Speaking of earthquakes...

California is noted for it's earthquakes. I live in an area that never heard of such a thing unless we were discussing California or the rim of fire. Now, Oklahoma has a dozen or more earthquakes a month, that can be felt-2.7 -4.5. Some are blaming oil and gas fracturing. Not big ones, no, but causing damage to some homes. California has earthquakes this size every day, somewhere, I've heard.
 
I was out there shortly after the Bay Bridge was wrecked, visiting my brother in law who lived in the bedroom community of San Leandro and worked in Hayward. It was scary just seeing the damage.
 
There's no "maybe" about it, CeeCee. Someday . . . SOMEday, the west coast will slip away to create a brand new and improved west coast. As a native Californian, I always enjoyed the rock 'n' roll of our occasional temblors. BUT, when that 7.0 hit in October of '87 (maybe 6.9?), I got a little shaky every time a big truck rumbled by. Guys in the service loved giving us Californians a rough time. Jealousy, of course . . . When they would constantly remind me it was gonna fall into the sea, I just replied, "Yeah and I'm goin' home to ride with it!" That was over 40 years ago and we're still here . . . for the time being. Nothin' lasts forever...
 
My Beach. My Wave. Go Home!

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The Adirondacks in upper New York State are prone to a rumble or two now and then. We had just gotten a waterbed, a number of years ago, and I was having a dream about being in a boat when the bed was swaying because of an earthquake up north. It was about 4 in the am and the wife and I couldn't believe we had had an earthquake.
 
I was in Christchurch 24 hours before, and a week after, the big one.
Christchurch was such a mess..and people were fleeing to wherever they could.

I stayed for another 10 days, and the aftershocks were not too funny either.
 
Oh, they were; I had had a coffee on the cathedral steps....and the shop I wanted to go back to had vanished..
 
I stayed at my brothers, with 3 people who had no house left.
i think every night we had 12-14 for dinner; just to help them through.

I had been on a coach tour, and they flew everybody out, even those who were planning to extend their stay.
i was the only one allowed to remain!
 
It seem like we are having more of the large ones the last few years. Hopefully, that was just a temporary thing, and the trend goes back down again, but the graph definitely shows that there are a lot more of the large ones on a worldwide scale.
Of course, there is always the conspiracy theory that say that some of these are being produced as one of the "weather weapons" type of thing. Who knows ?? At any rate, they are certainly having more of the large ones.
We are also watching out for the New Madrid fault out here, so it is not just Californians who need to worry.
 
Oh Ina; my neighbours are really good, in fact I have a running account with one, and I am in credit at the moment!
yes CeeCee , because his house was ok, and he had room for me, and I had a return ticket to the UK 10 days later.
 
I was born in San Francisco, and we were sending him to visit relatives, my grandfather was a pilot, and convined young Michael that as soon as a trimmer started they would just jump into the plane and go up. That way he'd be safe. Thank the powers that be, Michael was a trusting kid. :hypnottsts:
 
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