Motor homes and earth quakes.
We are headed for Bakersfield with our 40 ft. Newmar in a few days and they have experienced some strong quakes in that are in the past couple days. Has anyone had any experience with earth quakes?
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Safest place to be in a big quake "IS" your motorhome, to ensure that the unit does not roll the actual parking brake needs to be applied and set, not just the gear lever in park, the parking feature on the transmission is there so that the vehicle does not roll while you engage the brake pedal, it will not hold the vehicle with the rocking motion and will eventually brake, and now you have a motorhome that is maybe only held by the jacks, they might bend.
A motorhome will not flip on its side, quakes are shallow ground waves, some times you can see them on a strech of road, should the jacks be down it feels the same as driving in a wash board, if you are driving and you think there is a quake, pull to the side and ride it out.
Quakes in California are due to fault lines moving laterally and some times vertical "rare" and unless you happen to be parked right on top of the fault when it moves vertical by more than 4 or 5 feet your RV will not flip.
navegator
A motorhome will not flip on its side, quakes are shallow ground waves, some times you can see them on a strech of road, should the jacks be down it feels the same as driving in a wash board, if you are driving and you think there is a quake, pull to the side and ride it out.
Quakes in California are due to fault lines moving laterally and some times vertical "rare" and unless you happen to be parked right on top of the fault when it moves vertical by more than 4 or 5 feet your RV will not flip.
navegator
