Here's something I ran across on MSNBC's site. Pretty interesting stuff.

Re-creation of the 1906 SF quake. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12060218/)

DANG! This looks like an E-Ticket ride! http://csiberkeley.com/USGS/GoldenGateBridge.mov

I'm not sure which of these two buildings I'd rather be in....

http://csiberkeley.com/USGS/LACityHall.mov

Pan - you realize that many of the people reading this board have no idea what an "E ticket" ride is?

How come I don't feel that old?

/derail off

I just read that right after reading about the Hayward fault. Glad I'm not there anymore. I don't care how earthquake proof you think your building is. If its right on top of the fault line, its not going to be after the quake.

I just read that right after reading about the Hayward fault. Glad I'm not there anymore. I don't care how earthquake proof you think your building is. If its right on top of the fault line, its not going to be after the quake.Ha ha ha ha! "But I've been paying homeowners insurance to you for YEARS!". "Yes, yes, but we still show no proof that your house ever existed. Before you can file a claim you have to prove to us that it REALLY was there."

Pan - you realize that many of the people reading this board have no idea what an "E ticket" ride is?


Yeah! It makes me feel special. I remember waiting in line for the Autopia cars in Disneyland with my ticket book in hand, hoping I'd be tall enough to get on the ride. A car I, a kid, could drive! That was definitely worth an E-Ticket.

And... I might be the only person on this message forum that remembers the flying saucer ride at Disneyland. I think they were hovercraft things, I think the floor had a bunch of holes that made them float. I must've been really young when that was around.

I had no idea what it meant but thanks to good old wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_ticket

Oh wow! Found a picture of the old "Flying Saucers" ride at Disneyland: http://www.cubethis.com/images/saucers.jpg

Back on topic... (http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060325_hayward_fault.html)

HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) _ New cracks appear in Elke DeMuynck's ceiling every few weeks, zigzagging across her living room, creeping toward the fireplace, veering down the wall. Month after month, year after year, she patches, paints and waits.

"It definitely lets you know your house is constantly shifting,'' DeMuynck said. So do the gate outside that swings uselessly 2 1/2 inches from its latch, the strange bulges in the street and the geology students who make pilgrimages to her cul-de-sac.

DeMuynck could throw her paint brush from her front stoop and hit the Hayward Fault, which geologists consider the most dangerous in the San Francisco Bay Area, if not the nation. Like others who live here, she gets by on a blend of denial, hope and humor.

she gets by on a blend of denial, hope and humor

Wow, I need some of that. I wonder if they sell it at Trader Joe's.