Posted on 08/07/2009 4:35:14 AM PDT by Global2010
Just hit withen the hour close to shore off of the Northern tip of Cali.
However it is in line (tell me if I am wrong) with the fault lines from the Baja quakes.
Please report any felt action.
If this vanity EQ report is useless please report it to be deleted.
I will add links to the area/maps.
Off of.
Magnitude 4.9 - OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Address:http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71261376.php Changed:4:24 AM on Friday, August 7, 2009
PING!!
Not sure how close this is to you.
Map Centered at 42°N, 125°W
Address:http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/37.47.-130.-120.php Changed:4:04 AM on Friday, August 7, 2009
Hey mad as heck it has just warmed my heart to see some old time Freepers showing up lately.
I almost lost hope in the infiltration of the changey posters..
Just coming off swing and close to hitting the hay.
God Bless.
Yall just keep dem darn quakes down under the Oregon State line hear me boy. ( tired smile)
Be safe!
Is tubebender around Grampa Dave?
Lord let this just be a fart in the ocean volcanics.
Hey guess what our Port here in Oregon just got the NOAA official site to set up camp.
350 million dollars to build it.
But hey are fishermen have all had to give up their trade and be re educated so now they will have jobs../sarc
Don’t know. I believe tubebender is near Eureka.
After I pinged him, I realized that if he was near enough, he didn’t need me to ping him about an EQ!!
Stay safe
I Know 4.9 is just a pebble in the pond.
But that close to shore it would be felt.
I live up the coast.
If the quake is 100 miles of shore noli perturbati
But 20 miles offshore it is a darn I am on the toilet and the house just rolled and then jolted feeling.
No worries. Just keep your jumping beans down in baja/cali
We are on the tsunami route the nice/funny thing is the only space along our rim that is safe from the wave effect happens to be the piece of land we live on and we are 17 ft above sea level.
But I love my nieghbors too, so they know where higher ground is.
Just bring the Ale/Soda and generator and I can provide the food buffet.
Wow, west coast/Pacific ocean is getting hit a good bit. Could just be some shifting.
Wait until it stops shaking before you type your headline. I was struggling to make that headline make sense.
Don’t sweat it, most of us have done it before.
Hey Long prior day, and just coming off night shift.
Nighty Nite.
Consider my vanity a jinx and no more shakin goin on.
Have a nice day.
Praying for an earthly Toot not a whole bowel movement.
Thanks tubebender and my head nod to Grampa Dave.
The area you speak of is correct...
And speaking as a hobbiest..it is connected to the Cascadia.
Hence my post keep it to the south.
We do not want to wake up Juan De Flukey dude.
If ya know what I mean.
Heck when I go visit those big city vermin over the range I do Love the Architectual design.
I love the peace of the coast, but the beauty of the old buildings (like San Fransico use to have) is breath taking.
It is art. (no I dont get out much)
Hang on to your hat, you might be in for a ride this weekend.
Not unusual.
The large quakes in Baja were much rarer events.
Note there is a large difference between California coastal (San Andreas) quakes (slip quakes, where the plates are moving sideways to each other) versus quakes in the Northwest Cascadia zone (subduction quakes, where the Juan De Fuca plate is diving below the North American plate).
Plates slide by each other at a known rate. Thus, there is much more predictability to quakes.
Both types of zones can produce large quakes, but subduction is by far more potentially serious. The quake a few years back in Sumatra was a subduction event.
Scientists wondered for years about a scenario called “minutes of terror” versus “decades of terror”. The question was “Does a subduction event usually happen all along the fault all at once, or does it give a little here, then a few years later a little there, then maybe a slightly larger moderate event?”
So they went into vast chasms that exist offshore and did core samples of the bottom. When a quake happens, various materials will fall down into the chasm from the sides, and stuff is shaken loose from farther up. These sediments are very distinct from normal deposits.
And they analyzed them from all along the Juan De Fuca plate, the Cascadia zone AND....
tick... tick... tick...
the results were that small quakes can occur along the plate boundaries BUT these are insignificant in the big picture.
When it goes, it goes all at once. Last time was 1599 and there were tidal waves recorded in Japan. Remember, if the sea floor raises or lowers by just a couple feet, thousands of cubic miles of ocean is displaced!
So I would not say we are overdue in the Pacific Northwest. But IF it goes, it would amount to a 9.0+ stretching from about the northern tip of Vancouver island down almost to the Sacramento neck of the woods.
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