[8Uxtkz7F]

I was checking up on developments on our last big one - a 7.1, 10km deep near one of our bigger cities - $4B in damage - but no loss of life
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/.../quake-13.html
when I thought of the American situation - seems there are a bunch in Alaska, as well as the West Coast - what prefarations to you guys there take?
Maps are here
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/
more info
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_all.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

Oh, this is why New Zealand is sometimes called the "Shaky Isles" - http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/

[Allorneadesee]

I don't know how safe exactly but I'm pretty sure that in the north we almost never have any issues with hurricanes, flooding or earthquakes, quite safe I would say.

I remember a few years back when we had one, I think it was up to 3.0 Richter Scale but I slept during the time and didn't heard or feel anything.

[8Uxtkz7F]

I don't know how safe exactly but I'm pretty sure that in the north we almost never have any issues with hurricanes, flooding or earthquakes, quite safe I would say.

I remember a few years back when we had one, I think it was up to 3.0 Richter Scale but I slept during the time and didn't heard or feel anything.

Seems you're blessed - http://www.teknat.uu.se/forskning/pr...id=104&lang=en - just got to worry about how high you are above sea level, I guess.

[theonsushv]

I don't know how safe exactly but I'm pretty sure that in the north we almost never have any issues with hurricanes, flooding or earthquakes, quite safe I would say.

I remember a few years back when we had one, I think it was up to 3.0 Richter Scale but I slept during the time and didn't heard or feel anything.

Yeah, you guys will be the last ones with safe homes. But we're quite safe down here either. There is a little earthquake danger from the Vulkaneifel, an area about 150km to the southwest, but those quakes are minor. Other than that we have some problems with floods from the river Elbe and Rhein, but we dont have people dying from them, just financial damage.

Sooo... I think I'm safe.

[8Uxtkz7F]

Sooo... I think I'm safe.

Looks like it - even over centuries, it's fairly quiet there -
http://nadine.helmholtz-eos.de/risks..._seism_en.html

[NikkitaZ]

I hate earthquakes. When the whole earth shakes it feels like the end is coming.

I lived in California for 17 years and left mostly because of earthquakes.

[theonsushv]

I would love to experience it once in person. Of course in a safe place, like on a wide meadow where no houses can colapse on me.

But I cant imagine how it is when the WHOLE ground is shaking with everything on it.

[FinanseMikky]

Yeah up here in the midwest we just don't get 'em, but probably will if the Yellowstone caldera goes off.

I'd like to experience it just once in the safety of my non-earthquake proof home.

[8Uxtkz7F]

I would love to experience it once in person. Of course in a safe place, like on a wide meadow where no houses can colapse on me.

But I cant imagine how it is when the WHOLE ground is shaking with everything on it.

Well, there's still the chance of falling into a crack in the ground...
if you ever get to Disneyland, they're supposed to have a ride that's like an earthquake.

[8Uxtkz7F]

Yeah up here in the midwest we just don't get 'em, but probably will if the Yellowstone caldera goes off.

I'd like to experience it just once in the safety of my non-earthquake proof home.

Heck, when that goes, earthquakes will be the least of ANY of our worries...

[Mangoman]

We don't have earthquakes

[Vegeinvalge]

We don't have earthquakes

Are you sure about that?

http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/loca...ake-32117.html

[DrazAdwamoi]

We get the odd hurricane up here, but that is about it. Pretty nice really.

[lh88gFzI]

I've been in 2 earthquakes in my 1 1/2 years in Cali, they were in the 5's on the Richter so they weren't too bad. It is quite an interesting feeling.

As for prep, you have the usual things that you have for any emergency really...

[hexniks]

I've been in 2 earthquakes in my 1 1/2 years in Cali, they were in the 5's on the Richter so they weren't too bad. It is quite an interesting feeling.

As for prep, you have the usual things that you have for any emergency really...

Living in Florida, I'm so used to hurricanes. It'd be interesting to experience a quake. I have to admit, when I was in Cali a few months ago I half wanted one to hit.

[Vegeinvalge]

They used to have (or might still have) an "earthquake simulator" at what used to be the Geological Museum (now part of the Natural History Museum) in London. Basically it was a platform you stood on that shook a bit.

[daguy]

Should have the same things that everyone else should have for an emergency on top of having furniture bolted down and into walls.
Earthquake resistant homes.

Is California building code good against earthquakes, or do they not really care? Build houses just like they do anywhere else almost?


Anyways, we actually get earthquakes here. Range from 1 to 3 on the scale. Get them yearly. It is very interesting. Then they recently discovered an ancient fault line a long Missouri and Tennessee boarder that creates some action.

[JesikaFclq]

California for 20+ years, earthquakes rock!

Unless there's serious damage (which there almost never is) everyone loves a good earthquake.

Yes red dog, California has building codes against earthquakes. There has been at least two 5+ ones this year that I've felt. I'd say fire is (southern) california's natural disaster rather then earthquakes. Ashen skies, evacuations [thumbdown]

[lh88gFzI]

The USGS shows seismic activity throughout the U.S. and the world in "real time"

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

It's funny that they have a map entirely devoted to California and Nevada.

[sPncEjF7]

As far as i know, the only natural disaster i have to worry about is Tornado's and to a lesser extent hail.


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oh and freezing to death.