[TheForge] Napa Earthquake OT:

[jerry Frost]

I'm glad to see you didn't slide into the Pacific Pete. I was really happy
to see your post that afternoon when we got home.

We lived in Sylmar, pretty much between the hospitals for the 6.9, 71 quake.
I don't remember the Simi quake when was it? I'm thinking it was a few years
ago a 7.5 struck the interior and did some serious damage, fortunately not
many people live there so emergency services were up to it. The epicenter
was IIRC some 250-275 miles NNE of us and the jolt felt like someone bumped
the house with a truck, a good solid jolt and bang.

Jer

-----Original Message-----
From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter
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Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 9:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Napa Earthquake OT:

The real tragedy is that only the boxed wine survived.

I sincerely do NOT want to be in my shop during a serious quake. There is
too much unsecured weight everywhere.
Friends who were in the Simi Valley quake had a commercial exotic plant
display made from stacked tiers of RR ties.
The huddled in the doorway as the ties went sliding across the floor,
slamming back and forth into the walls.

On Aug 25, 2014, at 8:21 AM, Ries Niemi wrote:

I have ridden out a few six plus quakes. They are exciting. 
I remember the 6.7 Northridge quake pretty vividly, and we were working in
the shop during the 6.8 Nisqually quake, which lasted 45 seconds. 45 seconds
is a long time when the 80 foot tall tree outside is rolling 20 degrees left
and right. 
biggest one I ever felt was the 1964 Alaska quake, which was a 9.2- but I
felt it in Seattle, over a thousand miles away. It still shook my model cars
off the shelf. 

ries


ries


On Aug 24, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Bruce . <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:

> A 6.0 quake is nothing to scoff at.  I'm hoping any of you up that way 
> came through it alright.
> 
> Seems to me I've ridden out a 4.0 in Calif., FAR from the epicenter.
> Noisy, as I recall.
> 
> Bruce
> NJ