Any other West Coasters a bit itchy about the earthquake activity everywhere else?

[PurityOfEssence]

Hey all, just surfacing from an extended bit of extensive work, but I just wanted to feel the pulse around here. EVERY other hot spot around the Pacific Rim has experienced fairly sizable and even record magnitude earthquakes, yet nary a jostle around here.

Hmm...

It's also been a very mild summer here, with temperatures in the dry 70s and 80s, so for you paranoids, it could be the calm before the whatever.

There is an odd quirk in the north-south fault lines in California that has a knuckle above Los Angeles that suppresses big ruptures. Perhaps things could really rip at some time. Then again, perhaps not.

Just wanted to suss the field here...

For disclosure here, I'm an ardent global warming alarmist, and am a bit edgy about certain trends. The forecast has possible rain tomorrow. Although that's a bit early for our season, it's not out of line, but still another reminder of difference. Rain in Los Angeles sometimes comes as early as September, but usually the California Indian Summer continues until mid-October and rains don't come until after that. It is very normal to have NO RAIN AT ALL between March and November, which must seem very weird to you folks in other environs.

Just thinkin'; two different issues here: the faults and the weather.

Please chime in if any of the rest of you are musing about such things...

[upi402]

1. The Juan DeFuca plate is an oddity too

That seems ripe and ready for the big liquifaction jostle.

[MindPilot]

2. Just a little jealous is all

at least we had a blackout to take the edge off :D

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. It was a dry run LOL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Well, I'm not too worried about any possible earthquake activity...

elsewhere or here...

I'm a fatalist.

Que sera, sera!

:D

[Cali_Democrat]

13. That's my thinking as well

If it happens, it happens. There's no point worrying about it. :)

[villager]

4. Outside Magazine, PoE, wonders the same thing:

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/Totally-Psyched-for-the-Full-Rip-Nine.html

[Hawkowl]

9. Good article

I didn't realize that I was living that close to a possible "full rip 9"!! :scared:

[Peace Patriot]

22. The article basically says it's not "if" but "when" for a "full rip 9" in the NW.

I'm thinking about the billions of dollars wasted on unnecessary and unjust war, the billions of dollars lost to the public coffers by tax cuts for the rich and other egregious malfeasance with regard to public resources, resulting in lack of preparation for major natural disasters like this. Those dollars = peoples' lives. The article mentions many things that need to be done to prepare for this inevitable disaster, that would reduce the death and injury toll. Most cost money that the government claims not to have and is failing to raise. The corruption of our government by corporate lobbyists and war profiteers has many profoundly destructive impacts on our society--from savage cutbacks in education to the government's seeming helplessness in the face of an induced Depression (induced by deregulation and vast theft). But this is a more direct and even more cynical malfeasance of tolerating mass death, injury and destruction in order to misuse public funds, and underfund emergency preparations, for massive private gain.

We shouldn't allow this to happen, just like we shouldn't have let them turn the counting of our votes over to private corporations using 'TRADE SECRET' programming code. This is not the society that most of us want to live in. We need to wake up, take back our voting system and take back our country.

[appleannie1]

5. I am from the east BUT, I check worldwide earthquakes daily.

It is a passion of mine. What I have noticed over the years is when there is a big quake at one end of a fault, there is usually another biggie at the other end within months. For instance: there was a big one in New Zealand. Then in Japan. Then in the the Aluetian Chain, then yesterday along the Pacific Coast off Canada. It is a sort of domino effect to relieve stress. I have loved ones in San Fran and Hayward area and I am concerned for them. So hopefully we are both wrong.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Please hold off until after October 2.

We're coming down there September 22 -- five days in SF, five in LA. I'd just as soon avoid any unpleasantness.


Kind of ironically, I was visiting LA in 2002, I think it was, and we had a very large earthquake just north of here -- a 7.9 http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/Denali_Fault_2002/ -- and I missed it. It was only the second time I had been out of Alaska since 1980! What are the chances?

[PurityOfEssence]

17. Even my arrogance can't guarantee that...

Drop a line, though; I'd be happy to suggest some things to see.

I lived in the Bay Area for ten years and now live in L.A.

PM me if you want some suggestions.

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Thanks, POE.

Actually, I lived in the Bay Area for some time, too, back in the late '60s, early '70s, so I'm pretty familiar with it. We go down there for our physicals every year in Oakland. My husband is a retired marine engineer, and his union, MEBA, pays for our plane fare down and 100% of the cost of the physical. (YEA, UNION!!)

As for LA, one of my daughters and her family live in Marina del Rey, so we'll be visiting them for the second half of the trip. We have a new granddaughter who we haven't met, and the two-year-old is always fun.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Conures have been noisy for months

As in unusually noisy. I have commented on that in the recent past...

[stevedeshazer]

10. Waiting here in Portland for the BIG one.

There was a 6.4 shaker on Vancouver Island on Friday.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/magnitude+quake+leaves+shaken+hurt/5382065/story.html

It's gonna happen sooner or later.

Subduction zone. 9.0 or greater off Oregon and/or Washington or Vancouver Island.

[Prism]

11. Getting a little edgy about Hayward

I've lived out here in East Bay for a few years now and haven't felt a single quake. But it seems like the Hayward and surrounding environs have been getting somewhat jostley of late. Given I live two blocks from the Bay in a neighborhood that's sitting on glorified landfill, it's a bit worrisome.

[astonamous]

12. Ummm...

YES!

I have USGS notifications sent for anything world-wide over 6.0 and anything in the L.A. area.

Imagine my surprise when I get that "big one" notification right after my house collapses on top of me.

[LooseWilly]

14. Meh, whatever... I don't track and worry about earthquakes any more than I track the Lotto trends...

Come and get me Allah/Yahweh/Rudra/Steve, you Fuckstick... or piss off.

:shrug:

[ohheckyeah]

18. Yahweh

says: Count on it. Tomorrow. 6:00 p.m. (EST).

:yoiks:

[AsahinaKimi]

15. My concern would be ..

If there ever was a huge earthquake off of the California Coast line. We might see a Tsunami not unlike what happened in Japan.

[PurityOfEssence]

16. Mercifully, the fault lines are inland

Trouble enough

[AsahinaKimi]

19. If you look at this map...

You will see there are some off shore fault lines. (lines in red)


A closer look...If a quake is large enough, a Tsunami could hit San Francisco.

[JI7]

20. not really scared, but i do wonder if a quake is happening if there is some movement

usually it's just me in my chair causing it. but i wonder if it's the start of a quake sometimes.

[Raine]

21. I'm not worried but I do wonder when our time is coming

since so many other places have had BIG ones and we haven't.

[lunatica]

24. We've had two very mild earthquakes lately in the Bay Area

So there is movement. The weather has been pretty cool all Summer too. Maybe half a dozen days of above 80 degree weather.

I'm much more fascinated with the extreme weather trends I see in the world. I wish the Weather Channel covered more of the world. I'm wondering if Texas is having such a hot Summer how the northern parts of Mexico are doing. I used to live in Monterrey, Mexico and the Summers were literally killers then in the poor neighborhoods. I'm pretty sure they're worse now.