So... is the "big one" going to happen today in SoCal?

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a series of steadily elevating seismologically detectable earthqakes began yesterday or the day before here in SoCal... the other day someone said to my girlfriend that "the big one is coming this week... my dogs have been going nuts all week." my cat was acting like a lunatic this morning and i have never seen him that way before. they've been talking on the news nonstop about the fault in LA for the last few days.

So... does someone know something I don't know?
i knew i should have bought that bottled water

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm. Maybe I will get out of the building for that lunch walk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom just landed in LA for a few days. *gulp*

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

And, um, also I care about you guys, of course.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Good luck dudes and dudettes!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What, is this "earthquake weather"?

I'm not sure if cats and dogs flipping out is a reliable way of predicting these things.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

But no animals drowned in the Boxing Day tsunami (I can't remember if this is proven by science or urban myth, but still...). They *know* stuff.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

this is completely stupid media hysteria bullshit. there is no way to accurately predict earthquakes.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

well... the chickens have been flying in concentric circles, the pigs have been walking on their hind legs, the chinchillas are wearing leather and the cows chinchilla. The parrot outside the window said, 'safety first.' so i think something is most certainly afoot.

and yes, it has been remarked in the last week at my work that this is "earthquake weather".

sure, there is an element of hysteria. but it's not as though it's some wild heretofore ungrounded concern in southern california.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Quake to hit LA by Sept. 5

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050526/ap_on_sc/la_fault

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.politicalamazon.com/images/sanford--the--big--one%20copy.jpg

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

earthquake probability map (updated hourly):

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/step/

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope it happens while I'm down there this weekend!

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

RSS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/catalogs/eqs7day-M5.xml

Good luck!

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it looks like people should be getting from the Salton Sea for any reason... that scumpond has skulls and shit in it anyway.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(ahem, getting "away" from)

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

will it hit the santa barbEra?

I have a flashlight so i'm not concerned

― the black hand, Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the view from my offic right now

http://www.darkmoonrising.com/issues/apr03/images/DUNE_worm.JPG

― the black hand, Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

is that gygax?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Wrong game. *flees*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yup. and that's @d@m with the sword.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

where do you work?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks like La Mirada to me.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dogs have been spotted fleeing east, away from the ocean and, failing escape from their pens, strangling themselves with their chains. Cats have taken to every tree in sight. Birds have been singing at night and are silent during the day. this morning I spotted dozens of snails "moving" in a line down the sidewalk in front of my apartment building.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm... i was thinking that adam was an agent.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

did they have little branches slung over their shells with bandannas full of their possessions?

(xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's sort of strange. that's why I'm heading to the desert too

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hollywood-diecast.com/road%20warrior%20pic.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"california tumbles into the sea..."

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

well... that was painless.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I might give some lucky lady the "big one" this weekend in SoCal.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Spencer Chigelow, male gigolo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(kidding)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey man, those pool parties.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

For the record, this is all paranoia. There will be big quakes here, but there's no reason to be sure they're coming today or this week or whatever.

My advice is to always know where a pair of shoes are. Always leave a pair of slip ons next to where you sleep (like under the bed).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, sleeping under the bed sounds like a wise idea! =)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

my advice is to live in New York City

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

gabbneb is correct, leave at once!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news/2001/01-18-01_manhatten.htm

...but if an earthquake of magnitude 5 were to occur within New York City, it is expected that serious damage would result. The 117 years since 1884 is the longest period without such a magnitude 5 earthquake. In a geologic sense it is inevitable that such an earthquake will occur again. But it is not possible to predict earthquakes and we don't know when the next magnitude 5 earthquake will come.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

a "5"?? HA!

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Paltry stuff, I admit, but if they're not ready for it...

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I eat 5s for breakfast, fuckos.

― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Right after your morning typhoon?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I was very close to the epicenter for the Northridge quake - thrown out of bed, everything came off the walls, several houses on my parents street had to be demolished - and I will reiterate: always know where your shoes are and never hang anything over your headboard!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://austinwm.club.fr/HTLM/Photos/T/The_Earthquake/Natural_Disasters_01.jpg

― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the chickens have been flying

If this doesn't herald the coming of the apocalypse, I don't know what does.

Hope everything's okay, west coast. Lots of you are supergreat.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

my advice is to live in New York City
Yeah, as others noted NYC -- and actually many areas on the East Coast -- are more susceptible than one would think, although I'm not in an earthquake-prone area, personally. There's no risk for a massive one where I live and any shakes that we might receive are almost without question tremors from larger, distant quakes -- the last tremor felt here was a very slight one from the great Charleston, South Carolina earthquake of 31 August 1886. It was 6.6 on the Richter scale and there was a faultline in a creek near the town of Ravenel about 15 miles west of Charleston that caused it. and it caused the "Wakulla Volcano" (a continuous cloud of an unknown substance -- steam, sulphur, no-one knows -- that spouted from a vent 30 miles southeast of Tallahassee) to stop spouting. I have read an account about a slight earthquake near St. Augustine in some century past, though, if I remember right.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It's on Xinhua - http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/26/content_3005404.htm - and NewsMax - http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/26/140619.shtml - so it must be true.

Meanwhile, in the real world, there's been another earthquake off the coast of Sumatra... again.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The experts warned Californians ominously: "Unless you die very soon, you will be the victim of a destructive earthquake."

The doomsdayness (not a word, I know) of this statement cracks me up.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

hey i got to see the last star wars and listened to SMiLE. im ready.

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Best of luck. Hilarious thread, BTW.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

just shoes Spencer? what if you sleep in the nude?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

then you'll be able to walk to your closet with your shoes on to get a robe instead of cutting your feet on glass and debris.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 May 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

zzzzzz... I know where my shoes are and I just topped off the tank of my car. Bring it on!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 May 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice! Don't forget the canned food and shells!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 May 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.apoints.com/showpiece/dyhb/big/Escape%20From%20L.A.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear, please tell me you weren't making this up, oh please, cos thats the best thing ever. (well ok not really in the scheme of things, but rows of fleeing snails = OMG)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

California Watch reporter starts in on "hey it's been 20 years since the Loma Prieta" earthquake article, uncovers massive failures and fraud in the earthquake protection of public schools. Best information tidbit: the seismic fault maps published by the state geological survey office have been altered from pressure by developers and cities.

Still plowing through a lot of this, but HFS: http://californiawatch.org/earthquakes

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 23 April 2011 03:38 (fifteen years ago)

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