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LastLiberal in PalmSprings

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6. We live about 15 miles from the southern end of the San Andreas Fault

Thu May 5, 2016, 05:03 AM

May 2016

We drive across it whenever we drive "down the hill" to the Palm Springs area (we live in the desert).

In 1992 we got hit by a 7.1 quake from a non-San Andreas related fault line. It bounced us around quite a bit, and there were aftershocks for the next week or so, but it's nothing like what's in store when the Big One hits.

Hopefully we will have left Southern California by then.

BTW, we had one small (1.8 magnitude) quake about eight years ago whose epicenter was about 2,000 feet from our house. It felt like the house had been lifted straight up 4 or 5 inches and then dropped. Strange.

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