquake that swallowed up Emperor Gaggme Nuisance and nothing else!! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 4 hours ago, Cypress Sun said: Total damage - $4.37. That was for cleaning the shorts.... Texas Lizard Did not even feel it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 Thanks but I will stick with tornadoes and hailstorms in Mizzoorah. Gotta pick the risks you can sleep with. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 9 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said: Thanks but I will stick with tornadoes and hailstorms in Mizzoorah. Gotta pick the risks you can sleep with. You might want to read about New Madrid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811–1812_New_Madrid_earthquakes 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 13 Author Share Posted August 13 I figure the New Madrid fault and Yellowstone caldera to hit about the same time. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 1 hour ago, John Kloehr said: You might want to read about New Madrid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811–1812_New_Madrid_earthquakes Been there, felt tiny tremors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: I figure the New Madrid fault and Yellowstone caldera to hit about the same time. ... I reckon there's a good chance that exact thing might happen! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 I guess we're very lucky up here, in the Ottawa/Hull/Gatineau region of Canada. We're right a couple of fault lines, but we just get barley perceptible tremors. Seismologists tell us the plate we are on seems to be able to gently slide against the others in very small increments, thus avoiding a big one. So, if you can handle 6 months or so of cold weather, come on up and join us!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irish ike, SASS #43615 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 Lived is So. Cal for 47 years. Anything under 6 I didn't get excited. Look at a Calif. fault map. It looks like a road map. I worked as an Architect designing hospitals. They have to be designed to be operational after the big one. After the 71 quake where hospitals were taken out of service because a sewer line in the ceiling broke, or generators came off their pads things changed quickly. The new design codes added about 20% to construction costs! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 I am FAR more concerned about catastrophe and destruction after November 4. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 I lived in SoCal for almost 40 years. We had quakes all the time. The worst one I ever personally experienced was in Logan, Utah about 1963. A year later I was in a movie and had three lines in about 45 seconds. The director wasn't happy with the way it was going. Somewhere about the sixth take a quake hit just as I spoke my first line. I didn't even pause. That's the one they kept. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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