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So I was reading an article and according to it's studies and predictions, California is up for the next big one any momment now. After their studies, they predict it will be in S. California part of the San Andreas Fault, causing substancial damage to the Palm Springs area and feelable in San Diego and etc. It's predicted to be greater than 7.0 on the scale.

So anyone live through any earthquakes yet? I dont remember it, but i guess the best ive had in my lifetime was a tremor in Indiana. I wont be expecting anything significant here. O_o
 
Ooh, awesome, we've been waiting for this one. O_o Yeah, the last 7.0 down here in SoCal was 7 years ago. This one looks to be closer to bigger cities though. Who knows when it'll happen. Of course there's the one that'll make us an island, then we decide to be our country cause we'd be one of the most powerful in the world, but then we realize everything was destroyed so we stay part of the US. That's between today and the next 100,000 years. :P

The last one I felt was a few weeks ago, like a 4.0 or something. You can track all the earthquakess right here -- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states...gion=California

Archive -- http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/archives.html

the 7.1 I was talking about -- http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/STORE...im_display.html

The last big earthquake in Indiana was 4 years ago :P -- http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/STOR...im_display.html
 
seriouslly 4 years ago? O_o

i didnt feel that. im more in the central region of Indiana so it must've not been that strong?
 
"A study completed by Yuri Fialko, an associate professor at the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (an academic unit of the University of California, San Diego), published in the June 22, 2006 edition of the journal Nature, has demonstrated that the San Andreas fault has been stressed to a level sufficient for the next "big one", as it its commonly called, that is, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or greater. The study also concluded that the risk of a large earthquake may be increasing faster than researchers had previously believed. Fialko also emphasized in his study that, while the San Andreas Fault has experienced massive earthquakes in 1857 at its central section and in 1906 at its northern segment (the great San Francisco earthquake), the southern section of the fault has not seen a similar rupture in at least 300 years.

If such an earthquake were to occur, Fialko's study stated, it would result in substantial damage to Palm Springs and a number of other cities in San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial counties in California. Such an event would be felt throughout much of Southern California, including densely populated areas of metropolitan Los Angeles and San Diego.

"All these data suggest that the fault is ready for the next big earthquake but exactly when the triggering will happen and when the earthquake will occur we cannot tell," Fialko said. "It could be tomorrow or it could be 10 years or more from now," he concluded."

NO, THIS CANNOT HAPPEN DURING MY LIFETIME. I DON'T WANT TO BE KILLED!!!
 
That's true; the biggest earthquake in Cali history was the one in 1857, there just weren't as many people to hurt. Then the 1906 one, and those were both from the northern side of the fault. So basically this one will be about as big, only doing damage to the southern part of the state, the more populus one. I just hope it doesn't happen when I'm actually in Palm Springs. :P
 
Same thing is expected for Oregon too, we haven't had a major earthquake for quite some time now. The bad thing about earthquakes though is you can never predict when exactly they'll hit. :P
 
Too far to feel the earthquake :P

(off topic, well, a little bit) The city I lived in, the last natural disaster was 4 years ago - there was a tornado. Luckily, it never touched my house or my school or anybody that I know of :P
 
Earthquakes are fun. Just as long as they don't destroy anything. :P
 
Whoa, coincedintly enough (or however the crap you spell it) yesterday around 1 when I was just about to fall asleep, a earthquake struck, luckily it was only a 3.8 so it didn't do anything, but the wierd thing is is that I was just thinking about earthquakes when it struck... it sorta freaked me out...

O_o
 
5 years ago I think, I was sleeping and I woke up in the middle of the night, and I saw i was in the car, shocked, I asked my parents why, they said they felt an earthquake...i didn't really care much before as now though O_o
 
I nver had an earthquake expierience, hopefully never will.
 
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