Ohnoes! You live less than a mile from it?

Naw...I'm a good 30 miles. But that wouldn't help much if it cut loose. Still, I'd rather be here than in tornado country where you KNOW they happen every year. The big earthquakes are pretty rare. And the smaller ones can be fun. Rock and roll!!!

At least we can see blizzards and thunderstorms coming. And that is rather interesting; reminds me of when I crossed the Continental Divide.

True....earthquakes don't give any warning, but the harmful ones are really far and few between. Keeps ou on your toes anyway....

Where did you cross the continental divide? I've done it a few places. Wolf Creek Pass is a nice one. ;3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmeador/5965830127/

Somewhere along US20 on the way to Yellowstone. Naturally, we couldn't stop and take a picture, because it was a family vacation, I was crammed in the back of a van with no legroom, bah.

When I was a kid, I went up on a mountain on the divide in New Mexico with my uncle who was a paleontologist. He showed me where to stand so I could pee on the pacific side and turn to pee on the atlantic side, thus peeing in two oceans at once....so to speak. I wonder how many people do that.

I've been to the Mid-Continental Divide. One one side, all water flows to the Great Lakes Basin. On the other, to the Mississippi Basin. It's only about 20 miles from where I live, in fact.

Huh! That one I hadn't heard of. That's pretty cool. Probably safer to live near it than the San Andreas too.

Yeah, although there is still some residual earthquake activity in the region. Let's just say that if the New Madrid Fault lets go like it did 200 years ago, Memphis and St. Louis are toast.

Hmmm! Just googled it. That is a nasty one all right. Better hope it holds off. Though who knows. I'm not a religious man, but it certainly does look like we're in the biblical 'end days' don't you think?

Well, I'm not sure; there have always been supposed signs of that.

So, you don't think things are in a rapid downward spiral right now? Worse than usual, I mean.

Not particularly, no.

Isnt it kinda blasphemous to name something that could cause that much ruin for a saint?

Don't blame me! I didn't do it!!!!!!

I'm an animist, dear

Cool pic mum.

Thanks kiddo!

It's not San Andreas' fault, it just happens!
(hehe, ok that was a bad pun... But I couldn't resist it).


Still, I think things like this exist just to warn us that Nature is bigger and more powerful than we'll ever be.

Earthquake jokes, no less. Bad!

When you're working with faults, shift happens.

It's actually when the thing doesn't show any movement at all that things are bad: it's stuck and will then rupture causing an earthquake. Still, it's totally cool to stand on the west side and be in the Pacific plate, walk 10 feet and be on the North American plate. Great pic!

Booo! Hissss!

Right here it isn't quite well enough defined to do exactly that, but I did drive back and forth across the 60 foot or so bridge that spanned it a few times just for fun. And thank you!

I've never been around there in the times I took a road trip to and from FC. We just stayed on I-5 most of the time.

Ha ha....you crossed the fault then if you drove between LA and San Jose on I-5. The fault crosses I-5 just a little north of the San Fernando Valley.

Nope, we traveled from Canada, through Washington, Oregon, and part of NorCal to get to San Jose.

ooops...wrong way... =p

Mhm. Gotcha!

And I'll be down there again in January! >:3

I dunno that I'll make it this year. Planning to be in Mexico from next Tuesday till around Easter. Though if I feel flush enough I might fly to San Jose for the con. I'd hate to miss it, really.

That's quite the long vacation. Why so long?

I do hope you can make it. :3

It's not exactly a vacation. I'm an old geezer. Retired and spending half the year in a condo my sister and I share in Puerto Vallarta and half of it here in the US where I stay on a friends property in a cabover camper I own and take care of his cats, chickens and garden when he goes places on his vacations.

I hope so too. I really love the con and hope to meet a lot of friends there if I can make it.

Fwee! :3

Whatever THAT means....lol!

*snerk* I'm just a silly kitsune, really. I've been going to FC since 2007. It became my favourite convention pretty fast, and I love it so much.

It was my first convention. First time in 2011.This year I got there for only a few hours on the last day because I was ill. I DO love it and want to go in 2013! San Jose is such a cool town and the con is a great one!! If I can make it I hope I'll meet you there.

I'll see you there then :3

Hopefully!!

That's pretty trippy. The bridge is crooked!

For sure! That's from the fault slipping. I read that they have to re-build the bridge once in a while when it gets too far offset.