Re: Stone Houses in Earthquake Areas

From: Charles (ckraft_at_SPAMTRAPwest.net)
Date: 03/08/05


Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 05:23:12 GMT

On 6 Mar 2005 23:33:32 -0600,
badassjosh0076@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Silverbackman) wrote:

>Yea that may all be true, but will a Earthquake happen big enough to
>destroy a stone house in an area over 100 miles away? I don't think I
>felt the 1989 earthquake of San Francisco, so is there a chance the
>hands of an major Earthquake from San Francisco could not really
>effect it as much?
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My town is about 30 miles from the epi of the Northridge quake. We
have stone houses here in town that were built in the 1880s, still
standing. In fact we got no damage from the main shock, first
reported damage here in town was from an aftershock two days later.

-- 
Charles
Does not play well with others.


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