big one ?
Oct 1st, 2016, 02:54 AM
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big one ?
I am due to visit LA next week. Here, the story makes the headlines.
As It is easy for me to delay my trip, I am wondering what to do...
I am not asking if someone can tell me if it will or will not happen. Just some news on how it is going on, if advice has been passed around in case of, how locals feel about it.
I am asking because I was recently in Tokyo and There was an earthquake. Mind You, it is stressful
As It is easy for me to delay my trip, I am wondering what to do...
I am not asking if someone can tell me if it will or will not happen. Just some news on how it is going on, if advice has been passed around in case of, how locals feel about it.
I am asking because I was recently in Tokyo and There was an earthquake. Mind You, it is stressful
Oct 1st, 2016, 07:29 AM
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Delaying/postponing/canceling . . . won't make any difference.
Earthquakes can't be 'forecasted' like the weather. They can tell us when there is stress on one fault or another . . . but there is ALWAYS stress on one fault or another. The entire Pacific is an earthquake zone.
Earthquakes can't be 'forecasted' like the weather. They can tell us when there is stress on one fault or another . . . but there is ALWAYS stress on one fault or another. The entire Pacific is an earthquake zone.
Oct 1st, 2016, 08:35 AM
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How locals feel about it? We don't, we just live with the possibility. It may happen today, it may happen tomorrow, it may happen 10 or 20 years from now. If you postpone your trip to the following week, it's just as likely to happen when you're here as it it to have happened the previous week.
Oct 1st, 2016, 08:37 AM
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The chances of an earthquake will not change if you choose to delay the trip. Whenever you go, there is a chance of an earthquake. Those of us who live in the earthquake zone (I'm in Seattle) pay little attention to such stories. As Janis says, it's not like anyone can accurately predict a quake!
Oct 1st, 2016, 07:34 PM
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I first saw the warnings when I was checking my husband on to his flight to San Diego.
Only thing I did differently was to make sure he had the addresses for my sister and my niece, and reminded him that he can get from Coronado to San Diego by land, in case the Coronado Bridge was affected.
Other than that, told him to have a good time!
Only thing I did differently was to make sure he had the addresses for my sister and my niece, and reminded him that he can get from Coronado to San Diego by land, in case the Coronado Bridge was affected.
Other than that, told him to have a good time!
Oct 2nd, 2016, 04:21 AM
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It is my uneducated opinion that the big one is coming to California. Maybe today, maybe in 1 week, maybe 10 years. The way to avoid it is to never go to California. Your stress level and need to be there will determine that. (and my husband is headed to San Diego next weekend. He is more worried that Hurricane Michael will delay his flights).
I detest the weather in the northeast US where I live - but at least there are rarely natural events like earthquakes and tornados that can kill you.
I detest the weather in the northeast US where I live - but at least there are rarely natural events like earthquakes and tornados that can kill you.
Oct 2nd, 2016, 07:02 AM
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No, some people focus on things like this (I don't know if this is a very real fear of the actual event or just the locus of a more generalized anxiety).
I used to travel a lot for work - at least one trip a week, sometimes 2 - but about 90% to Cincy and back. My mother was terrified of flying, didn't understand how planes could stay up, and was petrified the whole time I was on a trip. (I avoided telling her a much as possible but sometimes there was no graceful way out.)
She was a VERY anxious person overall and for her it focused on these plane trips. I got home at 11 pm once (weather flight delay, my usual time wa about 8pm) to find the phone ringing. She was hysterical, saying she had been calling every 5 minutes, was sure I was dead why didn't I call her, etc. And a few minutes later the police were ringing my door bell - she had called them saying I was missing. Because there was a plane crash in Manila and she was sure I was on it and had died. I have never been to Manila, and certainly would not do a lengthy trip like that without telling my parents. She just couldn't control her anxiety at all - t drove my father nuts that he coudln't calm her - and nothing could convince her this was not a real significant threat every time I flew NYC to Cincy (less than1.5 hours).
I felt so sorry for her, but it was not within my control. And she refused to see a therapist since to her the risks were real (and the locus of all of her other anxieties).
Now if she came here with her fears a lot of people would say she was a troll, but to her this was all real. When I switched jobs and had local clients (not to stop flying, but for a promotion and better salary) although driving to the client was more of a PIA than flying she was so happy. But then focused her anxiety on my younger B for a while.
Some people can't accept that there are risks in life no matter where you go or what you do unless you live in a bomb shelter in your backyard.
I used to travel a lot for work - at least one trip a week, sometimes 2 - but about 90% to Cincy and back. My mother was terrified of flying, didn't understand how planes could stay up, and was petrified the whole time I was on a trip. (I avoided telling her a much as possible but sometimes there was no graceful way out.)
She was a VERY anxious person overall and for her it focused on these plane trips. I got home at 11 pm once (weather flight delay, my usual time wa about 8pm) to find the phone ringing. She was hysterical, saying she had been calling every 5 minutes, was sure I was dead why didn't I call her, etc. And a few minutes later the police were ringing my door bell - she had called them saying I was missing. Because there was a plane crash in Manila and she was sure I was on it and had died. I have never been to Manila, and certainly would not do a lengthy trip like that without telling my parents. She just couldn't control her anxiety at all - t drove my father nuts that he coudln't calm her - and nothing could convince her this was not a real significant threat every time I flew NYC to Cincy (less than1.5 hours).
I felt so sorry for her, but it was not within my control. And she refused to see a therapist since to her the risks were real (and the locus of all of her other anxieties).
Now if she came here with her fears a lot of people would say she was a troll, but to her this was all real. When I switched jobs and had local clients (not to stop flying, but for a promotion and better salary) although driving to the client was more of a PIA than flying she was so happy. But then focused her anxiety on my younger B for a while.
Some people can't accept that there are risks in life no matter where you go or what you do unless you live in a bomb shelter in your backyard.
Oct 2nd, 2016, 08:15 AM
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Good point, nytraveler. I think for people who have never lived where there are quakes, they find the idea of the earth moving to be terrifying. Having lived with minor quakes all my life, they aren't anything I worry about. I remember as a child, we could tell when we were having a small quake by the sound of the dishes rattling in the cupboard.
Oct 2nd, 2016, 09:25 AM
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An English friend recently responded with horror when I reported a small earthquake I'd felt this summer, saying she'd be "terrified". This shortly after the Brexit vote which may result in her having to sell up in France and return to England for her health insurance. An earthquake seems significantly less life-altering to me.
Oct 2nd, 2016, 09:40 AM
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I used to live in LA for about 15 years and lived through a couple of them (although no "big one"), and a lot of people didn't think that was so great, either, and did get anxious about it. I know a few who left the state but that was just one of the reasons.
It really isn't true that there is a chance of an earthquake anywhere you go--at least, the chance is very small and even then, they won't be big ones, in some areas, like Ohio, for example. There is certainly not a big chance of an earthquake in NYC, or Paris, for that matter, not to mention the UK. Earthquakes in France are around the coasts and I'm not sure they've ever had one great than 5.0. I don't think the UK has, either.
If it's any consolation, it is true that in California, at least, many people do not usually get killed in an earthquake any more, as they do in some other countries. It is rare to get killed, it's usually property damage. I remember some guy died in the Whittier quake but it was a weird occurrence, he was down in a hole or something. So since you are going next week, think about that. The Northridge quake was 6.7 so fairly big (I think it was the biggest in an urban area in the US), and even then,only about 30 people died as a result of injuries suffered during the quake. By contrast, I think at least 300 died in that quake in Italy this year, and that one was only a 6.2.
It really isn't true that there is a chance of an earthquake anywhere you go--at least, the chance is very small and even then, they won't be big ones, in some areas, like Ohio, for example. There is certainly not a big chance of an earthquake in NYC, or Paris, for that matter, not to mention the UK. Earthquakes in France are around the coasts and I'm not sure they've ever had one great than 5.0. I don't think the UK has, either.
If it's any consolation, it is true that in California, at least, many people do not usually get killed in an earthquake any more, as they do in some other countries. It is rare to get killed, it's usually property damage. I remember some guy died in the Whittier quake but it was a weird occurrence, he was down in a hole or something. So since you are going next week, think about that. The Northridge quake was 6.7 so fairly big (I think it was the biggest in an urban area in the US), and even then,only about 30 people died as a result of injuries suffered during the quake. By contrast, I think at least 300 died in that quake in Italy this year, and that one was only a 6.2.
