[Homestead] Shake, rattle and roll

VAN DELL JORDAN vdjor at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 18 16:43:41 EDT 2008


The quake woke up my son and d.i.l.  We are about 310
road miles from the epicenter.
Some predictions are that a major one at New Madrid
could be worse than anything we've ever seen in Cal. 
Soft ground would cause it to spread much further to a
dozen or so major cities that are not build for
earthquake protection.
Van Dell


--- Gene GeRue <genegerue at ruralize.com> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:
> >
> > This one woke me up. My first thought was to
> wonder how the guard dog
> > got under the bed to make it shake so. Then, of
> course, I realized it
> > was a quake. There seemed to be three shocks
> during the first quake.
> 
> Being awakened by one is for sure disconcerting. The
> Northridge quake  
> damned near threw me completely out of bed. I tried
> to go down the  
> hall and bounced from one wall to the other. We were
> in Redondo Beach,  
> much too close to the epicenter. I was surprised
> more buildings did  
> not fall.
> 
> Biggest thrill from a quake was Camp Zama, Japan,
> 1956. I was standing  
> on a drafting stool working on a huge wall map. The
> guys said I did a  
> good imitation of Elvis doing a hula hoop.
> 
> We can only hope that the New Madrid does not come
> apart during our  
> lives. Be prepared.
> 
> 
> 
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