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Title: LA Quake
Post by: blobrana on July 26, 2004, 04:59:43 PM

Hum,
just a reminder that the predicted quake is only a month away from hitting the LA area...

So sell your house now!

I`ve just read an article that says that about 95 percent of the slippage at a site on the San Andreas fault northwest of Los Angeles occurs in big earthquakes.

It seems that a `common-sense` notion among many Californians is that frequent small earthquakes allow a fault to slowly relieve accumulating strain, thereby making large earthquakes less likely.
 New research suggests that this is not the case for a long stretch of the San Andreas fault in Southern California.

Paleoseismic research showed that along the section of the fault nearest Los Angeles the average period between large earthquakes is just 130 years. Ominously, 147 years have already passed since the latest large rupture, in 1857.

Get out now!

Title: Re: LA Quake
Post by: FluffyMcDeath on July 26, 2004, 06:36:05 PM

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blobrana wrote:

Paleoseismic research showed that along the section of the fault nearest Los Angeles the average period between large earthquakes is just 130 years. Ominously, 147 years have already passed since the latest large rupture, in 1857.

Get out now!

Up here in Vancouver we get our quakes about every 300 years. The last one was about 300 years ago. We gain about 1 cm elevation annually so we have 3m to lose when the big one comes. My house is on a hill, so at least my rubble won't be below sea level.

Title: Re: LA Quake
Post by: blobrana on July 26, 2004, 06:45:08 PM

Hum,
Avalanche caused by a tremor then?

Title: Re: LA Quake
Post by: PMC on July 26, 2004, 09:00:27 PM

As well as being Britain's oldest town, my home town (Colchester) also had a famous earthquake in the late 19th Century.  

One person is recorded as having been killed in the event.

Title: Re: LA Quake
Post by: KennyR on July 27, 2004, 06:47:11 PM

Build a city in an earthquake zone between two mountain ranges and right on the sea. What a good idea that was.

Title: Re: LA Quake
Post by: blobrana on July 27, 2004, 08:33:54 PM

Hum,
i believe that Wayne lives there.

Title: Re: LA Quake
Post by: T_Bone on August 04, 2004, 01:49:33 AM

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blobrana wrote:
Hum,
i believe that Wayne lives there.

Wayne? Bama lama (Alabama) I think... Huntsville?

Title: Re: LA Quake
Post by: blobrana on August 04, 2004, 02:31:41 AM

hum,
is that why this is the North Alabama Society of Amiga Users (NASAU)?



hum,
must be thinking of someone else....