Reply #31: TO be quite honest Cali standards have never

[nadinbrzezinski]

truly impressed me.

Why?

I went through SEVERAL seven pointers in Mexico City while growing up. Oh wait but the 1985 quake... that was an 8.1 that lasted a minute and a half, and it did damage, as spectacular as it was, to less than one percent of the infrastructure. Yes it did kill about 10K people, realize the city had 20 + million.

Now it did a lot of damage to the political system, but that is another story, and it led to the actual professionalization of disaster response... but a seven pointer and the damage it did to Northridge? I shudder what the expected eight pointer will do.

Hell there is an overpass on I-5 that should not have been rebuilt, for geologic reasons, either in 1971 or after it failed again after Northridge.

I know this will be a shock, but with all the problems in Mexico, if i have to go through a seven pointer, I'd rather be at home with parents in Mexico City. Their home and the city have a better chance of coming through than my apartment in San Diego. (There are also geologic reasons for that by the way, and yet another reason I want to sell when my parents are no longer here)