did you have a tank go thru the '94 earthquake?

[Reefski's]

how close to the epicenter were you? what happened to your tank? have you made any changes as a result?

do tanks move on the stand?

should i use flexible pvc to plumb the over flows to my sump and closed loops?

Carl

 

[golfish]

Re: did you have a tank go thru the '94 earthquake?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7838007#post7838007 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by carloskoi
how close to the epicenter were you? what happened to your tank? have you made any changes as a result?

do tanks move on the stand?

should i use flexible pvc to plumb the over flows to my sump and closed loops?

Carl

1) About 20 miles from the Northridge quake and 5 miles from the Whittier Narrows quake.

2) Lost about 10 gals of water during the NR quake and about 20 gals during the WN quake, the tank moved about 2-3 inches druing the WN quake (70 gal tank)

3) No changes made.

4) They can.

5) what ever floats your boat. I doubt a quake will have effect of hard PVC...I use both on my system.

 

[Reefski's]

so nothing broke? did you have to completely empty your tank to move it bacK?

Carl

 

[golfish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7838409#post7838409 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by carloskoi
so nothing broke? did you have to completely empty your tank to move it bacK?

Carl

1) Nothing that has to do with the tank.

2) Yup, had to drain most of the water.

 

[xtm]

It's a less known fact that the Epicenter of the quake was in Reseda and not Northridge... at the end of Elkwood St. I live w/ my parents at the time in Saticoy - Elkwood is walking distance from our house so I can pretty much say that I was in THE epicenter when it happened.

I had a 30 gal freshwater mollies/guppies at the time.. other than water spills on the floor, nothing else got damaged. The tank used to sit on top of an old furniture. If I had the setup I have today, it would've been a different story.