Humboldt County earthquake shakes Bay Area [CA]]Thursday morning

KRON ^ | 12/05/2024

[BenLurkin]

The epicenter was about 42 miles west-southwest of Ferndale and 54 miles west-southwest of Eureka. The National Weather Service has issued a tsunami warning as a result of the quake.

The Tsunami Warning is in effect for coastal regions from California to Oregon. Anyone near coastal waters is advised to move to high ground immediately, according to the San Jose Fire Department.

Bay Area Rapid Transit announced that BART service in the Transbay Tube was halted in all directions in response to the quake.

[rxsid]

[cuz1961]

when i got home to see if anything was knocked over or off

only thing was my maui slippa flyswatter that was standing on its edge got knocked over

/-)

hope thats not a bad omen for maui

[rexthecat]

My wife’s family were pioneer ranchers in Ferndale. There are picture of huge fissures in the ground on their dairy ranch caused by the 1906 quake .

[Hatteras]

Working remotely and a couple of fellow employees are in the Bay area. Our MS Teams message board lit up with the news.

[CatOwner]

I was in the ‘89 quake. NOT fun at all.

I'm guessing you're talking about the Loma Prieta earthquake? If so, yeah, not fun where we lived in Silicon Valley. I was in the kitchen with the TV on for the 1989 World Series (Oakland A's and SF Giants) when it hit. A mostly full 5-gallon bottle of water fell off the water dispenser.

After a few minutes, I went outside to check for damage. There was water rushing underneath our next door neighbor's gate. I assumed they broke a water line in their garage. Nope. Upon opening their gate, I could see the water spilling over their in-ground pool. The amazing part was you could see the pool move in the ground, causing the water to flow out.

[MplsSteve]

Ferndale?

That where parts of the 1995 movie “Outbreak” were filmed.

[rxsid]

THE TSUNAMI WARNING IS CANCELLED

[crz]

Just about right smack on the corner where the De Fuca, Cascadian and Andreas join.

The USGS has to be holding their breath.
Many geologists talk about how a smaller quake like this could, might posibly trigger the big one on the cascadian fault.

[mewzilla]

Prof. Shawn Wilsey is doing a livedstream analysis on this on YouTube...

https://www.youtube.com/live/ixmgd8xyPtM?feature=shared

[mewzilla]

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-26.74561,-131.13281&extent=73.57817,-58.71094&map=false

A few what appear to be aftershocks so far...

[gundog]

I guess that big red blob south of me is the Coquille River Valley. They flood in heavy rain, every year. A tsunami from the direction of Eureka would strike obliquely. So much of that part of the Oregon coast is a steep bluff. I suppose the river mouths at Gold Beach, Port Orford, and Bandon would be problematic.

I laugh when I see the “blue line” over by the high school. That’s supposed to be the altitude above which people can be safe from a tsunami. From it, you can see out over the part of town that is beneath it. City Hall, the fire station, and the roads connecting them to anything. The blue line is about at their roof level.

[Kevin in California]

I’m in Red Bluff, Ca and felt it pretty good. I lost some water from my pool as a result.

[gundog]

Many geologists talk about how a smaller quake like this could, might posibly trigger the big one on the cascadian fault.

Yup. That’s what you have to live with. You know a huge one is coming. Tomorrow? A hundred years from now? You know that those frequent ~4.3 quakes are relieving tension that would contribute to devastation in a larger quake, but could also trigger the big one.

[Cold Heart]

The USGS can hold their breath and I won’t go clamming today.

[Cold Heart]

Rockaway Beach has accepted plans to move their emergency services to higher terrain.

[The Louiswu]

you never know when or where...stay prayed up everyone.

[gundog]

Coos Bay city hall has all of the cop cars parked under it, at street level. It was retrofitted to be more quaie-resistant, but I don’t see it being much of a factor if a big tsunami makes the streets impassable. Much of the town is built on fill, which would likely liquefy in a large quake. They tell us to keep gas tanks topped off. It might be a good source of gas for chainsaws, but folks aren’t going to do much driving.

[Cold Heart]

I have a bug out bag in both of my vehicles and I wear quality hiking shoes in case I have to journey home after the quake/tsunami. Any gas I have access to at home will be for the 2200 watt generator.

A friend of mine was on the board of our local electric district. He found out some locations would be out of power for a year or more.

He moved East of the Cascades.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I have a second cousin who lives in Bend.

The fault line that worries me is the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

It produced a 9.0+ earthquake on January 26, 1700.

A repeat of that event in the present day would send tsunamis crashing into Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, as well as Japan.

It would be a catastrophe.

[gundog]

There’s a local beach that has a couple of large cedar stumps visible only at low tide. They grew, high and dry, for a couple of hundred years, and the land they were on sank when the 1700 quake hit.

The Oregon coast has quite a few “ghost forests.”