California Residents - Are you OK? - Earthquake Experience

[websailor]

This is a link to the USGS Earthquake Hazard website - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ - it shows earthquakes anywhere in the USA. It even shows earthquakes throughout the world.

I've been through a few (

) earthquakes here in CA - including Loma Prieta where our vanpool had just passed the freeway that collapsed after going over the Bay Bridge that had a section collapse. Our vanpool driver sped up because the road cleared from cars pulling over to the side. I've been thru a fairly large one (5-6) while on the 24th floor of a building in San Francisco - kinda scary as the building swayed back and forth and cabinets opened and closed by themselves.

I've also been through hurricanes in New York and huge snowstorms in Washington State. No tornados though... I don't think there is anyplace that is "totally safe", LOL. Nature rules and us poor humans just have to live with it.

I did get a kick out of "Are you ok? - Earthquake Experience" - it sounds so much like my Mom, who still lives back East. For a long time, anytime an earthquake anywhere in CA hit the news, she would call to ask if we were okay. We'd laugh about it, because most of the time we never felt them (especially the ones in LA when we live up by SF)! So we decided that everytime there was a big winter storm, or flood, or hurricane up where she lived, we would call and ask if she was okay. We all have things to laugh about now...

Regarding any kind of disaster - I do hope everyone has an emergency kit appropriate for their area in their cars and their houses and has a family emergency plan. Regardless of the cause, in the really big disasters, the local emergency services get overwhelmed. You would be wise to be able to be on your own for at least three days. (Don't forget your pets too!). Do not think you will just be able to call out or have your folks call in to you - the phones will also be overwhelmed for several days, if they are even working.

One of the worst things I have found in the disasters I've been thru is the anguish of not knowing if your loved ones are okay or not. Communications are difficult and if you don't have some kind of plan (a number for everyone to call, a place to try to reach, etc), then it is even worse.

Hey, if this keeps up, cflutist and I will be living in an oceanfront home right where we are!

 

[websailor]

The Largest Earthquakes in the United States

Location Date Time UTC Magnitude
1. Prince William Sound, Alaska 1964 03 28 03:36:14.0 UTC 9.2
2. Rat Islands, Alaska 1965 02 04 05:01 UTC 8.7
3. Andreanof Islands, Alaska 1957 03 09 14:22:31.9 UTC 8.6
4. East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska 1938 11 10 20:18:41.2 UTC 8.2
5. New Madrid, Missouri 1811 12 16 08:15 UTC 8.1
6. Yakutat Bay, Alaska 1899 09 10 21:41 UTC 8.0
7. Andreanof Islands, Alaska 1986 05 07 22:47 UTC 8.0
8. New Madrid, Missouri 1812 02 07 09:45 UTC ˜8
9. Near Cape Yakataga, Alaska 1899 09 04 00:22 UTC 7.9
10. Fort Tejon, California 1857 01 09 16:24 UTC 7.9
11. Ka''u District, Island of Hawaii 1868 04 03 02:25 UTC 7.9
12. Gulf of Alaska, Alaska 1987 11 30 19:23 UTC 7.9
13. Andreanof Islands, Alaska 1996 06 10 04:03 UTC 7.9
14. Denali Fault, Alaska 2002 11 03 22:12 UTC 7.9
15. New Madrid, Missouri 1812 01 23 15:00 UTC 7.8
16. Imperial Valley, California 1892 02 24 07:20 UTC 7.8
17. San Francisco, California 1906 04 18 13:12 UTC 7.8
18. Gulf of Alaska 1988 03 06 22:35 UTC 7.8

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The Largest Earthquakes in the Contiguous United States

Location Date Time UTC Magnitude Map
1. New Madrid, Missouri 1811 12 16 08:15 UTC 8.1
2. New Madrid, Missouri 1812 02 07 09:45 UTC ˜8
3. Fort Tejon, California 1857 01 09 16:24 UTC 7.9
4. New Madrid, Missouri 1812 01 23 15:00 UTC 7.8
5. Imperial Valley, California 1892 02 24 07:20 UTC 7.8
6. San Francisco, California 1906 04 18 13:12 UTC 7.8
7. Owens Valley, California 1872 03 26 10:30 UTC 7.6
8. N Cascades, Washington 1872 12 15 05:40 UTC 7.3
9. California - Oregon Coast 1873 11 23 05:00 UTC 7.3
10. Charleston, South Carolina 1886 09 01 02:51 UTC 7.3
11. West of Eureka, California 1922 01 31 13:17 UTC 7.3
12. Kern County, California 1952 07 21 11:52 UTC 7.3
13. Hebgen Lake, Montana 1959 08 18 06:37 UTC 7.3
14. Landers, California 1992 06 28 11:57 UTC 7.3

 

[tawn]

I was drowsing when the one last Sunday hit...and I ran into my son''s room, and he woke up and asked me why I was shaking him! It was really kind of funny when I explained that it wasn''t me, but the earth. We live right on the beach...not even raised up on a hill or anything, so the Tsunamai warning really freaked us out. We evacuated, and stayed with friends, and ventured home in the morning!

It''s funny how neither one of those really got a lot of news, but the one yesterday that none of us even felt around here, got loads of press! My family from all over were calling and freaking out. It was the top story of the day. My theory is that there just wasn''t anything else interesting for the media to report on yesterday!?

And, there were 950 earthquakes in CA this week...but that''s apparently not all that weird! There are a zillion of them everyday around the world. I really didn''t have any idea that they were continuously happening until I looked it up!

Earthquakes in CA

Okay...there have been 5 more since I looked earlier!

 

[movie zombie]

error error error....i misspoke when i said the largest earthquake was in new york! i was thinking of the new madrid that lifted the mississippi river and moved it over.....and it was this earthquake that was felt as far away as new york! sorry....my bad.

peace, movie zombie