CDS survives major earthquake

Posted by: Chris Bell on 28 February 2001

Hello all,

If you have followed the news today we had a 7.0 earthquake in Seattle and my CDS played through it without any skipping! Needless to say I didn't stay inside long to listen and the whole experience scared the shit out of me.

I wish I my system could take credit for the quake, but I was listening to Bach at the time and he tends not to use too much low bass in his music.

All things considered, Seattle faired pretty well.

Chris Bell, Seattleÿ

Posted on: 28 February 2001 by Edwin

We felt it too up here in Vancouver. I hope my kits not all over the floor in pieces.

Any damage to buildings down there?

Posted on: 28 February 2001 by dave simpson

I was thinking about you guys on the ride home from work tonight. Sounds like everyone is OK.

Jim Levitt... check-in dude.

regards,

dave

Posted on: 28 February 2001 by Top Cat

Chris, glad you're okay, but one little question popped to mind:

If you didn't stay in the room during the earthquake, how do you know the CDS didn't skip?

Just one of those Thursday-morning-second-coffee-of-the-day wee questions that sometimes pop to the fore...

John

Posted on: 02 March 2001 by jimlevitt

Hi Dave, and all the rest:

Yeah, we were rockin' and rollin' for a minute there. Chris was at home, as he's reported. I was driving, thought I'd blown a tire for a minute there. No damage at home, but the Boeing building I work in has been closed for two days now

Pioneer Square did indeed get hit the hardest of all the areas in the city: the builidings are brick, not where you want to be in an earthquake. There'd been two night of riots (police, tear gas, the whole works) down there the previous two nights for Mardi Gras - yeah, a likely excuse for idiocy this far from N'Awlins - so that lovely part of the city has been hurting.

This quake sounds a lot worse than it really was. It was a 6.8 on the Richter scale, which is pretty big. But it was 35 miles away from Seattle, and 30 miles deep. Some day Seattle will suffer the "Big One," which will come on the fault that runs right under the city, and is likely to be much shallower. If it happens in our lifetimes, I doubt you'll see us reporting that our CDS2s didn't skip...

I yanked all my equipment off my four-tier phase four Mana rack just to check: the shelves still rang, so I guess it came through the rolling OK too. Now I've got equipment sprawled all over my living room again.

Thanks for checking up on us in the upper left corner.

Jim

Posted on: 02 March 2001 by Rico

Hmm, I hope you're all ok, and restoration of essential services is completed asap.

Aside from your comments of egress above Chris, of I noticed reports on the news last night of people running outside in the earthquake too - this really puzzles me. In NZ we're taught to get under a desk, table, or doorway... much safer than running outside to catch falling masonary! They tend to support reasonably large weights for some time and act as a sort of 'survival shelter'. I worked with a Canadian guy in Mexico, who used to race upstairs on to the roof of our building (our office was on the 13ths floor, top-most) during the large earthquakes which shook Mexico City in 1995/96 (you might remember - the ones the seizmologists said were totally unrelated to the French nuclear testing in the pacific - the ones that stopped as soon as the testing was completed)... I asked him what he intended to do up there: surf the building down to the street?

But I digress.... 'pleased to hear your CDS-1 tracks through a seven-point-zero; 'bet you don't find that on any test disks!

Rico - all your base are belong to us.