Posted on 03/04/2009 3:24:04 PM PST by TaraP
SANTA ANA (CBS) ― Click to enlarge A shake and some rattled nerves. What was it? Who knows. The investigation continues. AP
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numSlides of totalImages As mysteries go, it might not rank up there with "What happened to Amelia Earhart?" or "Did Oswald act alone?" but a strange rattling, shaking, and quaking got people in Orange County all shook up yesterday evening...and we can tell you this much, it wasn't an Elvis sighting either.
We are used to earthquakes in the Southland, but this was no quake either! Or a sonic boom.
We are used to earthquakes in the Southland, but this was no quake either! Or a sonic boom.
Yikes! What was it?
Well, uh, we still don't know.
Dave Lopez was on the scene to investigate what made the Earth move yesterday under his feet and everyone's else's -- around 9:15 p.m.
Windows shook, nerves were rattled, dogs barked and everyone thought, maybe, we were getting ready for the big one. More than 70 calls were logged into 911 by frightened folks thinking someone was breaking into their homes.
Experts still don't know what caused the shake and the shimmy.
At least, and this is the good thing, the sky did not come tumbling down.
GOD is not happy with Prop 8!
Hope we do not have it overturned by the Gaystapo
Lava moving to the surface. Tommy Lee Jones showed me all about it in that documentary “Volcano”. If I were you, I’d run!
some kind of “big movement” in O.C.CA
BIZARRE: The USGS reported a 2.2 quake at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday that supposedly shook much of Orange County. But we didn't receive any calls or emails then. The emails didn't start until 9:15 p.m. tonight, almost 12 hours later -- even though much of tonight's shaking came from areas depicted in this map. Seismologist Bob Dollar called the situation "mysterious."
Man-made Global Shaking.......now where’s my Nobel Prize?
What evidence suggests it was not an earthquake?
Reports of a loud BOOM
“Hundreds of residents across Orange County say they felt an eerie earthquake-like shaking at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday that mostly moved doors and windows but not the rest of their homes. Some people — especially in south county — also reported hearing a loud boom. Many readers say they were alarmed because they thought someone was trying to break into their homes, especially since there seemed to be a second ”rattling” moments later.
The source of the shaking isn’t known. There was no space shuttle landing Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base. Camp Pendleton had some high explosive activities scheduled. However, a base official who lives in San Clemente said he didn’t feel anything, and live fire exercises are rarely heard or felt beyond southern-most Orange County. He also said he wasn’t sure whether he could come up with a quick answer on Wednesday about whether the Marines were setting off explosives when the event occurred.
The newspapers in Oceanside and San Diego, which heavily cover the military, haven’t reported similar shaking in their service areas.
The National Weather Service says the air was calm Tuesday, with no down bursts.
And Bob Dollar, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, told me at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday, “We did not record any earthquake tonight that could have caused this kind of shaking around Orange County.””
USGS
I wonder if it was an “extremely shallow earthquake”, that behaves like a surface effect?
That is, earthquakes are typically like tsunami in water. If you are out at sea, there is just a wide, ordinary wave, because most of it is under water, and stays there until it hits shallows, when it turns into a tidal wave.
However if you just tap the surface of the water, most of the wave stays on the surface.
“Experts still don’t know what caused the shake and the shimmy.”
It was just millions of dollars in home equity disappearing.
ALTHOUGH..
4th small quake this week twitches north O.C.
March 3rd, 2009, 7:17 am
A magnitude 1.9 microquake occurred at 5:47 a.m. six miles north-northeast of Yorba Linda. It was the fourth small quake to occur this week in and near northeastern Orange County, on a rough line from the Chino Hills to the northern edge of the Santa Ana Mountains, the U.S Geological Survey says. All of the quakes occurred in the vicinity of the Elsinore fault, although the specific cause of each event hasn’t been determined, and today’s quake was closer to the Yorba Linda trend zone that produced that July’s 5.4 quake. A series of small quakes can be “pre-shocks” to a larger event. But last July’s quake probably released too much stress to allow for another significant quake in the same area. And scientists simply do not known when a little cluster of small quakes will result in something bigger.
Today’s quake occurred near the Western Hills Golf Course, almost at the same spot that a small quake occurred last week
http://sciencedude.freedomblogging.com/2009/03/03/4th-small-quake-this-week-twitches-north-oc/20659/
Holy crap! The Chinese tunneled through the earth to invade us by surprise! 8-)
I was sitting here at the computer last night and notice the windows started rattling. I did not feel any earth movement or hear any unusaual sounds. I fugured it was an earthquake centered quite a distance away.
I live in Maryland. About 2:00 this afternoon my house shook, the windows and doors rattled for a few seconds. I haven’t a clue what caused it.
NASA / ARCADE / Roen Kelly A mysterious screen of extra-loud radio noise permeates the cosmos, preventing astronomers from observing heat from the first stars. The balloon-borne ARCADE instrument discovered this cosmic static (white band, top) on its July 2006 flight. The noise is six times louder than expected. Astronomers have no idea why one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected. The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it.
According to NASA, “the source of this cosmic radio background remains a mystery”. It’s not primordial stars, it’s not any known radio source, and in fact, the problem here is that there is “not enough radio galaxies to account for the signal”. In other words, nothing in the known cosmos is capable of producing this deafening sound. University of Maryland at College Park’s Dale Fixsen—part of NASA’s ARCADE team— says, that to get this kind of signal, “you’d have to pack [radio galaxies] into the universe like sardines. There wouldn’t be any space left between one galaxy and the next”. So in more scientific terms: They don’t have a flying frak about what the hell this may be.
At 9:18AM a quake registered 2.0 in the Los Altos hills, which don’t get too many quakes because they’re on bedrock. basically.
The Standford University particle accelerator is in that area.
for entertainment purposes
Any ideas?
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