Posted on 07/23/2006 9:00:22 AM PDT by TheDon
I'm in Mission Viejo, CA, and it was one large jolt!
That's "Peace" - remember? Peace will guide the planets and luuuvv will fill the stars ... but it doesn't say anything about tectonic plates moving. *wooo spooky*
Glad to hear it!
OMG. I've heard that Fresno was like hell on earth, but that is ridiculous. ;)
Feel it! might be a little south of you:-)
Small quake shakes western Riverside County
http://www.pe.com/ap_news/California2/CA_SoCal_Quake_246458CA.shtml
The Associated Press
LAKE ELSINORE
A small earthquake rattled the western edge of Riverside County on Sunday, although there were no reports of injuries or damages.
The magnitude-3.6 temblor struck the area about 8:58 a.m. and was centered about 8 miles northwest of Lake Elsinore and 11 miles southeast of Corona, according to a preliminary report by the U.S. Geological Survey.
No damages or injuries were reported, a Riverside County sheriff's dispatcher said.
Published: Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:28 PDT
"1906 earthquake occurred in the wake of an unusually wet winter."
Why wouldn't very wet weather lubricate faults and help them slip more easily.
On the other hand I thought I read some place that "earthquake weather" was hot and dry, or something like that. My thought then was that as the earth became very dry and groundwater levels dropped, perhaps the earth would shift something like a mattress when someone sits on the edge and then stands up. Perhaps both conditions could affect stability.
Yeah, I saw the thread headline.. didn't feel a thing up here. Riverside is a good hour drive south after catching the 15 freeway near Victorville. Long way from me.
Nope didn't feel it in the West Los Angeles area, but I did feel the rumble of Tiger Woods blasting his way to another Trophy at the British Open in Liverpool! :-) Maybe his old Cypress soil was shifting in honor.
I won't even ask ya what the temperature is there, it is desert after all. ;-), we are just hitting 100 at noon. probably go 107 or 108 today here worst case. 105 yesterday
Velvetdoug,
We Westerners have to laugh at a fear such as yours! It would no more occur to a Westerner to fear that the small jolt was a pre-shock, as it would occur to a Southerner that hot, muggy weather is a sign of the Greenhouse Effect. Don't worry about your child. She's having a great time at the beach.
T.W.
Time to move. Don't wait for The Big One!
Well, once these big storms blow through, the temp drops substantially. Right now it's 103, but that's nothin'. The humidity is climbing and I can see t-storms trying to form to my southeast. The worst part about losing power is that I can't check the radar on the Internetz. :)
We don't worry about the greenhouse effect. Its the thunderstorms with wind shear, straight line and tornadic winds that shake us up. I am only 75 miles from New Madrid.
"Looks like weather could be an indicator."
I've lived in the Los Angeles area my whole life. Most every strong earthquake I've felt (at least 7 or 8), occurred early in the morning with no weather. No wind, rain, clouds, thunder etc. Usually eerily still. I don't remember the rainy seasons preceding the quakes being any wetter than usual either. In fact, in the recent years with heavy rainy seasons, I haven't felt any significant quakes at all. But, it's been awhile in the L.A. area for a strong jolt.
I'm still waiting for Kalifornia to drop into the ocean. It can't happen fast enough.
All I want to know is, "WHich way are the elephants running?"
Any wave of missing cats?
Perhaps La Riza is coining new city names in preparation...
I hear you. It's just that yesterday when I mentioned to my golf partner that the weather out West wasn't as humid when I grew up here, I was given a lecture on the Greenhouse Effect. But I counted by thousands until it was over. I figure that golf and junk science are a bad mix. I would have gotten no further with a lecture about junk science than my partner got trying to explain global warming to me.
Hopefully FR has a mirror site outside of the state!
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