As if it was a comical dream, the water in my large aquarium sloshed over the rim, rocking on the high dresser it sat on.. Mom's voice could be heard squeeling through the rapidly  disappating fog of my mind.. "It's the Big. One!!! Run for the front door!" Ran we did!! The dim street light revealing our neighbors, standing in their doorways.. Watching us, watching them.<br><br>On Wednesday, February 10, 2016, Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>I was in the Army, stationed at Merrell Barracks (Nurnberg, Germany).</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, back home in the San Fernando Valley . . .</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of Wikipedia at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_San_Fernando_earthquake" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_San_Fernando_earthquake</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 7px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-style:none;font-family:'Linux Libertine',Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:2.6525em;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.3;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;word-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(37,37,37)">1971 San Fernando earthquake</h1><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The <b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">1971 San Fernando earthquake</b> (also known as the <b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">Sylmar earthquake</b>) occurred in the early morning of February 9 in the foothills of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gabriel_Mountains" title="San Gabriel Mountains" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">San Gabriel Mountains</a> in southern California. The unanticipated thrust earthquake had a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">moment magnitude</a> of 6.5 or 6.7 (as determined by several independent institutions) and had a maximum <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercalli_intensity_scale" title="Mercalli intensity scale" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Mercalli intensity</a> of XI (<i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">Extreme</i>). The event was one in a series that affected the Los Angeles area in the late 20th century, and a study of the Sierra Madre Fault during that time indicated that more substantial thrust earthquakes had occurred near the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_Ranges" title="Transverse Ranges" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Transverse Ranges</a> in the past. Damage was locally severe in the northern <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley" title="San Fernando Valley" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">San Fernando Valley</a>, and surface faulting was extensive to the south of the epicenter in the mountains, as well as urban settings along city streets and neighborhoods. Uplift and other effects affected private homes and businesses.</span></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The event affected a number of health care facilities in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylmar,_Los_Angeles" title="Sylmar, Los Angeles" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Sylmar</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando,_California" title="San Fernando, California" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">San Fernando</a>, and other densely populated areas north of central Los Angeles. The <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_View_%E2%80%93_UCLA_Medical_Center" title="Olive View – UCLA Medical Center" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Olive View Medical Center</a> and Veterans Hospital both experienced very heavy damage, and buildings collapsed at both sites, causing the majority of deaths that occurred. The buildings at both facilities were constructed with mixed styles, but engineers were unable to thoroughly study the buildings' responses because they were not outfitted with instruments for recording <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_ground_motion" title="Strong ground motion" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">strong ground motion</a>, and this prompted the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Veterans_Affairs" title="United States Department of Veterans Affairs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Veterans Administration</a> to install <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismometer" title="Seismometer" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">seismometer</a>s at its high-risk sites. Other sites throughout the Los Angeles area had been instrumented as a result of local ordinances, and an extraordinary amount of strong motion data was recorded, more so than any other event up until that time. The success in this area spurred the initiation of California's Strong Motion Instrumentation Program.</span></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Transportation around the Los Angeles area was severely afflicted with roadway failures and the partial collapse of several major freeway interchanges. The near total failure of the Lower Van Norman Dam resulted in the evacuation of tens of thousands of downstream residents, though an earlier decision to maintain the water at a lower level may have contributed to saving the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam" title="Dam" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">dam</a> from being overtopped. Schools were affected, as they had been during a previous earthquake in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach,_California" title="Long Beach, California" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Long Beach</a>, but this time amended construction styles improved the outcome for the thousands of school buildings in the Los Angeles area. Other aspects of the event included a methane seep that emanated from the floor of the Pacific Ocean near <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malibu,_California" title="Malibu, California" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Malibu</a> for several days, and hundreds of various types of landslides that were documented in the San Gabriel mountains. As had happened following other earthquakes in California, legislation related to building codes was once again revised, with laws that specifically addressed the construction of homes or businesses near known active fault zones.</span></p></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div>(video)</div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://youtu.be/fiabD0WBl7w" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/fiabD0WBl7w</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">  </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Sent from Gmail Mobile<br>