Posted on 07/16/2009 9:01:46 PM PDT by Pelham
Earthquake Details
Magnitude
2.9
Date-Time
Friday, July 17, 2009 at 03:51:17 UTC
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 08:51:17 PM at epicenter
Location
33.860°N, 117.802°W
Depth
0.9 km (~0.6 mile)
Region
GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
Distances
3 km (2 miles) SSW (203°) from Yorba Linda, CA
5 km (3 miles) ESE (117°) from Placentia, CA
5 km (3 miles) N (9°) from Villa Park, CA
7 km (4 miles) NNE (24°) from Orange, CA
15 km (9 miles) NNE (29°) from Santa Ana, CA
46 km (29 miles) ESE (118°) from Los Angeles Civic Center, CA
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.5 km (0.3 miles)
Parameters
Nph=086, Dmin=4 km, Rmss=0.39 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=1
Source
California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR
Event ID
ci10439121
Although as quakes go this was nothing to get excited about.
A batch of those IOUs must have bounced!
2.9? Wake us up when it’s 5.0 or greater.
There has been an earthquake somewhere in the world almost every day for the last month or so. Reminds me of Revelation.
If it’s 5 or greater no one’s going to have to wake you up.
The Sylmar quake back in 1971 nearly threw me out of bed, and I was 50 miles away. 6.6. That was one scary quake.
I appear to be within 5 miles of this little roller and it was about like having a large truck rattle the house.
Michael Moore sitting down onto a toilet would cause a bigger tremor.
There’s little quakes every day in some parts of California.
Conservative, LEAVE California!
I want California to disappear
but
not take conservatives away.
How does a 2.9 quake even warrant a post? That’s hilarious. But now I’m posting about it. Let’s make this the longest thread ever!!!
It's business as usual, like it's been for eons on this planet. Welcome to FR.
Now if you want to talk about 0bama and his cast of Congresscritters...
Or Pelosi and Boxer unloading in the bathromm ... .
I didn’t know the quakometer went that low.
The rapidity of the earthquakes are accelerating. We obviously disagree.
In Thinveller, Iceland, magma emerges from under the European tectonic plate, and solidifies, as the Easternmost edge of North America.
In California, the North American plate dives under the Pacific plate, and is ground into dust, amid various earthquakes.
About a thousand years ago, the first representational republic was formed on the North American continent - ironically, by a bunch of Vikings, at - you guessed it - Thingveller, Iceland.
So, in many ways, it is true that America is bjorn in the middle of Iceland, and dies in California.
Fixed!
Yes, I guess we do disagree. I’m not even a Californian, I’m in Minnesota, so I’ll let them debate that with you.
I studied enough about plate tectonics to know things are constantly shifting on this planet. I worry more about the shift occurring in Washington than a 2.9 in California regarding Revelations.
That’s what I was thinking...nothing major, just a mild rumble.
I believe the world averages about 8000 earthquakes per day.
Yup, why get up in arms over a text that wasn’t written to us, most of which has already happened over 1900 years ago, and read every little world event into a sign of the end. Jack Van Impe does enough of that for the whole world.
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