In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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So, I've missed the news lately.
Did CA fall into the ocean? Are the earthquakes continuing?
It seems a bit weird. I've heard in the past that many small earthquakes help relieve the stress and strain of the faultlines. That these help reduce the likelihood of a large quake, instead of letting the pressure build so that a large quake is the only way to suddenly relieve the forces and tensions.
But now the argument is opposite?
Are these 2 conflicting theories? Or does nobody know what they are talking about?
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Janyey had a fall. *L*
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Also found myself somehow logged out. I don't remember doing anything.
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Quote:Not yet!
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
So, I've missed the news lately.
Did CA fall into the ocean?
Quote:Yes, but it's slowed down to about a tenth of what it was.
Are the earthquakes continuing?
Quote:In THIS particular instance, the quakes were far away from the San Andreas, both in surface distance and depth. They were EXTREMELY shallow, roughly 2-4km. In contrast, the last few major quakes (which were also not on the San Andreas) were:
It seems a bit weird. I've heard in the past that many small earthquakes help relieve the stress and strain of the faultlines. That these help reduce the likelihood of a large quake, instead of letting the pressure build so that a large quake is the only way to suddenly relieve the forces and tensions.
But now the argument is opposite?
1987 Whittier Narrows Magnitude 5.9 Depth 14km (8.7mi)
1994 Northridge Magnitude 6.7 Depth 18.20km (11.31mi )
1999 Hector Mine magnitude 7.1 Depth 20km (12 mi)
So in my opinion, that swarm is unrelated to the San Andreas.
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Are these 2 conflicting theories? Or does nobody know what they are talking about?
Well, these are my completely layman's ideas:
I think it depends where those quakes are and where you're looking for stress. Some fault areas constantly move, so stress never builds up in those places. OTOH if the fault is locked up on either side of that movement along the fault (upstream/ downstream of a freely sliding section), then the stress is offloaded where the movement is, but transferred to where it's locked up.
I think of an area where there are many faults braiding around like an ice pack. If they're locked together, nothing moves. But when one or two start bobbing around, all of the sudden there's room for the rest to move, too.
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I'm trying to learn a bunch of landscaping things all at the same time. One thing I found out is that field-grown plants are better than container-grown or bare-root. Their roots radiate out rather than circle around, and when they're cut out of the field with a large plug of dirt, those cut root tips are aimed to grown directly into the site dirt. For some reason, they also seem to be sturdier - maybe because they've been swaying in the breezes.
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Quote:I've had similar issues.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Family is making progress in fits and starts. We pounded nails out of an old bookshelf that we're going to keep, took the old furniture out of the back bedroom where we had been painting and put it into the den that we had just cleared. Dear daughter and I need to clean the paint spots off the floor, and the room will be ready for our furniture.
I need to measure the old metal bedframe and see if it fits dear daughter's mattress. If it does, and the box springs also fit, then her bed will be ready to set up once we paint her room. (She envisions a very complicated five-color scheme, in stripes no less. It'll be an interesting paint job!)
But in the middle of fixing dinner the kitchen sink stopped up completely. It wasn't in the P-trap or anywhere near the cleanout, but far down the pipe where somebody had kludged a part of the waste line that doubled back on itself, making snaking it out totally impossible. So the sink is still mostly stopped up, and we're looking at replacing about 12' of waste line to join up smoothly with the main waste line. We've known for years that there was something hinky about that connection, I've never used the disposal to actually dispose of anything, just to chop up the bits and pieces from dishwashing (and I scrape my dishes thoroughly before washing.) because it's a complete pain in the ass to snake. Apparently the pipe is corroded because it doesn't drain completely - not so much of an issue because waste lines aren't pressurized - but the corrosion has formed bosses and lumps that trap waste and grow muck, which is why it stopped up.
My prior homeowners were apparently a lot of hispanics - I kept getting their mail, and/or finding their mail scattered around the place. They seemed to do a bunch of things which I am told are common screw-ups for them. They put in a false ceiling in the bathroom, but with no exhaust fan, so it just got insanely muggy.
Now I've been dealing with the kitchen sink drain. They used PVC pipes for the drain. Under the floor (ceiling of the basement), there is about a 20 foot section without support. When I got there, the part which came down from the kitchen was and elbow joint which was about 8 inches lower than the other end of the basement section, where it needs to drain to. To fix that, I had pushed the pipe up through the floor, which made the works under the kitchen sink unlevel, so that the top of that pipe was almost the same height as the drain of the sinks. With the J-pipe in between the drains and that pipe, it made for slow draining. The way it was set up, I just conjured they had set it up right at one point, but some support had just failed or fell. But no, they never had set it up right at all. And I found that the 20 foot section, when it got a bunch of water in it, would just sag from the weight, like about another 6 inches - I have no idea how it ever emptied, other than maybe evaporation or suction from flow.
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Just got a message from my brother's wife on FB. He was hit by a car and is in a local hospital.
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Best wishes for your brother's speed recovery, Brenda.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just got a message from my brother's wife on FB. He was hit by a car and is in a local hospital.
Well, I sure hope it's not too serious! We don't heal as well as we used to, so I sure hope he gets better soon.
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We've decided to have all of the old iron waste pipes replaced with ABS. I took pictures of some of the old pipes after they were removed from under the house (Nobody here has a basement. It's either slab or crawl space. We at least have a crawl space.) I'd say most of the 3" lines were significantly blocked by corrosion; one was almost corroded shut. The main drain was OK, my guess is that the corrosion reduced the diameter about 20% but there was still a lot of drainage left over.
The more we fix up the house, the more we discover whacky thingsabout it. Like, the pipe that started this odyssey - kitchen drain - is actually unreachable: The plumbers found TWO footings under that end of the house about 2' apart, and the pipe is betweem the two.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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