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Early earthquake warnings are getting pretty good these days. They can give 10 or 20 seconds up to 2 minutes of warning. So earthquakes don't have to be a total surprise anymore.
That's better than nothing, but I was referring to the hours or even days of warning prior to possible tornado activity and the days and days of warning ahead of potential landfall of a hurricane.
While living in Louisville, I read a story about the New Madrid and its quake impact it would have in Louisville. One thing is for sure, when that fault goes, it is lights out Memphis and St Louis and chaos for Louisville and Nashville among other places.
I live a little further north in KY, but you are dead right about the Madrid fault line! This is something that we KNOW for a fact is going to happen eventually, that just makes it more frightening imo.
Such as the Cascade Subduction Zone along the Oregon Coast? One time is all it would take, and those towns go bye bye.
Here in Las Vegas, NV we did feel some light shaking from the earthquake today.
No, that is not what I was talking about. I don't consider the Oregon Coast to be an earthquake zone. I was talking about places where people actually experience earthquakes. Places where people experience minor earthquakes regularly, and might possibly experience a major earthquake once in their lifetime. California, Western Washington, Southern Alaska, and Hawaii, and a few small isolated areas of other parts of the country. No one alive has ever experienced an earthquake on the Oregon Coast, nore are they likely to. So that is a non-issue.
No, that is not what I was talking about. I don't consider the Oregon Coast to be an earthquake zone. I was talking about places where people actually experience earthquakes. Places where people experience minor earthquakes regularly, and might possibly experience a major earthquake once in their lifetime. California, Western Washington, Southern Alaska, and Hawaii, and a few small isolated areas of other parts of the country. No one alive has ever experienced an earthquake on the Oregon Coast, nore are they likely to. So that is a non-issue.
I wouldn't be quite so sure that the Oregon coast is entirely safe.
We get a lot of quakes in BC..most not felt. The big one is overdue, and I'm not looking forward to it.
We haven't had one in Vancouver for about 3 years...one that you could feel that is.
I have a retired brother living on N. Pender and I often joke about making sure he has their lifejackets by the door.
I think in the future I will refrain from joking in that manner.
Way back in the early sixties while on course at the NTS in HMCS Naden, I recall the building we were in doing a bit of a shuffle underfoot and for a brief moment of confusion to be quashed when the overhead fluorescent lights hanging by chains swinging too and fro over our work area confirmed we had indeed had an earthquake.
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