Please spare us!
Out in LALA-land, 4.5 would go unnoticed, unfelt, and definitely unremarked. Call in with 6.5 or better.
“Out in LALA-land, 4.5 would go unnoticed, unfelt, and definitely unremarked. Call in with 6.5 or better.”
I think they are different kinds of earthquakes. The Big One on the New Madrid fault was felt several states away - another big one on the NM will be devastating.
The earthquakes on the New Madrid are different than the ones in the Fruitcake State due to the difference in the tectonic plate. Midwest quakes roll, like waves. California ones rock.
With that big snowstorm occurring, this quake DOES seem weather related somehow. Maybe the coldness of the ground and contracting?
“Out in LALA-land, 4.5 would go unnoticed, unfelt, and definitely unremarked. Call in with 6.5 or better. “
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Here in the Philippines, we are having quakes most every day now, since a 7.5, about a month ago, but most are under 4.5. We can feel the 4.5 quakes but only if sitting still.
Look to see if the US has a web site like this: http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/html/update_SOEPD/EQLatest.html
Also, check out the home page: http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/
I live about 40 km from the Tagbilaran quake centers.
Apples and oranges. LALA-land is like a pie crust, tectonic-wise. You need at least a 6.5 to make a difference. The midwest plate and the east plate are like church bells. Tectonic shifts ring, and it doesn't take much. That's why a small quake in northern Quebec is felt all the way down in Baltimore. I always get a kick out of folks in LALA-land who snicker at 4.5's or less out east.
California has laws that require structures that were built after a certain year to be strong enough to survive a certain level of magnitude, because it is a state that is subject to many, and powerful earthquakes. Call in when you have developed some compassion.