Posted on 12/29/2004 7:19:48 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked
A 3.6 earthquake rattled the Central Sierras at 5:37 P.M. It was centered 17 miles ENE of North Fork CA. The quake rattles nerves more than anything else.
I gotta get a T-Shirt........
Matthew 24:36
I still have mine.....Patriots 32:29
This one was just a very short jolt - not a rolling slightly longer one that Long Valley ones. The magnitude was smaller than I thought it would be, probably because we were closer to the epicenter this time. We are at Shaver Lake.
Is it snowing?
There's definitely something cooking out there.
The entire mountain range is volcanic in nature. The mountains are granite which is nothing more than magma that cooled slowly below ground. They are continually being pushed up by new magma. Truly beautiful mountains and exploring lava tubes is great fun.
USA map,a few in just the last hour in California.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
I'm " ready, packed and waiting " and believe me, I take every word of the Bible seriously!!!!! Actually I can't wait!!!!!!!I pray for those who think this is one big joke.
The only reason that I felt that this was newsworthy was due to the fact that it is in an area that isn't known for earthquake activity.
No connection what so ever. The storm has been tracked for multiple days and the dynamics and driving forces are so remotely separated from a seismically induced tsunami that they cannot be linked.
a 3.6 that is 25 miles away from Mammoth Mtn and you are calling it a seismically quiet area? First 25 miles isn't squat geologically for influences. Secondly, what time frame are we looking at? I suspect that there have been more quakes in the area than you are aware of.
And from where are you getting that information? The USGS site show NO earthquakes for the past week in N. Nevada.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
**what else could it be?**
They will blame it on Bush1
I was basing my information on the USGS map showing a open area without any major fault lines crisscrossing it. I consider SF, LA, Parkfield, and El Centro areas that have significant fault lines to be major earthquake zones. We do feel earthquakes in our area, but as far as California is concerned we live in a safe zone.
If you want to following the San Andreas fault in the SJ/ SF area, take a aerial photograph, find the hospitals, then connect the hosptials by a marker. You will have almost the exact location of the San Andreas.
Off and on all day. Looks like maybe a foot outside.
There are an abundant number of smaller, minor fault zones throughout the Sierras. Very low probability of a major quake in that area, you are correct. Fault movement in the Sierra largely vertical, block faulting. However, you are not totally out of the woods. If Mammoth mtn/long valley suddenedly act up (there would be some precursors) or the transverse fault zone (Mohave) act up, you could catch spill over.
Lets all be done with it and just by beach front property in Arizona.
Not to mention the volcano growing in Mammoth Mountain by Twin Lakes.
Earthquakes, Tidalwaves, cats and dogs living together......
California hasn't had a tidal wave since 1964.
It's not the end of the world, Armageddon isn't here. I will tell you that it was a heck of a scare.I live in Coarsegold, about 10 minutes from Northfork. I've always thought that when Al Queda would nuke Los Angeles, I'd feel something like that.
I live in Coarsegold, about 10 minutes from Northfork. I've always thought that when Al Queda would nuke Los Angeles, I'd feel something like that.
I also thought Mammoth had finally popped it's top. It was unlike any earthquake I had felt before.
Frankly my initial thought was that an explosion occurred somewhere near, so like a dummy I went to the windows in my second floor den to see the lights.
To no avail, I didn't see anything. Does anyone out there know what plate that earthquake was on, the local news isn't covering the earthquake much, since there isn't any real damage to speak of other than a few rocks rolling off of hillsides
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