Earthquakes

[Panda-chan]

All you cute west coasters worrying about your silly little earthquakes.

[Vish]

I live in Cali and i don't really care. If a earthquake happens. It happens.
It might be the end of the world as we know it. D;

[SlayerOfLight]

the fact that there keep comming more and more earthquakes and other natural disasters catches my eyes as well. its almost like the world is about to change, or something bad is gonna happen soon. I'm not a ''doomsday'' prophet, but I just feel that this planet is getting worser and worser.

[Biomac]

Why do we build cities on places where there is a high risk of earthquakes

[Regulus]

Why do we build cities on places where there is a high risk of earthquakes

Why don't we build giant floating cities on the ocean?

[SlayerOfLight]

the fact that there keep comming more and more earthquakes and other natural disasters catches my eyes as well. its almost like the world is about to change, or something bad is gonna happen soon. I'm not a ''doomsday'' prophet, but I just feel that this planet is getting worser and worser.

Eruptions, earthquakes. It has all been happening on this planet for the last 6 billion years. Those are all endotermic forces on which we humans have no effect at all. Just because earthquakes hit big cities now does not mean that we are suddenly having more earthquakes. There have always been earthquakes, now they hit big cities, it is completely random. So we are not having more earthquakes. Those are endogenic forces, they dont get worse or better. They are always the same.

well it shocked me how a while back, a very light earthquake was felt somewhere between the border of germany and holland. there shouldn't even be any earthquakes here because as far as we know, there isn't any fault line here. :S and what you said is true perhaps, there have always been earthquakes. but it just catches my eye that more and more earthquakes are taking place in or NEAR cities.

[Biomac]

Why do we build cities on places where there is a high risk of earthquakes

Why don't we build giant floating cities on the ocean?

Good idea!

[Arani]

Guess what.

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/29/11931934-at-least-16-die-as-58-magnitude-earthquake-hits-italy?lite&ocid=todmsnbc11

Italy was hit by a 6.0 MG Earthquake early in the morning, just 3 miles under the surface.

[Arani]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/26/13491634-series-of-moderate-earthquakes-rattles-southern-california?lite

Southern California was just hit with about 70 moderate Earthquakes this morning. Nothing serious and no injuries, but that's a lot of shaking. O_O

A lot of you guys are smart, much smarter than I am. XD How likely is it that there will be a chain reaction up California, and how likely is it that other parts of CA will be hit in the next few days/week, and would it be because of quakes down south? I, for instance, live in a very fault-ridden area. I'm not nervous or anything but I'd just like to know. XD

[Regulus]

It's really only a matter of time. It'll happen eventually, the question is when.