[quote]The U.S. Geological Survey says a large earthquake has struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California and Mexico.
The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4, was recorded at 2:36 a.m. (1036 GMT) Friday, 163 miles (262 kilometers) south southwest of the California city of Avalon and 167 miles west southwest of Rosarito, Mexico.
It was at the relatively shallow depth of 6.3 miles (10.1 kilometers).
No tsunami warning has been issued.[/quote]
[url]http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=17971795[/url]
This is part of some kind of new viral ad campaign for Pacific Rim.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;38829029]This is part of some kind of new viral ad campaign for Pacific Rim.[/QUOTE]
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According to the USGS, the San Andreas isn't at [i]fault[/i] (wow unintentional pun).
[quote=USGS]The December 14, 2012 M 6.3 earthquake 250 km southwest of Avalon, California occurred as a result of shallow normal faulting within the oceanic lithosphere of the Pacific plate. This event is located some 400-450 km west-southwest of the plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates – the San Andreas fault system in southern California – and is not associated with that fault system. Instead, this earthquake represents intraplate faulting along northeast-southwest trending normal faults within the crust of the Pacific plate, just to the west of California’s continental shelf. The causative fault is not known at this time. At the location of this event, the Pacific plate moves to the northwest with respect to the North America plate at a velocity of approximately 54 mm/yr.
While the broad region surrounding the December 14, 2012 event experiences frequent earthquakes along the San Andreas and associated faults in southern California, the area offshore and within 250 km of this earthquake has not hosted any events greater than M 6 over the past 40 years. The largest nearby earthquake was a M 5.1 event 200 km to the northeast in June of 2004, 80 km west of the border between the US and Baja California. A M 3.3 earthquake struck approximately 35 km to the northeast in April 1981, representing the closest event in the USGS earthquake catalog.[/quote]
Come on San Andreas, get your lazy ass up, don't make the other tectonic plates do your job you cunt, it's been 30 years.
[QUOTE=minilandstan;38831353]Come on San Andreas, get your lazy ass up, don't make the other tectonic plates do your job you cunt, it's been 30 years.[/QUOTE]
Did you know that if and when the San Andreas fault goes, Valve is in the "Catastrophically fucked" zone?
[sp]And so am I[/sp]
[QUOTE=spazthemax;38831425]Did you know that if and when the San Andreas fault goes, Valve is in the "Catastrophically fucked" zone?
[sp]And so am I[/sp][/QUOTE]
Depends on where the epicenter is. If it's near SoCal, then there wouldn't be much damage. Oregon, some. Washington, definitely.
[QUOTE=spazthemax;38831425]Did you know that if and when the San Andreas fault goes, Valve is in the "Catastrophically fucked" zone?
[sp]And so am I[/sp][/QUOTE]
Juan De Fuca is Washington's enemy. They could probably deal with a large inland earthquake since they've been preparing for it for decades. One at sea, with a large Tsunami to boot is a different story. San Andreas is worse for Cali, particularly San Francisco since it's right on it.
[editline]14th December 2012[/editline]
On second thought, San Andreas doesn't go near Washington anyway. It would have to be the Juan De Fuca plate that goes to fuck up Valve.
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