Earthquake warnings issued for Southern California?

[Kramerica]

I'm a good thousand miles North of Disneyland, so it's nothing I have to personally worry about. But I've been seeing all types of warnings issued for Southern California and it looks that Disneyland is in that warning area.

First of all, all you guys down there- be safe!

Second, Does this present any worries for Disneyland?

 

[Californian Elitist]

I can tell you're not from California. LOL.

I am not worried at all about earthquakes. We have earthquakes daily, they're just so small that one can't even feel them. We had an earthquake the week before last. The ground moved slightly, and my bed swayed a teensy bit from side to side. My dad was in the living room and said "earthquake." I relied "yep," and we continued with what were doing at the time.

They've been warning us about "the big one" for decades now. I'm not saying it's not coming, but there's no sense in worrying about it. It'll come when it wants to, and I will quickly get under a desk or table, as we Southern Californians were taught in elementary.

Southern Californians are more afraid of rain than an earthquake. This video from BuzzFeed is spot on. Watch it until the very end:



You don't have to worry about us, we'll be okay, Disneyland included!

 

[TP2000]

Swarms happen every few years around the Salton Sea. No worries.

Although, when the southern San Andreas goes with a 7.5 or larger, the least of the worries will be Disneyland. There will be thousands dead, tens of thousands injured. LAX airport, the seaports of LA and Long Beach, most freeways, and all railroad trunk lines from those ports will be shut down for weeks, perhaps months. Banking and business wil be stunted for months. Electricity, water and sewer service will cease for weeks, then be spotty for months, perhaps up to a year. The economic toll will ripple outward for years, likely triggering a recession nationally, as a hugely influential global capital will be taken offline for the mid-term. The local real estate market will collapse, extending the economic pain for years.

Any sane person in SoCal has a family food/water/medicine survival kit for at least 15 days, and the ability to defend themselves without police protection for 30 days. Just today I bought 10 fresh gallons of water at Ralph's to rotate out some of the older water I keep. And I never let my highest mileage car get below 3/4 of a tank of gas, so I can drive 300+ miles away if I need to. Those who don't have a plan and supplies are fools who won't survive when the shaking stops.

Disneyland will be the least of the concerns.

 

[Kramerica]

Swarms happen every few years around the Salton Sea. No worries.

Although, when the southern San Andreas goes with a 7.5 or larger, the least of the worries will be Disneyland. There will be thousands dead, tens of thousands injured. LAX airport, the seaports of LA and Long Beach, most freeways, and all railroad trunk lines from those ports will be shut down for weeks, perhaps months. Banking and business wil be stunted for months. Electricity, water and sewer service will cease for weeks, then be spotty for months, perhaps up to a year. The economic toll will ripple outward for years, likely triggering a recession nationally, as a hugely influential global capital will be taken offline for the mid-term. The local real estate market will collapse, extending the economic pain for years.

Any sane person in SoCal has a family food/water/medicine survival kit for at least 15 days, and the ability to defend themselves without police protection for 30 days. Just today I bought 10 fresh gallons of water at Ralph's to rotate out some of the older water I keep. And I never let my highest mileage car get below 3/4 of a tank of gas, so I can drive 300+ miles away if I need to. Those who don't have a plan and supplies are fools who won't survive when the shaking stops.

Disneyland will be the least of the concerns.

Yeah, unfortunately we're not out of the frying pan either. They've been warning of "The big one" here for a while. Supposedly it happens every few hundred years and we're due for it. Everything West of interstate 5 will supposedly be cooked. Unfortunately for us, earthquakes aren't a common occurrence like they are for you guys, and as a result we're terribly unprepared. All of Portland's old buildings will go down. Bridges across the Willamette river won't make it. Water, sewer and gas lines will all be destroyed. The coast will experience tidal waves as a result of the mantel jutting into the ocean. I'm sure we're both talking about the same "big one". Scary stuff.

Disneyland tho.

 

[Phroobar]

There is always something in the media that will kill us all. You just got to live life and be prepared.

 

[westie]

Meh, its a hoax put on by the insurance companies to sell you overpriced policies. There's no real way to predict a "big one" and as most Californians will tell you, its not even noticeable unless something falls off the shelf.

 

[JediMasterMatt]

Rainy days at Disneyland are the best. I've been lucky enough to have been there for a few of them and it's always super low crowds. The last week of the RoA in this past January was very rainy and I was lucky enough on one of those nights to have my camera at the rope centered on the compass for Disneyland Forever. Later that night, it hailed briefly during a monsoon and I was able to get super reflection shots of iasm Holiday and Main Street. BEST DAY EVER at Disneyland.

I've only noticed one earthquake while visiting the Resort. We were seated in the Hyperion and just before Aladdin began I noticed the projection on the curtain move a bit and a few seconds later they announced the start of the show was delayed.

 

[SSG]

Any sane person in SoCal has a family food/water/medicine survival kit for at least 15 days, and the ability to defend themselves without police protection for 30 days. Just today I bought 10 fresh gallons of water at Ralph's to rotate out some of the older water I keep. And I never let my highest mileage car get below 3/4 of a tank of gas, so I can drive 300+ miles away if I need to. Those who don't have a plan and supplies are fools who won't survive when the shaking stops.

So people don't need supplies; they just need to know where you live

 

[TP2000]

Yeah, unfortunately we're not out of the frying pan either. They've been warning of "The big one" here for a while. Supposedly it happens every few hundred years and we're due for it. Everything West of interstate 5 will supposedly be cooked. Unfortunately for us, earthquakes aren't a common occurrence like they are for you guys, and as a result we're terribly unprepared. All of Portland's old buildings will go down. Bridges across the Willamette river won't make it. Water, sewer and gas lines will all be destroyed. The coast will experience tidal waves as a result of the mantel jutting into the ocean. I'm sure we're both talking about the same "big one". Scary stuff.

Disneyland tho.

I take it you live in the Pacific Northwest. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is something entirely different than the strike-slip faults in SoCal like the San Andreas, and the Cascadia can generate up to a 9.0 with a tsunami. The "big one" on the San Andreas will be between 7.0 and 8.0 with no tsunami. The Cascadia big one will devastate the Northwest when it goes. Last time was in 1700-ish, and it goes around every 300 to 400 years based on the sediment layers.

As for Disneyland, it's not that it won't suffer huge structural damage and likely casualties and death amongst CM's and visitors, and perhaps be closed for up to several months. It's that there will be so much other death and destruction and financial ruin across SoCal that the closing of an amusement park will be the least of the worries.

 

[jbradway]

I was at Disneyland in 2008 when there was a 5.7 earthquake near Chino Hills. Most all of the rides shut down and get evac'd. Then they do an inspection for damage. It was hours before they started up again. We just went back to hotel and hung out at the pool for the duration. I wasn't on a ride at the time the swaying started. I was using the restroom near Rancho Del Zocalo and uh... standing at attention for the event. Was fairly humorous at the time.

 

[Darkbeer1]

Well, San Bernardino closed city hall today due to the warning.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...city-hall-earthquake-20161003-snap-story.html

Guess someone wanted a couple of days off.... Heck it is just our tax dollars....

 

[Deleted member 107043]

I lived through the big Loma Prieta quake in 1989 that killed dozens of people when the upper deck of the Cypress Freeway in Oakland collapsed.

The quake was also responsible for breaking off a section of the Bay Bridge, destroying buildings across San Francisco, and heavily damaging downtown Santa Cruz. Scary stuff. The last thing anyone was thinking about was how any of the local theme parks fared.

The worst part of the experience for me wasn't the violent shaking (it was terrifying, don't get me wrong) but the aftermath. Confusion. Broken infrastructure. Fires burning for days. Power outages. Aftershocks for weeks. It probably took a good 3-6 months before we were completely back to normal, and even then there was still years of retrofitting and rebuilding to do.

As for DLR, I wouldn't worry too much. Check out this eerie footage captured at TDS during the Japan quake in 2011. That one measured a whopping 9.0 and caused severe devastation and of course the unforgettable Tōhoku tsunami.

 

[Kramerica]

I take it you live in the Pacific Northwest. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is something entirely different than the strike-slip faults in SoCal like the San Andreas, and the Cascadia can generate up to a 9.0 with a tsunami. The "big one" on the San Andreas will be between 7.0 and 8.0 with no tsunami. The Cascadia big one will devastate the Northwest when it goes. Last time was in 1700-ish, and it goes around every 300 to 400 years based on the sediment layers.

As for Disneyland, it's not that it won't suffer huge structural damage and likely casualties and death amongst CM's and visitors, and perhaps be closed for up to several months. It's that there will be so much other death and destruction and financial ruin across SoCal that the closing of an amusement park will be the least of the worries.

Yep, Cascadia. That's the one. From what I gather, it's going to be absolutely devastating. A catastrophic event that won't be recovered from for decades. Starts to make me wonder why so many Californians are fleeing California and moving up here. You guys are everywhere.

Yeah, I get it. Big picture stuff. Disneyland would be just a drop in the bucket of tragedy. Still though, in your mind, Disneyland is this immortal thing that will always be there. You can't imagine a natural disaster ruining something so close and precious to your heart. But. Sadly even Disney property is on planet earth, and has to obey to the will of mother earth.

 

[Phroobar]

An even bigger disaster would be if Yellowstone blew up. Yellowstone is basically a caldera of an huge active volcano. If that thing blew, it would take out several states and send up so much smoke into the air to start a nuclear winter. The sun would not been seen for months. It's effects would be felt all over the world.

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

Don't forget what would happen if earth was struck by another ice age-causing meteor!

 

[Phroobar]

Don't forget what would happen if earth was struck by another ice age-causing meteor!

or Trump becomes president!

 

[Dead2009]

Some of you cant tell the difference between a "warning" and an "advisory". SoCal was never under an Earthquake Warning, that means that something is happening or is going to happen at any moment. The advisory was to let people know that hey, this COULD happen and to take the proper precautions.

 

[Phroobar]

I know I would rather live here with earthquakes over places that get wiped out from tornadoes, flooding and hurricanes every year.

 

[truecoat]

I know I would rather live hear with earthquakes over places that get wiped out from tornadoes, flooding and hurricanes every year.

Places get wiped out by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes at the same rate as the earthquakes or even less.

 

[truecoat]

I lived through the big Loma Prieta quake in 1989 that killed dozens of people when the upper deck of the Cypress Freeway in Oakland collapsed.

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The quake was also responsible for breaking off a section of the Bay Bridge, destroying buildings across San Francisco, and heavily damaging downtown Santa Cruz. Scary stuff. The last thing anyone was thinking about was how any of the local theme parks fared.

The worst part of the experience for me wasn't the violent shaking (it was terrifying, don't get me wrong) but the aftermath. Confusion. Broken infrastructure. Fires burning for days. Power outages. Aftershocks for weeks. It probably took a good 3-6 months before we were completely back to normal, and even then there was still years of retrofitting and rebuilding to do.

As for DLR, I wouldn't worry too much. Check out this eerie footage captured at TDS during the Japan quake in 2011. That one measured a whopping 9.0 and caused severe devastation and of course the unforgettable Tōhoku tsunami.

That quake occurred farther away and more importantly, offshore.