Fault line\earthquake predictions LAX in May 2014?

[PLANT]

As stated...it going to get worse?
Hawaii volcanos going to erupt.
5.5 the other day I heard?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

As stated...it going to get worse?
Hawaii volcanos going to erupt.
5.5 the other day I heard?

no one knows when the 'big one' will hit.

 

[UP4014]

You only need to drive up behind the city into the foot hills to see the faults and examples of past seismic activity.

 

[robd]

California has seismic activity all the time -

Recent Earthquakes for Los_Angeles

Lots of information on this site - Southern California Earthquake Data Center at Caltech

 

[harvyk]

I'm taking the family there in May as well. If I thought it was a sure thing I prob wouldn't be doing it... The reality is natural disasters can strike at any time and anywhere, and you can't live your life in a cotten wool cupboard wondering "what if".
Provided you have travel insurance which would cover you should the worst happen, I see no reason to be worried.

(Of course I'm right now touching wood since I have just challenged the fate gods...)

 

[RooFlyer]

Be thankful for all the 4 to 5 magnitude quakes! Releasing the enormous energy stored along the fault lines in a number of 'acceptable' lots is much better than having nothing ... then .... kapow!

If you want to be worried, have a look at Vancouver. Sitting over the Pacific Plate subduction zone (yes, I know its more complicated than that there), there hasn't been any significant seismic activity for a LONG time. That's the place where a BIG ONE might really occur.

this site is fun to play with US Geological Survey Earthquakes . Zoom out of that view and you'll see what makes the earth tick (and burp, and go 'bang').

YMMV

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Be thankful for all the 4 to 5 magnitude quakes! Releasing the enormous energy stored along the fault lines in a number of 'acceptable' lots is much better than having nothing ... then .... kapow!

If you want to be worried, have a look at Vancouver. Sitting over the Pacific Plate subduction zone (yes, I know its more complicated than that there), there hasn't been any significant seismic activity for a LONG time. That's the place where a BIG ONE might really occur.

YMMV

I dunno about that? Japan still had a 9.1 despite numerous (almost daily) earthquakes of 4s and 5s.

 

[blackcat20]

I'm also there in May, so hopefully it doesn't happen while I'm there, or I may never convince my mum to take an overseas trip again.

 

[UP4014]

US construction is generally ok, look at the 7.4 I think it was in California back in the 1980's, I think it was around 200 killed many on the double deck Cypress Freeway in Oakland, when the same thing happens in China it's 25000 dead.

You'll be right in California.

Matt

 

[RooFlyer]

I dunno about that? Japan still had a 9.1 despite numerous (almost daily) earthquakes of 4s and 5s.

True enough! The utter unpredictability of global seismicity. Of course, if you go and put your county over a massive subduction zone, its the equivalent of sitting over the rear hooves of a bucking bronco. Kick, kick, kicks in the stomach with still the energy to then kick your head fair off.

(California on the other hand is subject to strike slip faulting.)

I would love to be out in the desert (ie away from things that might get damaged) and experience a 5 or 6 earthquake. Its on the bucket list, but kinda hard to control.

 

[harvyk]

True enough! The utter unpredictability of global seismicity. Of course, if you go and put your county over a massive subduction zone, its the equivalent of sitting over the rear hooves of a bucking bronco. Kick, kick, kicks in the stomach with still the energy to then kick your head fair off.

(California on the other hand is subject to strike slip faulting.)

I would love to be out in the desert (ie away from things that might get damaged) and experience a 5 or 6 earthquake. Its on the bucket list, but kinda hard to control.

I've experienced a small one (CBR tends to get hit with small ones on a semi regular basis most go unnoticed), and it woke me up. At first I thought it was someone running along the roof.
A couple of friends of mine where in Newcastle in 89 when the earthquake struck there (I believe it was a 5.6). To put it mildly it messed them up a bit for the next year (they where both young kids at the time, so it's kinda understandable)

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I would love to be out in the desert (ie away from things that might get damaged) and experience a 5 or 6 earthquake. Its on the bucket list, but kinda hard to control.

5 or 6 is nothing. We had 8 in tokyo (actual) as part of the 9.1 a few hundred kms away. Aftershocks up to 7.2 I think. But 5 or 6 were common and nothing more than a slight jolt comparatively.

 

[Hvr]

I'm taking the family there in May as well. <snip>

(Of course I'm right now touching wood since I have just challenged the fate gods...)

I'm also there in May, so hopefully it doesn't happen while I'm there, or I may never convince my mum to take an overseas trip again.

And I'm another AFFer who's there in May as well.

We're really tempting the fate gods.

 

[ketsuzei]

5 or 6 is nothing. We had 8 in tokyo (actual) as part of the 9.1 a few hundred kms away.

The earth moved for me, too, but it really doesn't work that way.

 

[harvyk]

And I'm another AFFer who's there in May as well.

We're really tempting the fate gods.

When in May and where abouts?

 

[blackcat20]

When in May and where abouts?

I'm there most of the month, city-hopping across the "top".

 

[Hvr]

Arriving May 22, then driving to SFO and flying to DEN on 26 May, then BOS, ORD, NYC and back to SFO JUN 06 and leaving LAX on JUN 08.

A JASA booked in the dying hours of on line availability.

 

[harvyk]

Arriving May 22, then driving to SFO and flying to DEN on 26 May, then BOS, ORD, NYC and back to SFO JUN 06 and leaving LAX on JUN 08.

A JASA booked in the dying hours of on line availability.

We're pretty much passing each other in the air, we're departing on the 21st...
We're doing Disneyland and Vegas. Also have some friends who live in LA so we're planning to spend the weekend with them.

 

[blackcat20]

Arriving May 22, then driving to SFO and flying to DEN on 26 May, then BOS, ORD, NYC and back to SFO JUN 06 and leaving LAX on JUN 08.

A JASA booked in the dying hours of on line availability.

I depart LA to MEL on May 22, and you are essentially doing my trip in reverse (I'm NYC-BOS-ORD-SFO-LAX)

 

[RooFlyer]

5 or 6 is nothing. We had 8 in tokyo (actual) as part of the 9.1 a few hundred kms away. Aftershocks up to 7.2 I think. But 5 or 6 were common and nothing more than a slight jolt comparatively.

Actually, you just reminded me. I was in the QF lounge at NRT a few years back when there was a smallish quake. Modest roar, bangs and the windows quivered like jelly. I was ready to bolt for a door or loo, but all the 'locals' barely turned a hair!

I learned at Uni (many years ago now) that a 'seismic' wave is different from a sea wave. With a sea wave, the forward motion is at the crest, so it moves towards you from the top. A seismic wave goes the opposite way. If the sea broke like a seismic wave, the water would rise up at your feet and curl backwards, whilst moving towards you. Best contemplated after a number of drinks in the Uni bar.