"Hatunen" wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:51:07 GMT, "PTravel"
> wrote:
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> > wrote in message
> >news:1126481281.651342.177150@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >> When people talk about the next big quake, why do they always talk
> >> about SF and not LA? SF is right on a fault, I know, but then they had
> >> a big quake in 1994 in LA. Couldn't there theoretically be a huge one
> >> in LA?
> >
> >Of course (and, in fact, they have as recently as 1994).
>
> 1994 wasn't a huge earthquake.
It depends on how you define huge. I was 6 miles from the epicenter. My
house survived (with large cracks in the wall and nothing inside left
standing). Others in my neighborhood weren't as lucky -- their buildings
collapsed and/or burned.
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