I thought this article was interesting, especially coming hot on the heels of the wildfires:
https://qz.com/1133304/as-earths-rot...e-earthquakes/
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I thought this article was interesting, especially coming hot on the heels of the wildfires:
https://qz.com/1133304/as-earths-rot...e-earthquakes/
If you want to see recent activity on earthquakes this is a good link
earthquakes.usgs.gov
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Posted in reply to the post by wisewomn:
I was on the edge of my seat on Feb. 6 last year, when the heaviest of the rains brought Oroville Dam into failure mode.
It was literally failing for about 12 hours - the base of the Emergency Spillway (a section of dam on the North side, that's about 30 feet high and 200 yards long) was eroding visibly. Rocks washing away at the base of the E. Spillway ... that is how a dam fails.
As the rains abated, the erosion stopped and the incredibly critical situation took a breather.
However it became very obvious, how much we depend on nature to cooperate with our man-made designs.
February 6, 2016 was a REAL BAD DAY to have an earthquake. Nature cooperated, and we didn't have an earthquake (in California, not one big enough to matter.)
But to me that seems like real bad emergency planning, because, well, California has earthquakes, and sometimes big ones.
Mother Nature works on her own schedule - sometimes in geological terms, sometimes at the speed of wind or light.
It has taken time for me to accept that a state with as much Brain-power as California has, fails to simply plan for that which is reasonable to expect.
When Gov. Brown said that "no one could imagine" the October urban interface wildfires, he was quite bald-facedly lying. California state scientists have been talking about the 2017 wildfire problem since the rains of 2016.
As far as learning to understand California's culture, I think the 3 lawsuits in late 2005/ early 2006, right in the middle of the Schwarzenegger years, are illuminating.
3 separate lawsuits, all with the same point - Fix the Fvcking Emergency Spillway at the Oroville Dam.
The public lost, I'm not sure who won.
But the fixes that were requested in the lawsuits in 2005 & 2006, were finally implemented this last summer.