Earthquake Hits In Fremont: Major One Expected Soon - Polidicks

[QUOTE=acidcj;48271655]Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. regularly run drills to test their redundancy in the case of an event like that. For example, Google's entire Mountain View campus is physically disconnected from the rest of the company and all critical services are expected to remain up.[/QUOTE] That's awesome, and typical Google.

So are seismologists really concerned that an "aftershock" in the wake of this quake could be a disaster-scale event that is within hours to months from happening, or are the media sensationalizing like usual. And why am I asking this on this particular subforum?

[QUOTE=Kommodore;48271542]yeah why would anyone be worried about something that has a 1/3 chance of utterly ruining your life in the next 50 years[/QUOTE] Well the earthquake can't be prevented; best you can do is make sure that heavy/expensive furniture is secured and to keep a reasonable amount of supplies on hand. Worrying about it isn't going to do much.

I live in Fremont. This scared the shit out of me. It wasn't my first earthquake, and it wasn't even the first that woke me up in the middle of the night, but I've never been so scared in my life

i didn't feel anything at all in cupertino

At least this is better than dying from a drought.

A large seismic event only needs to happen once to be devastating. In spite of the talk around this one, generally speaking earthquakes aren't accurately predictable. So while there probably isn't going to be anything happening within the next month or even year, and you shouldn't agonize over it, cities and states really ought to take more active measure to shore up and prepare evacuation warning systems for when it *will* happen, because it is inevitable. Of course, there won't be anything to worry about if you don't survive. The issue isnt the earthquake nearly as much as the enormous waves in the ocean that can be triggered. Imagine even a relatively modest wave compared to this hitting an urban environment, would be a total loss, as we witness in indonesia and japan within the last 15 years [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami[/URL]

I live in the South Bay. This scares me so bad.

In Tri-valley area, felt it at around 2:40

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;48272236]At least this is better than dying from a drought.[/QUOTE] What if the big one occurs when we finally get a thunderstorm

[QUOTE=Joeyl10;48271553]I really try to pay no mind to these articles because they always make it out like the west coast is gonna fall into the Earth's core or some shit. We're fucked but we're not that fucked guys.[/QUOTE] I din't kniw man, most buildings in the area are older than the theory of plate tectonics.

[QUOTE=Killuah;48273783]I din't kniw man, most buildings in the area are older than the theory of plate tectonics.[/QUOTE] Most of the buildings that would be at risk probably crumbled long ago *cough*1989.

[QUOTE=Xieneus;48269667]I'm flying into Seattle tomorrow, am I doomed?[/QUOTE] If you're doomed, we're both doomed.. I'm 100 miles north of Seattle about 10 miles from the Canadian border and the ocean. I pass Tsunami Zone warning signs driving around day to day. I just keep my fingers crossed that I am far enough inland that the flooding won't affect me too much.

[QUOTE=awcmon;48273954]Most of the buildings that would be at risk probably crumbled long ago *cough*1989.[/QUOTE] No. Frequency, length, polarization, soil wetness there is so many factors.

We've been expecting a "bigger" earthquake for quite some time now. Whenever its brought up it just feels like like the media is exaggerating for the sake of having a story for people to worry about.

[QUOTE=Killuah;48275158]No. Frequency, length, polarization, soil wetness there is so many factors.[/QUOTE] Speaking of which, I live on a house constructed on a hollow block on the edge of a creek in highly liqeufiable soil. So when the earthquake hits Seattle I'm probably fucked. Unless I'm back on campus at UW, in which case I'm in the newest dorm and probably pretty safe.

[QUOTE=paindoc;48276834]Speaking of which, I live on a house constructed on a hollow block on the edge of a creek in highly liqeufiable soil. So when the earthquake hits Seattle I'm probably fucked. Unless I'm back on campus at UW, in which case I'm in the newest dorm and probably pretty safe.[/QUOTE] Really depends. Is the ground sediments? And Liquification really only occurs when the water pressure exceeds critical pressure. In cities(Japan) this happens because the city is "sealing" the ground. In nature this happens in clay-rich sediments because clay has high porosity but low permeability. Actually if your house is built on well consolidated natural sand sediments(like the inner part of Manhattan) you might actually be more well off than your surrounding.