Re: shakin!

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., dave engvall <dengvall@e...> wrote:

> LtCdr ChonBey vestai-Qul wrote:It wasn't too bad here, despite how

close we are to the epicenter.

> I may be way off base but that epicenter was 52 km deep....ie if the

wave radiates...in a spherical fashion...then where you are

> would give a 45 component...or steeper....ie. a lot of up-down

movement rather than horizontal. This may put more members in

> structures in compression which they probably survive better.....
> This is just thinkin....could be all wet.

Olympia got hit hard, though, seems to me they are about the same
distance away. My understanding is that Seattle and Olympia got hit
harder because a lot of them are built on old mud/ash flows, and
Tacoma is on mostly bedrock.

I suppose we've been OT enough now...

Steve Greenfield