San Francisco WILL be hit by a major earthquake.

[UdoKier]

It's just a matter of when.

I sure as hell hope I can afford to be in something safer than this 1st floor apartment by then! :cry:

And I don't have much canned food saved up.


My place looks just like this one! (except not collapsed - yet)



:scared:

[davidinalameda]

1. that building was on land-fill in the Marina

most of San Francisco is on solid rock, so the buildings should be okay since most are retrofitted

now my building in Alameda is on landfill and I figure me and the cats will be swimming in the bay when the big one hits

[UdoKier]

3. Mine is built on the sand dunes of the Richmond District.

Better than Marina fill, but not solid rock...

It sucks being on the bottom floor. It's always the bottom floor that gets pancaked.

[ronnykmarshall]

2. I lived there in 1989

and we had very little damage to our place.

We lived in the Castro and our place looked like that.

[Sean Reynolds]

4. Be lucky you're not where I live....

I'm in Salt Lake City, Utah and we're due for a major quake as well. The only problem is our building codes pretty much sucked until the late 1970s and most of the residential population lives in homes that will be heavily damaged by a quake. San Francisco at least had some set rules in building development, which should curb a lot of damage.

Reports said that if the 1989 Loma Prieta quake had hit Salt Lake City, close to 10,000 people would have been killed, with over 100,000 injured.

They're saying the next big quake to hit the Wasatch Front (the fault line that runs right through Salt Lake City), will be between 7-8 on the richter scale. They estimate close to 20,000 dead; with a possibility of 500,000 injured and billions of dollars in damage.

Also, Salt Lake City was built on portions of the Great Salt Lake. So the entire downtown and western part of the valley will liquefy.

Eeek.

[UdoKier]

5. ...and right-wingers WILL say...

"See, those damn lefties and homos got what they deserved!"