Earthquakes rule
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2.9, 3.6, 3.0, 2.7, 4.2, 4.0, 3.5...
2.9, 3.6, 3.0, 2.7, 4.2, 4.0, 3.5...
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<strong>Are all of these quakes really that common or is it building towards another big earthquake relatively soon?</strong><hr></blockquote>
All these quakes are common. There are tons everyday in the LA area as well.
little ithaca has never had a earthquake. It would be cool though, to have undestrutive earthquakes all the time.
<strong>what do a 1.1 earthquake equal? A 200 pound man jumping down from a platform located 5 feet up?</strong><hr></blockquote>
A 1.1 is indigestion. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
You can't feel 1.0s really, but you definitely feel 4.0s. 4.0s can knock stuff off shelves for miles. If you're near the epicenter, you definitely get shaken, not stirred. I felt the 4.2 while lying in bed. It felt like a fat guy was stomping around me, and I'm about 25 miles from the epicenter at least.
Pretty much anything above a 3.0 is alarming, though there was a 2.X that was centered maybe 2 miles from my dorm in 1998 that jolted me pretty hard.
[ 02-02-2003: Message edited by: Eugene ]</p>
Actually, I think that California isn't supposed to "float" apart as much as the lad on the LA side of the San Andreas fault is going to drift up towards San Francisco. I read somewhere that in something like 100 million years, LA and SF are going to be twin cities.
Actually, there have been little 2.x earthquakes in the Finger Lakes area IIRC. I think there are a few very small faults in the region, though obviously they aren't what created the Finger Lakes.
I was about an hour outside of Asisi for the big quake that took down most of the Monastery and Basilica there. I was in a Renaissance villa when the floor turned to jello and some small bits of plaster rained down from the frescos above.
[ 02-03-2003: Message edited by: stunned ]</p>
Thanks!
<strong>wow this completely reminded me that I have to call State Farm Monday and renew for Earthquake Insurance.
Thanks! </strong><hr></blockquote>
Boy you really are worried about protecting your new computer... :eek:
<strong>Earthquakes are cool but volcanic eruptions are cooler.</strong><hr></blockquote>
"Cool" is not a term one generally associates with volcanic eruptions.
-- ShadyG
[ 02-04-2003: Message edited by: Jared ]</p>
i've felt them here in Michigan twice and i think it would be a pain in the arse to experience them everyday
I have a few days left to demolish your measly 2 point lead.
<strong>how do you figure they rule <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
i've felt them here in Michigan twice and i think it would be a pain in the arse to experience them everyday</strong><hr></blockquote>
It's like storm chasing, I guess. I look forward to small earthquakes since one a year is pretty common.
As a lifelong California resident, you become jaded. My friend in Carmel, NY felt a 2.0 up there a few years ago and everyone there went bonkers.
Even if I've just felt a ~4.0, I'd probably get back to whatever I was doing immediately and shrug it off.
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"Cool" is not a term one generally associates with volcanic eruptions.
-- ShadyG</strong><hr></blockquote>
I once saw a feature on the canary island La Palma. It has many active sleeping volcanoes. The problem is, there is a lot of water in the mountains, so when one of the volcanoes will erupt, it might blast a big portion of the island into the sea. The result will be a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami.shtml" target="_blank">mega tsunami</a> (I think up to 1500 feet high) which will reach the US east cost some hours later and destroy everything on a 15 mile coast strip. This might happen anytime within the next 100 years...