USGS warning massive quake off SanFran imminent!

[Data Holmes]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...ault-expected-any-day-now-fremont-earthquake/


There is also fear that there is enough plate pressure right now that this quake could trigger the San Andreas and cascadia faults and trigger a massive quake event from Mexico to Canada.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Hasn't this been the case for decades?

"It could happen tomorrow or it could happen next year or it could happen 25 years from now"

 

[Melakon]

If anywhere is overdue for an event, it's the New Madrid Fault in Missouri, which hasn't had a major shift in 200 years.

 

[Squiggy]

BUT WHAT OF THE GLOBAL SUPERSTORMS?

 

[BillJ]

If there is something major on the horizon, lets hope the citizens of the area are prepared and there is no major loss of life.

 

[Goji]

I'll hide under my bed until it's over.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I get the impression that most buildings out there now are pretty quake-resistant up to a certain magnitude. Unlike us poor saps in these ancient buildings out here on the East Coast when that 6-point-something hit us a few years back. Shit was crumbling everywhere and we almost lost the Washington Monument. Asbestos dust was sprinkling down from the ceiling like snow on Christmas Day. As far as the infrastructural and mental preparedness of the inhabitants? Maybe marginally more-so than the rest of the country, but I suspect if the bell rings loud enough, nobody will really be able to cope for a while.

 

[Data Holmes]

If there is something major on the horizon, lets hope the citizens of the area are prepared and there is no major loss of life.

In the pacific north west, FEMA is estimating roughly 7,000,000 dead or missing.

Shep Smith did a pretty good report on it after the article in the newyorker was published a week or so ago.

http://youtu.be/M-Lccf54JGE

Not sure about this new San Fran one.

 

[FPAlpha]

Thanks for the inspiration.. i was bored and wondered what to do.

I'm now watching 2012

 

[Data Holmes]

Thanks for the inspiration.. i was bored and wondered what to do.

I'm now watching 2012

Well, in that case I'll add this one New Thermal Feature in Yellowstone Forces Road Closure.

 

[B.J.]

If anywhere is overdue for an event, it's the New Madrid Fault in Missouri, which hasn't had a major shift in 200 years.

If there is something major on the horizon, lets hope the citizens of the area are prepared and there is no major loss of life.

If it's the San Andreas fault, at least that area is mostly built to earthquakes standards. If New Madrid goes, that will be a VERY bad day. Not only is practically none of the infrastucture that would be affected built with earthquakes in mind, but due to the geologic makeup of that part of the country, New Madrid earthquakes can have effects much further away than a similar one at San Andreas.

 

[Melakon]

San Fran

Careful. Some of the locals there don't like that nickname.

 

[Gaith]

San Fran

Careful. Some of the locals there don't like that nickname.

Eh, it's alright; it helps us identify and smirk at outsiders.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Thanks for the inspiration.. i was bored and wondered what to do.

I'm now watching 2012

Well, in that case I'll add this one New Thermal Feature in Yellowstone Forces Road Closure.

That caldera pops and we're all proper-fucked.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

If there is something major on the horizon, lets hope the citizens of the area are prepared and there is no major loss of life.

The only way to do that is for every last person to move somewhere else......but where?

Thanks for the inspiration.. i was bored and wondered what to do.

I'm now watching 2012

Well, in that case I'll add this one New Thermal Feature in Yellowstone Forces Road Closure.

That caldera pops and we're all proper-fucked.

Yet another one that could happen tomorrow, or 1,000 years from now. They know about how often the previous 3 or 4 eruptions occurred.

 

[FPAlpha]

If there is something major on the horizon, lets hope the citizens of the area are prepared and there is no major loss of life.

The only way to do that is for every last person to move somewhere else......but where?

Well, in that case I'll add this one New Thermal Feature in Yellowstone Forces Road Closure.

That caldera pops and we're all proper-fucked.

Yet another one that could happen tomorrow, or 1,000 years from now. They know about how often the previous 3 or 4 eruptions occurred.

On a more serious note.. we (at least those who care about more than reality TV and celebrities) know that our planet can still be very volatile and has some pretty big whammys in store of which anyone has the capability to shred humanity's society as it is to pieces.

Nothing we do currently will be able to even remotely lessen the impact.. if the San Andreas fault blows up it's good bye to the US as we know it, the same applies to the Yellowstone supervolcano (however that event is most likely not going to happen for a while yet the California Big One is overdue).

We can talk all day but if it happens it doesn't matter where because the whole world will be affected, even worse if it hits the US because of its geopolitical and geoeconomic importance.

 

[BillJ]

Life's dangerous and none of us are getting out alive.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Worst-case scenario is that the super-massive shockwave from San Andreas travels to Yellowstone which jostles the caldera enough for the surface to rupture. If that happens...well...

[Kirk] "It was fun." [/Kirk]

 

[Data Holmes]

Thanks for the inspiration.. i was bored and wondered what to do.

I'm now watching 2012

Well, in that case I'll add this one New Thermal Feature in Yellowstone Forces Road Closure.

That caldera pops and we're all proper-fucked.

Actually, I think the latest theory is that the increased activity with the caldera is being caused by the pressures along the Pacific Northwest fault in that shep smith report. They seem to think the plates will slip before the caldera goes, and once they do it will release the pressures effecting Yellowstone.

 

[thestrangequark]

If there is something major on the horizon, lets hope the citizens of the area are prepared and there is no major loss of life.

In the pacific north west, FEMA is estimating roughly 7,000,000 dead or missing.

Shep Smith did a pretty good report on it after the article in the newyorker was published a week or so ago.

http://youtu.be/M-Lccf54JGE

Not sure about this new San Fran one.

Correction: Shep Smith did a massively sensationalized, hyperbolic, scientifically conflated report after a click-baity, blockbuster disaster-movie accurate story from the New Yorker.

http://www.wallyhood.org/2015/07/corrections-to-the-new-yorker-earthquake-story/