ok here the pretext.

during the 'world series" loma prieta earthquake in 1989 scientists were measuring ultra low frequency radio waves. two weeks before the earthquake they started detecting elavated levels of activity which peaked during the earthquake. This type of equipment MAY be an accurate way of predicting coming earthuakes. Electronics have been deployed along the san andreas fault to monitor for possible future activity.

The southern San Andreas last had a major earthquake in 1857 which lasted for approximately 2 mins. The surface rupture was almost 225 miles long. It was probably a magnitude 8.0 earthquake. By using carbon dating they have determined that earthquakes usually occur around every 140 years. So they are about 20 years overdue.

So here is the question.

If you knew from the electronic monitoring that an earthquake was imminent, would you go there?

I'm thinking along the lines of camping in a tent near the actual fault line out in the open so that nothing would be falling on your head.

I'm not being macabre or insensitive as the damage from this event is going to be severe. The chaos afterwards would be awful. I'm just putting on the blinders to focus on what the experience of the earthquake would be like.


maybe Kyras will put us all up?

 

I think I'll pass.

 

There is no way, I'd go. Especially since you mentioned one word in particular ................camping!

 

Why would I consider 'camping' a vacation? To me roughing it is a cheap hotel.

 

I would pass,too.!!!

 

If I don't see Bill Marriott's portrait on the wall I won't stay

 

I don't understand.

If you're proposing to leave home on the basis of experimental data a few days before an earthquake is supposed to happen, why go camping near the fault? Why not get the hell out of Dodge and take a vacation in, say, Iowa? HPH

 

I'm supposing you're going there to see if you can camp on the fault line and witness the quake? I think I'd try to plot the time with some exactitude and fly over it, leaning out of the plane taking aerial photographs. Now, that'd be a great vacation.

 

to rephrase

If given the opportunity to feel what a magnitude 8.0 earthquake would you partake?
and the camping, the major danger in an earthquake are the things that fall on your head. so a house or hotel would be be less desirable than a tent.

 

Are you familiar with the 14th and 15th letter of the alphabet?