Posted on 12/28/2016 2:30:07 AM PST by PghBaldy
three 5.0+’s
two more above 4.0
11 more above 3.0
91 total the past six hours
Goodbye FR?
Jim’s in Fresno.
I hope Jim and family moves from California soon...as I see it, not to far in the future California will be floating off in the Pacific Ocean, they will have to make their own power grid, sewer systems, grow their own food, drill their own oil and build refineries for gasoline...
Then again, California could become like the ‘City of Atlantis’ and never been seen again...
We will never know will we?
Nice, Calexit. +1
Very unusual but there has been unusual Sierra Nevada activity in the last 3 months.
There was also a great deal of activity a couple years ago near the NV/ID/OR border.
Too deep to be a building volcano (unlike NV/ID/OR activity)
Very strange.
The drywall around pretty much all my windows have fresh cracks.
“Where can you go,
When there’s no San Francisco!
Better get ready,
To tie up the boat,
in Idaho!”
Within the past 5 days there were 3 7.6+ earthquakes in Chile. It’s been working it’s way north with a bunch of 5.5s. And you’re right about Cascadia in WA and OR. No activity at all.
The only “catastrophic” seismic event that could conceivably happen to California (besides run of the mill things breaking) would be the uplift or pinching shut of the golden gate and subsequent damming of the Sacramento/San Joaquin river complexes resulting in the flooding of the delta and valley. I would hope that the people running the show here would breach that well before it became a problem.
It’s not going to sink, or break off and float away...
To deep? They’re all in the 5-15km range aren’t they?
We can all dream...
An 11.6 in California would topple buildings in Boston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLUgEXI9RYI
In a geologically mature area like the Sierras or even Yellowstone, I would expect to see quakes less than 5 miles deep.
It sure is possible which is why this is so strange looking.
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