Posted on 08/09/2007 1:01:38 AM PDT by bd476
Just happened. Not up on USGS yet. Probably about a 5.0
Well, I may sometimes disagree with you, but at least I’m listening.
No one is arguing that there is a direct connection between the faults there and here.
But the impulse of the quake over there has potential to disrupt something here.
In general, I would argue that any zone which is prone to a quake is at higher risk if another large or great quake happens somewheres else on the globe.
Perhaps we better put some easily gripped handles on them, or even a saddle. :)
Who knows what’s just around the fault line?
Shake, rattle and roll...
ROFL!
And I hope nothing bigger is coming. Seriously.
Yes, that’s true. Good weather here. :)
No, I have never changed the starter on anything but I know a good mechanic who will.
LOL! Sounds like a lot of work but it’s rewarding because you know you’re going to do a good job, you won’t stop working until it’s done, you won’t put on cheap parts to save the bottom line, and although it’s time consuming, you’re going to do a better job than just about anyone else.
Yes, and that sure beats shake and bake.
Me too, but worrying won’t help. We’ve survived the past ones and will survive the future ones. Very few seem to get seriously injured, especially in light of the population densities in the area.
Take care.
That’s very true, D1. Those are good words of wisdom.
Also, though startling, earthquakes have a way of helping people sort out their priorities.
Take care and get some rest.
GW's fault, of course.
My dad worked in the Los Angeles County General hospital many years ago, when it was still called that. It’s within a couple of miles of downtown LA or close to that.
During one earthquake he was standing at one end of a hall in the basement or one of the lower floors when an earthquake hit. He tells me he actually watched a wave coming down the hall. He says it was quite prominent, a foot or two tall.
I’ve never had that experience. I have felt some major quakes, a few 6.5s and up to about a 7.2., but I have never been afraid of them. I don’t know why, but they don’t phase me much.
In 1972, I had a friend who opened a Mobil station at the corner of Pennsylvania and Foothill in La Cresenta, California. That morning the San Fernando Valley earthquake measured about 6.5. He saw the wave effect going down Foothill and it scare him something fierce. He was so rattled that he jumped in his car and drove home, about 1.5 miles away leaving the service station wide open.
This affected him for as long as I knew him, about 20 more years. He was deathly afraid of earthquakes.
I grew up in Missouri. Tornadoes worry me more than an earthquake. I’ve seen a pickup lifted up and left in the fork of a tree. I’ve seen a wide swath cut through Kansas City, nothing left in the path. I’ve seen every bit of a house blown away to it’s foundation, not a speck of anything left, except the brand new family refrigerator right where it belonged, not a scratch on it.
I have spent a five minute period with about ten massive lightening strikes within a half mile of my location. Several times I’ve been sitting in front of a picture window while a lightening bolt hit a tree about 75 feet away, right in front of me.
One Sunday evening the weather turned bad. As the storm came in, the sky in the area turned a yellow green. It just looked bad to me. I can’t explain it. The next thing we knew there was hail and as a kid I knew (at least thought I did that a tornado was iminent). As a kid it felt like I was a condemned person. My grandparents ingored my concerns.
The next morning we loaded up into the car and drove off to school. We didn’t make it without having to make a detour. One mile from our house a section of trees about 100 feet wide had been blown over the highway. There were about twenty trees down on the road. There was a path headed up toward my mom’s home. Sure enough, at the exact time I thought a tornado was near, it came within a few hundred feet of her home, just up the road and an eighth of a mile from my grandparents home (where I lived).
I’ve got to tell you, I’ve never felt the condemned man feeling like I have during storms in the midwest. Give me a 7.5er any day.
Priorities like sleep? LOL
Okay, I’m outa here in another couple of responses.
West end of a big plate take a big jump, why shouldn’t the east end of the same plate readjust? Japan started it. Or something even smaller.
Can’t remember if Indonesia’s on the Pac plate boundary or on an adjacent chip.
Still, I’d expect to see adjustments all around a given plate when one part of it releases a lot of energy. No proof, no facts, just a gut call.
I don’t want to be a school marm or anything, but the 1972 quake you mentioned actually happened on February 9, 1971 at 6:01 AM, in Sylmar. I was a kid, living on Long Island, NY at the time, but I remember following it quite closely.
It’s interesting that you mentioned Missouri. Two of the biggest quakes that ever hit North America happened in Missouri, in December 1811 and January 1812, measuring over 8.0 on the Richter scale. The quakes woke up Thomas Jefferson in Monticello and rang church bells in Boston has a continent away. The quakes were centered on the New Madrid fault. A repeat performance today would devastate Memphis and St. Louis.
I lived in Santa Barbara for many years and experienced a quake close to 6.0 on August 13, 1978. There was a foreshock in May around 3.0 which woke me up. In Santa Barbara, however, I was more concerned about wildfires than earthquakes.
I live in Maine now, and there was a series of small earthquakes off the coast of Bar Harbor last fall. The only quake I felt was a 4.2 quake last October 2nd. It was different that a California quake....there was loud rumbling and banging; it sounded like Mac trucks were slamming into the house. Everything rattled. The quake caused massive landslides on the hiking trails in nearby Acadia National Park; a 200 ton boulder slid down a mountainside in one of the landslides. The quake was felt all over the State of Maine, but it caused only minor damage near the epicenter.
I did slip up on the date and the name. Thanks for the correction. I’m tired, but should have known better. The old VA hospital in Sylmar collapsed. That was the location of the most casualties.
I have read about the New Madrid quake. The area is actually overdue for a major repeat. The people in the region are in for trouble if it happens since they don’t require much in the way of earthquake preparedness in their structures (as I understand it).
Quakes in California are different one from the other. I know what you mean about rumbling. We had one major quake where I could hear the quake coming. One strange aspect of that same quake was that I called the national park where my folks were staying to let them know their house was okay. While on the phone an aftershock passed by the park. It took something like ten to fifteen seconds to arrive at the folks home. That was a strange wait I can tell you.
Thanks for the post.
I didn’t wake up for it here in West Ventura. Now to put some earthquake putty under the last few small unsecured breakables just in case.
Woke me up in Encino/Tarzana. No damage.
Department of Homeland Security issued a statement three minutes after saying that there was no indication that the quake had no links to terrorists.
You must live in one of the nicer neighborhoods!
It scared me, it really did....and it was just little!...but I'd never felt one before.
Of course, three years ago, Florida had some of its worse hurricanes and we evacuated twice...
..but one can see hurricanes coming and plan accordingly.
Earthquakes are sudden.
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