Predicted Earthquake to hit so cal deadline 9/6
 

I just read that tomorrow is the deadline for the predicted earthquake So Cal is suppose to be hit with....who is ready?


Must Haves if this does happen or any other natural disaster:
WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!
food-dry & can openers
Flash lites
cash
radios
batteries
meds
tiolet paper
paper towels
Candles and matches
Tools
good solid tennis shoes
wrench and other tools

May I just say that I [HEART] Pacific Rim earthquakes? Japan, Alaska, West Coast, South America...

One of these days, the sirens blaring tsunami warnings will probably signal the real thing. :eek: They say it'll never happen, but just ask the town of Hilo on the Big Island in 1960. :(

I will be looking on the news sites when I wake up with a hangover tomorrow morning.

drunk post ++)

Anyone living in an earthquake area should have those supplies on hand at all times. They should be replaced every year, and if one has pets they need to be provided for as well. It is just common sense.

OTW isn't it amazing an earthquake in Alaska can create waves that come all the way across the ocean and can effect other continents. We watched a movie about the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake (which leveled most of Anchorage and the surrounding areas of Seward and Valdez, then it burned), and there were stories of people in Hawaii and Crescent City, CA that were washed away by tsunamis.

I just finished reading "Volcano Cowboys" and they were dealing with Mt. St. Helens. All the research had been done on volcanos in Hawaii, which are quite different than those in the Cascades. Predicting volcanic eruptions and earthquakes is some crazy business.

The Good Friday 1964 earthquake was measured at about a 9.3 on the Richter scale. Had an earthquake of that magnitude struck a major city like LA or San Francisco, there would be some catastrophic damage of unimaginable proportions.

Tsunamis can travel phenomenal distances from the epicenter of an earthquake. The simplest analogy is like dropping a pebble into a pool of calm water and watch the waves spreading out from the center to all corners of the pool. When they reach shallow water is when they really do some damage.

Florida just got bitch-slapped twice by two hurricanes in two weeks, with maybe a third one (Ivan) on its way by next week possibly just for GP.

My mother the other day was just saying something about tsunami's and about a tsunami that could reach rom "across the pond" to the eastern seabord of the US if a potential europeon cliff of land would drop off and fall into the ocean causing a tsunami up and down the eastern side fo our country....

I have my own personal earthquake kit, but we aren't really prepared for any sizeable quake - which is bad.

Okay. Living here in Florida, I would just like to say that somebody was ALL messed up. They meant to predict that Florida would have two hurricanes and one more on the way by 9/6.

YIKES. We have not had a fun weekend.

If y'all had just left it a swamp, you wouldnt be down there to screw up voting and continuously get blown away by storms.

I think I saw that there was a quake in Japan (just offshore) today. Maybe they just missed it by a few thousand miles.

I was thinking the same thing.

LMAO

That's the funniest of so far today i've read.

That's good then, if they're only off by a few thousand miles, because I remember being taught in school that earthquakes were entirely unpredictable. Hopefully Japan knew about it too and knew they were at risk as well so could somewhat prepare.

FYI, I know how to vote, thank you very much. Seems to me that it was a bunch of newcomers from somewhere else.
Maybe even some from Iowa.

And I never lived in a swamp. That's something we drain and sell to folks from up north and - yep you guessed it: Iowa.

Japan is a highly prepared country when it comes to natural disasters. One of the many reasons I spent the New Years of 99-00 there ;) I spent the majority of my time on the southernmost island, Kyushu, and there is a volcano called Sakurajima that regularly spouts ash. There are regular drills for the locals all the time. The yellow hardhats are super stylish and effective.