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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2013 12:09:38 GMT -5
This is for all you northerners, flatlanders and east coasters. You can keep your long winters, tornadoes, hurricanes and whatever else is predicatable (edit: predictable?) in your region. I'll take a random earthquake anytime. This one (2 really) I slept thru. I do remember having a dream thinking I could "hear" an earthquake in my pillow. Maybe I did hear it. They CAN be loud. This one was 3.8 on the Richter scale. It was two miles under the surface of the earth and caused zero damage. www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Quakes/ci11366562.htmlHere is ALL the earthquakes in my region recently www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.htmlIt may seem like a lot, BUT, it takes a 3.5 or so before one can even feel it. Two have been felt recently. Both in the same place. I felt neither, despite them being close by. These could be "pre-shocks" for a larger one soon to come. Not likely. All the myriad of smaller quakes is actually a good thing. Every one of those released "tension" in the faults. They keep the "tension" from building to a very high level. It requires a lot of energy built up and then released at one time for a BIG one to happen. So lot's of little means the faults are sliding well. ![](http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001808077/2852598093_yay_answer_1_xlarge.gif) ![](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/495/assets/Earthquake_felt_in_Tri_State_area_beyond0_1352571946.jpg) And one for rockpickerforever![](http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-i-used-to-sleep-nude-until-the-earthquake-alyssa-milano-126832.jpg)
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 19, 2013 12:24:47 GMT -5
Scott, you are too funny!!! Sorry, but earthquakes or no, I'll continue to sleep nekkid, thank you very much! After having lived in SoCal all but one memorable year of my life, I've experienced plenty of earthquakes. It was funny, people in Alabama were always asking me about the earthquakes and mudslides out here. I pretty much told them what you said: I loved the Real California Milk commercial with the happy cows. See Scott's post below. Whoooooo hoooo! Yeah, those never last long enough. I feel the same way! Well, I will until the big one, anyway... And then there's those sinkholes in Florida. To quote jamesp, "What's w that" (Yeah, Scott, it was a question, LOL!)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2013 12:39:24 GMT -5
That happy cows video you posted is in terrific pig hunting territory. Landowners just tell us not to shoot a cow!
I think this is the video you meant to give us.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 19, 2013 13:45:42 GMT -5
Thank you, Scott, I grabbed the wrong one ![(insane)](//storage.proboards.com/1258779/images/sjMRQMtnaKnKaqKFYToi.gif)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2013 13:50:36 GMT -5
I have lived within 50 miles of three fairly large earthquakes in the last 50 years. Sylmar, Whittier Narrows, Northridge. Those places were pretty messed up. Like the damage of a hurricane.
But only in a small area, 3 times in 50 years.
Blizards up north?
Tornados on the flats?
Hurricanes on the eastern seaboard?
Every year. And you know when they are coming so you can stress far longer in advance over a wider area.
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Post by robsrockshop on Sept 20, 2013 9:27:45 GMT -5
I think I would trade the earthquake possibility for the tornados anyday it's scary as hell out here sometimes. Of course i'm not to awful far from the san andres or however you spell it and have nuclear plants not far to both the north and south. Yay.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2013 11:16:37 GMT -5
I am 15 miles from san andreas. Nuke to the south is closed. Nuke north is pretty far. Like 200 miles or so.
Snow is 45 minute drive if ya want to ski. Surf the same day if you desire. Fresh orange juice of your own tree.
Rockhounding? - well you know that story.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 20, 2013 11:35:31 GMT -5
Scott, that's just mean rubbing it in like that. Now tell him about the high cost of livig here... Ya gotta pay to play!
Okay, I'm outta here, I HAVE TO finish waxing that darn truck!
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 20, 2013 11:52:46 GMT -5
Northridge was the last straw for me. Seeing a solid oak entertainment center and large screen TV dancing across the living room floor, and finding several large cracks in the foundation convinced me it was time to move away from the shaky state. Been snowed in a couple times up here in the high plains. Watched a few tornados pass within a couple miles of me. Even lost a greenhouse to one that was a little too close. A good supply of fire wood and food, and a strong basement tornado shelter takes care of those things. Only thing I miss about California is the desert rockhounding.
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