OT: Earthquakes, Tsunami and Volcanoes, Oh My!

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]BTW, if you have a science/math minded teen who is looking for some career ]direction, there are a lot worse things to be than a seismologist. The field ]isn't exactly overflowing, and volcanoes and earthquakes just happen to occur ]in very cool parts of the world. A friend works for the USGS and has spent ]much time being jetted to Hawaii, Japan and Asia to study seismic events. ]Not too shabby.

uhm - some of them seem to die at a rather young age, too.

of course, working for the CDC has it's hazards, too.

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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:32:48 -0400, Dr. Sooz wrote (in message ):

Ah, the Loma Prieta earthquake. That's the one that I think most Americans have a feeling that they lived through it, because it occurred live and in our living rooms. The World Series was on, and we all saw the ballfield swaying, and the die-hard SF and Oakland fans, calming sitting in their seats, waiting for the game to resume. A few out of towners panicked, but it was nothing like what I would have expected.

We were at Baby Class, preparing for DD's birth. All the Daddies to be were champing at the bit for class to be over, so they could go home to watch the game. Finally, the teacher ended the class early so we could get to our televisions. Since my in-laws home was closer to baby class than ours (we lived about 20 miles away at the time), we stopped at DH's parents house, to find his mother crying and wringing her handkerchief. (She really was like that, and would bawl over the daily news) She was glued to the television for days, and kept trying to get me to call everyone I knew in CA, even people who lived hundreds of miles away, to make sure they were all right. (Everyone was fine, and I didn't want to tie up the phone lines for families and people who needed to get through)

We watched in horror as we saw the sandwich that had been the Nimitz Highway, and prayed that some people were alive in the devistation. It was (and is) hard for us to get a grip on the huge distances in California. Here in Massachusetts, if you drive 200 miles, you could be in Albany or New Jersey (or way deep in the ocean). My town started collecting things to be sent to the relief effort, which is a common reaction here: our town sent a caravan of tractor trailers laden with emergency supplies to Quincy, Ill during the huge floods and went into total alert and rescue mode on 9/11/01.

I'm glad that you're here, Sooz, to laugh about the earthquake. You're way too special to get squished. :-)

Kathy N-V

Having recently returned from Costa Rica, where I watched lava flow down the side of the Arenal volcano at night, I have to agree. A very rich color. I see a cone-shaped bead with red dichro on the top, black base. Use a pendant....... Barbara Dream Master

"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter

I had driven that fwy. many, many times, years ago. I was always amazed at the way the sections of the highway sagged between the support columns. A local told me that when it was built there was a crony ism thing going on and

1/3 of the supports that were originally supposed to be in the elevated sections were left out in order to have a higher profit margin. Interesting (to say the least) if true. Barbara Dream Master

"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]We watched in horror as we saw the sandwich that had been the Nimitz Highway, ]and prayed that some people were alive in the devistation.

and the Embarcadero Freeway [which now no longer exists]

and the Bay Bridge. daddy was supposed to be ON that bridge about then, so my mother was a shade panicky. he'd remembered the World Series, so came home through Dublin instead, figuring on going to Oakland the next day. **shudder** he said he pulled off the road, thinking there was something wrong with one of his tires - then realized everyone else was, too - and just waited it out.

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Big earthquakes are scary, but volcanoes are worse, for me. I watched Mt.St. Helens blow her top when I was a kid, and we were all far enough away to escape of course, but the ash that rained down made people sick. We had to wear masks for awhile to avoid it. People say that the Pacific NW is one of the most geologically dangerous places to live in the states - they keep telling us we're going to have a huge earthquake here soon, but the buildings are totally not up to code. And we're surrounded by volcanoes. We're pretty much screwed when it all happens. It will be like a chain reaction. Kabloooie! This is all according to my friend Tara who is a geologist. She loves living here because it's so fun to study. We shake a little all the time here in the Pacific NW - just not enough to feel much but a little rolling once every few years.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :

]People say that the Pacific NW is one ]of the most geologically dangerous places to live in the states - they keep ]telling us we're going to have a huge earthquake here soon, but the ]buildings are totally not up to code. And we're surrounded by volcanoes. ]We're pretty much screwed when it all happens. It will be like a chain ]reaction. Kabloooie!

Kandice - when DH moved out here from Georgia, he was worried about earthquakes. so i showed him on the map that there weren't any major fault lines around here. we'd been here a few months when i realized i had plopped us down right smack between two volcanos. Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen. plus, there's that one forming down at Mono Lake.

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LOL - take a look at this map.

then, this one this page about fault lines and such But I LOVE it here. :)

That's just God, punishing California for Ronald Reagan.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.." -- Counting Crows

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.combuybeads (BeckiBead) :

]That's just God, punishing California for Ronald Reagan.

**snort** point!

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ROFLMAO!!! :)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :

]LOL - take a look at this map. ]

then, this one] this page about fault lines and such] have a whole series of those marked for our area, too.Mono Lake and the Long Valley Caldera are still the ones that worry methe most, tho!

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.compuppies (Dr. Sooz) :

]Now that ]would've been really scary -- to have the broadcast just black out and go dead ]all over America! Yeeks.

it would certainly have freaked out most of the country! which may be why they tried so hard to stay on the air.

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I understand that Ronald Reagan doesn't remember being President. I wish I didn't remember when he was President. Patti

There was kind of a nasty one about 15 years ago, when that double-deck bridge collapsed and all those people died.

PATTI -- I SPLUTTEREd all over the place, LOL. Too funny.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.." -- Counting Crows

Quit it, you guys! That's 2 splorts in as many minutes!

Celine

I was supposed to drive down to LAX and fly to Buffalo for a flight research project the day of the Northridge earthquake. I heard it coming and then felt it go on and on and on. I said to Ken, I'll bet I'm not going anywhere today.

Then I called the company I was going to and got one of the guys who didn't even know I was supposed to be there. I told him someone had had a really bad earthquake, probably between me and the airport, and I'd get back to them eventually. I hadn't even had to wait for a dial tone. Then Ken tried to call his folks and reassure him. No dial tone. We didn't have a dial tone in less than three minutes for a couple of days.

The freeway interchange between our freeway and 5 fell on 5, so it was really hard to get to LA for a long time. NASA let us fly on the incredibly expensive shuttle between Palmdale and LAX until the road was fixed. Talk about something good from something bad. This was a redesigned interchange that had fallen down the first time in the Sylmar earthquake in 1971.

Mary

Oh, don't remind me. Anyone foolish enough to say "Taxes should hurt" when he was trying to prevent state withholding in a year that he didn't pay any CA income tax shouldn't have gone any further.

He signed my BS and MS degrees, too.

Mary