Hope everything is fine, worried me when I woke up and couldn't get to this or any seti site. Downloads are going, but couldn't get here. Everything is slow....

Earthquake Map

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Hope everything is fine, worried me when I woke up and couldn't get to this or any seti site. Downloads are going, but couldn't get here. Everything is slow....

Earthquake Map

Friend of mine that lives in Modesto, CA was telling me about the quakes they had Friday. They have not been online since then either. Figured they something had knocked out their internet, but looks like things are still active in the area. That map you linked to shows around a 4 north of the San Fran area in the last hour.

Hopefully all of those emergency services are running as expected & getting everyone taken care of.

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Just a matter of time until one hits real close to seti...Not if but when.

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sorry about the rumbles
hope everyone is okay!

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Yeah It will happen down here, It's only a matter of time, So far this area has been bracketed, some south of the US/Mexican border and some up to the northwest(roughly) in Northern California(Humboldt county...), Here in southern California near Barstow, Like within about oh say about 150 miles I see earthquakes on the wunderground website quite a bit of the time, But most are fairly small and between 2.5 to maybe 3.3 or so(Below 2.5 can't be felt by people, So their not displayed).


The quake ran about 10 miles deep in northern California,
near Eureka.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/09/california.earthquake/index.html

And last I looked Eureka is not near Modesto...

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Also heard about the earthquake. I also have read something about a big eathquake that will hit California. Some people said it would happen before 2000 (luckily it didn't) and that it's only a matter of time before it happens. I wonder how people feel, living in these regions, I couldn't imagine...

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Also heard about the earthquake. I also have read something about a big eathquake that will hit California. Some people said it would happen before 2000 (luckily it didn't) and that it's only a matter of time before it happens. I wonder how people feel, living in these regions, I couldn't imagine...

Well We don't live in fear of an earthquake, As most I'd think live in houses that are prepared for It, So We'll live.

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Our chances of a major earthquake (8.0+) here in Wellington recently got downgraded. However, it has been quite a while since the last 7-8 earthquake in New Zealand. They were extremely frequent in the 1800s.

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- Luke.

Our chances of a major earthquake (8.0+) here in Wellington recently got downgraded. However, it has been quite a while since the last 7-8 earthquake in New Zealand. They were extremely frequent in the 1800s.

We haven't had any major quakes in a few years, But everytime one hit US, The lessons learned were incorporated into the building codes here, Concrete is not too strong without reinforcement and concrete mix can also be too weak if the mix is not just right(too much sand I think), The Germans made good nearly bomb proof submarine pens in France that may be nearly earthquake proof(and then only maybe), But they used an enormous amount of steel rebar to do that with and some bombs(Earthquake types) still did get through the outer roof, While the inner roof was only merely dented from the enormous blast that the bomb produced.

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Also heard about the earthquake. I also have read something about a big eathquake that will hit California. Some people said it would happen before 2000 (luckily it didn't) and that it's only a matter of time before it happens. I wonder how people feel, living in these regions, I couldn't imagine...

You prepare. You build your structure to be shaken the heck out of and stand. You have latches on the cabinets that don't open if stuff falls on the door. You strap the heavy stuff to the wall so it doesn't walk across the room when it shakes. You keep a few days supply of the necessities on hand. It really isn't hard to be prepared for the a large earthquake and survive it. You may loose everything, but stuff can be replaced. Ask someone who lives where there are tornados. Ask someone who lives where there are typhoons. Ask someone who lives where there are brush fires.

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Also heard about the earthquake. I also have read something about a big eathquake that will hit California. Some people said it would happen before 2000 (luckily it didn't) and that it's only a matter of time before it happens. I wonder how people feel, living in these regions, I couldn't imagine...

You prepare. You build your structure to be shaken the heck out of and stand. You have latches on the cabinets that don't open if stuff falls on the door. You strap the heavy stuff to the wall so it doesn't walk across the room when it shakes. You keep a few days supply of the necessities on hand. It really isn't hard to be prepared for the a large earthquake and survive it. You may loose everything, but stuff can be replaced. Ask someone who lives where there are tornados. Ask someone who lives where there are typhoons. Ask someone who lives where there are brush fires.

Strapping a bookshelf, TV or the aquarium here isn't practical, The interior walls aren't very stiff here(3' to 4' stud separation, Fleetwood was very cheap, floors squeak here and there too), So the bookshelf can't be secured as the exterior walls as they can move some 3" to 5" with high speed gusty winds and in an earthquake, The foundation at least is resistant. The TV at least is on a stand that has allowed the TV to sway very little while the stand took the quake motions. So anything on My bookshelf is not breakable, Besides It has over 100lbs of gravel on the bottom shelf(I needed to put them somewhere as space was taken under the 100 gallon 6' long aquarium, I still need supplies and stuff for It, plus an extra support jack, I have no idea how much that'll cost Me). But then I do need the room as everything is too close in here and there's a few of the reasons why I need to move.

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Seems the quakes are happening everywhere again. Did the 6.5 North of CA cause much damage does anyone know? Any news story link from that side of the pond?

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Just heard about the earthquake in Haiti. Port-au-prince is totally vanished. They talk about 20000 to 30000 dead people. The quake was 7 on the scale. Terrible to see people who were already poor, having nothing left anymore...

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Seems the quakes are happening everywhere again. Did the 6.5 North of CA cause much damage does anyone know? Any news story link from that side of the pond?

Not much damage that I'm hearing about and I'm in California. With the building codes in California a 6.5 here is about the same as a 5.0 in the rest of the world.

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Just heard about the earthquake in Haiti. Port-au-prince is totally vanished. They talk about 20000 to 30000 dead people. The quake was 7 on the scale. Terrible to see people who were already poor, having nothing left anymore...

The Shaking in Haiti though was a 10.0 as It lasted for 1 minute the news said and the dead could be as high as 100,000 people as It's a City of 2,000,000 people and almost the entire city looks like Its been flattened, Hopefully just when Haiti has been slowly getting Its act together there aren't that many deaths, But It is a Tropical environment and some survivors will die from lack of medical care as others have already. The US NAVY is sending a few ships down there, A Hospital Ship(USNS Comfort), a Helicopter Assault Ship(Bataan) and a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier the Carl Vinson(which is supposed to be loading lots of supplies and Helicopters onboard as the Carrier didn't have all of Its aircraft onboard at the time President Obama ordered It into action as the Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces. Plus there are 4 other NAVY ships on the way or soon to be on the way as this story mentions Here from the Navy Times website.

@ Andy: The 6.5 In California did some damage, broken windows here and there, A few Doors missing, Lots of stuff knocked off shelfs, But that seems to be It so far.

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There were no reported injuries from the Humboldt California quake. However property damages estimates are around $30 million.
One thing people don't really realized about earthquake building codes is that the codes are designed to save lives, not property. Building are designed to remain standing after an earthquake. They are not designed to remain undamaged. In fact like a car, they are designed, in some cases, to absorb the energy. I've had to retrofit some old buildings, so I had to learn what is possible or not.

As for Haiti, I've been there. It's nearly the worst possible place to be in an earthquake. I feel really sorry for those people. The nation is impoverished to begin with. There are no earthquake codes and even if there were, they have no enforcement. There are (were) three story buildings that were put together with twigs and white glue. The soil is unstable and there are buildings on hillsides that should never have been placed where they were. I feel really sorry for them.

There were no reported injuries from the Humboldt California quake. However property damages estimates are around $30 million.
One thing people don't really realized about earthquake building codes is that the codes are designed to save lives, not property. Building are designed to remain standing after an earthquake. They are not designed to remain undamaged. In fact like a car, they are designed, in some cases, to absorb the energy. I've had to retrofit some old buildings, so I had to learn what is possible or not.

As for Haiti, I've been there. It's nearly the worst possible place to be in an earthquake. I feel really sorry for those people. The nation is impoverished to begin with. There are no earthquake codes and even if there were, they have no enforcement. There are (were) three story buildings that were put together with twigs and white glue. The soil is unstable and there are buildings on hillsides that should never have been placed where they were. I feel really sorry for them.

It's a real mess from what CNN has shown, Houses in the outskirts just flattened, Some though are standing, Somehow at least.

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CNN has a story on the Earthquake in Haiti and of all the nations that are sending aid:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/14/haiti.aid/index.html

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I just saw scenes on TV about the Sea Port in Port au Prince, Piers are damaged severely in the one photo shown on TV today, I think the Seabees are needed down there for the port as the airport is getting more supplies I hear(The News says the sea port is heavily damaged), Hopefully this will get better soon.

LA Times wrote:

The Coast Guard cutter Forward, dispatched from the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, arrived early Wednesday, the only large vessel in the harbor.

Cmdr. Diane W. Durham, commander of the vessel, said Haitian officials told her that half of the 80 members of the Haitian coast guard stationed at the port had been killed in the earthquake.

Devastation, Seen From a Ship

http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2010/01/14/haitis-main-port-not-operational/

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Here's some photos of the Port Au Prince Harbor in Haiti:

Before and After.

I found the updated photos from links below:

Google's Satellite Images of the Haiti Earthquake

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