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Post by kmg on Apr 21, 2018 15:31:30 GMT -8
Do you live in an earthquake prone area?
Let’s discuss how to make your home ready for an earthquake.
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Post by 247365 on Apr 22, 2018 11:39:14 GMT -8
We had a huge quake here in the late 1800's and have small ones all the time but honestly nobody, me included, have the next big one on our minds. We are more on the mindset of hurricanes and straight line wind from thunderstorms than earthquakes. It will be the down fall of a lot of people around here.
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Post by jeffgordon on Apr 24, 2018 5:27:58 GMT -8
Yep, Cascadia Subduction Zone. Our house is a 1930's farm house with a 1970's addition (house that Jack built). After cutting a hole in the floor to access the foundation, I hollered to my wife "If we get a megathrust earthquake we are going for a ride". Our plan is to put provisions in a separate storage from the house. We mostly store freeze dried for emergencies so that makes it infinitely easier. Mountain house is our main brand, though we have others as well (Mountain House is not far from us so we consider it supporting local). We do a lot of canning and dehydrating every year, our plan is to set up some way for those to be secure. The biggest issue here is if a "big one" hits the movement will be as much as 20m Westward, and 6m drop according to Geologist estimates....I keep that in mind when building everything....or driving across a bridge...or mountainside likely to slide. Situational awareness.
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Post by Ieuan on Apr 24, 2018 19:46:10 GMT -8
Yep, Cascadia Subduction Zone. Our house is a 1930's farm house with a 1970's addition (house that Jack built). After cutting a hole in the floor to access the foundation, I hollered to my wife "If we get a megathrust earthquake we are going for a ride". Our plan is to put provisions in a separate storage from the house. We mostly store freeze dried for emergencies so that makes it infinitely easier. Mountain house is our main brand, though we have others as well (Mountain House is not far from us so we consider it supporting local). We do a lot of canning and dehydrating every year, our plan is to set up some way for those to be secure. The biggest issue here is if a "big one" hits the movement will be as much as 20m Westward, and 6m drop according to Geologist estimates....I keep that in mind when building everything....or driving across a bridge...or mountainside likely to slide. Situational awareness.
Even if I can find out what the risk is in my area, I haven't thought of a way to safeguard against the threat. It's a real head scratcher. |
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Post by kmg on Apr 24, 2018 20:00:20 GMT -8
When I looked up my house on the county site it listed different things and geological it said “low liquefaction risk”. You might check there.
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Post by Ieuan on Apr 26, 2018 6:23:11 GMT -8
When I looked up my house on the county site it listed different things and geological it said “low liquefaction risk”. You might check there. |
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Post by jeffgordon on Apr 28, 2018 14:35:01 GMT -8
Yep, Cascadia Subduction Zone. Our house is a 1930's farm house with a 1970's addition (house that Jack built). After cutting a hole in the floor to access the foundation, I hollered to my wife "If we get a megathrust earthquake we are going for a ride". Our plan is to put provisions in a separate storage from the house. We mostly store freeze dried for emergencies so that makes it infinitely easier. Mountain house is our main brand, though we have others as well (Mountain House is not far from us so we consider it supporting local). We do a lot of canning and dehydrating every year, our plan is to set up some way for those to be secure. The biggest issue here is if a "big one" hits the movement will be as much as 20m Westward, and 6m drop according to Geologist estimates....I keep that in mind when building everything....or driving across a bridge...or mountainside likely to slide. Situational awareness.
Even if I can find out what the risk is in my area, I haven't thought of a way to safeguard against the threat. It's a real head scratcher.I don't think where I am at is very high risk for liquefaction (soil under the house is like conglomerate, we had to use a mason bit to break the dirt to run pipe under it). I believe based on digging that our house sits on top of an ancient river bed gravel bar (which really makes me want to mine it for gold).  OSU has a hazard map for liquefaction ohelp.oregonstate.edu/ |
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Post by 247365 on Apr 29, 2018 6:26:24 GMT -8
I just went to look up my local earthquake dangers since this post got me thinking about it. According to the Fema map I live in a D1/D2 zone, one spot short of the major fault line dangers, so if another quake hits it could be very messy. www.fema.gov/earthquake-hazard-maps. One more thing to think about but since I am pretty sure all bridges would just flop to the ground there will be no leaving and no one getting in. |
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OSU has a hazard map for liquefaction