Magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocks San Francisco area

[illram]

Yeah we set up our home to guard against obvious hazards by securing bookshelves to walls, securing the TV to the counter, not putting big pictures up in her room, etc.

Like you said if the building collapses, you're kind of screwed. I guess you could run under a table, I doubt that would do much though. *googles surviving a building collapse*

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Under a table is better than not. In the bathtub is good too. Advantages of those kinds of things depend heavily on rescue efforts though. If rescuers aren't going to reach you in time do you really want to spend twelve hours expiring pinned in an air pocket in the rubble or just be crushed and get it over with?

 

[illram]

Depends on whether I had the wherewithal to grab my trusty bottle of Jameson.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Depends on whether I had the wherewithal to grab my trusty bottle of Jameson.

Dying with Jameson left in the bottle is certainly untoward.

 

[KMRblue1027]

Do Californians usually talk about this so openly? Speculating over dieing to a natural disaster doesn't really come up here (Zombie Apocalypse or Russian Invasion however...).

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Do Californians usually talk about this so openly? Speculating over dieing to a natural disaster doesn't really come up here (Zombie Apocalypse or Russian Invasion however...).

Generally only in the wake of a shake like today. It fades pretty fast into background.

 

[bhavv]

(westborrobaptistchurch)

GODS WRATH IS UPON US, FEEL HIS DIVINE PUNISHMENT FOR YOUR PROUD SINNING!

(/westborrobaptistchurch).

 

[Goodfella]

Do Californians usually talk about this so openly? Speculating over dieing to a natural disaster doesn't really come up here (Zombie Apocalypse or Russian Invasion however...).

Everyone talks about "the big one."

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Everyone talks about "the big one."

Mostly the same way they talk about the zombie apocalypse though...not like something anyone expects to actually happen.

 

[Hygro]

I dunno it kind of feels like that ominous global warming tipping point that we still haven't passed (while having passed some pretty awful tipping points already, 10 foot sea rise). So it looms heavy. We just don't let it interfere. I think it makes us cherish our time more.

 

[bhsup]

(while having passed some pretty awful tipping points already, 10 foot sea rise)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

Between 1870 and 2004, global average sea levels rose a total of 195 mm (7.7 in)

So they've risen 9' 4.3" since 2004?

 

[KMRblue1027]

I'm assuming he meant inches? If we had a 10 foot see level rise my house would be near beachfront property and my college would be about 3 feet underwater.

 

[Hygro]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_riseSo they've risen 9' 4.3" since 2004?

I'm talking about the guaranteed 10 foot rise that's coming over the next century from the part of the antarctic ice shelf that's already and irreversibly coming loose.

 

[bhsup]

Oh, okay. I'll file that away with the guaranteed ice age from the 70s.

 

[Hygro]

Oh, okay. I'll file that away with the guaranteed ice age from the 70s.

Not the same. This is actually happening, and was predicted to happen years ago. And now it's happening.

 

[tokala]

I'm talking about the guaranteed 10 foot rise that's coming over the next century from the part of the antarctic ice shelf that's already and irreversibly coming loose.

Make that next centuries. I suspect you refer to the paper that projected the West Antarctic Ice Shield to undergo a unreversable "collapse", but this will likely still take several centuries.

At the moment something between about 2 and 6 foot are expected for this century, with the specialists apparently tending towards the upper half up that range.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Make that next centuries. I suspect you refer to the paper that projected the West Antarctic Ice Shield to undergo a unreversable "collapse", but this will likely still take several centuries.

At the moment something between about 2 and 6 foot are expected for this century, with the specialists apparently tending towards the upper half up that range.

Six foot...ten foot...we are currently at less than one foot and sweating bullets already. Take any tropical storm of the past twenty years and consider the damage done if it had started from just a three foot higher base sea level.

 

[Traitorfish]

Not the same. This is actually happening, and was predicted to happen years ago. And now it's happening.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

To get back on topic...an extra five feet of water sitting on the Pacific plate is over 177 billion tons. Not that the seams around the Pacific plate are already unstable enough to have earned them the 'ring of fire' name or anything, but as someone who lives on the edge of the Pacific plate and has a healthy respect for billions of tons I think a little concern is warranted.

 

[classical_hero]

I'm talking about the guaranteed 10 foot rise that's coming over the next century from the part of the antarctic ice shelf that's already and irreversibly coming loose.

Currently the Antarctic ice extent is increasing not decreasing.