Eat your heart out, San Francisco!

I think you still have some catching up to do. ;)

Azle has had:

1 earthquake today
3 earthquakes in the past 7 days
4 earthquakes in the past month
6 earthquakes in the past year

San Francisco has had:

1 earthquake today
5 earthquakes in the past 7 days
43 earthquakes in the past month
101 earthquakes in the past year
 
I hate earthquakes. Please keep them. I'll take tornadoes over the ground moving any day of the week.
 
I actually find earthquakes entertaining. An incredibly powerful force. In all the 'quakes I've been through, I've only lost one drinking glass.
 
denverpilot said:
I hate earthquakes. Please keep them. I'll take tornadoes over the ground moving any day of the week.
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See...I am the opposite. In an earthquake simply run outside and you are safe. That is the LAST thing you wanna do in a tornado!
 
denverpilot said:
I hate earthquakes. Please keep them. I'll take tornadoes over the ground moving any day of the week.
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Not me. I grew up in northern Alabama, not quite Tornado Alley, but sure felt like it sometimes. Scary stuff when the tornado sirens go off, and you have no idea where one might be. We lived in a mid 50's house with no basement, so my Mom would throw everything out of a hallway closet, and that was our go-to spot if we felt one was actually going to hit us. Luckily, one never did.

I'll take my chances with earthquakes over tornados.

Now, they even come with SHARKS in them! Double scary!
 
jchang10 said:
I think you still have some catching up to do. ;)

Azle has had:

1 earthquake today
3 earthquakes in the past 7 days
4 earthquakes in the past month
6 earthquakes in the past year

San Francisco has had:

1 earthquake today
5 earthquakes in the past 7 days
43 earthquakes in the past month
101 earthquakes in the past year
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Who knows? It might happen. There's some evidence that these might be "performance enhanced" earthquakes due to doping, and injections will likely be continuing for a while: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/04/earthquake-co2-texas-idUSL2N0IP1XR20131104
 
Shawn said:
See...I am the opposite. In an earthquake simply run outside and you are safe. That is the LAST thing you wanna do in a tornado!
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You don't want to do that in an earthquake either, as power lines and such may fall on you. They say the safest thing to do is to stand in a doorway. I have lived in CA my whole life; The first half in SoCal and the worst I have personally seen is broken windows. The SF quake was different, though, but the big thing was bridges collapsing. Buildings and bridges being built now have to be able to handle a fairly large quake.


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John221us said:
You don't want to do that in an earthquake either, as power lines and such may fall on you. They say the safest thing to do is to stand in a doorway. I have lived in CA my whole life; The first half in SoCal and the worst I have personally seen is broken windows. The SF quake was different, though, but the big thing was bridges collapsing. Buildings and bridges being built now have to be able to handle a fairly large quake.


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Not around where the OP lives. The direct deaths in Santa Cruz County were due to failure of a brick wall at the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Co., which was then located near the Flatiron.

There was widespread masonry failure all along the coastal plain, and it devastated central Santa Cruz. Landslides cut off all the highways into the county and THIS was the big deal.

And NO bridges collapsed in 1989. The Bay Bridge broke, and 880 is not a bridge.
 
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I hate to practice earthquake snobbery, but a 2.6 ain't no earthquake! I don't even feel them until they are around a 5.
 
MAKG1 said:
And NO bridges collapsed in 1989. The Bay Bridge broke, and 880 is not a bridge.
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Well, the Cypress Structure looked kinda like a bridge.

I always thought that thing looked ugly, but it's too bad people had to die to get rid of it. :(
 
Sac Arrow said:
I hate to practice earthquake snobbery, but a 2.6 ain't no earthquake! I don't even feel them until they are around a 5.
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A really nearby 5 might knock a few things off shelves (BTDT), but a few miles away, no one will notice.

A 2.6 is not detectable by a human. Even a 3 directly under your butt is going to think you might have had a few too many last night, for a second or two, if you even notice it.

For comparison, a 7 80 miles away can knock you on your keister (BTDT, too) and cause significant, but well short of catastrophic, damage.
 
Palmpilot said:
Well, the Cypress Structure looked kinda like a bridge.

I always thought that thing looked ugly, but it's too bad people had to die to get rid of it. :(
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Yeah, it was hideous. It got rid of the never-completed (and therefore unnecessary) Embarcadero Freeway as well. No one died on that one, or on the section of 280 that was replaced (but that one still is hideous).

I was at 880 that night, in West Oakland, trying to help out at a neighboring Red Cross shelter. Everyone thought there were thousands of casualties. It turns out, there were only a few dozen, due to the World Series. A normally packed lower deck was nearly empty.
 
Palmpilot said:
Well, the Cypress Structure looked kinda like a bridge.
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Maybe it wasn't a bridge if you define "bridge" as being over water but it was definitely elevated and double decker and it did collapse.
 
A magnatude of 2.6!? that's adorable :D

We barely take note of anything lower than around 3-3.4 when a magnatude of about 4 hits, we pause for a moment and say "oh, an Eathquake, how novel :goofy:"

And remember that the Richter Scale is exponential, the difference between a 7 and an 8 is waaayyyy bigger than a 3 vs. 4

Me personally, I'd rather have the MAJOR Earthquake every 20-30 years versus a "Hurricane SEASON!" :hairraise:

But to each their own...
 
My experience was with a 7.2 a long ways away. Never again. Nope. Didn't like seeing the ceiling going a different direction than the floor I was lying on when it started.
 
IIRC, the Loma Prieta quake was seven-point-something. I remember that I had a hard time putting the soldering iron back in its holder.
 
My experience was the Landers quake. Just looked it up. 7.3 instead of. 7.2 I guess.

I wasn't enjoying myself. Y'all can keep that crap.
 
Had a three something here a few years ago, actually felt it as I was laying in bed summoning the energy to get up for the day. Wasn't sure about it until I looked at the clock on the dresser and saw it was still swinging though.
 
John221us said:
Buildings and bridges being built now have to be able to handle a fairly large quake.
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It's been that way for many years, at least in the more populated areas. I was involved in high rise hotel construction management back in the '80's and had projects in Irvine, La Jolla, Humboldt Bay, and others. All were designed to withstand large earthquakes. Exact numbers, I don't recall.
 
If you search this site, you will find quakes from 1-3 are pretty common around the world. The earth seems to do a lot of shaking rattling, and rolling. And isn't there a major fault line running through the midwest. Some even say past quakes in that area were greater than the 1906 SF quake.
 
silver-eagle said:
If you search this site, you will find quakes from 1-3 are pretty common around the world. The earth seems to do a lot of shaking rattling, and rolling. And isn't there a major fault line running through the midwest. Some even say past quakes in that area were greater than the 1906 SF quake.
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At one time, USGS published a top ten list for major US earthquakes. There was one on the list from California, and it wasn't 1906. 1906 wasn't that big. Most of the damage came from the fire it set off. You can walk around the rupture zone; it's near the Point Reyes National Seashore HQ. For comparison, the 1857 Tejon rupture was 200 miles long. Just, no spectacular aerial photographs, no Clark Gable movie, and it's still BFE.

California earthquake building codes date back to the Long Beach quake in the 30s. That one made it clear the brick walls don't do very well.
 
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MAKG1 said:
You can walk around the rupture zone; it's near the Point Reyes National Seashore HQ.
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In the little town of Olema where the epicenter of 1906 was, you can do a little "earthquake walk" where you can see a picket fence that all the sudden stops and then starts again about 8 feet away. Pretty cool to check out!
 
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