If The 'Big One' Hits SoCal

[99saleen87]

Guys please!!!!! This is not scientific stuff no more, this god only. He is the only one that knows exactly when and what time is going to happen. Scientist just want to make you live under anxiety/depression. Nobody worry, just trust the lord and maybe the kids, of the kids, of your kids are gonna see it .. Not us (hopefully)

[BoeingRollout]

I live in LA >.< I have a feeling its gonna hit during night time. LIke most of the older ones.

[wslthompson916]

keyword "Government" can anyone say panic mode?? silly rabit tricks are for kids!

*+youtube+com/watch?v=k0KCicap­JyI&feature=related* then watch this video again and let me know what you think?

[littlechocoleto]

for gods sake l was in tokyo when the big one hit us. We survived a 7.1 on the richter scale and it lasted 3 minutes. You didn't see the Japanese getting all dramatic and emotional. They deal with the situation.

[JehovahSaveUs]

@littlechocoleto .. You also must realize that our earthquakes in California are much shallower than your quakes. Some are less than 3 miles near the surface where yours are 20-40 miles deep. Some even deeper. So yes we should fear a 7.0 and yes we get rattled over a 5.0+ because the shaking is more intense. So before you go telling us to deal with it learn your stuff. Let's see how well you can deal with a 9.0 being only 6 miles deep.. doubt you or anybody else would be talking smack.

[melissa12300]

Amazing, any given lady gaga video can have over 2 million, views but this doesn't even have 9 and a half thousand.

[PriincessHiibaa]

HELP US GOD

arent some people saying its gonna happen on march 19th? im scared is that true or not? oh my gosh im gonna go out and make some backpacks full of earthquake supplies

[EdmeEadric]

wow and this is from 2008?

[sageshredder]

i live in california and we get earthquaks the size of 3.2 every month

[sageshredder]

in japan

[sageshredder]

its 2011 3/12 and earthquake and sunami just hit scard!!!!

[sinblesser]

were all gonna die.

[awsomejoeawsome]

1800 people will die . not if were ready ...

[joeyfunny123]

im not going to be in California for that year lets go to new york ,Texas or Seattle

[bckm54]

@joeyfunny123 actually, NYC is in a seismic zone itself. Seattle is in the Cascadia subduction zone, an area where one tectonic plate is slipping under another, and is expected to produce the largest earthquakes in a long time. Historians determined that on 1/26/1700, a 9+ magnitude earthquake struck in the Cascadia zone, and it caused catastrophic tsunamis all the way over in Japan (which is how they determined the date). Texas may be safer, but not NYC or Seattle.

[Ex101]

HAARP

[mishavara]

I just hate this things, they make me so paranoid. I used to believe in this "big one thing" all my life(I am 29 now). I thought I would be ok cause I lived in the other side of the continent.... Lucky for me, I married a guy from Cal and moved there =S... So now, that it has been shaking every week, I am being more afraid. Darn it, I am expecting earthquakes now all the time. I can´t identify if it is shaking or it´s my husband moving the bed while he snores. haha it´s horrible! I am so scared

[izlude2]

i know why the big one is overdue... you can thank mcdonalds ;) blobquake on the ytmnd shows it. ha ha ha ha

[skabron7]

@rider4343 You're a paranoid idiot, most homes in CA are built to code and can withstand an earthquake. People die all the time in regions of intense heat, intense cold, snow storms, hurricanes, and tornados. 99% haha

[Tooslick619]

man a quake just hit here yesterday in SD a 7.2 man that better not be the "BIG ONE" cause that shit was nothing hahahahah but damn bro if that wasnt the big one. oh shit lol

[joseph0487]

I'm really afraid of what might happen. I live in SD. Knowing 2 strong earthquakes happened in 2 consecutive months (Haiti and Chile), who knows (God forbid) we might be next.

[mishavara]

@joseph0487 I know, I live in SD too, and when I moved a year ago, my hubby used to say: "It barely shakes in here." Since I´ve moved, I experienced 2 small ones before the easter one, the one in (easter), in June, July.It´s been around 14 ttl that I´ve felt so far.(never in my life before) and now it seems I get to feel this undescribable shallow dizziness in my head from 2 days to some hours before one is like I like to say "Feelable" 4.5 up.like last week, geese. RIght now I am expecting 1 =S

[NearlyFreeSpeech]

99% chance did you hear this bitch?? Shouldn't the city be preparing? the police building shelters for the people?? They're here to serve us not collect money for the state. When in everyone going to wake up?? THIS IS MAD!! YOU FUCKING IDIOTS WE'RE GONNA GET FUCKED AND NO ONE IS HERE TO HELP US?? YOU HEARD IT FROM HERE STUPID 99% THOUSANDS IF NOT MILLION DEAD. THIS ISNT A SUPERBOWL COMMERCIAL WHAT THE FUCK!! WAKE UP!!

[BuddenOne]

Are you guys all idiots? Dont you see how the news is slowly preparing us for the 'big one'? These gutless motherfuckers have been covering earthquakes before they even hit in late 08' 09'. I know for a fact they are withholding information from us.

[olegario39]

omg..Linkin Park lives there in SoCal! they should move out!

[ElusiveClover1]

The only thing you can do is to live in the Now. Try not to focus so much on what is to come,but focus on what you are doing right now to prepare for such an event.

[IAndTheFatherAreOne]

structure of earth of LA is full of grafite,and its honeycomb.

[danmarino1970]

my father pointed out all the california license plates here in jersey.. mind boggling. why are people moving out of california and coming to new jersey.. what the hell is wrong with you people.

[chingonm1]

They been talking about the big one since the 1950's. I think it's absurd for one to think the only California has it coming. Natural disasters can happen everywhere; Hurricanes, tornadoes, extreme cold weather, sunamies and drought.

[jsaulgodoy]

did he say 10,000 times the engergy??? no fucking way...im not gona park my supra in the garage..

[IAndTheFatherAreOne]

LosAngeles will slide to the ocean sharks will be swimming formerly downtown LA,the answer is move out from California.

[someguyXVII]

The San Andreas fault is a strike-slip fault, not a dip-slip fault, so L.A. and everything south of the San Andreas will only move laterally relative to the rest of California. There won't be any sinking into the ocean whatsoever. Learn some geology before you say stupid shit.

[Dook6]

I thought the Puente Hills fault and the NorthRidge fault are thrust faults. But in CA we still have a shitload of undiscovered faults to deal with. Hayward will go off soon as will Cascadia Subduction in Washington and Oregon, As will the Alaskan faults and New Madrid faults in the Eastern half in the USA. and Charleston faults in South Carolina. There

more faults out there that the USGS still have to investigate soon.

[BoboVicus]

Huge quakes + risk of tsunamis + wildfires + mudslides + risk of hurricanes = the nations most populous state? People are stupid

[aubreytube]

Quakes? Yes

Tsunamis? Extremely unlikely.

Wildfires? Happen everywhere.

Mudslides? Only if you're stupid enough to build next to a collapsing hillside.

Hurricanes? Wrong coast, my friend.

Now if someone can explain why people live in tornado alley or hurricane country, then I'd be interested.

[SnowVixen89]

It's not a matter of if, but when.

[JesseG88]

I don't live in California, but I do live in Kentucky, near the New Madrid fault, which had a mild-moderate earthquake last year. I do have some concerns about the earthquake resistance of my house in strong earthquakes.

[tookietookie123]

0:38 i live in Anaheim -_-

[chucknorrisownsall]

The San Andreas event may not even be the biggest earthquake threat at least for the densely populated LA area. Ever heard of the Puente Hills Fault? This fault runs RIGHT UNDER DOWNTOWN LA and experts have determined that this fault is capable of 7.0-7.5 earthquakes. God forbid that we have a 7.5 centered right under downtown. If this happens they are projecting 3000-18000 deaths and over 250 billion in damage. This may be the damaging quake that we all have been fearing especially for LA.

[MADE1NARMEN1A]

@chucknorrisownsall - I agree with you 100%, God help us all!

[digimaster88]

later on the richter scale ITS UHHHH UUU 1.0?

[1980United]

Cuz I have relative in So Cal too.. That what worries me for them to live there in

California...

[alex95187]

it will not be as bad as people think

[akidnamedmikey]

have u felt a big quake b4?

[alex95187]

well i used to live in hidden river california near landers and witnessed that eartquake. ofcoarse there will be some casualties if a big one hits. but the main regions to worry about are LA and ontario san dimas, but that is because of the layers of sediment they lay on which hold the shaking like jello. but our structures will hold better then chinas earthquake which is the reason alot of people are scared of earthquakes. our "BIG ONE" will not be anything like that.

[akidnamedmikey]

well can u explain that almost half of the deaths in the northridge quake were from heart attacks

[alex95187]

i never heard of that but it seems logical for the elderly community. seeing as how LA has changed a little since 94', i wouldnt doubt it that most of the deaths would be from the shock of the "BIG ONE" rather then the affect of it. i live now in a part of cali that would only get a few rumbles when the big one hits, but im sure a few heart attacks will me a majority of the deaths during the "BIG ONE".

[akidnamedmikey]

well look at japan...they have the most up to date building codes and still there is a lot of deaths and costly damage

[akidnamedmikey]

iv also heard when the san andreas fault ruptures it is worse that it seems....like if the 94 quake that was a 6.7 i think it was....if that quake occured on the san andreas...it would cause twice as much damage and dearths in socal

[alex95187]

the possibilty of it being worse then 6.7 is true but the range would be up to 7.9 no more then that, there a couple vids on youtube that might help you with your concerns, ill look them up right now and post a url for them:)

[alex95187]

/watch?v=V9DOgYEOQpY there 3 parts i believe and they explain alot, so this will help you with some more knowledge on the san andrea's fault :)

[akidnamedmikey]

i watched it and yes i already knew almost everything they tlkd bout but what they didnt mention is that y the big one concerns people or experts is that the fault runs down all of cali..

[akidnamedmikey]

.it the big one were to be a 8.0 or 9.0....the energy would travel at least 400 miles of the faultline...thats about half of the entire fault...earthquakes like northridge or the alaskin quake or all the other faults that those earthquakes happend on were only like 5 6 7 8 10 20 50 100 miles long...do u get where im coming from?

[alex95187]

yes but due to the type of fault we are on, anything over 7.9 is unlikely, like i said. different types of faults have different strengths alaska's fault is a dip slip. that can cause a high reading, ours is a strike slip. it cause a med to slightly high reading. yes ours will have a long range but most of our building can take it unlike china

[pager693]

What are dearths???

[akidnamedmikey]

i ment deaths

[1980United]

I am from Seattle, WA, I am kinda sad, angry with USGS of why they want to bring 7.8 to SoCal?? I know why, cuz they are following the news of total ridicilous I know that I saw on TV in China earthquake last year. GRRR God Damn it, stop pretending to be the same thing as copy in California and China.. I am upset, god will punish peoples for what they committed for doing that.. I want all peoples to live in PEACE on earth.. It didnt matter of how big or small earthquake will hit.. It not worth..

[akidnamedmikey]

well it should be fearing quakes....big ones will hit...and if we dont discuss things like this more people will die

[davidm604]

maybe you never know

[davidm604]

Who says its going to be 7.8. It might be bigger. Experts think they know everything.

[jonmsfts]

could be smaller?

[alex95187]

seeing as how were not on fault that moves along side of each other rather then over each other, the possibilities or it being bigger then a 7.9 even are unlikely.

[alex95187]

im sorry switch that, seeing as how were not on a fault that moves "over" each other, bigger then a 7.9 is unlikely. our fault moves along side eachother. the left of the fault moves north. wich also answers the question, will socal be another island? no, well just be norcal residents in the future

[akidnamedmikey]

.. ugh nevrmind u just dont get it...