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Funny.

I don't remember this many before Axiom started selling EP500 and 600's.

I wonder how many they've sold to customers on the left coast, and if they have some system in place so they're not all being played at once?

Yeah, Tharkun must've gotten that 3rd EP600.

St_PatGuy, what time of day do you get up? That quake hit at almost 2pm! Work swing?

This quake was a nice sharp one in my area. Started pretty forcefully, like a big one, but slowed down after about 5 seconds. Had us panicked though - the baby was napping upstairs while we were downstairs watching "The Aviator". Neither of us liked being separated from the baby.
BTW, Tom did you get to experience the other quake that hit your sister's area last weekend?
And Yucaipa is NOT my neck of the woods (sniff, sniff). I live in Corona, which is practically Orange County!

Oh yeah, I was there last weekend for the other quake. Just sitting at the kitchen table at my sister's. I knew immediately what it was. Waited for a few seconds before bolting for the doorway, just to see if it meant business. Of course, by the time I got to a safer place, it was over.

We had a 6.8 here in the Puget Sound area in 2001. There was quite a bit of damage. It was scary because it went on for a REALLY long time (~40 seconds). The really scary part was trying to ascertain whether the rest of my family was OK; roads, telephone lines and cellular service were are kaput immediately afterwards.

Staci was at her mom's house for the big Whittier earthquake in '87. The house was a mile or two from the epicenter, so it was pretty intense and caused a lot of damage.
I reckon that's why she was a little freaked out yesterday.

Tom,

I was wathcing a Discovery Channel program a few weeks back about potential disaster areas for major earthquakes and Seattle/Puget Sound was high on the list, especially because of the outdated infrastructure of highways, bridges, and buildings. Add to that Seattle sits on a former mud flow from Mt. Ranier, and if it were to erupt...

Here's hoping to it being far away from our lifetimes.

I will stick with the potential of being hit by falling ice or windows from skyscrapers here in Chicago

cause there is nothing that says "hometown" like having your face ripped off by a razor sharp piece of glass, falling from a 60 story skyscraper...

bigjohn

Yeah, bigjohn, but we have the ever present danger of being run over by giant tumbleweeds.

Hey at least it keeps you on your toes during the morning walk from the subway!

Yeah, well, doom and gloom. What are you gonna do? It seems to me that those kinds of programs try to paint the worst possible scenario. While there is a fair amount of risk due to long-term creativity exhibited by waterfront developers, I don't think that whole "mud flow" thing should be taken at face value.

Seattle is not the only city built on fill, and much of this region sits high on granite.

I saw there was another big quake off the N CA coast last night. I didn't see a tsunami warning from Mexico to Alaska this time, though.

Seattle is really not at risk from Mt. Rainier, although the Orting valley could be buried by a mud flow sometime in the next 500 years or so. Or not. I have a friend that lives in Port Orchard (on the other side of Puget Sound) and spends a fortune to commute, primarily due to that prospect. Nuts.

To be fair, this region is fairly immune to natural disasters in general. We don't have tornados, hurricanes, urban flooding, large hail, drought, locusts, poisonous snakes, expensive mudslides, tumbleweeds, or extreme heat. It only froze about two days last winter, and it only snowed once. I've got a 14000' mountain an hour east, the Pacific Ocean an hour-and-a-half west and Puget Sound practically at my doorstep. It's home.

I mean, nobody likes the prospect of catastrophic earthquakes but it's one of those problems you can't do anything about, so you just have to change the way you think about it. Of course, it doesn't hurt that my house is above the city of Puyallup's 500-year flood-plain line on the map