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Old 12-23-2013, 09:07 AM   #13
Lamplighter
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
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Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama View Post
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It's kinda funny doing seismic retrofit on a bridge that has seen
some pretty intense earthquakes and lived to tell.
When the Big One hits, will there be enough people left to care about it?

Or, is the Big One all one big myth to create industry where there was none?
Bixby Bridge is on the Callif/Oregon border, north of the Mendicino fault.

Maybe the Pacific plate is going to slide right on by us in Oregon
...and it's the Juan De Fuca Gorda plate that's coming ashore to bite us

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(map from here)
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