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Odds Put on Next Great San Francisco Earthquake

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnatu ... quake.html

Central U.S. Warned of Larger Earthquakes to Come
By Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Senior Writer
posted: 10 February 2005
05:51 pm ET

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnatu ... ansas.html

If there's a betting pool on this somewhere, I want in!

Forget it, don't bother predicting, though I don't mind seeing seismologists studying the regions. This isn't like hurricanes, 'cause we don't know when, where and how hard the quakes will be. So I'll know about it when it happens.

When a big one hits, don't beleive most of the amateur forecasters. They can be full of dead air. When a big one really does hit, the crazed ones will then go on TV and say they knew it all along by making a faux warning notice to the stricken area after the quake hits.

And for broadcasters, if it is anyting below a 5.5 and especially a 5, they shouldn't bother making it breaking news especially if it hit a remote area. Only do so if it is felt live, in the studios or on location. Or if it did just enough significant damage. I DON'T want to have my programming pre-empted because of some stupid little tremor, with news and the same information that I already know about.

Seeing the article on Midwestern earthquakes. Seeing that activity is rarer and more ignored than that of the west coast and Alaska, it is a surprise to many that the biggest and strongest quakes in the continental US occured there almost 200 years ago. So those in that should not get too comfortable by saying that there are no earthquakes there.

There've been some decent sized earthquakes in Alaska recently. The last major earthquake that happened in the area I live in was the Loma Prietta earthquake in October of 1989. I don't remember much of it, though.

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The Loma Prieta Earthquake, hey I was in the middle of it that day. Outside in the front yard, the earth started shaking pretty heavily. But for some reason we did not move to safety at all. Due to fear and shock, and being about 10 years old and such.
Though I don't think about it, I now remember that there were cable, electrical, and phone lines above our heads that go toward the house, so if those came down....

Let us say that I was lucky.

The damage in our house was that the chimney became somewhat unstable and we were never able to use it again since. We don't live there anymore but I am not sure about it's status now.

About an hour later I finally heard that the Bay Bridge had collapsed but didn't know how bad it was.

We had a generator and were able to watch the news on TV, where I saw even more damage in SF, Oakland, the Bay Bridge, and Santa Cruz. The collapse of the double-decker freeway was the most serious of them all.

Though a major quake is not a funny thing, the best thing about it was it allowed the city of San Francisco and CalTrans to finally get rid of those ridiculous double-decker freeways that the city had planned for all over the city years back, but were stopped by civil complaints. They were ugly and made the city skyline look hideous. Especially the Embarcadero (The east piers of the city by the Bay Bridge) Now the scenery looks better.

Of course there was World Series and if you were somewhere else in the nation, you knew it was happening live during the pre-game show. Then go to dead air and come back live via a generator and hear all the pandemonium.

I remember a lot about that day in 1989 at 5:04 PM PDT. And it was a nerve-wracking experience in the lifetime.

News from South Dakota we had a earthquake the other day in Howard, South Dakota though it was small 3.2 type.

And South Dakota does not have in faults system in the state. So what gives that we would have a earthquake too.