I've concluded that Californians are liars

[Pilawt]

We are not liars. I live in CA and felt an earthquake just the other day when flying at 5000agl in the airplane.

In the days after the Northridge quake I rented a Saratoga to shuttle files and office equipment from Van Nuys to our Palmdale branch office. Because of collapsed freeways it was now a three-hour drive, but only twenty minutes by air.

A week or two after the initial quake I fired up the Saratoga at VNY and started taxiing out. Just then a sharp little M4.5 aftershock hit. It felt like I was taxiing on flat tires. I called Ground Control to file a pilot report for moderate turbulence on the East Taxiway.

 

[denverpilot]

We are not liars. I live in CA and felt an earthquake just the other day when flying at 5000agl in the airplane.

You really might want to have a talk with the A&P over that one.

That was just the natural results of coleslaw at altitude.

 

[Ghery]

Problem with engineering is..... unless you have two IDENTICAL building directly side by side.. There is NO way you can prove his update actually worked and the un modified building would have collapsed... IMHO..

No, but with the way the building was built, prior to the retrofit the belief was that it would have pancaked. And that would have ruined the day for a bunch of us. No proof, but the irony of the death of the architect in the freeway collapse was the main point.

 

[N801BH]

No, but with the way the building was built, prior to the retrofit the belief was that it would have pancaked. And that would have ruined the day for a bunch of us. No proof, but the irony of the death of the architect in the freeway collapse was the main point.

I completely understand the irony.....One Architect / Engineer put his total faith in another Engineer /Architect's design and he died from that decision.....

 

[GMascelli]

August 2011 - I was paving a taxiway in Cape May NJ and it felt like my legs were wobbly. I actually thought one of the roller guys came up on me with the vibrating drum cranked up. Everyone just stopped, looked at each other, then continued with the operation.

I saw on the news that night that an earthquake event occurred. According to the US Geological Survey, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck at 1:51 p.m. in central Virginia.

The geology of the Middle Atlantic region of the east coast favors the travel of earthquake energy for great distances. The earthquake epicenter was located in the Virginia Piedmont, an area underlain by hard basement rocks that predate the opening of the present-day Atlantic Ocean. To the west lie ancient hard rocks of the Appalachian Mountains. To the east, the hard basement rocks are overlain by a blanket of softer sediments that thickens toward the Atlantic Ocean. The hard basement rocks of our region have been in generally the same configuration, with gradual sinking, for the last 150 million years. Earthquake energy can travel well through these hard, cold ancient rocks, in contrast with areas such as California where there is abundant faulting and softer rocks, which absorb the energy more quickly.