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Quoted: Hopefully we don't see a repeat of this. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/162439/tsunami-area-earthquake-Natori-Miyagi-pr-2315421.JPG View Quote That last bad one everybody remembers clearly was a 9.0 or 9.1. This one won't do much comparatively. |
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Quoted: "my phone earthquake app" https://media.tenor.com/images/f8733a267a429ee2ec2c4240d1f22b91/tenor.gif Hope everybody's okay. They completely shut down the power station right? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Right when I clicked your link my phone earthquake app sent me a notification about it. "my phone earthquake app" https://media.tenor.com/images/f8733a267a429ee2ec2c4240d1f22b91/tenor.gif Hope everybody's okay. They completely shut down the power station right? There are a few good apps that I've seen to track quakes. For some people it's a hobby I guess. Pretty neat, though. |
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I was in Vegas asleep 15 floors up when a small earthquake hit.
That was not a good experience. Prayers for those in Japan. |
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Quoted: I believe so, now that you mention it. In fact, IIRC that was one of the first confirmed fatals. 90 seconds to sheer terror. There’s not a damn thing you can do until the ground stops swimming beneath your feet. The natural gas fires started almost immediately and burned for days. At night, the entire LA Basin was lit by firelight. Aftershocks went on for months, and some big ones too. I was close to the initial epicenter. I really, truly thought that was it for me. 1994, holy shit. Where has the time gone. View Quote Northridge? I grew up in central CA and wasn’t too far from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake in 89. It was fucking wild. Was thru plenty of 4-5’s prior to that, but a 7+ is a whole different animal. Never have I seen streets of asphalt look like they were built upon the top of the ocean. The ability to flex and wave like they did was amazing to see in person. Good luck to the people of Japan. They are gonna need it. |
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View Quote 700K buildings in a city with a population of 13,000,000. Fuck. |
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All bad, I hope it was just one hell of martini shaker and nothing else
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: nvm I saw what you wrote originally. Don't shit in my thread again. Lol or what tough guy Didn't you hear what OP said? "this is kinda an important thread" And he must be kinda an important guy. Earthquakes happen, OP. Especially along fault lines. Hope everyone is okay, but for most of us around the world, this is mildly interesting at most. We had a hale storm here in Dallas, TX a couple days ago. |
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Quoted: Didn't you hear what OP said? "this is kinda an important thread" And he must be kinda an important guy. Earthquakes happen, OP. Especially along fault lines. Hope everyone is okay, but for most of us around the world, this is mildly interesting at most. We had a hale storm here in Dallas, TX a couple days ago. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: nvm I saw what you wrote originally. Don't shit in my thread again. Lol or what tough guy Didn't you hear what OP said? "this is kinda an important thread" And he must be kinda an important guy. Earthquakes happen, OP. Especially along fault lines. Hope everyone is okay, but for most of us around the world, this is mildly interesting at most. We had a hale storm here in Dallas, TX a couple days ago. It seems this thread is dual-purpose, and very useful as such as well. |
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I probably would have shit my pants on that train. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I believe so, now that you mention it. In fact, IIRC that was one of the first confirmed fatals. 90 seconds to sheer terror. There’s not a damn thing you can do until the ground stops swimming beneath your feet. The natural gas fires started almost immediately and burned for days. At night, the entire LA Basin was lit by firelight. Aftershocks went on for months, and some big ones too. I was close to the initial epicenter. I really, truly thought that was it for me. 1994, holy shit. Where has the time gone. Northridge? Yep. From just after the sun came up I began doing emergency work on the top floors and roof of a hospital. Was up there for 19 hours straight, aftershocks the entire time, the building never stopped moving. Once I finally got home and crashed into bed, I felt like I’d been on an offshore fishing boat all day. My head wouldn’t stop swimming. The emergency work went on for weeks. I saw some pretty awful stuff. |
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Quoted: Yep. From just after the sun came up I began doing emergency work on the top floors and roof of a hospital. Was up there for 19 hours straight, aftershocks the entire time, the building never stopped moving. Once I finally got home and crashed into bed, I felt like I’d been on an offshore fishing boat all day. My head wouldn’t stop swimming. The emergency work went on for weeks. I saw some pretty awful stuff. View Quote Jesus. Did you even sleep that night? Getting rocked around like that must've been hell. |
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I probably would have shit my pants on that train. View Quote Nice rhythm going on there, sounded like some Japanese rap was about to kick off |
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Quoted: It seems this thread is dual-purpose, and very useful as such as well. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: nvm I saw what you wrote originally. Don't shit in my thread again. Lol or what tough guy Didn't you hear what OP said? "this is kinda an important thread" And he must be kinda an important guy. Earthquakes happen, OP. Especially along fault lines. Hope everyone is okay, but for most of us around the world, this is mildly interesting at most. We had a hale storm here in Dallas, TX a couple days ago. It seems this thread is dual-purpose, and very useful as such as well. I live a mostly boring quiet life. Seriously though, I thought a sizeable underwater earthquake guaranteed a tsunami/tidal wave??? How is there NOT one? |
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Quoted: Didn't see the post, but this GD afterall, not a tech forum. I suppose if it was bad, it would have been handled by the site staff, no? Anyway, don't you paying members have private forums so you don't have to deal with the riff raff? Maybe arfcom needs to go the way of yahoo and allow paying members to create posts and turn off replies to keep things civil. That way the creator of posts can control them. Or, maybe a feature where the post creator has to approve all replies to weed out garbage posts. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I love jokes and memes but that bullshit he wrote would've ignited a shitstorm and this is kind of an important thread. I'd rather people get insight and be able to post updates instead of the usual shit slinging and purse swinging. Sometimes enough is enough. Didn't see the post, but this GD afterall, not a tech forum. I suppose if it was bad, it would have been handled by the site staff, no? Anyway, don't you paying members have private forums so you don't have to deal with the riff raff? Maybe arfcom needs to go the way of yahoo and allow paying members to create posts and turn off replies to keep things civil. That way the creator of posts can control them. Or, maybe a feature where the post creator has to approve all replies to weed out garbage posts. How about people just quit being immature, insecure assholes and edgelords? |
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I was in the Solano Mall in California in 1996, was in a CD store when all the discs started rattling in the racks. Looked around, nobody else even looked up. Fuck this, I left.
At Travis AFB they figured out most of the dorms were built on a fault line. THAT was encouraging. |
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Quoted: Jesus. Did you even sleep that night? Getting rocked around like that must've been hell. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Yep. From just after the sun came up I began doing emergency work on the top floors and roof of a hospital. Was up there for 19 hours straight, aftershocks the entire time, the building never stopped moving. Once I finally got home and crashed into bed, I felt like I’d been on an offshore fishing boat all day. My head wouldn’t stop swimming. The emergency work went on for weeks. I saw some pretty awful stuff. Jesus. Did you even sleep that night? Getting rocked around like that must've been hell. We tried doing 30-minute naps in shifts every 6-8 hours, but there was no sleeping through that. None of us got much sleep for the first several days. Tall buildings sway, and once they start swaying it takes a while for them to quit swaying. But if that same building is constantly being shaken by aftershocks, it never stops swaying until the aftershocks stop. Or at least decrease in frequency and magnitude. In the days/weeks that followed we saw a lot of loss and sorrow. People who’s only crime was to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, it was a tough deal. And not one that I’d like to do over again. |
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Loma Prieta in HS for me and lived on the Hayward fault.
The ground was always moving. Lived in the east bay for 25 years as a kid. Its hard to ecplain to folks just how small and powerless you can feel when the world your shit is built on is moving and doing what it wants too. |
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Quoted: Didn't see the post, but this GD afterall, not a tech forum. I suppose if it was bad, it would have been handled by the site staff, no? Anyway, don't you paying members have private forums so you don't have to deal with the riff raff? Maybe arfcom needs to go the way of yahoo and allow paying members to create posts and turn off replies to keep things civil. That way the creator of posts can control them. Or, maybe a feature where the post creator has to approve all replies to weed out garbage posts. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I love jokes and memes but that bullshit he wrote would've ignited a shitstorm and this is kind of an important thread. I'd rather people get insight and be able to post updates instead of the usual shit slinging and purse swinging. Sometimes enough is enough. Didn't see the post, but this GD afterall, not a tech forum. I suppose if it was bad, it would have been handled by the site staff, no? Anyway, don't you paying members have private forums so you don't have to deal with the riff raff? Maybe arfcom needs to go the way of yahoo and allow paying members to create posts and turn off replies to keep things civil. That way the creator of posts can control them. Or, maybe a feature where the post creator has to approve all replies to weed out garbage posts. I have been around Arfcom a lot longer than my join date and remember when these threads were a great source of breaking info. They stayed pretty much on topic but now there are a lot of Steven Colbert types that can't wait to derail these threads with their snarky remarks. |
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Quoted: It ain’t fun. Trust me. https://media.nbclosangeles.com/2019/09/AP_19016104913493.jpg?fit=3270%2C2159 https://www.dailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/LDN-L-QUAKE-25-0113-0631.jpg?w=1280 https://media.nbclosangeles.com/2019/09/northridge_1994_r.jpg?fit=1200%2C1777 https://sundial.csun.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Sundial5.jpg http://www.trbimg.com/img-596fd3eb/turbine/la-me-remembering-the-northridge-earthquake-of-013/2000 https://sundial.csun.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Sundial7-628x420.jpg View Quote Loma Preita? I got knocked the F out from falling debris during that. I turned out fine. |
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Quoted: Was about 5-10 miles from the epicenter of the Northridge quake. Trust me. You don't. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I'd like to experience a quake, a small one. I'm just curious what it's like to see everything shake. I've been offshore in a boat 87 billion times but that's nothing in comparison We could’ve been neighbors. What a small world. |
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Quoted: If I remember correctly that was a California Highway Patrolman responding to a call, rode right off the edge. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Was that a motorcyclist on the bridge when it collapsed? Talk about shitty timing. If I remember correctly that was a California Highway Patrolman responding to a call, rode right off the edge. In this Jan. 17, 1994, file photo, the covered body of Los Angeles Police Officer Clarence Wayne Dean lies near his motorcycle which plunged off the State Highway 14 overpass that collapsed onto Interstate 5, after a magnitude-6.7 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles. |
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Quoted: I'd like to experience a quake, a small one. I'm just curious what it's like to see everything shake. I've been offshore in a boat 87 billion times but that's nothing in comparison View Quote No you don't. They fucking suck. Personally the bigger and by bigger I've only experienced a 5.6 are better than the after shocks. After the one we had a couple years back where we had thousands of after shocks It was like 2 months before I could go to sleep without booze. The day I decided I needed to go without they had a big one up in Idaho that I felt. I felt a lot of the ones below 2.0. I didn't sleep well for months. I fucking hate earthquakes. |
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Quoted: Exactly. The one near Palm Springs 1986, I was sleeping on a carpeted concrete floor. I woke up ready to fight whoever was shaking my rack. It was a 6.0. I have experienced many of them. The 1992 Landers quake, a 7.3, I was just north of Barstow. Massive trees were rocking, water sloshed out of the pool. Lots of cabins at Big Bear Lake lost chimneys. I was in the basement of the American Legion in Orange County CA when a good shaker came about. It shook again the next day at breakfast, lamps were rocking, pool water sloshed. Ridgecrest 7.1. I need to stay the fuck out of California. View Quote @wildearp This was my aunt and uncles house in landers from the air.. you can see the fault going through the back yard and the yard moved over 6-7ft. My dad and I went out there a week or two later to help them clean up and bring stuff to them... there were constant aftershocks and every time youd almost fall asleep one would hit and wake you backup. Attached File |
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Quoted: @wildearp This was my aunt and uncles house in landers from the air.. you can see the fault going through the back yard and the yard moved over 6-7ft. My dad and I went out there a week or two later to help them clean up and bring stuff to them... there were constant aftershocks and every time youd almost fall asleep one would hit and wake you backup. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/21179/16386241946_af121efa99_o__1__jpg-2315724.JPG View Quote Similar happened in the Ridgecrest 7.1 Attached File |
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