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Posted on 06/27/2005 3:28:20 PM PDT by sofaman
Magnitude 4.0 - local magnitude (ML) Time Monday, June 27, 2005 at 3:17:33 PM (PDT) Monday, June 27, 2005 at 22:17:33 (UTC)
I felt it newsworthy considering the number of quakes over the past 2 - 3 weeks...
You're right. Anything lower than 4.0 is not even worth reporting.
Red
Right, it's the number of them over 3.0 which is alarming.
I believe anything over 6.5 in major populated areas is going to kill lots of folks and do lots of property damage.
Trying to remember the size of the Northridge quake...that one made a mess...
I think that was like a 6.2.
I went up there to look at the damage and mostly two story homes were damaged.
In earthquake country, it isn't wise to be in a home over a story tall IMO.
OMG JOE IM IN OHIO.... A TSUNAMI IS COMING ? LOL
6.7
"I wouldn't take all of this so lightly. It won't be so funny if a really big one hits."
Maybe then we would get support from around the world to help us! Not!
Over!
Ohio is locked and loaded, waiting for the worst.
Hope we don't get his for another 5 hours.
Blowing up those innertubes is hard work!
Felt it here in Riverside. Litterally shook the building where I was at (I was in class at the time. Summer school). It was small so it wasn't too much of a concern. But it was still significant where I could litterally hear the rumble.
Strange things indeed.
Spent five years in Yucaipia in the 80's and NEVER felt an earthquake -- we were told that the faults along the Mentone River were pretty dormant in recent years and if Yucaipa started getting earthquakes it could signal the San Andreas fault was building way too much pressure and be prepared for the big one as the faults there are right near the Banning part of the lower San Andreas fault.
We were warned in the 80's to be prepared if the San Andreas ruptured in that area it would be a big one. This time they had a 4.0 and then a 1.8 just NE of Yucaipa right back at the base of the San Gorgonio mountains leading up to Big Bear.
Agreed, but this one is most likley an aftershock.
It's all the illegal Mexicans coming into the state ... they give it major gas.
Having been in SoCal for both the Sylmar quake and the Whittier quake, plus a few others, I do not take serious earthquakes lightly.
However, a 4.0 will rattle windows, and yes, you will feel it. But almost no serious damage will result. Earthquakes are normal shifting action of the earth, as you well know, and 4.0 is not newsworthy, unless:
a) there is an unusually high number of quakes occurring at close intervals in time (which may be the case here) or
b) Some one is killed or serious damage occurs.
c) It occurs in an area where earthquakes rarely happen.
I think you can compare earthquakes of low magnitude (below 3.0 ?) to strong whirlwinds, that cause no damage, vs. a strong earthquake (6.0 and up) that results in severe damage and possible death, which would be more like a full blown tornado. Whirlwinds do not make the news, tornados do.
In between 3.0 and 6.0 may be a judgment call, I admit. But it seems to me that in a strongly active earthquake zone (Ca., Alaska), a 4.0 does not merit too much attention.
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