Earthquake damage along Napa's Brown St.

[yuiyoshida]

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Now we know the area hasn't felt anything like that since those were built.

[2banon]

4. woke up to windows and doors rattling

I live just under 60 miles southwest, in Alameda. No serious damage here thankfully. It's always a trip to wake up to earthquakes though, you never know where the epicenter is, the strength and length until it's over. Laying in bed and waking up to the reality of a quake in progress puts it all in perspective in a matter of nanoseconds.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. It was in SoCal for Northridge that I discovered it's a good idea to lock the wheels on a bedframe.

[2banon]

12. didn't know that could be done.. hmm.. how does that work?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Mine had those little rocker levers on the caster wheels....

Kinda like these:


Mine weren't locked so the bed rolled all over the room and then into the mirrored closet doors.

CRASH!

Luckily nobody got cut from all of the broken glass in the bed.

[2banon]

15. Wow! You Were Lucky!!

I had no idea about these different options.. I'll check mine out to see if I have these.

One thing I do have underneath the rollers, are those flat whatcha-ma-call-it thingys (for moving heavy furniture) because I have hardwood floors, and my bed tends to roll around under normal conditions.

But I'm due for a new bed, so I'll make sure i have locks on the rollers next time around.

Thanks for the heads up and the images!

[PatrynXX]

5. either that or the buildings used to be better built

they are now but in the late 20th century they weren't... ie how a bridge from the 70's comes down but the one from 1920 or so in the twin cities no problem. ahem Cheap = Cheap.. and that's still standing..

[grahampuba]

8. Codes

I would much rather be in a building built within the last 20 years than an early 1900's masonry building, which all of shown in this clip were. Looks like these two lost their exterior brick wythe but are still standing, albeit compromised.

They didn't really design buildings to withstand lateral shifting back then.

While construction materials are definitely cheaper, the current building codes save lives without a doubt.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. A lot of stuff prior to 1906 already fell.

[2naSalit]

2. Guess I need

to call my nephew and his cousin (my niece) who live near there.

Thanks for the news.

There have been at least three other big shakers in the past 24 hrs. all on separate continents (one in Iceland

[drynberg]

3. So, if that's what a 6.0 brings, imagine an 8.0 (X100)

Start by not living near the fault lines...

[2banon]

6. That's almost impossible in California

Fault Lines nearly everywhere.

[PatrynXX]

7. face palm n/t

[ffr]

14. Just to clarify.

An 8.0 is 100 times bigger than a 6.0 on a seismogram, but the energy released is 1,000 times greater.



I remember being about 90 miles away from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, working on the second floor of an old bank building. That was a very violent, intense and long shake. Early predictions were that it was a 7.8, but I see now it was only a 6.9. That seems odd, because Coalinga, CA's 1983 temblor was a 6.2 and it felt more like a ~5.0. Enough to slosh water out of our backyard pool, but nowhere near as violent as Loma Prieta.

[mackerel]

9. Actually that all facade that has been redone over the

original work. Epi-center was American Canyon. I hope my house in Vallejo is ok.