The one I remember most vividly is the one that hit Northridge about 10 years ago. My brother in law Kevin, who is a California native with the typical attitude toward earthquakes (tune it out), said it literally flipped him out of bed onto the floor. He said it scared the s**t out of him. He said his first thought was "Rush was right!" LOL Ken Levy, who at the time was still a FoxPro independent living in Northridge, filed a report -- several of them IIRC -- on the Compuserve FoxForum that would have been a first rate news story in any newspaper in the country. One detail I remember is that amidst the broken shambles of his apartment, four Fox Software coffee mugs had fallen to the floor and none of them broke. Hmmmm....


>Quite a history of quakes over 5.1 already...
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>http://www.consrv.ca.gov/cgs/rghm/quakes/ms49epicenters.txt
>http://www.consrv.ca.gov/cgs/rghm/quakes/MS49.htm
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>The one in October of 1989 was enough to make me want to avoid California! I was at the Presidio of Monterey, CA at the time of the Loma Prieta one. YIKES!
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>>>A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale has
>>hit Mexico. Two million Mexicans have died and over a million are
>>injured.
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>>Thomas, I don't know what you're trying to say, but forget Mexico. This could happen here in our overly taxed state of California. Exception we already have over 2,000,000 of our neighbors down south here.:)
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>>I would think 8.1 earth quake would do mega damage in Southern california.