|
Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jul 6, 2019 12:42:32 GMT
So California has been rocked by two nice sized earthquakes the past couple of days, which inevitably leads to talk of the big earthquake that is apparently the destroyer of the state or at least something far worse than they have encountered.
However, despite the warnings, the scientific soundness of the prediction, the smaller proofs that occur fairly often, it seems to have no effect on it being the most populous state, LA being a huge city, values skyrocketing, & people dealing with the high cost of living.
Why?
Maybe it has something to do with regularity or maybe all the EQ doomsayers are living outside the box.
I love visiting the state, but I can't imagine being crazy enough to live there, but a large portion of the country do. My kid wants to move there the moment he's out of college despite how broke he will be.
|
|
|
Post by lowtacks86 on Jul 6, 2019 12:51:05 GMT
I felt them both, it was crazy. Before that I had only been in a minor tremor near San Francisco.
"My kid wants to move there the moment he's out of college despite how broke he will be."
Depends on what part. I live in a beach bum town north of LA, it's no where near as expensive, though still a bit more expensive than inland California.
|
|
|
Post by mikef6 on Jul 6, 2019 13:36:28 GMT
Move to Arizona instead. Gamble that soon you may own beach front property on the Bay of Phoenix.
|
|
|
Post by thefleetsin on Jul 7, 2019 16:45:15 GMT
while earthquakes are a risk, they are few and far between. and the 'big one' everyone talks about may or may not happen in the next one hundred thousand years. i've lived my entire sixty three years here in southern calif. and there have only been two times where the earth rattled and rolled for any length of time.
anyway, earthquakes do manage to keep the riff raff from moving here. and ultimately that's a good thing.
|
|
|
Post by The Herald Erjen on Jul 7, 2019 17:05:50 GMT
Don't worry. Be happy.
|
|
|
Post by shadrack on Jul 7, 2019 17:15:19 GMT
Maybe it has something to do with the building codes in California that take the state's history of earthquakes into account. A 7.1 would be devastating in many other parts of the country, but in California, they're somewhat prepared for it.
|
|
|
Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jul 7, 2019 17:36:30 GMT
The climate and geography make it appealing enough to deal with the occasional earthquake. California doesn't have to deal with hurricane/tornado seasons or winter snow storms...although we do have fire season...and sizable earthquakes don't happen very often.
|
|
|
Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jul 7, 2019 17:41:52 GMT
Maybe it has something to do with the building codes in California that take the state's history of earthquakes into account. A 7.1 would be devastating in many other parts of the country, but in California, they're somewhat prepared for it. Very true. I'm far more concerned for places in the midwest and southern east coast, where the building codes are more lax.
|
|
|
Post by goz on Jul 7, 2019 23:53:57 GMT
Just so long as when a big one comes there is not a tsunami that comes my way, as I live the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean to California.
|
|