Yeehaw! Ridem cowboy -small earthquake

Being up early this morning..this little fella bounced me around pretty good in my RV

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2.8 2005/01/06 06:37:01 34.098N 117.445W 5.7 1 km ( 1 mi) SW of Fontana, CA 4.4 2005/01/06 06:35:26 34.136N 117.431W 0.0 3 km ( 2 mi) N of Fontana, CA 3.3 2005/01/06 06:22:38 34.122N 117.433W 2.8 2 km ( 1 mi) N of Fontana, CA 2.5 2005/01/06 04:32:45 34.126N 117.441W 2.2 2 km ( 1 mi) NNW of Fontana, CA 3.6 2005/01/06 04:11:29 34.128N 117.429W 3.0 2 km ( 2 mi) NNE of Fontana, C

It was only 4.4..shrug..but it was about 4 miles away to the epicenter. Not hard enough to do any damage, but my Mt. Dew started swaying pretty good and I had to reach for it before it fell over.

Looking over the map of recent rumblings..they are working west again...towards the big faults in the L.A area.

Gunner

"Gunner, you are the same ridiculous liberal f--k you ever where." Scipio

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Gunner
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Damn glad you are still here to laugh about it, I would have shit myself :o)

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The Rifleman

Damn, I'm amazed that you survived it.

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Bob Brock

Oh hell Steve, that was only small one. The one that took out my house in 83 was much more fun.

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Gunner

"Gunner, you are the same ridiculous liberal f--k you ever where." Scipio

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Gunner

We Californians don't shit ourselves from a, "rather minor", 4.4 magnitude earthquake.

Not that I want to sound boastful or anything like that, but when you have lived in California for more than 20 years, you get used to them. You learn to live with them, recognize them. I am sure Gunner will agree with this.

There are literally many hundreds of earthquakes a year in California ranging from daily mini earthquakes, to the somewhat larger ones of 3 to 4. Anything under 5, we consider minor.

Take a look at this USGS (US Geological Survey) site for daily earthquake information.

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You can find, that we had a 1.4 earthquake near Piedmont and Oakland, just about

15 minutes ago. And another 1.4 near The Geysers about 10 minutes ago.
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Abrasha

Crazy Guy, call youself a survivalist ? Have you ever heard on unnecceary risk?, I know CA is pretty but surely a man of your talent could find somewhere to live that is not trying to make itself part of the pacific ocean?. After 83 you could have move somewhere safe like say New Madrid ? :o)

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The Rifleman

I think 6 is the cutoff, with a 5 it is kind of hard to tell if it was an earthquake or just gas.

I was in my lock shop for the 89 World Series quake about 10 miles from the epicenter. That was kind of fun and I only had to pick up about 100 key blanks.

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Roger Shoaf

Hear, hear!

Too Much Information

FW

Reply to
Frank White

So, how many megaton was the bomb that the caused that one?

Reply to
Tom Gardner

Hell..I moved to California from Tornado Alley. Its MUCH safer here.

Gunner

"Gunner, you are the same ridiculous liberal f--k you ever where." Scipio

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Gunner

Al Quaida did it!

"Gunner, you are the same ridiculous liberal f--k you ever where." Scipio

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Gunner

Martin

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Martin H. Eastburn

Jeez no wonder you are such a bad driver you are to busy looking up for tornadoes and down for earthquakes to watch the road :o)

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The Rifleman

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The Rifleman

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Ron Moore

10 more years and the French WILL be Al Quida. 10 after than and so will the Brits.

Gunner

"Gunner, you are the same ridiculous liberal f--k you ever where." Scipio

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Gunner

Aware driver....the current truck has 350,000 miles on it and (1) one ticket for crossing into a car pool lane in the wrong place ( was avoiding a moron in a Mercedes waving his hands talking on a cell phone.)

Last ticket prior to that was in 1972. Only accident was in 1971 when the copper tubing brake lines in my new (to me) Rambler station wagon blew out 5 miles from the sellers house at a stop light.

Knock on wood, prayers to St. Christopher, incense to Buddah etc.

Not bad for a bit over 2 million miles driven in every kind of rolling stock you can imagine, from motorcycles to 20 ton drilling rigs and dynamite vans.

Gunner

"Gunner, you are the same ridiculous liberal f--k you ever where." Scipio

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Gunner

Like my front yard. Only with lawn chairs.

Gunner

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Gunner

One that is designed not to fall apart with a little shaking. After every earthquake destroyed structures are analyzed to discover why they had failed. Designs are then improved to prevent failure.

As an example in the 89 quake it was noted that the houses that fell down in San Francisco had lower floors that did not have enough bracing. As a result the building racked sideways causing it's collapse.

These structures were also built on filled in area of mud flats, and this caused the ground to shift more than stable ground.

The solution was to engineer the buildings better. Plywood is now securely screwed to lower framing members to prevent the racking, and building codes were strengthened to require more steel connectors in the construction.

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Roger Shoaf

As Beverley says, I've never had an accident but for some strange reason I have seen hundreds ?, what are these little sticks for on the side of the steering wheel darling ?

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The Rifleman

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