Seismic Activity at San Andreas Fault.

Atoms for Peace · 01-10-2016 06:15PM

Its like the plot to escape from LA...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJpznMaZ85c

cml387 · 01-10-2016 06:21PM

Coincidentally there is action at the dangerous Icelandic volcano known as Katla

And a big hurricane headed for Jamaica.

Never turn your back on mother earth.

Name the pop group?

Stigura · 01-10-2016 06:55PM

cml387 wrote: »

Never turn your back on mother earth.

Name the pop group?

Sparks. Saw them live.

darkpagandeath · 01-10-2016 07:05PM

Build a wall around the fault job done.

Jimbob1977 · 01-10-2016 07:07PM

That Charlton Heston film from the 1970s is a decent thriller. Earthquake.

The 1989 Baseball World Series between San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics (The Bay Series) was interrupted live on TV by the Loma Pieta earthquake.

Building on a fault line is a huge gamble.

Del2005 · 01-10-2016 07:15PM

Samaris wrote: »

-Would- be a game-changer. Yosemite popping would be extremely messy and likely destroy most of the northern United States. The San Andreas Big One wouldn't be fun to live through, but at its absolute worst, it wouldn't affect more than a state (roughly). Yosemite is orders of magnitude bigger in terms of potential disaster.

I think if San Andreas goes it'll affect a bit more than one State as the tsunami would do a bit of damage around the Pacific. And even if it just affected one State it is one of the biggest economies in the world if it wasn't part of the USA so there would be serious financial difficulties afterwards, without even getting into the potential loss of life and major infrastructure destruction.

OU812 · 01-10-2016 07:16PM

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

That Charlton Heston film from the 1970s is a decent thriller. Earthquake.

Very dated by today's standards.

OU812 · 01-10-2016 07:22PM

Samaris wrote: »

The San Andreas Big One wouldn't be fun to live through, but at its absolute worst, it wouldn't affect more than a state (roughly). Yosemite is orders of magnitude bigger in terms of potential disaster.

California economy is the largest in the US (by 49% over the next closest state - Texas), there's also the neighbouring states - Washington, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico which would be affected. Depending on where & when it strikes, the San Andreas has the potential to cause devastation in several of them.

Candie wrote: »

There's a State-wide alert in force in California, something they don't issue lightly.

Have you a source for this please?

Stigura · 01-10-2016 07:23PM

F**king brilliant number!

Fathom · 01-10-2016 07:26PM

Overheal wrote: »

The only third swarm of earthquakes of this kind (140+ since Monday) since seismology started in the 30s, and nothing of this magnitude. The USGS is pinning the chance of the San Andreas Fault shifting - causing The Big One - is as high as 1/100 or as low as 1/3000 for the next month given the current status.

California shakes. Always. Rarely notice. This morning I did. Looked behind. No one. Slight floor tremor. BIG ONE? Tomorrow? Or 1000 years? No one knows. Geologic time vast. Human species history? Geologic eye blink.

InTheTrees · 01-10-2016 07:30PM

OU812 wrote: »

Have you a source for this please?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/salton-sea-earthquake-advisory-southern-california/

InTheTrees · 01-10-2016 07:35PM

Its scary. In a kind of abstract way. It could happen tomorrow or in a thousand years.

I've been in a 7.1, and a 6.8 and many many 5+

We're in Seattle now. With the added risk of an active volcano just south of the city.

OU812 · 01-10-2016 07:43PM

InTheTrees wrote: »

We're in Seattle now. With the added risk of an active volcano just south of the city.

Love to see Seattle. Hope to get there one day to see a game at Century Link. I listen to KZOK online & it sounds like a really great city.

Fathom · 01-10-2016 07:51PM

InTheTrees wrote: »

We're in Seattle now. With the added risk of an active volcano just south of the city.

California = earthquakes. Washington = volcanos. Oklahoma = tornados. Lousiana = hurricanes. Colorado = avalanches. Living Earth.

InTheTrees · 01-10-2016 07:56PM

Fathom wrote: »

California = earthquakes. Washington = volcanos. Oklahoma = tornados. Lousiana = hurricanes. Colorado = avalanches. Living Earth.

Washington gets earthquakes too. I think Alaska is the most seismically active US state.
The "Ring Of Fire" surrounds the pacific ocean and is responsible for quakes in Japan, Cille, NZ, and the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire

BrokenArrows · 01-10-2016 07:57PM

Fathom wrote: »

California = earthquakes. Washington = volcanos. Oklahoma = tornados. Lousiana = hurricanes. Colorado = avalanches. Living Earth.

Ireland = Rain

So boring.

Fathom · 01-10-2016 08:00PM

InTheTrees wrote: »

Washington gets earthquakes too.

Rockies = earthquakes.

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Ireland = Rain So boring.

Rain. Lucky you. Green. So Cal = drought.

Del2005 · 01-10-2016 08:18PM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Ireland = Rain

So boring.

Boring gets a lot of FDI though.

Brave_Horatius · 01-10-2016 10:00PM

I mean, how am I going to cook all the human we'll be eating if I can't even get onto the beebs food website?

PucaMama · 01-10-2016 10:15PM

Samaris wrote: »

PucaMama wrote: »

Would Yellowstone not affect us too? I would have thought people would be far more worried about Yellowstone than San Andreas

Yellowstone "wins" hands-down; if the cauldara erupted violently, it would basically destroy the United States and Canada. Physically, it would take out everything from Washington to Kansas, and it would effectually ruin from the midlands to states on the eastern seaboard. After that, the ash cloud would cover the northern hemisphere and t could be a decade without summers, with consequent catastrophes to food production. But it's not that likely to happen. Nothing you can do to prepare for it anyway bar move to New Zealand.

The faultline shifting is something that people absolutely know is going to happen and keep getting warnings about from it cracking every so often. At some point it won't just grind a bit, it will snap to release the building pressure and cause a catastrophe in San Fransisco amongst other cities. But while it would cause a lot of harm, it wouldn't destroy the world.

The big one -is- going to happen, and very likely in the next hundred years, Yellowstone is an extinction event, but may never happen.

I do believe Yellowstone will go off. Saw great documentaries on it can't remember the names though. Hopefully i will be gone before Yellowstone goes.

cml387 · 01-10-2016 10:26PM

PucaMama wrote: »

I do believe Yellowstone will go off. Saw great documentaries on it can't remember the names though. Hopefully i will be gone before Yellowstone goes.

The BBC made a disaster movie about it. It's on youtube I think.
Plucky Brits save the day.

It was quite well made as I remember.

01-10-2016 10:27PM

OU812 wrote: »

Have you a source for this please?

It was reported in a local paper yesterday, seems to be only So-Cal though. Surprising it's limited since there was a 3.6 in south Napa during the week.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Earthquake-warning-advisory-Southern-California-9514009.php

With nearly 200 small tremors giving Southern California a jiggle earlier in the week, the California Office of Emergency Services has issued an earthquake advisory for the region.

If the 70+ tremors detected in the Bay area in the past week are anything to go by, it'll be extended statewide soon.

The Backwards Man · 02-10-2016 12:13AM

Graboids!

Grayson · 02-10-2016 12:29AM

InTheTrees wrote: »

Its scary. In a kind of abstract way. It could happen tomorrow or in a thousand years.

I've been in a 7.1, and a 6.8 and many many 5+

We're in Seattle now. With the added risk of an active volcano just south of the city.

http://www.geekwire.com/2015/earthquake-experts-on-the-really-big-one-heres-what-will-actually-happen-in-seattle/

It's a follow up to the New Yorker story that terrified people a few weeks ago.

uck51js9zml2yt · 02-10-2016 12:45AM

cml387 wrote: »

The BBC made a disaster movie about it. It's on youtube I think.
Plucky Brits save the day.

It was quite well made as I remember.

That was the day of the triffids....man eating flowers not earthquakes;)

Seismic Activity at San Andreas Fault.

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