No winning for sure. The two weird things about the Northridge quake were: finding a roommate and moving to a different part of LA instead of taking an apartment in the Northridge Meadows complex (the one that collapsed on itself and killed people)
And my roommate fell asleep on the couch that night and so did NOT get squashed by the huge bookshelf that fell over in his bedroom, dumping hundreds of books out. Luck never hurts!
Happy that everything is OK with you in Italy, MB!
A 9 storey block of flats is about falling into pieces. Surprising my ex home hasn't fallen into pieces.. now sometimes it has happened that when it rains a lot, one or two of the buildings of the historical centre just fall down. Some are still left as they were after bombarding then in the 2nd world war..
I was in San Jose when the 1989 oct. 16th San Francisco Earthquake happened.......
now THAT was an earthquake!!!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>
badtz, well, as with all rolling quakes, the most damage occurs either at the epicenter or pretty far away. For example, San Jose actually saw less damage than SF. SF saw quite a bit of damage compared to my house 20 miles south, which only suffered a few cosmetic cracks in the stucco exterior.
Unless you were really close to Loma Prieta / Santa Cruz, most of the real damage was done 50-60 miles away, like in SF where buildings collapsed dude to liquefaction of the soil...and the East Bay where people where crushed between pancaked sections of the Cypress structure (Nimitz Freeway.)
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I was in San Jose when the 1989 oct. 16th San Francisco Earthquake happened.......
now THAT was an earthquake!!!!!
And my roommate fell asleep on the couch that night and so did NOT get squashed by the huge bookshelf that fell over in his bedroom, dumping hundreds of books out. Luck never hurts!
Happy that everything is OK with you in Italy, MB!
Tonight the earth was moving again in Palermo, <a href="http://www.repubblica.it/online/cronaca/sisma/notte/notte.html"; target="_blank">article of La Repubblica</a> (in Italian).
A 9 storey block of flats is about falling into pieces. Surprising my ex home hasn't fallen into pieces.. now sometimes it has happened that when it rains a lot, one or two of the buildings of the historical centre just fall down. Some are still left as they were after bombarding then in the 2nd world war..
<img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
There is also a (crepa?? ZO help) .. well the earth has a 4 m deep scratch (no dictionary, sorry) 6 km long.. well look the image below, that's it
<a href="http://www.repubblica.it/gallerie/online/cronaca/ferita/index.html"; target="_blank">more pictures</a>
<img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
<strong>I think I win......
I was in San Jose when the 1989 oct. 16th San Francisco Earthquake happened.......
now THAT was an earthquake!!!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>
badtz, well, as with all rolling quakes, the most damage occurs either at the epicenter or pretty far away. For example, San Jose actually saw less damage than SF. SF saw quite a bit of damage compared to my house 20 miles south, which only suffered a few cosmetic cracks in the stucco exterior.
Unless you were really close to Loma Prieta / Santa Cruz, most of the real damage was done 50-60 miles away, like in SF where buildings collapsed dude to liquefaction of the soil...and the East Bay where people where crushed between pancaked sections of the Cypress structure (Nimitz Freeway.)
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