Earthquakes

desertrat

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FemmePrincess said:
Oh MY! Glad we don't have any around here very often...
Earthquakes scare me!!
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They are quite weird to experience. These are pretty small ones though.

clevalley said:
You know I am convinced the west coast is going to snap off at the Rocky Mountains and slide into the Pacific!
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The interesting thing is that a huge area just to the North of the Gulf of California is well below sea level. The only thing keeping the fish out is a low bridge of of sand, the old Colorado River delta. Wouldn't take much to bust that up.
 
clevalley

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desertrat said:
They are quite weird to experience. These are pretty small ones though.
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I was in Anchorage waiting on a plane to out to the Aleutian's the first time I experienced one... I was in a hotel room and the whole room shook and we could not figure out what it was until it was over!

The second one I was out on the Aleutian Islands - there was a loud BOOM and the next thing we knew the whole place was moving in all directions, it seemed like forever but was only a few seconds. It was a 4 or 5 something, really cannot remember.

I do not know what the BOOM was, but man it was the weirdest feeling.
 
PJumper

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clevalley said:
You know I am convinced the west coast is going to snap off at the Rocky Mountains and slide into the Pacific!
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Not the case. It's actually being shove North and East by the Pacific plate, so Tijuana maybe in San Diego area in a century or two.
 
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