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California/Oregon Earthquake
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Just happened about 80 miles of the Coast of the California/Oregon border. 7.0 magnitude, so pretty big. They initally gave out a Tsunami Warning but called it off as the ocean sensors show no signs of a Tsunami. No reports of injuries and damage thus far and hopefully it will stay that way.
anyone feel it? my girlfriend was camping in Bend, OR, and said she didn't feel anything.
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yea they flipped out when it first happened, now the likelyhood of any shit is fairly unlikely. they think that it was more like 80-300 miles off the coast. big whoop
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fo real! i didn't feel anything and im here in SF! nothing felt here in the bay i think let me check around!
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I didnt feel shit, i never feel them damnit!
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didnt feel it in ny so u guys are good.....
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well since like not one single person lives there im suprised people felt it. must have been those scale things.
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HAHAHAHA i love how its all over the new's, 7 arent that big i mean compared you know to an 8 but comeone before dec last year this wouldnt have been such a big deal .
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Actually, what scares scientists is that the same type of fault that caused the huge Indonesia earthquake lies off the coast of upper Cali to British Columbia. The same type of earthquake that hit Indo WILL hit the PNW, just depends when. It is called the Cascadia Event. It last occured 300 years ago. Somethings make it better than Indo, namely the larger cities, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, are not on the open ocean and are protected from a tsunami. What they are afraid of in the big cities is the buildings collapsing. They aren't sure whether or not they can hold up. Those buildings do fine in a normal earthquake lasting about 30 second, but the earthquake that will result from this fault is called a submersion earthquake, like the Indo one, and will last up to five minutes. So, the question is can the bigger builds stay up will shaking for five whole minutes?
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Woo hoo for geology class!! My hometown is in the central valley in california and only 10 feet above sea level with nothing in between the bay and my place, i sleep upstairs and hopefully if shit hits the fan we will atleast have a warning so i can get the jet ski's out. Havta be optimistic right
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That actually not from a geo class...it from the Discovery Channel!!! They have a awesome special on the subject with computer creations of what it may look like to be in Seattle when everything around you is crashing to the ground. Yeah!! The place that would be most fucked would be the Oregon Beaches. The shaking would be the worst there and then they would have a HUGE wave coming to kill them. not a good time.
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Not to mention the liqufaction to most of the major city's on the west coast. Then if there is this major subduction movement there will be another sunami . I was taught that the pacific plate and the north american plate have a transfer plate boundry?
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wow i'm stoned and i just read that and im pretty much pissing my pants.
but then again with the tsunami of '93 hit (trust me, there was one, i dont know when but i tihnk 93), the swell was a 3-5 foot swell and the tsunami was measured at a GNARLY FUCKING THREE INCHES.
everyone was out on their surfboards gonna surf it and it was 3"4'. haha what a day in Santa Cruz history.
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There will be a Tsunami, but the major cities on the Western Coast are all either inland (Portland) or are on the water but are in someway protected by a land mass as opposed to being on the open ocean (Seattle and Vancouver). The cali cities really shouldn't be affected too much. A subduction quake could cause some of the earth to actually drop down, so not only would the water be rising but the earth would be falling. This will only apply to area on the coast though. None of the major cities will be affect by water, but the coast will be absolutely devestated, just as Indonesia was.
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it would suck to be in a tsunami
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