What if a bigger quake above 9 hits in the next 24 hours?

[itsrobert]

It might happen.

[Poll_Blind]

1. LOL, this game is so dire as it is "What If?" type scenarious are totally unimportant.

Just sayin'

PB

[wellstone dem]

2. That would be bad. nt

[mulsh]

3. A quake of any magnitutde can hit at any moment. any moment.

It is a fact I have lived with most of my life.
For most of that time I have either lived right on top of the Hayward Fault or with in a mile or so if it.
Oh, and although scientists are gaining greater understanding of seismic actions no one can accurately predict when a quake will occur.
cheers

[sharesunited]

4. That is very unlikely. The big ones happen first due to years of unreleased tension.

What follows is a settling out of displacement tension caused by the initial quake.

[glinda]

5. Sometimes I think the oil was the glue that held the earth together.

[RKP5637]

8. We're out of oil, our gas gage is on zero, the earth engine is starting to clank and

we're about to stall. Well, something like that ...

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. And the bearings gave up 800 million years ago

:-)

Sorry could not help

[RKP5637]

14. Yep, I think we're gonna lose the wheels anytime now, and the spare tire's flat!

We're all going to have to push this jalopy along pretty soon!
:)

[glinda]

19. ... in a waterless desert.....

[RKP5637]

24. With a sand storm coming! ... who was driving this thing anyway.

:)

[Cleita]

12. I'm wondering about that too.

It seems those oil reservoirs in the earth, that were created since Pangaea as organic matter decomposed into oil could have been destabilized when we started to empty them and there was nothing to hold the walls up anymore. Of course there is nothing scientific about my theory. It's just a thought.

[Duer 157099]

20. Maybe not glue, but the lubricant between plates so they could slip easily

that would be an interesting theory.

[Lyric]

26. I am no expert on plate tectonics or petroleum engineering.

But don't the plates sit on top of the outer mantle, which is basically a layer of miles-thick, plastic (in the adjective sense, not the noun sense) molten rock--a.k.a., magma? The oil wouldn't go down that far. I mean, it's oil. It's flammable. It would be incinerated if it were down there in between the plates themselves.

Like I said, I'm no expert. But my own common sense tells me that the oil is probably locked inside of the crust that sits on top of the plates--not in between them.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. You kid, actually on a serious note

a geologist offered the possibility that it could be a foreshock for something bigger, given that two days ago it was a 7.5... before the quake. But the probability of that goes down as hours pass by order of magnitude.


And bigger than 9.0 that be EPIC, it is already EPIC

[Mnemosyne]

7. Always the optimist, eh, Robert?

I've had the same thoughts. :(

[Cleita]

10. I'm almost afraid to go to bed.

Every day this week, we have been waking up to something mind boggling.

[RKP5637]

17. You know, just a few minutes ago I was thinking similar, each day brings another

catastrophe one way or another.
:scared: :hide:

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. This should be a plot for a disaster movie

not the real thing

[SheilaT]

11. Where the quake occurs is the first most important thing.

How deep? How long does the shaking go on? If a 9.5 occurred in the middle of Antarctica, it wouldn't do much damage anywhere.

If it were near any major population center that's another story. If the shaking is only 15 seconds, as in the Loma Prieta quake, the damage will be a lot less than if it goes on for five full minutes, as in the Good Friday quake in Alaska.

Details matter.

[JVS]

13. Every reactor in Japan will instantly explode.

[roamer65]

15. Higly unlikely, but aftershocks in the 7 range are very possible.

[Motown_Johnny]

16. and what if it doesn't?

[BarbaRosa]

18. That's what I've been thinking,

did this quake settle things in place, or dislodge things where BIG things are about (geological time) to happen?

[madinmaryland]

21. Un-recced. Let's not go there. Thanks.

[SoCalDem]

22. What if Charlie Sheen proposed to Lindsay Lohan & they had their engagement party at Olive Garden?

:rofl:

[gkhouston]

25. Aren't we fucked enough already? n/t