Those who donate to Earthquake funds are gerenous to a fault.

/wait...

Everything east of the San Andreas fault will fall into the Atlantic Ocean.

I can't wait..I hope its this year.

Shark attacks! Summer driving season!!

wouldn't miss it

well, i own all of the desert west of California, just in case
/woohoo, property prices!!!!

Mr. Clarence Butterworth

sharks, you say?



SHARK!

We can only hope.

/will settle on just LA

We can dream, can't we?

Kids vomiting in cars! On my suede shoes! God dammit!

um, yeah. here's a random album cover...

Maybe this will keep more people from moving to California for once!

These people are crazy!

If you live in a flood plain don't biatch when the flood comes!!!!!!

If you live on an ACTIVE FAULT LINE!!!!!!! Definately don't biatch when everything you own turns to rubble.

I am really not interested in giving tax money to a woman who knows she lives directly on a fault line when her house turns to dust.

Won't happen, I never get that kind of luck......

1138
WEST of Cali, huh? That's a neat trick.

I knew that buying beachfront property in Arizona would eventually pay off.

Can't say I'll miss California.

If not California, then at least Elke DeMuynck's house. How does one get homeowner's insurance with a major fault running through one's house?

lohphat
I understand it, but we all know that media has an IQ of about 65. As for falling into the Ocean, parts of Cali will most likely submerge a bit, but this won't create a freaking island like you see in the damn movies!

Here in NY, the big ooga-booga story is that a hurricane is going to decimate the city this summer. Some assclown is getting himself a lot of press time with this theory, which seems to rest on "We're due" and not much else.

Pav

I don't think the government is really interested in what you want them to do with your tax money, thanks.

By the way, a hundred or two years ago, there was an earthquake in Jersey that rang churchbells in Boston. You go ahead and keep thinking you're in the one place on earth that doesn't get natural disasters.

Whole thing is bullshiat. Been waiting for years, it keeps not happening.

I'm supposed to go out to the Bay Area in a few months, and I emailed the folks I would be visiting. One told me, in not so many words, "Whadda want, world peace?! So it happens, whatever!" and the other informed me he lives about three blocks away from the Hayward fault line.

Still planning the trip. If anything it will be like a previous trip to CA which involved the disaster tour of the Oakland fire damage, SF quake damage, and lots of mudslides.

/prefer the East Coast's hurricanes, tornadoes and blizzards

It would be pretty cool if plates moved fast enough that we could see changes in our lifetimes. I want a new continent, damnit.

Anybody who refuses to live in CA over this fear should just stay the hell out. The weather is wonderful almost every day of the year, the scenery is amazing and extremely diverse, and there is always something to do. It's paradise compared to almost all the other states. Did I mention that most of the people you meet at bars, etc are surprisingly unpretentious, even though they look better than nearly everyone in the DC area?

/CA Native
//Left for a better job elsewhere
///Now it's way too expensive to go back
////WTF was I thinking???

Well, it is time. They haven't had a decent earthquake out there since '89.

/Waiting breathlessly.

Here in this hopeless farking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any farking time. Any farking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Tool: Aenima Aenima

Submitter needs to decide whether the story is indeed perennial or if it emerges every spring or "annual" because it definitely isn't both..

Can't wait till the next good earthquake. They're fun and it's been too long.

/live in OC

It's spring, must be time for the media to dust off the perennial "California could be thrown into the sea by an earthquake at any moment" story. Yup, there it is

The words "thrown" & "sea" are not found anywhere in the article. Nor does any form of this fictional concept appear in the article.

Submitter lied. Thus invalidating his whole headline. What seemed to be obsurd is only pathetic.

I blame Lex Luther

lohphat: What part of "the San Andreas is a strike-slip fault and are sliding past each other together, not pulling apart" do people not understand?

what part of "this story is about the Hayward Fault, not the San Andreas fault" do people not understand?

valkore
CA Native / Left for a better job elsewhere / Now it's way too expensive to go back

Me too... Of course, when I was a kid, "Silicon Valley" was mostly apricot and cherry orchards, and a great place to grow up. Now, it's nothing but freeways and over-priced houses. I miss what it was but wouldn't really want to go back there now.

New cracks appear in Elke DeMuynck's ceiling every few weeks, zigzagging across her living room, creeping toward the fireplace, veering down the wall. Month after month, year after year, she patches, paints and waits.

Have you considered moving?

damn, i thought Cali alreadry fell into the ocean.

oh well.

always fun reading these articles on the hayward fault... i work on the 4th floor of a building 1500 feet from this fault. the building isn't rated very well sesmicly either. i live ~1/2 mile from the fault as well.

great.

oops- seismicly, not sesmicly

10.0.0.1
Cupertino H.S. rulez.

Monta Vista was better!!

/lol

And if it happens, Pat Robertson will be saying that God did it because God hates homos.

/where does Pat Robertson live?

..."California could be thrown into the sea by an earthquake at any moment" story.

Is that anything like the "New Orleans could be flooded by a hurricane" story?

I'll be out in Coachella this weekend. I'll be sure to check it out first hand and report back to Fark...

Otisville!?

Ugh, San Diego has no weather whatsoever. We didn't even have a winter this year. So I, personally will enjoy the new northern Washington weather.

Pffft... $120k to move a house three miles? We're getting a (insert distance from SD to Seattle here) move for nuthin. Suck on that Historians!!

//I've been hearing good things about this 'grunge' movement, too late to join?
//And what's this about Battle Star Galactica selling coffee? Does Dirk Benedict really need the money that bad?