URGENT -- MAGNITUDE 6.5 QUAKE HITS WEST OF FERNDALE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

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[VRWCTexan]

URGENT -- MAGNITUDE 6.5 QUAKE HITS WEST OF FERNDALE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

[B Knotts]

No. They were in San Francisco.

[WestCoastGal]

Will do - also I don’t think you have to run hot water - just water so pipes don’t freeze, someone correct me if I’m wrong

[mupcat]

Yet it was felt up in Roseburg Oregon which is not a coastal town.

I know, strange although I was off a tad on the mileage between us and Ferndale---more like 70 I understand.

[WestCoastGal]

Even more fun was one of the six I experienced which was middle of the night = asleep in bed. The electricity went off almost immediately. Thinks to self, stay in bed? Drop to floor? Try to find dog? Risk being squashed by my dresser or just try to run toward the door where I think it is? LOL

I actually decided to drop to floor and crawl towards door, met dog sitting in middle of floor. Forgot where flashlight was, found it - when shaking stops first thing is go outside and be sure gas line is not broken. **sigh** nope, don’t miss it.

[Joya]

Ping.

[Godzilla]

This particular area if very active in producing several 4-5 mag quakes per year. This is due to its location near a triple junction with the Cascadia subduction zone to the north, and the right lateral Mendocino fault zone to the south.

[Vicki]

That’s what I thought. We need to pay attention to the animals.

[glock rocks]

Yah it was in middle of the night... woke up to see the I-5 bouncing up and down. Wait, what? I was looking at the mirror reflecting the view out the window. Didn’t sleep too well for a couple days afterward. Seriously considered going down the outside of the building terraces if I couldn’t get out of the room to the stairs. Yah, right. Tenth floor. It was a short quake. I went back to sleep. When I made it to work, we couldn’t get the equipment I was installing delivered to the fourth floor because they needed to wait for the elevator inspectors. I went to the beach. ... for several days. On company time. Whatever.

[Misterioso]

http://tinyurl.com/ylg72nw

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NormsRevenge.

Richter scale numbers go up tenfold (6 is 10x a 5, for example), which means (I believe) each .1 is in increase by the 10th root of 10.

[CedarDave]

Then why did the seals sea lions apparently wind up in southern Oregon?

Food -- anchovies, who have moved north due to warmer El Nino water.

[jtill]

I was in Concord during the 1989 quake - and many, many before that. Lived there for nearly 50 years. Never thought an earthquake could scare me until I heard that one lane of the SF/Oakland Bay Bridge had gone down.

[glock rocks]

each .1 is in increase by the 10th root of 10.

That hurt. You mention logarithms, and I'm hitting the abuse button.

[djf]

Sitting on my couch watching the game and I felt a bump - just a bump, no rolling motion, and I thought QUAKE, then thought neah...

[null and void]

Wasn’t Mary Hartman Mary Hartman based in Ferndale?

Yes.

Does "the Ferndale flasher" ring any bells?

[null and void]

Thanks. Please let him know we’re pulling for him!

[null and void]

I was walking up Bryant Street with some friends going to Hotel Utah to watch the World Series game. Six people were killed a half a block over from us.

Earthquakes don't kill people.

BUILDINGS kill people...

[tcat]

Here you can find live scanner feeds for California.

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=194

[fatima]

Thanks glock rocks.

[null and void]

I had a cousin sleep through the Northridge ‘quake.

One mile from the epicenter.

In a top bunk.