[Chesterbelloc]

I live up in the Sierra Nevada mountains (western side). A little over a decade ago Mammoth Lakes was more active and we’d feel the earthquakes every so often. I think they had to be up near 5.0 magnitude for us to feel hear (roughly 50 miles away). They were enough of a shake to notice, but not enough to be scary.

[Chesterbelloc]

I think they had to be up near 5.0 magnitude for us to feel hear (roughly 50 miles away).

That should be "feel it here". Sigh, always see typos/grammatical errors after posting.

[bd476]

Chesterbelloc wrote: " I live up in the Sierra Nevada mountains (western side). A little over a decade ago Mammoth Lakes was more active and we’d feel the earthquakes every so often. I think they had to be up near 5.0 magnitude for us to feel hear (roughly 50 miles away). They were enough of a shake to notice, but not enough to be scary."

When I first moved to California I thought earthquakes were no big deal, they were of course of interest to me, but I felt that they were nothing to fear, nothing to be startled about. That was until I was in, I think it was around a 5.8 quake.

[bd476]

On a mountain on solid bedrock would be one of my dream places to live, except during firestorms or floods. Oh and the mountain could not be anywhere near a volcanic area, except maybe a "safe" area in Hawaii. ;)