The Los Angeles Earthquake Containment Thread (Sacramento, Woodland: zip codes, bills, homeowner)

[Sam Hobbs]

When there was a 4.2 in San Fernando several years ago there was barely a mention of it on the news. You people over there in the basin are more sensitive to shaking; the San Fernando Valley have experienced many that were much worse; a thousand times worse. See Moment magnitude scale - Wikipedia; it says an increase of two steps corresponds to a 103 = 1000 times increase in energy. So a 6.3 would be 1000 times worse, correct?

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

Anybody here live in Carson?

4.3 magnitude earthquake hits Carson area, shakes SoCal:
https://abc7.com/earthquake-los-ange...t-an/11028566/

[CaliforniaGal]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

Anybody here live in Carson?

Exitus, we live in West Hawthorne off Aviation/Rosecrans. We felt that earthquake pretty good here. It was a jolt and lots of shaking. We weren't sure if it would stop. I really thought it would be more like close to 5.0 or over. Our hood/vent (glass) over our stove was swaying. Neighbors came out of their homes. I think Dr. Lucy said it was near the Newport/Inglewood fault which has had a lot of small quakes over the the last few years.

My oldest sister lives in Big Pine near Mammoth and they have earthquakes all the time up there. My first quake was in 1971 Sylmar - I was 17 and it scared the heck out of me. Of course the Northridge Quake was terrible. We lived in Redondo Beach at the time...

I dislike them...:-)

[CA4Now]

The director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services will be stepping down at the end of the year.

"Ghilarducci said the No. 1 worry that keeps him up at night is “the big earthquake that we have not yet seen here in California.” A major earthquake in Los Angeles not only would be devastating to California in damage and lives lost but, given the state’s significant economic influence, the catastrophic impact would also reverberate across the nation and throughout the word.

Imagine the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach being shut down or California’s aging, half-century-old aqueducts and natural gas and petroleum pipelines and interstate railways snaking through Cajon Pass damaged or destroyed.

“There’s work that needs to be done in the area of preparedness, whether it’s infrastructure hardening and seismic retrofitting,” he said. “Think about this: Some of the gas lines alone in the Southern California basin are 100 years or older.”

The good news is that California has been preparing for earthquakes for decades, Ghilarducci said. Caltrans has retrofitted almost all the overpasses in California to ensure they are seismically sound and the state has invested heavily in an earthquake early warning system. The warnings won’t shield California from a disaster, but may allow trains to slow down, companies to shutdown manufacturing lines, doctors to stop medical procedures and cities to shut off water and power.

The director emphasized, however, Californians must do what they can to prepare."

https://www.latimes.com/california/n...or-ca-politics

[Mike Town]

So glad we moved out of California when we did.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by Mike Town

So glad we moved out of California when we did.

So glad you did, too.

Now go post in your own local forum.

[Mike Town]

Originally Posted by saibot

So glad you did, too.

Now go post in your own local forum.

Nobody is more happy that we moved out of the pits of California.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by Mike Town

Nobody is more happy that we moved out of the pits of California.

These last few posts are off topic and will probably be deleted but before that happens I will say I'm sorry you lived in the pits.

I don't live in the pits. I love where I live.

[Mike Town]

Originally Posted by saibot

These last few posts are off topic and will probably be deleted but before that happens I will say I'm sorry you lived in the pits.

I don't live in the pits. I love where I live.

Okay.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by saibot

So glad you did, too.

Now go post in your own local forum.

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