7/15 #2
7/15 #4
I always find it amusing when people in tornado states say that they could never live in California because of the earthquakes. I'll take a quake over a tornado, thanks!
Well..that reminds me of another story
I was livin in the Interior of Alaska ..about 185 miles as the bird flies from Denali National Park (Mt McKinley) when the 7.9 magnitude Denali Fault earthquake hit on November 3, 2002. It was the largest inland earthquake in North America in almost 150 years. It mostly just disrupted transpotartion..leaving rifts in the highway that swallowed up whole pick ups...But because that area of Alaska is so sparsely populated... there were no recorded deaths and only minor injuries. I was having coffee at the kitchen table with friends in my cabin when I noticed that the coffee in my cup was sloshing around looking like it wanted to jump right out. We looked at each other hollered, "Earthquake!!", and all of us ran out the door into an open area. I had never experienced an earthquake of that magnitude before. We think of the ground as being this solid immovable thing...but I can tell you that it reminded me of a wave moving. I felt like I was standing there riding a wave and doing the hula all at the same time! There were lots of aftershocks afterwards, and I remember they made me feel kinda dizzy before they'd hit.
Now
@mac63 knows this..that earthquakes in Okinawa and Japan are a pretty common occurence. Mostly just enough to make a swag lamp start swaying. Japan has so many earquakes becuz its situated near a triple fault line between the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate (the Japan Trench) and the Philippine plate (the Nankai Trough).
But on Mar 10, 2011 an earthquake measuring 8.9 unleashed a devastating tsunami causing massive destruction and a death toll over 300.
I bring this up because just as Count Boredom said... a lot of folks think that California is the only place that has earthquakes but there are earthquakes in just about every state in the country. But they're mostly little ones that may not even be felt. But compare that to the New Madrid fault that cuts through 120 miles threatening the states of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. In some areas they get tremors every other day. New York even has one called the Ramapo fault that crosses subway and water lines in the Hudson River area. As one earthquake expert explained it, "these faults have been quiet for a couple of hundred years and we know that sometime in the future these areas are due for a major earthquake. But we don't really understand the rules of the game yet".
7/15 - 3: I have seen my share of the green sky as well as tornadoes. However; neither scares me, if it is my time, it is my time.I will stand outside and watch it.
uh-huh...and to each there own...and I've sure done some pretty foolish things in my day...like taking a 14 foot aluminum fishing boat out on Lake Erie. Thank goodness for my Patron Saint of Fools as I have no idea how I survived that. I wasn't raised around big bodies of water so I was ignorant to the dangers inherent in them. I'm glad that it wasn't 'my time' that day but I'm never doin THAT again!
(end of story hour , tree peeps
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@Fuzzy Thunderbear ..an expensive hobby hot air ballooning
..but a ride or two is def on my bucket list!
