Posted on 09/13/2022 8:58:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The quake hit at 6:39 p.m. about 1.86 miles north of Santa Rosa, USGS said. It struck at a depth of about 4.6 miles.
The Santa Rosa Fire Department said it was responding to multiple reports of gas odors, gas leaks and stuck elevators.
There are no immediate reports of injuries.
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Hope the Charles Schultz museum there is ok.
East Bay has been a little active the past couple of days.
I would hope so. Slam your front door hard. It’s likely to have about the same impact
Here we go...They just had a small one in the SF area the other day.
I recall in S. CA, it seemed the earthquakes came in a series or swarm over several years then subside again.
4.4 - that’s nothing!
I lived thru couple a lot larger earthquakes and I know people who pooh-pooh even my experience.
Loma Prieta, 1989.
Surprised I didn’t feel it down in east SF Bay Area.
Yes,
and even that was kind of small, a friend on mine lived through the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile. 9.4-9.6 magnitude. If I am right that would be about 100,000 times larger the Santa Rosa one.
He ran out of his house and watched the road.
There were like 3ft waves running on the road.
It was amazing!
I was visiting the bay area and experienced a 4.4 magnitude...
It was enough to shake the bed and wake me up in the middle of the night. I also noticed a crack in the plaster wall afterwards.
I thought the museum burned to the ground when a fire burned out a lot of Santa Rosa a few years ago, but I looked it up, and I was wrong. The house Schultz lived in burned, but the museum was OK. A 4.4 wouldn’t do much damage anyway.
Coalinga quake. Saw the same thing. Watched 80 acres of alfalfa wave like the ocean. I got seasick on land.
I was there for Loma Prieta. But when I first moved to San Francisco in 1968 a book came out called the Late Great State of California and it was saying that the big one would come at 3 PM on a Friday. I used to believe it.
It depends a lot about the type of buildings.
In very earthquake prone regions like California, Japan or Chile the buildings are constructed with earthquakes in mind.
Then even mag 6 is more-less OK
In places like Europe or Middle East the same earthquake is devastating. But 4.4 would not do too much damage even there.
Mag 7, 8 or 9 is bad everywhere!
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