EarthQuake Weather In California!!!!

I'm so terrified of earthquakes, but I never lived in an area where they are going on at. Thank goodness for that. We live in Florida the hurricane state but I only been living here 2 years and in that time period we had no real problems with the actual hurricane coming our way. Yes we got several cool breezes and a little rain from it but nothing to be frighten over.

Where I live, so far we have had very minor earthquakes. Hardly worth mentioning. However we have had lots of snowstorms where the city was paralyzed for a few days and a couple of very heavy rainfalls with much flooding. And then there was the infamous Ice Storm of January 1998! In freezing weather we had to survive without electric power for days. A sad consequence for my wife (now divorced) at that time was that she miscarried a 3 month baby. Further down you can read a bit about this ice storm. Of course we must remember that Jesus foretold disasters for mankind in the gospels and great earthquakes was one of them. The good thing is that they portent better things after. Ice Storm "“THE worst natural disaster in the nation’s history.” That is what The Toronto Star called this January’s ice storm that ravaged the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. In the United States, President Bill Clinton declared Maine and New Hampshire as well as sections of Vermont and upstate New York disaster areas. Some 35 deaths were attributed to the storm, which involved up to five days of freezing rain. Such rain usually lasts for only a few hours, but on this occasion a warm upper layer of air remained stationary over a cold air mass. So when the rain hit a surface, it instantly froze. This built up layers of ice two and three inches thick. Under the weight of the ice, many trees, power lines, utility poles, and transmission towers collapsed, often with frightening consequences. In Quebec, hundreds of huge steel transmission towers toppled as if they were made of tinfoil. One anxious commuter related: “I saw a [tower] in front of me twist like it was plastic. It twisted in two, then became a ball, and crumbled. The lines were all over the highway. After the first one fell, three others behind it collapsed.” Ice accumulation brought down more than 74,000 miles [more than 120,000 kilometers] of power lines, enough to encircle the earth three times! In Canada, three to four million people were without power and heat, some for three weeks and longer."

I have an Aunt & Uncle that live out that way. We email back and forth everyday, he likes to tease me about the weather. We have been having a doozy of a winter so far. Really cold and really snowy. Other times of the year we can get some bad thunder and lightning storms. We also sometimes have the threat of tornados. We have even had a few minor earthquakes, thats really unusual for us but not unheard of.

I have never understood the 'Earthquake Weather' thing, though I've heard a lot of people talk about it. The point is that earthquakes in California usually happen several kilometers below the surface and are generated by the inexorable movement of the continental plates many miles down. I can't see how there could be any way that an impending earthquake would affect the weather or vice versa. I really wonder if we do have senses, like many animals do, that detect something that we can neither see or feel - perhaps tiny, tiny movements or electrical potential or something like that - that tells us that the rocks are about to slip. I just looked it up on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_weather and, as I thought, geologists say there can be no connection, yet there's a long, long history of real people saying that they obviously feel something! David Lance Goines says it rather nicely: http://www.goines.net/Writing/earthquake_weather.html

Ice storms can be pretty bad here although we haven't had anything too severe here this year. People, of course, can always be victims of extreme cold in the north. This especially affects the poor and elderly. In the summer we have tornadoes in my state. When I was four, we lost part of our garage to one. Their path of destruction is a lot more isolated than an earthquake however.

We are so lucky in England we don't get many disasters thank goodness although certain places tend to flood more than they used to.They say it is down to global warming but we tend to think it is because they build on flood plains and concrete all over the grass and there is no place for the water to drain away although we do get more rain than previous years and not so much sunshine to dry the land out.It is very confusing when the weather changes so quick you never know what to wear.One minute your hot and taking something off then you are wearing a coat again.

We do not have many natural disasters where we are except an occasional earthquake. You have more earthquakes them we do.

Hi Rozie dear! We usually experience a lot of disasters here in my country. we usually have floodings and landslides brought about by the typhoons and storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruption (volcanic eruption) and hopefully we won't have tsunamis although it s possible. Take care and have a safe day! lovelots..faith210

I have thought this for years and it is usually true....really hot, then turns cold and surprise... earthquake! Today, Thursday at 12:43pm just after noon, (or was it 11:43am - not sure, I noticed it on the news as I wasn't home then so I didn't feel it) but within that time frame ... there was a (about) a 3.0 in Reseda, CA... in southern california near LA. SO, yes, I do believe weather has something to do with it.. especially since I live on the San Andreas Fault line and most that happen in SO CA are not far from it!

I never knew that the weather changed before an earthquake! I do hope you don't have one! I lived in CA for about 3 years when I was in the Air Force -- back in the late 70s. I was in central CA -- Merced/Atwater, very small towns. I liked it fine, except the "Spring" there lasted only about 2 weeks! And then everything turned brown and dried up from the heat and no rain! But the earthquakes! I could never live there. I was in two tiny earthquakes while I was there, and I mean super tiny earthquakes, where at first you are wondering what is going on. It was terrifying!! I could never live in CA because of the near certainty of being in a real eartquake! Tornadoes scare me too. Both seem to give little to no warning. I live in North Carolina now, and it's not too cold in the winter, and we get some threat from hurricanes sometimes, even tho we're not on the shore -- the hurricane would have to be very powerful even after hitting land to really harass us much. I've only been here about 1.5 yrs, so not sure of the tornado possibilities, but I know we've had some watches and warnings -- but nothing like they have in the midwest. I'd rather stay on the East Coast myself, even tho a natural disaster could happen any time, any place. Hurricanes, tho Katrina taught us just how devastating they can be, are the least worry because you can know in advances, esp nowadays, and you can LEAVE.