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Post by Beangirl on Mar 21, 2008 14:58:48 GMT -5
Earthquakes are a total lack of control thing. You have this huge energy release and the ground shakes but there is absolutly no way to gauge the danger. Even as a native Californian and all the big ones I have been in I still freeze in panic when the shaking starts. Reality? You are much more likely to die in a tornado or hurricaine than a Earthquake. But in Earthquakes you have no choice. If you are in the wrong place? Like a freeway. You are gone
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Post by Blastgirl on Mar 21, 2008 22:40:09 GMT -5
I would be afraid in a quake.
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Post by Mahnarch on Mar 22, 2008 2:24:36 GMT -5
Gah, quakes sound like suckiness wrapped in a bottle.
I asked my friend who lived there for a bit about quakes.
He said that the only one he's been in was while he was lying on his waterbed and suddenly it started to quiver a little (musta been a small quake).
I jumped into a trailer a few days ago that was still backing into the dock (stupid, I know, but....I'm me) and when it hit the dock I almost fell over.
Would a good size quake be like that?
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Post by Beangirl on Mar 22, 2008 13:15:19 GMT -5
Sometimes at State Fairs they have Earthquake simulators. Rent the movie Earthquake! It came out in 1975. It is not accurate in timing. Most Earthquakes only last up to 4 minutes. As for damage?It was right on the mark. Mostly we get damage from fires caused by ruptured gas lines. On the coast our ground is sand . We have liquefaction which means when the shaking starts the sand mixes with the water below and bang! Buildings crash down. Hey Phil, The one in my hometown in 1987 derailed a train.
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Post by fartinggurl on Mar 23, 2008 20:38:32 GMT -5
There was an earthquake simulator at a museum in Pittsburgh, PA that I went to when I was 12 years old. Of course I sat in it (four people could sit in it at the same time), and the four of us who sat in it almost lost our balance. If I remember correctly, I think the simulator was set at a 6 on the Richter scale.
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Post by Blastgirl on Mar 24, 2008 0:24:28 GMT -5
A 6 is a powerful Quake if I understand correctly.
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Post by Beangirl on Mar 24, 2008 12:10:47 GMT -5
6 is a major quake. My hometown was a 5.9 and still distructive. Northridge quake in 1994 was 7.2 and really fatal . The worst I ever saw but not felt was the second San Francisco quake in 1989. It was during the opening game of The World Series at Candlestick Park. The freeways collapsed and the Oakland Bay bridge broke in half sending cars into the bay.  |
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