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| THE BIG ONE; Earthquake Probabilities | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 26 2010, 10:44 PM (1,858 Views) | |
| Vačscent | Jul 26 2010, 10:44 PM Post #1 |
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The Westering Sun
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IT IS INEVITABLE ... in teh bay areaaaa-?
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| Crash | Jul 26 2010, 10:47 PM Post #2 |
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Wheey! I've became a human being!! I am very handsam!
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DUN DUN |
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| Jarnakel Magnus | Jul 26 2010, 11:00 PM Post #3 |
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Nothing to siege here, move along.
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RUN AWEEEEEEY No seriously. I dun want any of you livin' in teh bay area to be killed by a little bit of moving earth because humans like to pack themselves together in high densities with lots of flammable material and tall heavy things to fall on them. |
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| Vačscent | Jul 28 2010, 07:53 PM Post #4 |
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Doesn't scare me all that much. =P All of our buildings are retrofitted, or in the process of being retrofitted even further. A lot of regulation here unlike what you saw in Haiti awhile back. Although, being surrounded by multiple faults is >_____> |
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| Gilgamesh | Jul 28 2010, 08:20 PM Post #5 |
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solbowz Aurarius
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Well, sooner or later that strip of land is going to break off, since it's part of the Pacific plate (I think). ...A lot later, though :U |
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| Vačscent | Jul 28 2010, 08:29 PM Post #6 |
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The -main- fault is the San Andreas Fault you see there, while the others are spurs. Much of the region is technically on the North American plate, although it might look a little messy a couple million years from now. =3 |
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| Airi | Jul 28 2010, 08:58 PM Post #7 |
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There's no way I'll lose!
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That's it. I am NOT moving to California. xD |
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| Delfeir | Jul 29 2010, 06:47 AM Post #8 |
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Adachi is not amused.
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I've got plenty of good friends in California, but thankfully they're down further south where the mega quake is a lot less likely to bring great ruin to. They have in fact mentioned The Big One possibility before though, so... good luck? |
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| Tlephle | Jul 29 2010, 07:37 AM Post #9 |
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There's one waiting to happen over here, too. The last one of large consequence one was disastrous, with a magnitude of about nine degrees in the Richter scale. |
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| Jenn-uh | Jul 29 2010, 09:01 AM Post #10 |
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In MO we have the New Madrid fault which is supposed to go off with a 6.0 in the next 30 years. |
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| Adnarel | Jul 29 2010, 09:11 AM Post #11 |
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I'd rather be outside.
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There's been some suspicion in recent years that the fabled "New Madrid Quake" of 1811 was actually the fault (har har) of the Wabash Fault, rather than the New Madrid Fault. Either way, suck it, Californians. America's most widely-felt earthquake happened in the midwest. |
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| Zabby | Jul 29 2010, 10:05 AM Post #12 |
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A while back I saw this whole conspiracy thing about a "Bible Code", it stated the "Big One" was slated for 2010. So... GET THE HELL OUT OF CALIFORNIA! |
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| Gilgamesh | Jul 29 2010, 03:58 PM Post #13 |
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solbowz Aurarius
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Your sense of pride. It is odd. ...Lawls, I lived in both places. I guess earthquakes want to stalk me like ninjas :U |
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| Airi | Jul 29 2010, 04:52 PM Post #14 |
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There's no way I'll lose!
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I only had one earthquake happen where I was. And I slept through it. XD |
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| Vačscent | Jul 30 2010, 06:00 AM Post #15 |
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We have minor 4-5.0 earthquakes all the time, and I sleep through -all- of them.... Well, except for the ones I don't - but I don't feel them. =P Gasp. Sounds like you live somewhere in the Ring of Fire, Tlephle. Zabbeth, one of our major/busy transbay bridge spans is currently in the process of being built to replace an aging one. It won't be completed until... 2013. ;_; What happens in the Bay, stays in the Bay! (I mean this with sincerity.) >___> And WHAT, there are faults in the midwest? ... Actually, yes, I've heard of it. We in west coast seem to think that everything east of the rockies is flat and un-seismic. The Appalachians are merely hills to us, you see. True, the main fault line runs to the east of where much of the population mass lives in Southern California. On a sidenote, that means Los Angeles (being entirely on the Pacific Plate) will one day be right next to whatever torn up mess of the Bay Area that's left.... NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! |
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| Jenn-uh | Jul 31 2010, 03:32 PM Post #16 |
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I remember a 4.0ish earthquake from the wabash fault 2 years ago. It woke me up really early in the morning and my first thought was that there was a creeper shaking my bed. Anyone else feel it? |
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| Dreaming Sun | Aug 2 2010, 07:23 AM Post #17 |
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Isn't it that, in a developed country like America, espescially one that's built to anticipate earthquakes, the casualties will be miniscule? As in, like, no more than 10, even for one that powerful? The only reason that so many people died in Haiti was because the buildings were so fragile, an eartquake that wouldn't do anything in a developed country would have had a similar effect there. |
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| Vačscent | Aug 2 2010, 08:23 AM Post #18 |
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This is correct. The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake here (note: over twenty years ago) was a 6.9-7.1 in magnitude and what happened in Haiti was also about a 7.0.... Drastic difference when it came to casualties and structural damage. Also, the Chile Earthquake last February was a whopping 8.8, and nowhere near the amount of people were injured there because of the country's more advanced retrofitting technologies, stricter building codes, and such. The aforementioned bridge being slated for completion here in 2013 is just one of the many responses to that quake over twenty years ago. Soil liquefaction is a huge factor, too - and especially in urban areas. A lot of the actual damage from Loma Prieta occurred about 60 miles (~97 km) away from the epicenter, for instance. Luckily, I live up on a hill where it's a lot more stable. |
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| Phoenix7 | Aug 3 2010, 05:04 AM Post #19 |
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Odyssey, ya see~ Odyssey, ya see~
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Was that the one where just a shoemaker and a prison inmate survived the destruction? A fair few centuries back, but I remember there was a heck load of destruction because a tidal wave was also caused. Thank goodness the UK is mild when it comes to earthquakes~ |
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| shingach | Aug 3 2010, 06:06 AM Post #20 |
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well in Belgium, earthquakes are near inexcistent, so are tornado's and we like to believe that a massive tidal wave would only cause damage to holland. that'll teach them, taking land from the sea! |
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