Las Vegas will be featured on The Weather Channel's Sunday program "It Could Happen Tomorrow." It is actually a pretty good show that deals with different "possible but not probable" weather scenarios. I do believe it is to draw awareness to emergency preparedness. They did film a Katrina-like episode prior to Hurricane Katrina and I have seen a couple of others on Sacramento flooding and a NYC Hurricane. Pretty good watch: as long as this stuff doesn't make you paranoid.
The focus on Las Vegas will be "The Big One", as in earthquakes! If it comes up in casual conversation I let it be known that I do have an earthquake insurance rider. A couple hundred dollars a year to pretty much protect a couple hundred g's in equity. Everyone I have told, thinks I am a looney bin. The question is: Am I?
This lil Nebraska girl was living here for two years already when I woke up in the middle of the night October 16,1999 with my house shaking wildly. I was pretty drowsy and freaked out. I left the window open and a cold wind from an unexpected weather change was blowing my window blinds wildly also. My first instinct is TORNADO! You can take the girl out of Nebraska, but you can't take Nebraska out of the girl ;)
I rounded up the kids and took them downstairs and shoved them in the bathroom (the smartest thing in a tornado, dumbest thing in an earthquake.) By the time I was done the shaking ended. I went back to bed tired. I woke up and realized that we survived the Joshua Tree Quake (OK really the Hector Mines quake) and some areas of the valley felt the equivalent impact of a 5.0 magnitude earthquake. WOW! That was my first. My inquisitive nature sent me in a fury of earthquake research that day.
What I found out is not to be afraid of the earthquake. They happen all around us! We want the "lil" ones to relieve pressure & tension on the faults which will help us avoid "the big one".
Earthquakes in Nevada happen for all sorts of reasons. Some on natural faults, some from mining (nation's leader in gold, silver and mercury mining), some from extracting water from our state's extensive aquifer system, some from the pressure on the water on Hoover Dam.
<-this and of a nevada sample in earthquakes faults is>USGS.
You can read earthquake FAQ's here.
You read more about emergency preparedness, what to do during, and after here.
Be aware, be prepared and insure your assets: just in case!
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Great inormation Renee, We have had a few here in NH but only about a 3.2 on the richter scale. The first time I ever experienced a quake was when I was living in Carmel Valley, CA in the mid 70's and the rumble sounded like someone or a bunch of people were running up and down my roof. Pretty wild, I ran outside to check what was happening and it actually lasted only a few seconds. It was pretty wild.
Thanks Jay
I grew up in earthquake land, Southern California and became familiar with earthquakes. I started that process all over again when I relocated to Lawrence, KS. We love it here and wouldn't want to raise our family anywhere else but it took some time to feel as comfortable with the prospect of a tornado appearing as I had been about earthquakes.
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