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California Just Can't Stop Quaking...

#1 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Phieta {lang:icon}

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Posted 29 September 2004 - 02:45 AM

Earlier today at about 10:15 AM there was a magnitude-6.0 earthquake on the San Andreas fault just south of Parkfield in southern Monterey County (just north of San Luis Obispo county). It was expected but overdue, scheduled to strike in the late 80s. Thus far there have been over 90 aftershocks and the initial quake was felt aws far north as San Francisco, west to Yosemite, and south to Santa Ana (a bit south of Los Angeles).

Article - KPIX-TV

Amazingly there seem to have been no injuries, though there was a fair amount of damage in the Parkfield area. Up here in Monterey nothing really happened other than a bit of a ride bluetongue.gif Fortunately the peninsula tends not to take so much damage, as we're literally sitting on a giant bed of granite - we slide instead of rolling.
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Posted 29 September 2004 - 03:09 AM

Whoa... Sounds like its really really bad up there...

I wonder how Arnie is handling the situation bluetongue.gif

Magnitude 6... Thats like ... MaSsIvE!
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Posted 29 September 2004 - 04:19 AM

wow.... no kills.... seemed prepared...
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Posted 29 September 2004 - 04:29 AM

Well, that and it's a fairly remote area... Parkfield's population? 37. Yup, thirty-seven.

Smallish, no?
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Posted 29 September 2004 - 04:31 AM

Wowz0rz. sounds like a large town bluetongue.gif

Kinda lucky it wasnt in a heavily populated city or anything... bluetongue.gif
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