Posted on 07/23/2006 9:00:22 AM PDT by TheDon
I'm in Mission Viejo, CA, and it was one large jolt!
Any idea of the magnitude?
It just happened. I'm trying to get more info.
3.6 is considered minor.
3.6 :P A truck does more going by my house than that :)
13 km ( 8 mi) SSE of El Cerrito, CA
Mag: 3.6
Anaheim Hills here. Its been raining real hard with thunder and lightning for about an hour now. We also felt the quake. Funny, my wife mentioned yesterday that we could expect an earthquake if we had a thunderstorm.
Earthquakes and thunderstorms have absolutely nothing to do with one another. Just for the record :)
Depth: 2.8 km (1.7 miles)
It was about 10 miles from Mission Viejo, CA. That's why it felt so big.
I'm glad it was close! That means it wasn't so bad. Hopefully, no one was hurt.
"Thursday's "big event" was a catastrophic, 8.0 magnitude earthquake that cut area highways and crippled the city, leaving countless scores stranded, hungry and unruly. Electricity, natural gas and water lines were all assumed inoperable. "
How about some winning lottery numbers?! :^)
(disclaimer by somebody else to follow.)
Stage right enters the "end times people" to tell us about wars and rumors of wars - then earthquakes.
Stage exit left...
MAP 2.0 2006/07/23 16:04:00 33.728 -117.490 7.2 13 km ( 8 mi) SSE of El Cerrito, CA
There has already been a 2.0 magnituted after shock. I didn't feel it at all.
For years seismologist were puzzled by sudden, random and unexplained 'squiggles' on their charts. A couple years ago it was determined that the 'squiggles' were tornados that had touched down. So...
lol well that isn't an earthquake :) heh
2.0 is like a water truck hitting a bump in the road three miles away. It's down in the range of traffic noise.
Never heard of El Cerrito, CA , (neither has Google maps), and I'm maybe 15-20 miles away.
And it didn't even ripple in downtown Seattle. Oh well, maybe next time.
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