Posted on 12/29/2015 5:49:39 PM PST by DAC21
Felt in Huntington Beach, more like a jolt.
Devore sits right on the San Andreas, yikes!
That was interesting. Once.
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Earthquake map by the USGS.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
It shows the most recent ones and where they were located.
Larger earthquakes didn’t bother me when I lived in CA. Most of the time I couldn’t feel 4-4.5.
We had a couple of small ones up here on the far north coast this morning. They said the larger one was 4.8. We never felt a thing but we are over due for the “Big One”
Humboldt Bay has had some Rip Snorters since i moved here in 1954. Before that I was initiated by the great Tehachapi quake of 1952
Correct. 4.3 near Devore near the Mojave and Ontario freeways. Big enough for locals but too far to be felt in Ventura county 100 miles away.
I like how KNX 1070 radio opens the phones after an earthquake so that people can tell their cool stories. “I was having home made pizza and felt a five to second rumbler... The curtains moved a little bit.”
That’s gud news.
USGS now reports two aftershocks, 3.2 and 2.7.
They are reporting the initial shock as 4.4- that one rocked my house pretty good but I didn’t notice the aftershocks at all. I figure I’m about 40 miles away.
“Larger earthquakes didn’t bother me when I lived in CA.”
I take it that you weren’t here for Northridge and Sylmar. I guarantee that those two would have gotten your attention.
You’re correct. A) I wasn’t born yet for either and B) I lived in the Bay Area. ;)
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I went to In - N - Out Berger in Northridge last month and sat down. Started talking with the married couple sitting next to me. Then we ended up talking about the 1994 Northridge earthquake for a half hour. That was a frightening 6.7 quake that woke up a ton of people at 4:30 am.
I thought that earthquakes were no big deal until I went through those two. Now when the house shakes I always wonder if this is going to be the one that knocks the whole place down.
Sylmar was another 6.7 quake. Scared the hell out of me and I was 50 miles away. I knew of someone in the Fullerton hills who had a swimming pool, and that quake tossed the water out of the pool and it went straight through their sliding glass door and into the house. Anyone in its path would have been cut to ribbons. A one house tsunami armed with shards of glass. They filled in the pool.
To be sure, I haven’t experienced any of the really “big ones”. I have felt 6.0+ ones, though. Everyone in the Bay Area always talks about the Loma Prieta earthquake in ‘89. I thank God I haven’t had to endure anything like that.
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“Then we ended up talking about the 1994 Northridge earthquake for a half hour.”
A show I used to watch as a kid made a song about that earthquake, so I know a little bit about it. Thank heavens I haven’t been in one that large. I do not envy you one little bit.
Yes, the Sylmar earthquake was the San Fernando quake in 1971. My uncle and aunt’s house in Pasadena was damaged. The Golden State and Antelope Valley freeway interchange collapsed. Rough having a sliding glass door broken in Fullerton.
We have just had a 4.9 earthquake in southwestern B.C. that was felt all over the province and I would imagine also in parts of WA state. At my place (an apartment building) there was just a crash that sounded like the upstairs tenants had dropped a heavy object on our ceiling. We were not sure it was an earthquake but now it’s on the local news, the epicentre was apparently between Victoria and Vancouver near the city of Saanich, B.C. on Vancouver Island. Other reports speak about several seconds of shaking but all we had was the big thump.
You have to wonder after the so-Cal reports and now this, is something bigger about to rip? Stay safe.
“Rough having a sliding glass door broken in Fullerton.”
If it had just been the slider breaking it wouldn’t have been a big deal. It was how the slider broke that got their attention- the great mass of water that used to be in swimming pool, which tore through the slider and demolished everything in its wake. Their daughter had just been in the kitchen a few minutes before the quake hit and if she had still been by the door she would have been a goner even though they were 50 miles from the epicenter. It gives you a whole new appreciation for how powerful these big quakes can be.
“I have felt 6.0+ ones, though”
That’s big enough in my book. I’ve had much smaller ones knock bookshelves down. Turns out that I’m not far from the Whittier Fault so when that one shakes I really feel it. The bad news is that USGS thinks it’s capable of a 7.0 quake. I’d prefer a series of much smaller ones to reduce the stress, thank you very much.
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