You must remember that we deal with this constantly. Literally there was a 2.2 somewhere around Burbank yesterday. My friend felt it, posted on FB, everyone else was like: meh, barely felt it. Never made the news. But folks on the eastern seaboard get one moderate quake and it dominated the news cycle as if it was ten Hurricane Katrinas, Mount Vesuvius and the Genesis Flood all rolled into one, just because a bunch of Washington office workers had to find themselves standing in the Subway parking lot for an hour with nothing to do but take selfies. Poor babies.
We've been dealing with a years-long drought so dramatic that is has completely altered how people use water out here, but has it made the national news? Barely.
Earthquakes on the coasts pale in comparison to what will happen when the |New Madrid Fault| in Missouri/Arkansas/Tennessee decides to move again the way it did in |1811-12.| "The future location of Memphis, Tennessee, experienced level IX shaking on the Mercalli intensity scale."
I've lived through some doozies, missed two of 'em though. I felt the 6.3 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake from about 250 miles away, not knowing where the epicenter was, nor knowing that both my brother and nephew were directly impacted. Brother was on the eastbound ramp onto the Bay Bridge, which was far preferable to being on the bridge itself. Nephew was in the nosebleed seats at Candlestick Park waiting for the start of Game #3 in the World Series. (Spoiler alert, it didn't go well for SF fans.) I was conveniently not at home for the 6.3 swarm of quakes in Mammoth in 1980, too. Long Valley Caldera, represent!
I was unceremoniously thrown from bed by the 6.5 Sylmar quake of 71. That was a rocker.
I'm not laughing–the East Coast doesn't have seismic retrofitting, and I would be fucking terrified to be there during even a minor earthquake FFS.
Well I'm laughing.
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I know, but it's still funny.
You must remember that we deal with this constantly. Literally there was a 2.2 somewhere around Burbank yesterday. My friend felt it, posted on FB, everyone else was like: meh, barely felt it. Never made the news. But folks on the eastern seaboard get one moderate quake and it dominated the news cycle as if it was ten Hurricane Katrinas, Mount Vesuvius and the Genesis Flood all rolled into one, just because a bunch of Washington office workers had to find themselves standing in the Subway parking lot for an hour with nothing to do but take selfies. Poor babies.
We've been dealing with a years-long drought so dramatic that is has completely altered how people use water out here, but has it made the national news? Barely.
Earthquakes on the coasts pale in comparison to what will happen when the |New Madrid Fault| in Missouri/Arkansas/Tennessee decides to move again the way it did in |1811-12.| "The future location of Memphis, Tennessee, experienced level IX shaking on the Mercalli intensity scale."
I've lived through some doozies, missed two of 'em though. I felt the 6.3 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake from about 250 miles away, not knowing where the epicenter was, nor knowing that both my brother and nephew were directly impacted. Brother was on the eastbound ramp onto the Bay Bridge, which was far preferable to being on the bridge itself. Nephew was in the nosebleed seats at Candlestick Park waiting for the start of Game #3 in the World Series. (Spoiler alert, it didn't go well for SF fans.) I was conveniently not at home for the 6.3 swarm of quakes in Mammoth in 1980, too. Long Valley Caldera, represent!
I was unceremoniously thrown from bed by the 6.5 Sylmar quake of 71. That was a rocker.