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Diabolik wrote:I'm a Californian, so I will pull out my big earthquake wang and belittle you all, npnp.

Lyion wrote:

Diabolik wrote:I'm a Californian, so I will pull out my big earthquake wang and belittle you all, npnp.

I was on the third floor of the Navsecgroup barracks in Monterey going #2 when the huge 1989 earthquake hit near San Fran. I was close to the epicenter.

Given that building is older than Joan Rivers I expected death while sitting on the pot.

California should be due another big one soon. Preferably while I'm out of state.

At first the Mississippi seemed to recede from its banks, and its waters gathering up like a mountain, leaving for the moment many boats, which were here on their way to New Orleans, on bare sand, in which time the poor sailors made their escape from them. It then rising fifteen to twenty feet perpendicularly, and expanding, as it were, at the same moment, the banks were overflowed with the retrogade current, rapid as a torrent - the boats which before had been left on the sand were now torn from their moorings, and suddenly driven up a little creek, at the mouth of which they laid, to the distance in some instances, of nearly a quarter of a mile. The river falling immediately, as rapid as it had risen, receded in its banks again with such violence, that it took with it whole groves of young cotton-wood trees, which ledged its borders. They were broken off which such regularity, in some instances, that persons who had not witnessed the fact, would be difficultly persuaded, that is has not been the work of art.

The area of strong shaking associated with these shocks is two to three times larger than that of the 1964 Alaska earthquake and 10 times larger than that of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

At the onset of the earthquake the ground rose and fell - bending the trees until their branches intertwined and opening deep cracks in the ground. Landslides swept down the steeper bluffs and hillslides; large areas of land were uplifted; and still larger areas sank and were covered with water that emerged through fissures or craterlets. Huge waves on the Mississippi River overwhelmed many boats and washed others high on the shore. High banks caved and collapsed into the river; sand bars and points of islands gave way; whole islands disappeared. Surface rupturing did not occur, however. The region most seriously affected was characterized by raised or sunken lands, fissures, sinks, sand blows, and large landslides that covered an area of 78,000 - 129,000 square kilometers, extending from Cairo, Illinois, to Memphis, Tennessee, and from Crowleys Ridge to Chickasaw Bluffs, Tennessee.

Although the motion during the first shock was violent at New Madrid, Missouri, it was not as heavy and destructive as that caused by two aftershocks about 6 hours later. Only one life was lost in falling buildings at New Madrid, but chimneys were toppled and log cabins were thrown down as far distant as Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Louis, Missouri; and in many places in Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee

Diabolik wrote:One of the easiest ways to die in an earthquake is to run outside like a chicken with its head cut off.

Stay indoors until the shaking stops, then calmly walk outside and check for structural damage and gas leaks. If it's at night, put on shoes (broken glass!) and use a flashlight; you don't know what you might miss. Look around for weirdly dangling power cables.

Get together with your neighbors. Organize a group of the strongest males and then go into the next block and shotgun to death all the males taller than a standard municipal fire hydrant (they are regulation size for that reason). Kidnap all the women and breed with the ones that have comely features. Give the young boys and girls and the older/ugly females to your womenfolk to use as kitchen slaves.

Above all, don't panic! Earthquakes can be scary, but as long as Cthulhu lies dreaming in his home in R'lyeh, they should only be reminders that he is merely snoring and we are to be spared The Time of the Great Old Ones for a few more millenia.

Lyion wrote:

Diabolik wrote:I'm a Californian, so I will pull out my big earthquake wang and belittle you all, npnp.

I was on the third floor of the Navsecgroup barracks in Monterey going #2 when the huge 1989 earthquake hit near San Fran. I was close to the epicenter.

Given that building is older than Joan Rivers I expected death while sitting on the pot.

California should be due another big one soon. Preferably while I'm out of state.

DangerPaul wrote:I think this country needs a massive natural catastrophic event to happen.