Thread: Earthquakes

Been in a bunch here in the Philippines - including some big mothers after Mt. Pinatubo blew in '91. I don't like them a bit. In the big one in '91, we ran out of the building into the street and the telephone poles were bending like a kid bending a plastic drinking straw.

I have witnessed 4 small ones...Greece, Manchester, Uganda, Japan...and witnessed the aftermath of a big one in Taiwan...

Another 6.7 quake in Alaska check the map above.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

I have never been in one. But I did see a hotel in Baguio, Philppines, on the TV-News totally flattened with few survivors. And I remembered that I had stayed in that hotel a few years earlier.

Largest I ever experienced was a 6.9 when I was living in San Francisco. I would be nervous if I lived anywhere near the San Andreas fault in California or coastal Alaska.

I was in downtown San Francisco for the one in '89 also. I was lucky enough to get out of town and over the Golden Gate to Sausalito before the traffic got backed up. Left me with my nerves jangles for months.

Tokyo scares the hell out of me. I would hate to be in a big earthquake and stuck in that city.

Thailand has volcanoes, but like most things here they are small and don't work.

List of volcanoes in Thailand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia