Posted on 03/09/2014 11:34:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred off the coast of Eureka in Northern California on Sunday night, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The temblor hit at 10:18 p.m. 50 miles west of Eureka in Humboldt County. According to the USGS, the earthquake was felt over a large swath of the North Coast as well as other parts of Northern California. …
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My first BIG quake was the Tehachapi shaker of 1952. So I moved to Humboldt County in 1954 and have been Rock & Rollin ever since. The 6.9 Sunday night was… ummm. .interesting? The lights didn’t even flicker and no reports of power outages anywhere…
Strange how those effects bounce around. In ‘52, the Tehachapi quake literally shook me out of bed in San Diego, yet I didn’t even feel the Sylmar quake which was much closer. Much of the Northridge quake’s effects skipped over the Malibu Mountains, but trashed parts of Santa Monica.
Didn’t Eureka get a pretty significant impact from the biggie a couple of decades back? Knocked a bunch of Ferndale houses off their foundations as I recall.
In 1992 there were 3 earthquakes within 24 hours. You can look it up but I think they were 7.1 6.8 and 7.2
“Surf” is more like it
We are still finding cracks in our plaster from the little bitty Virginia quake a few years back.
When it happened, I thought someone was walking on the roof of the building,
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