The strongest quake I've experienced in the Bay Area (I wasn't living
here for Loma Prieta) was a 4.0 which was like a train roaring through
my living room. It knocked stuff off shelves at the store at the top of
the hill. I had also experienced a 5.0 but the difference was the 5.0
was up in the hills near Clear Lake (50 miles away) and the 4.0 was
centered a mile from my house on a fault they didn't know existed.
On 04/02/2014 11:59 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
*From:* salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 2, 2014 8:38 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Were you there Sal?
I was thinking that earlier in the week with all the quakes and
mudslides going on.
My sister lives near Frisco, she hates earthquakes, I point out that
it's a stupid place to live in that case, she says she likes the
vineyards and beaches too much to move..
They might not feel that way if they had ever been in a really big
earthquake. That experience really erodes one's belief in the concept
of "terra firma."
Back in 1960, I was living in Morocco, because my father was stationed
there. A friend who had his pilot's license talked me into joining him
as we rented a Piper Cub and flew off from Ben Guerir AFB (the base
where we lived, near Marrakech) to Agadir. We landed on a small strip
next to the beach there, and were drinking beer on the beach when the
quake hit.
I think it's still rated in the Top 30 or 40 "killer earthquakes" of
all time. I remember the experience vividly. Although it was
technically a moderate quake (only 5.7 on the Richter scale), it was
shallow and located right under the city. The ground started shaking
so badly that we couldn't stand, and were being thrown around like
puppets on a string. At one point I vividly remember seeing a wave
(earthquakes are, after all, nothing more than waves moving through
the earth) coming down the beachside road at us. The asphalt of the
road was literally rising about 3-4 feet in the air, and then
traveling at great speed towards us. When each wave got to us, they
would toss us up into the air like we were rag dolls.
My most vivid memory is watching a 12-story hotel next to us fall
down. Its four walls fell outwards, and the floors just stacked up
like cards.
When the shaking stopped, we ran for the plane and took off and flew
home, because even though we were young we'd been around the science
block enough to know that there might be a tsunami, and we didn't want
to be on the beach if one arrived (it didn't). Nonetheless, the city
was basically destroyed. Some photos of what it looked like (we went
back to check it out a few weeks later) can be found here:
agadir earthquake 1960 - Google Search
<https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&biw=1032&bih=560&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=agadir+earthquake+1960&oq=agadir+earthquake+1960&gs_l=img.3..0i24.546506.550910.0.551519.6.4.0.2.2.0.116.272.3j1.4.0....0...1c.1.39.img..0.6.284.3K5Ai8n0d3I>
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Okay then, is the "Ring of Fire" becoming active? There was an 8.2
quake off Chile and Yellowstone is beginning to have swarms (all bets
are off if that turns into a volcano). Better be practicing asanas so
you can kiss your ass good-bye.
On 04/02/2014 10:04 AM, Pundit Sir wrote:
> I guess you don't have a video camera or we'd have seen videos from
you.
>
Addressing the important issues!
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Bhairitu <noozguru@...
<mailto:noozguru@...>> wrote:
I guess you don't have a video camera or we'd have seen videos
from you. My channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CaptBebops
On 04/02/2014 09:45 AM, Pundit Sir wrote:
>Such as "What We Did Today"?
>
Well,I guess if you did anything worth reporting we'd have heard
about it. If you owned a camera, I guess you'd have posted a
snapshot. It's beginning to look like you don't get out much - I
did see the photo you sent of visiting Starbucks one day a few
months ago. Maybe you don't own a camera; maybe you don't know
how to upload a flat file; maybe you don't have a web site; or
maybe you live in a lace that even if you did go out, there's
nothing to do or see. Maybe you are just JELLOS. Go figure.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Bhairitu <noozguru@...
<mailto:noozguru@...>> wrote:
Such as "What We Did Today"? :-D
On 04/02/2014 09:07 AM, Pundit Sir wrote:
Addressing the important issues!
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Michael Jackson
<mjackson74@... <mailto:mjackson74@...>> wrote:
Sal, is this your mistress driving the Lamborghini?
http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/400-000-lamborghini-aventador-air-wild-london-crash-article-1.1741770
