"rw" wrote...
Tim J. wrote:

Having an earthquake in the Midwest puts an entirely different perspective
on
things. Will everything west of Milwaukee slide into the Pacific, or will
Milwaukee have beach front property on the Atlantic? Hmmm. . .

"Most people think that destructive earthquakes only occur in the
western United States. To the contrary,
snip

Yeah, I know. However, they don't talk about the "doom" factor like they do when
quakes hit the west coast. Having grown up in Calif., it became a bit of a joke
when the quakes would hit and the soothsayers would predict us sliding out to
sea.

If you're from Southern California and haven't seen the Steve Martin movie "L.A.
Story", which satirizes the SoCal lifestyle, there is a thirty-second scene
worth watching where Martin and friends are dining at a fancy coffee shop when a
quake starts shaking. The group acts as if nothing is happening - a fairly
genuine reaction to anything under about a 5.5 in CA.
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TL,
Tim
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