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Earthquake!
January 28, 2002

Posted on 01/28/2002 8:40:15 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl

Wow. It's still going!


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To: Redcloak
The P-wave is more discernable at distance. Gets a chance to outrun shear, no?
101 posted on 01/28/2002 9:10:52 PM PST by Floratina
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To: Redcloak
The P-wave alerted me. I was on the computer and hear the livingroom window shake. Then the s-waves came rolling through with a thud. All I had time to say was, "Earthquake" and the kids came rolling out of their rooms!
102 posted on 01/28/2002 9:11:24 PM PST by capitan_refugio
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To: Cinnamon Girl
Here are the seismographs:


103 posted on 01/28/2002 9:11:50 PM PST by stayout
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To: capitan_refugio
4.2 doesn't rate anything more than an excuse to post on FR! These...

Another...

These are just fun quakes.

104 posted on 01/28/2002 9:12:05 PM PST by Redcloak
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To: PRND21
I was just acknowledging you were close. You must be on another fault line. I have friends in Ojai, Camarillo, and Santa Clarita.
105 posted on 01/28/2002 9:12:09 PM PST by breakem
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To: capitan_refugio
6 total so far. I'd rather have a bunch of small ones vs one big one.
106 posted on 01/28/2002 9:13:31 PM PST by calljack
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To: cd jones
All roads go through Corona. Or at least all cars.
107 posted on 01/28/2002 9:13:36 PM PST by breakem
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To: Redcloak
There's number 6. You feel that one?
108 posted on 01/28/2002 9:13:36 PM PST by ZGuy
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To: Cinnamon Girl
Thanks for the headsup I'm in Illinois and my grandparents live in Simi Valley, I freaked out since they are in their 80's I called them and they are fine.

Dengar01 in Earthquakefree Chicagoland

109 posted on 01/28/2002 9:13:42 PM PST by Dengar01
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To: Floratina
Yes. These tend to give us ~1 sec. of separation at our house. Also, the P-waves can be quite energetic. (Northridge's P-wave lifted me out of bed!) It has a very distinctive feel to it.
110 posted on 01/28/2002 9:14:03 PM PST by Redcloak
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To: Floratina
True, the farther away you are from the hypocenter (or epicenter, if you prefer), the longer the time between the first p-wave arrivals and the first s-wave arrivals. The problem is that the p-wave (essentially a compressional sound wave) dies out as a function of distance from the origin.
111 posted on 01/28/2002 9:14:15 PM PST by capitan_refugio
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To: Redcloak
Sheese. the one aftershock in Alameda I recall that stood me up off the sofa sounded like a train coming down the rood. You could see the wave pass by.

When I was a kid, I thought grownups kidded about Californicate slipping into the Ocean. They weren't kidding!

112 posted on 01/28/2002 9:14:33 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: ZGuy
Heard it more than felt it. ~3?
113 posted on 01/28/2002 9:14:44 PM PST by Redcloak
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To: Redcloak
11 total so far USGS
114 posted on 01/28/2002 9:14:47 PM PST by calljack
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To: Dengar01
There has been one reported injury so far. Some guy's wife got scratched up by her cat who freaked!
115 posted on 01/28/2002 9:15:43 PM PST by ZGuy
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To: calljack
Is that true about little ones being good because they release tension and prevent big ones? I hope so.
116 posted on 01/28/2002 9:15:44 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl
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To: Cinnamon Girl
Yes it is true that the stress on that particular fault line is less after a series of small quakes. If that creates more stress on a different fault somewhere else is something to think about.
117 posted on 01/28/2002 9:17:39 PM PST by calljack
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To: ZGuy
Well I've never been in an earthquake luckily, So I have to sit here in Illinois worrying about my grandparents in Simi Valley. I'm watching Fox 11 LA on DirecTV and watching the Earthquake report, it's 12:33AM here in Chicago, but it looks like it is minor.
118 posted on 01/28/2002 9:17:40 PM PST by Dengar01
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To: Redcloak
4.2 doesn't rate anything more than an excuse to post on FR! These...
Another...
These are just fun quakes.

Normally a 4.2 would barely be worth reporting. Being practically on top of it, I could really feel it. But it's still basically just a fun quake, especially when you have something like the Northridge quake to compare it with.

119 posted on 01/28/2002 9:18:14 PM PST by dpwiener
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
During Northridge I was working at Litton in Woodland Hills. We were in our building a few days later cleaning up. An aftershock hit as I was talking to my supervisor. By then, I was at the point where I was ignoring them. My supervisor stopped talking mid-sentence like he was in shock, which seemed a little odd. He should have been used to them too. But from where he was standing, he could see all the way down one of the building's long hallways. He was distracted by the wave traveling down the hall.
120 posted on 01/28/2002 9:18:56 PM PST by Redcloak
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