Wanna see somethin' cool where I live?

[Oeditpus Rex]

See how the curb's crooked? That's from earthquakes.

Here, you're pretty much standing right on the Calaveras Fault, which is about 10 miles from the San Andreas Fault.

:bounce:

[bertha katzenengel]

1. I am SO homesick.

:cry:

:hi: Rex

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. What fault did you live on?

Whittier? :bounce:



Oh — how's the Mrs.?

[bertha katzenengel]

3. I lived a lotta places in the late 80s and early 90s

Not sure exactly what faults. Lived very near San Andreas a couple of times. Lived about four miles from the Whittier Narrows epicenter when that quake hit. Oh, what a bucket o' fun that was.

Do you remember the Sylmar Quake? 2/9/71, my mother's 30th birthday. :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. We didn't feel the Sylmar quake up here

But She Who Took My Virginity (1974) lived in Pasadena at the time. She wasn't amused.

[bertha katzenengel]

7. It was pretty awesome. I don't mean in its destructive force but in

the impression it had on me.

Then came Whittier Narrows. Then Loma Prieta. Then Landers/Big Bear. Then Northridge. Then Hector Mine.

Then the La Plata (MD) tornado, April 2002. Give. Me. An. Earthquake. Any. Day!

[DS1]

4. That would be so cool of the foul line moved while a wiffleball was still in the air

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. We have special ground rules

just for that reason. :)

[Adsos Letter]

8. Very cool pic...

I was sitting on the second floor of the Student Lounge at Sonoma State when the Loma Prieta hit...the building stood on concrete pylons and really started doing "the twist". You could see these big windows bowing in and out, but they didn't shatter...weird.

We still live very close to a fault-line (pretty-much impossible not to in the Bay Area) and we have learned to tell the difference between the "rollers", "shakers", and the "jolt" type.

Have you been out to the "earthquake walk" at Pt. Reyes?

:D

[Kajsa]

9. Very cool, Rex.

I'm surprised the curb didn't break.

I felt all the big ones except the 1994 Northridge one.

At the time, I was in Santa Cruz.

We flew back the same evening.
It was so weird to fly over the
entire San Fernando Valley
with no lights, whatsoever.

We live in Shake and Bake country.

:hi:

[ashling]

10. How come the picture doesn't show on my computer?

I think this is a plot - a conspiracy, if you will - by all you people in California to drive me crazy! STOP IT!
:eyes:

[lost-in-nj]

11. SSOOOOO

you live in between 2 earthquake faults??????

Next to tornadoes earthquakes are one of the things I am deathly afraid of......
and I was wondering
Do you think about it everyday????
I would :(

stay safe....

lost

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Nah

We get so many little ones that they seem about as significant as rain. There're maybe three per year that can even be felt, and the quakes that do any damage at all, like knocking stuff off shelves, are quite rare — perhaps one in 10 years. Structural damage is much rarer — maybe one in 40 or 50 years.

Sure, you think about it once in awhile, but to think about it all the time would be like an Oklahoman or something thinking constantly about tornadoes.

[skygazer]

12. That's cool

I found out recently looking at some survey maps that my house is pretty much on top of San Andreas. The place where I lived when I first got out here was only a few miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake but that was 10 years before I landed.

Just been some minor jiggles since I moved here 8 years ago.

[Zoigal]

13. Hi Skygazer,

Do you by any chance live off Highway 17 on the road to Santa Cruz? Lived in Los Gatos for quite a few years.
Know the area well. Miss it. LA is too darn crowded. So far no quakes of significance since we moved down here, though.
However, our quake kit is ready and waiting.

[u4ic]

15. Man, I'd be freaked living there...

:scared: