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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2012 15:33:00 GMT -5
just felt a small earthquake. 13:31 PDT 91710 a small roll a quick jolt and another roll. The earth is a big rock, right??
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 29, 2012 15:41:32 GMT -5
Scott, the one you just felt was a 4.1, located 3 km ( 2 mi) NNE of Yorba Linda, CA (33.907N 117.779W).
Did you feel any one the ones on Sunday from Brawley? Even here in San Diego, the first big one (a 5.3) knocked a pile of paperback books off the dresser. After that, a few more were felt, including a 5.5, but no more stuff tossed on the floor.
The one you just felt was on the Whittier fault. Jean
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Post by billg22 on Aug 29, 2012 17:58:23 GMT -5
Rocking and Rolling here in So Cal. Too hot to go out side.
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Post by gr on Aug 29, 2012 18:17:34 GMT -5
Third rock from the sun they tell me
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Aug 30, 2012 1:04:26 GMT -5
I didn't feel anything.
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 30, 2012 9:28:33 GMT -5
probably just swinging in your hammock or out driving around where you were rocking and rolling anyway I'm not going to jinx anyone by saying anything!
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Post by mohs on Aug 30, 2012 12:21:43 GMT -5
not sure this helpful
good luck Ed
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Post by johnjsgems on Aug 30, 2012 12:26:15 GMT -5
I'll take the occasional shaker over hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, ice storms any day.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2012 13:34:07 GMT -5
I'll take the occasional shaker over hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, ice storms any day. Yes indeed! @rockpickforever - I posted my post before USGS had the data up! That was like 3 miles from my house (as the crow flies). Pretty mild indeed. No, we did not feel the Brawley ones.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 30, 2012 13:51:30 GMT -5
Yes, I agree with taking the occasional shakers over all the other acts of God that occur elsewhere. You can tell the native Californians from non-natives when an earthquake occurs. Non-natives will freak out and run for cover, while the natives just look at each other and go, huh, another earthquake. Non-plussed like. Scott - I saw your post the other day within minutes of your posting, then went online to earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/. A map of California comes up, and you just look for a big red square. Then you can click on, and it will give you a smaller map. Click on it again, and you get the pertinent info. Jean
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Post by bhiatt on Aug 30, 2012 15:06:22 GMT -5
I live in Tornado Alley in Troy,Illinois, 15 miles due east of St Louis. Last year a tornado made it all the way into the city of St Louis. It made it on the Storm Chasers show on cable tvl.The storms usually die out when they hit the city and pick back up over the river where I live. Its weird because it seems like the storms follow the interstate and the worst ones pop up in an instant with no warning signs. Last year was a record for the number of tornado sighting. We had 2 come VERY close the house. It got pretty hairy. Last year my grandma was on her death bed at a nursing home and me and my aunt was there and one came through late at night and the walls looked like they were breathing. You could actually see the path in the field. A neighbor that lives almost a quater mile away had their trampoline get loose and ended up hitting our garage. The trampoline was shaped like a taco. Every year we have tornado warnings and the worse ones are at night, of course. The St Louis storm last year was during the day and it turned pitch black. There was one this year that happened right after the Cardinals baseball game and this giant tent where fans were partying afterwards. got knocked down killing people. It was a cell that popped up real quick during the day. The news here is good at giving a heads up warning. The storms usually split up within a mile or two from my house and I can actually always see the wallclouds because I live around corn fields and can see for miles. I cant tell you how many huge storms Ive watched around me and not get hit. Ive see the clouds swirling overhead and low where it looked like I could touch them. Looked like some end of the world stuff.
Back to earthquakes. About 5 years ago we had a 5 point something earthquake here. Worst one that I can remember. Had one this year but it was very small. I live on the New Madrid Fault Line. Thats right, got the fault line and I live in Tornado Alley. The earthquake happened at night while I was asleep and I live in a 2 story house. The house literally felt like it was jumping off the foundation. At first I thought somebody was trying to break into the house because the window blinds were bouncing off the window , making a loud noise. It was crazy. I couldnt sleep at night for a week. They kept saying theres a chance for aftershocks and it freaked me out.
Being from an area where we have a chance of both earthquake and tornado, I cant say which one I would rather be in. They both suck.
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Post by jakesrocks on Aug 30, 2012 15:44:38 GMT -5
I live on the northern fringes of tornado alley, and have lived on the shaky side too. I'll take the tornadoes snow and ice storms any day. Got tired of being woken up in the middle of the night by the house trying to bounce off its foundation.
We get several tornado warnings every year, but so far only 2 have really materialized in the last 16 years. One was 4 miles north of me. I stood outside and watched it. The other was less than 1/2 mile west of me. I lost most of a greenhouse to that one. Basements are good protection against tornadoes, but most folks in the shaky areas don't have them. Don't know if I'd want to hide in a basement during an earthquake anyway. The basement walls might fall in on you.
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Post by helens on Aug 30, 2012 19:35:38 GMT -5
I dunno... I would freak out way worse with earthquakes than hurricanes... of course, that depends on the level of the hurricane, and where we were relative to it too:P. I mean living under sea level on a coast with old and dangerous levee's that were considered unsafe 10 years ago is not something I would ever want to do.
But other than flooding, hurricanes are just wind... you can hide from that. The potential for the earth to open and burying you alive... oh hell no. THAT thought freaks me out.
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 30, 2012 19:54:51 GMT -5
I used to have a shop in the basement of a 100 year old woodframe buildingand was down there when a 6.3 rolled through. I thought the tv repair shop was rolling tvs around on his cart but realized the ground was shaking too so I called the guys to get out now and we all hit the street and watched the light standards on the 3 level parking garage wave around like a fly fishing rod. There was absolutely no damage reported
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 30, 2012 20:27:31 GMT -5
I did not take these photos, I received them via an email. They are from an earthquake that occured on Easter Sunday 2010, in the desert east of San Diego. (Near where Don's spirit wands are from.) After leaving San Diego, heading east on I-8, you will go over these mountains, and drop down into the desert. The view in the first two photos is looking west, back at those mountains. Looks like a giant picked up a rug and shook it! Think of the energy that was released with this quake. These next two photos are of the cracks that appeaerd in the road. I think this damaged road is Hwy 98, that goes between Ocotillo and Calexico, but it may be the Mexican highway 2D, just south of the border in Mexico. I'll still take an earthquake over a tornado! Jean
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2012 20:32:59 GMT -5
Awesome pics!
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 30, 2012 20:38:07 GMT -5
I'll take the occasional shaker over hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, ice storms any day. Never been in a hurricane yet.....Was in an earthquake in the early 50's in Montana(don't remember much of it though...) Been in five tornados(North Dakota)(they weren't fun)! Blizzards,lost count after 50 or so,,,,LOL..... Ice storms,a few in North Dakota,a few here in Oregon,one in Germany... Floods,been in two major floods,both in Montana! All in all,I don't like any of them!!!
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Post by helens on Aug 30, 2012 20:53:16 GMT -5
I got real close to a tornado once... good thing it went the other way... we could not have outrun it!!
Tornados are different from hurricanes... with hurricanes, it's mostly a lot of wind and rain. Trees sometimes get torn up. Very bad to be driving in a hurricane (did that once...omg). But aside from flooding potential, the worst a hurricane usually does is tear the roof, or part of the roof off a house. The thing is, because of hurricanes and their potential, building codes in Florida require that homes are built to withstand mild hurricanes, so even with the 2 we got, the worst was losing shingles and trees.
Earthquakes... I don't know how you build for that or protect yourself from it if a fault opens near you. Or rolling floors make the ceiling actually fall in (if a hurricane tears your roof off, it's not falling on you, it's getting blown away unless you have a tree overhanging your house, so most people don't have trees overhanging homes here:P).
I maybe it's just scarier to think of something that you haven't experienced before vs something you have:).
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Post by johnjsgems on Aug 30, 2012 21:20:25 GMT -5
Helen, we have strict seismic codes here. Newer buildings flex and ride out quakes. I had a two story house when the Big Bear Quake hit a few years ago. It was the first time I got out of bed for a quake. The floor upstairs looked like the ocean swells (about two feet high). Shook for what seemed like a long time. Only damage was a picture I was supposed to hang but didn't get around to fell over (it was leaning against the wall). When it got light we stood outside and watched the after shocks. You would see giant clouds of dust up the mountain and my windows would flex. Most older business buildings have been forced to retrofit. Interesting trivia but years ago Coalinga had a huge quake that knocked many old houses off their foundations and the downtown brick faced buildings lost their fronts. They looked like doll houses with fronts all open. The trivia part is the bricks all were salvaged from the 1933 Long Beach quake that leveled most of Long Beach.
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Post by Pat on Aug 30, 2012 22:24:22 GMT -5
I guess we are most comfortable with what we are familiar with. As a native Californian, I can say that most of the natives just dicker about what number it was. Doesn't usually get our attention until it is at least a 5. Threes are going on constantly.
Tornadoes and hurricanes would get my attention and fast!!!
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