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2016-11-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

San Andreas Fault could Bankrupt California

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Posted by Bobby 2016-11-28 14:44|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of kleptomaniac fuckheads.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-11-28 15:28|| 2016-11-28 15:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Tool did a nice little song about California falling into the ocean.

"Learn to swim!"

Posted by Raj 2016-11-28 15:42|| 2016-11-28 15:42|| Front Page Top

#3 California is bankrupt already, we just put everything on credit and pretend all is well.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-11-28 15:50|| 2016-11-28 15:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Not mentioned are the large number of lateral faults running off the San Andreas fault. The likelihood of one, or many of those, being triggered alone or with a San Andreas event is higher than a simultaneous fault.

Posted by Pappy 2016-11-28 16:07|| 2016-11-28 16:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's remember it took generations for those 'you didn't build that' to actually build that. Any 'historical' level damage is also going to take generations to recover.

A spokesman for the California Earthquake Authority, which provides about 75 percent of the earthquake policies that are sold in the state through participating insurance carriers, said only 10 percent of California homeowners earthquake insurance.

Cause, surprise, they expect Uncle Sugar to cover their losses. Can you say 'Obamacare' calculations boys and girls. You don't really pay in, but expect everyone else to cover you for catastrophic losses.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-11-28 17:03|| 2016-11-28 17:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Always someone else's fault with these people.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-11-28 17:47|| 2016-11-28 17:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe a the big one will set off the Long Valley Caldera.

Posted by phil_b 2016-11-28 18:47|| 2016-11-28 18:47|| Front Page Top

#8 When I worked for USGS in 1970-1972, I worked along the San Andreas Fault, and other faults, such as the Hayward Fault, Garlock Fault and others. I measured deflections along the fault, and in other places I installed creep meters that gave real time fault movement through telemetry.

A memorable site was on the 1906 fault trace crossing Roberta Drive in Woodside, California. The fault trace had locked up since the 1906 earthquake. But on the north side of the drive,there was a 3 ft dia redwood stump that was split by earthquake as it was straddling the fault. The west half of the stump moved north 12 feet! One hell of a movement. Now there are expensive houses only 30 to 40 feet from the 1906 fault trace.

So using freshman logic, I did some figuring. From our measurements by geodimeter across the fault for regional movement, the two plates were moving 30 mm a year laterally at a steady rate. 12 feet = 3658 mm.

So 3658 mm of total movement/30 mm per year =
122 years to accumulate that strain. Add that time interval to the year 1906 when the earthquake occurred and you get year 2028 for an estimate of the next big one. Very rough estimate.

12 ft of strain is one huge amount of stored energy!

Next time I will tell you a story of surveying the fault in San Juan Batista, and telling a rather *ahem* loony fellow passing by that we were surveying for beach front property, just to get ahead of things when California would fall into the sea.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-11-28 18:47|| 2016-11-28 18:47|| Front Page Top

#9 just to get ahead of things

I adore engineers.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-11-28 20:56|| 2016-11-28 20:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks to the Japanese Current, when California finally does fall into the sea, it will all wash up on the Nevada shoreline.

Posted by SteveS 2016-11-28 22:06|| 2016-11-28 22:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Illegals only allowed to live and work west of the San Andreas fault line.

Posted by gorb 2016-11-28 23:38|| 2016-11-28 23:38|| Front Page Top

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