Yeah you and us both. Still waiting.... Things going the way they are, it might not be too far away... Can you imagine an 8.9 in SF? That would rock the whole west coast significantly....
OR/Cal border region every 300 years (theoretic) and northern cascadian subduction every 420 years (theoretic). The average for the whole of the CSZ is near 500 years. The last megathrust that occured was 1700 when the whole lenth of the subduction zone ripped loose. We're overdue, Seattle is not yet overdue. reference: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&...gMI-JrQH-6ojfBQ&ved=0CEIQsAQ&biw=1344&bih=571 http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/cascadia.html http://seismo.berkeley.edu/annual_report/ar99_00/node28.html I live 60 miles inland from where the CSZ is closest to the continent above sea level (with the exception of mendecino....they truely are fucked BTW) so I take the eventuality quite seriously. emergency power, food, water and fire fighting gear. other than that.... I have an evac route and emergency shelter- IE: I know where there's least likely nothing going to slide down a mountain or fall on us and can be traversed to in less than 10 seconds even if the ground is shaking. Does this make me a paranoid? Not any more than it being paranoid to have guard rails on a dangerous road. Do I live in fear of the big one? Fuck no. There's no way around it but to be as prepared as possible if it does happen. "getcher chores dun.....then y'all can go out an play" A big chunk of the world is going to get fuuuuuuuuuuuuucked up when it goes:
Seriously... you go when you go. You can plan better than the military and walk out the front door when... Holy Shit! A branch broke off a tree and crushed Wiskas. Planning ahead is one thing. Thinking you can plan to a state of invincibility is another. In life, sadly, the is no up, up, down, down, lef,t right, left, right, B, A, Start. To think otherwise is foolish. We're all gonna die. If your card is pulled, it's time to roll it up. It's just Game Over.
Yep, that's all you can do, just increase the odds a little. The worst thing to do is BS oneself into believing that it'll never happen here (wherever that may be). In essence, I don't live in fear of an actual catastrophic event as much as the aftermath and being able to get my family through it. I acknowledge that these are the facts: ....then I go on with my life. I found an interesting pic of Brookings Harbor Oregon: Compare this to the pic I took last year of the same place: Brookings and Crescent City are 20 miles apart and took a beating. Do you imagine that any of those boats were insured? Of coarse they were. I purchase insurance too, but don't pay a corporation for it. :-k
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That water just kept rising. Practice yoga. Because without elevation in that situation, a person would have to kiss their ass goodbye. That happening here would make this an especially bad place to live: my old home town Hotels are built on sand.
that RT video is friggin makes me speechless. nature you are fucking scary. the power of water is amazing and doesnt care about you and your feelings. and i dont wanna hear a DAMN word from ANYONE that wants to complain about their life right now..
how would they get that off of there? and looking at those freight cars makes my mind uneasy thinking about how theyre going to get them back organized.
It made me think "Oh no! There's all sorts of cool Japanese products destroyed in those!" But given how prepared the Japanese were, and still how many people were killed and buildings destroyed, what chance does the US West coast have with one of these? I bet there would be tens of thousands dead at minimum. Many would ignore the warnings, and those that didn't probably would be ignorant about what to do.
memphis is on the new madrid fault line, im waiting for the day the usa cracks in half and we all fall in. noone in the usa is prepared, we're all ignorant to mother nature.
Boat on a 3 story building? Yeah those people had no chance. This image is awesome though. That old guy looks so grateful.
Check out this video! Crazy! http://gizmodo.com/#!5781566/this-is-the-scariest-first person-video-of-the-japan-tsunami-yet
im surprised noone was out there on their surfboard. i mean, this IS california we're talking about! thousands of japanese are dying and americans are worried about their little boat toys. HERP DERP i are americunt walking around on dock during a fucking high tide roll in... HERP DERP look at me, i are harbor patrol and police putting on a show for everyone. bunch of ass-twats.
We had one death. The guy was on the beach trying to get vids and didn't see it coming in from the north side. he's a gonner. another couple was camping near the pistol river mouth and got washed away but were rescued. The surge came in from the north. http://www.ktvl.com/articles/oregon-1199087-campers-surges.html http://kdrv.com/news/local/206775 Closer to home, we had a really freak T-storm yesterday and warnings for the same for the next two days. We never get thunderstorms this time of year. Last night there were lots of people without power and there still are tonight. http://kdrv.com/news/local/206918 Absolutely none of this is even near what I'd consider calamitous compared to Japan. It'd be great if the fear the concept of cluster-quaking turns out to be a simple as fear mongering: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/14/6268123-is-japans-quake-part-of-a-cluster
