A major mining operation is taking place starting now in California under the Salton Sea, California's largest lake bed, which contains $540 billion dollars in lithium.
earthquake insurance is probably a bargain right now since we haven’t had a big one in a while.
also be sure your house frame is bolted to your foundation (house next door to me had substantial damage in a relatively minor quake due to split level design and inadequate support of second level.)
🙏❤️ our house isn't and we still haven't gotten earthquake insurance but plan to this week.
There are lots of scams with foundation repairs and retrofitting. Years back we had someone come out and they quoted us an insane amount of money (many times more than what is normal for our area) and their methods, while they seemed good, were not when we looked them up online. They would have been worthless in an earthquake. This is common according to people who do retrofitting the correct way.
I don’t doubt the scammers, I wish I had gotten the name of the outfit that fixed my neighbor’s house because they did a really good job (probably better than code) but they had to break stucco because there was no crawl space.
the other weak point seems to be fireplaces falling off, in one instance a neighbor’s kid was sleeping on the sofa and the top of the fireplace collapsed into the roof and landed inches away from the kid and another one just collapsed into rubble in the front yard.
also good to know how to turn off the gas, not sure if regular homeowners insurance would cover a fire that resulted from an earthquake.
Edited addition to my original post:
Further reading, plans to fill salton sea with water
Cloud seeding:
Cloud seeding pilot program
The Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA) is conducting a four-year cloud seeding pilot program to increase water supply. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://sawpa.gov/santa-ana-river-watershed-cloud-seeding/%23:~:text%3DCloud%2520seeding%2520is%2520a%2520type,special%2520arrangement%2520needed%2520to%2520freeze.&ved=2ahUKEwigtMSgp7KJAxUAjIkEHV6RHvoQzsoNegQIBBAL&usg=AOvVaw1F69IUz6SL2w4I0blISEj1
Their youtube presentation video:
https://youtu.be/y6duR7TdfUw?si=WwgZix6AzqEBqfpb
Using nearby lake:
https://www.deseret.com/2024/2/17/24075024/artificial-wetlands-salton-sea-great-salt-lake/
earthquake insurance is probably a bargain right now since we haven’t had a big one in a while.
also be sure your house frame is bolted to your foundation (house next door to me had substantial damage in a relatively minor quake due to split level design and inadequate support of second level.)
🙏❤️ our house isn't and we still haven't gotten earthquake insurance but plan to this week.
There are lots of scams with foundation repairs and retrofitting. Years back we had someone come out and they quoted us an insane amount of money (many times more than what is normal for our area) and their methods, while they seemed good, were not when we looked them up online. They would have been worthless in an earthquake. This is common according to people who do retrofitting the correct way.
I don’t doubt the scammers, I wish I had gotten the name of the outfit that fixed my neighbor’s house because they did a really good job (probably better than code) but they had to break stucco because there was no crawl space.
the other weak point seems to be fireplaces falling off, in one instance a neighbor’s kid was sleeping on the sofa and the top of the fireplace collapsed into the roof and landed inches away from the kid and another one just collapsed into rubble in the front yard.
also good to know how to turn off the gas, not sure if regular homeowners insurance would cover a fire that resulted from an earthquake.