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Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

What do you think of it?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&e=8&u=/afp/20040415/ts_alt_afp/us_quake_predict_040415142014

This guy seems like he knows what he's talking about. I wouldn't want to live in LA right now.

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

<Is glad he lives on the other side of L.A.>

<If true, is concerned about closer Hatrackers.>

Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :

Bah!

Our geology department's cafeteria is called the Bomb Shelter. Can you say paranoia?

Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

This would be really cool for the Northeast. We're long overdue, and our geology is such that an earthquake can travel further here than out there. I wonder if their info is translated to different geological conditions?

-Bok

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

quote:
"Theyve made three predictions and two of them have been borne out."

Two out of three ain't bad.

I don' t like the "within the next 50 years" thing. And they haven't updated it since 1987 (for Utah). I miss the olden days of the disaster movies.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

I've been hearing about this all day. I don't have time to do a search right now, but I was also hearing that this has been backed up by another research group who confirm that the San Andreas is under more stress than it's experienced in a LONG time.

*shrug* I have bottled water, canned goods, etc. -- have for years. (Well, not the same ones. [Wink]

) I'll review the earthquake safety stuff with my kids.

I lived through the '94 (Northridge) quake (and was 8 months pregnant at the time) with little worse than losing electricity. I guess it's time to look into getting my hands on a ham radio again, so that if something happens, I have backup communication -- and perhaps can help, like in '94.

I still prefer earthquakes to hurricanes. [Big Grin]

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

pooka, I think the third is the LA prediction. If that's true, it means they are two for two so far. If it's not, I didn't read it as carefully as I should have.

Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :

*survival kit*

Laptop with wireless lan... CHECK.

I am Hatrack ready. [Smile]