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Old 09-11-2009, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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The Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1) was no minor one and "just up the road" from Monterey.
The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake --Selected Photographs
Damn, you beat me to that point....
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Old 09-14-2009, 01:28 PM
 
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Lots of bad advice and info in this thread.

The pattern of small to medium sized events in places like So Cal is neither a positive nor negative indicator of potential for damaging larger events.

Just because there have not been lots of small to medium sized events on the Central Coast does not mean the Central Coast is less or more prone to be hit by a larger event.

Lots of complicated plate tectonics involved here.
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Old 09-15-2009, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Central Coast
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The map posted by Charles does not show the earthquake that actually caused damage in San Luis Obispo, and Paso Robles with two fatalities and damage all the way to Guadalupe.
The San Simeon quake, 6.5 on the Richter scale of Christimas 2003

It pays to keep in mind that the central portion of the San Andreas is due to adjust, when it does so both Monterey and SLO counties will feel it.

Keep in mind also the damage to the town of Hollister and San Juan Batista and the offset in the San Benito Country rodeo grounds due to recent movements on the San Andreas.
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Old 09-15-2009, 06:45 PM
 
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I believe the San Andreas rips through both of those cities or very near by. A Mag 7 or larger can happen in any city at any time and day of any year. Only God knows. Don't move here if you're afraid of quakes.
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Old 09-15-2009, 06:49 PM
 
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Damn, you beat me to that point....
For some reason (as bad as my memory is) I remember that house in the Santa Cruz Mountain. The guy had just built it and he was experimenting with a new type of earthquake proofing (he read somewhere) to run steel cable lines through the entire house and tighten them down (like the one on a garage door). It caused the house to explode into shards of dead pieces of wood. the guy next door on the same fault suffered minor damage and was on simple risers. Avoid slabs with tension bars and avoid buildings like this. Risers have less surface space so they cause less damage. and if the house does need to release stress it will shift off the risers before damaging the house. To put a house back up on risers is maybe a 10k job. Rebuilding a house in cali is well... prices differ but they're in the 100ks
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Old 09-15-2009, 07:36 PM
 
Location: RSM
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If you can't handle the earthquake risk, don't move to CA.. pretty much everywhere has earthquake risk and predictions are getting better, but are never accurate. new faults are discovered all the time as well
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Old 09-16-2009, 09:11 PM
 
Location: Newark, California
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It doesnt matter where you live, Earthquakes to California, are like Tornadoes to Kansas, they can happen at any time, and no matter where you live you arent '100% safe'.
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Old 09-16-2009, 10:01 PM
 
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It doesnt matter where you live, Earthquakes to California, are like Tornadoes to Kansas, they can happen at any time, and no matter where you live you arent '100% safe'.
Yep... your right, earth quakes can happen anywhere in the world and at anytime...
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Old 09-21-2009, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Central Coast
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Yep... your right, earth quakes can happen anywhere in the world and at anytime...
Not many on the Canadian Shield, a great place for the nuclear suppository.

Or for people who don't like earthquakes.

The worst earthquake in recorded history in the US was the New Madrid quake in Missouri in 1811, It ran church bells in Boston, a thousand miles away, the Mississippit River ran backwards for 2 days.
It was felt across 130,000 square kilometers (50,000 square miles), and moderately across nearly 3 million square kilometers (1 million square miles). The historic 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by comparison, was felt moderately over roughly 16,000 square kilometers (6,000 square miles).130,000 square kilometers (50,000 square miles), and moderately across nearly 3 million square kilometers (1 million square miles). The historic 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by comparison, was felt moderately over roughly 16,000 square kilometers (6,000 square miles).

OH, it is supposed to go again, So really, California is not the most potentially deadly place to live.
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Old 09-21-2009, 11:12 AM
 
Location: The High Seas
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The historic 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by comparison, was felt moderately over roughly 16,000 square kilometers (6,000 square miles).
You can say that again!
When choosing a place to live in CA, get an idea of what kind of land you're on. If your house is on solid granite, chances are you'll do better than if what's under you is sand. Having seen the after effects of Northridge and SF, I would never live on the ground floor of a multi-storey building.
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