Earthquakes

I can't stop thinking about the fact that one day I'll be waked up by an earthquake, just like is happening to the rest of the world.

Chile's earthquake was 8.8 of magnitude!! that's a lot worse than the one that stroke Haiti, the good thing is that Chile's structures are made to support earthquakes, since they had the biggest one in the world's history back in 1964 i believe.. it was 9.5 magnitude and 2 million people lost their homes, 1,600 died and God only knows how many were injured.

The sad thing about this is that, there's nothing we can do about it.

 

usually, they're not that bad. i always enjoyed them. i was pretty assured of the quality and limberness of my home, though. lightweight, flexible, able to hold up to the santa anas and el nino seasons and an earthquake here and there. but i wasn't in a large city, which is inherently more dangerous.

 

A couple of months ago there was a small quake here in my country (Panama) it was 4.3 or something, was really nothing but.. it felt really bad.
I was at my apartment at the time and then started shaking and we all tried to get out but since the doors were moving they couldn't be opened.
It is very frustrating being in a situation like that, not knowing what's going to happen.
At the end, nothing bad happened but look around. Lots of people are dying and im scared.

 

it's hard to deal with that sorta thing when you know whre you are isn't up to earthquake code and you pretty much just have to deal with it because that's what available. during the northridge quake i was in an apartment in simi valley, and i have to tell you, i will never live in an apartment building in california anymore. you'd be hard pressed to get me in a two story house.

 

There was actually a small earthquake in Georgia a few years ago. That was pretty strange.

 

Just a preparation for the end of the world

 

Wasn't there a small one of the coast of Japan last night too, a few hours before the one in Chile?

I was in an Earthquake once, when I lived in Vancouver. Shit is weird...

 

earthquakes happen on fault zones, floods happen in low lying areas when the creek rises.

only the insanity of human greed builds cities and concentrates housing in such places.

l.a. and the entire pacific west coast straddles the same fault zone as chili. the pacific plate is huge. and it ever so slowly turns. when the surface rocks and earth don't let go of each other and turn with it, tensions builds up, and the longer this goes on the more there is, until one day it lets loose with a big one.

little ones like loma priata relieve some of that pressure and thus prevent bigger ones, if and when there are enough little ones often enough to be enough. i doubt in loma preata was enough though. more likely we'll have another one something like that like there have been in the past, the one in alaska in the 60s and that little one in the bay area in the 80s.

we shouldn't be so attached to things to make such a bit deal about it when it happens, because its just something that always has and always will, and usually when everyone it the least prepared and least expecting it.

that or learn to let people live where such things are less likely to happen.
develop a culture who's incentives are to live more interestingly in more sensible places.

 

hey there was just an earthquake / sunami in hawaii
it was just on te news i only saw a bit so i cant tell you much

 

trippy times mon, trippy times.

 

Earthquakes happen all the time.

Here is a map by the US government of the worldly earthquakes this week.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
They don't usually cause that much trouble.

 

yup. they don't usually cause this much trouble when enough little ones happen often enough to prevent the big build ups that make the big ones possible. when the don't, then the big ones become inevitable. exerbated of course, by econmic incentives to develop right smack dab where they're inevitably destined to.

 

convenient population control. probably part of the NWO scheme.

 

my son lives on the Hawaiian islands.. Im not worried, Its life...

 

the tsunami wasn't a big one, anyway. used to be we'd only occaisionally hear about them, and usually they're pretty small. but now they're the huge catch-word horror.

 

Where do you live?!

 

used to be garden grove. briefly in simi valley. i stayed away from the city areas. not big on crowding. orange county left me feeling claustrophobic.

 

No way!
I live in "Santa ana" I border Tustin and Orange though...

How's Simi treating you?

 

no simi for a very long time. i left SoCal a decade ago and never looked back. i get depressed just flying into LAX. i'm in colorado now. i'd still rather have to deal with tornados and snow than so cal. my brother lives in orange, somewhere. most of my family is pretty close to garden grove.

 

Really?
I get depressed any place I go outside of So Cal... Hopefully it wont be that way once I start traveling out side of the country.

I've never lived anywhere out side of Orange County.
In fact. I've lived in the same house my whole life...

But I have traveled out of state. So I'm not totally in a bubble.
Nothing is quiet like so cal.
You either love it, or hate it...