Earthquake?

just got a little rattled here

i felt that

Didn't notice it at all!

oblivious in koreatown

damn i was pooping with the bathroom door open and i thought someone was breaking through the front door

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#data: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

God was telling you to shut the damn door.

So Montreal, how ya doin'

i thought a car crashed into my building

9km NNW of Beloeil, Canada, 9km deep. Magnitude 3.9 ("Vibrations similar to the passing of a truck").

Only earthquake I've ever been present for was in Montreal.

This actually woke me up last night. It felt like more than "Vibrations similar to the passing of a truck". That would have to be a pretty huge truck.

Anyway, I guess it's something to talk to my coworkers about this morning.

UM WHAT THE FUCK I THINK WE JUST FELT AN EARTHQUAKE IN BOSTON

one in maine 15 mins. ago. 4.6. not bad!

Yep, that's the one!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00mc0dsp#summary

Me too, the house shook! Fortunately, nothing fell down.

Oh great - that's about 1/2 mile from my house in Maine. Hope it and those in it are okay.

Tenants are safe, and no obvious damage to the house. Hope nothing appears by the light of day.

hmm

Felt nothing down here

looks like a 3.2 in marina del rey. didn't feel it, only noticed it because it rattled some pictures on the wall.

it rattled my windows

3.7 in Meiner's Oaks, which is about 5 or 6 miles from me, I think. Big lurch, nothing, smaller lurch.

That's in California, of course.

That woke me up. Anyone else in L.A.?

i was already up, but barely. that gave me a good jolt tho.

Already awake and felt it. 4.4, between Encino and West LA, deep undeground so no damage, from what I've heard.

5.4 by la habra just now...two of those of that size pretty close together...ugh.

yeah, had a little shake here in mt washington, la. this house doesn't feel like it'd survive anything much stronger that well. my first earthquake!

i live very close to where they think it came from and it was moderate, it just seemed to last a long time.

news is so great right now.

didn't see this in SNA, 8.0 off the coast of Chile, tsunami alert for Chile/Peru/Ecuador

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/01/world/americas/chile-earthquake/

My mum lives in Valparaiso and I just spoke to her tonight. They're saying 8.2 magnitude now, epicenter off the far northern coast of Chile. Here's some distances from the epicenter:

95km (59mi) NW of Iquique, Chile
139km (86mi) SSW of Arica, Chile
190km (118mi) SSW of Tacna, Peru
228km (142mi) SSE of Ilo, Peru
447km (278mi) SW of La Paz, Bolivia

Governor of Iquique reports two known fatalities.

#terremotoenchile is trending

btw 300 inmates escaped from a prison in Iquique.

Felt one just now.

4.6 near Big Bear.

Nottinghamshire has been hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.6, the British Geological Survey has confirmed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-29810050?

Just finished reading an account of the Tangshang disaster of '76 so it is pretty hard to gaf about some wobbly carriage clocks in Mansfield. Seismic activity on the UK section of the Eurasian plate is so fucking lame, I even slept through that 5.2 UK quake in '08 that started this thread.

spooky stuff happening on the West Coast, heads up

lots of small tremors from BC to San Diego

ruptured pipeline

volcano off Oregon coast

might be nothing, but having some extra bottled water and canned food never hurts

Look out, PNW.

The Big One

fuck

That was some vertiginous reading

see my post from May above, spooky indeed

there was another swarm out in the Oregon/Nevada desert area a day or two ago:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/07/swarm_of_earthquakes_shake_sei.html

got some cans of food and bottled water, stashed them in a trailer outside on our property. we should probably keep our camping supplies out there as well.

Because there rarely seems to be any public follow-up to scary articles: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/07/kathryn_schulz_s_new_yorker_story_on_pacific_northwest_earthquake_geologists.html

Takeaway is that yeah, it will be bad, but probably not quite as bad as the article claims. A lot of destruction, especially on the coast, but nothing will be exactly be "toast." Coast looks potentially worst off, major cities look like they'll experience problems a la Katrina, but nothing completely catastrophic. The dude quoted puts the chance of this happening in our lifetime at around 15%, but the piece sums up the potential schedule as a major quake happening sometime between tomorrow and the year 2600. Which is still scary and hardly reassuring, but wide enough a span that I would still slot this in with other "this will likely eventually happen" scary predictions, a la asteroids.

Other takeaway is that while we are way behind Japan in terms of preparedness, we're not at ground zero (so to speak). Seattle has an earthquake preparedness plan, and they are currently testing tsunami warnings. Per politics, I hope piece like this one speed the process a lot.

there has been a lot of backpedaling regarding the "toast" comment, but not w/r/t the coast, just the interior west of I5. I think your assessment (and that followup article) is overly optimistic. I mean, statements like:

Thankfully, this is why we have Reddit.

don't exactly fill me with confidence.

being more prepared for disasters never hurts, as long as you don't go down the prepper rabbit hole.

good, sober followup interview with one of the main sources for the OG article:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/07/tsunami_earthquake_cascadia_ch.html#incart_big-photo

Q: How likely is a magnitude-9 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami in our lifetimes?

A: It depends where along the coast you are. The probabilities are spatial, because we have at least four types of Cascadia earthquakes that have different rupture lengths. There's a probability of 15 to 20 percent in Washington during the next 50 years, not necessarily of a 9 (magnitude), but of an earthquake that's capable of leaving a geological record – roughly a magnitude 8. That probability includes a mix of earthquakes, and probably half to two-thirds of them are in the 9 range, but there are smaller ones as well. We're going to be giving new numbers at a meeting just this week in Zurich. It's up a little bit from where it was.

Q: What's the probability in Oregon?

A: The central part of Oregon is on the order of 25 to 30 percent. That's from central Oregon southward, on the coast. Then for southern-most Oregon and in northern California it bumps up a little bit more: 37 to 40 percent.

that's in the next FIFTY years, not until 2600.

live chat later today as well:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/07/the_really_big_one_osu_earthqu.html#incart_big-photo

I got the 2600 from this:

Vidale said that the chances of the worst-case scenario happening in your lifetime, if you’re planning on living another 50 years or so, is about 15 percent. That’s probably a better way of looking at the recurrence statistics than on an annual basis. Historically, the frequency of major earthquakes in the region is about one every 300 years, which means we’re overdue for a megaquake if you average the past 10,000 years of Northwest geology. But the spacing between past magnitude-9 quakes was between 200 and 900 years. If the fault system maintains that pattern, the next big one could happen again tomorrow or in the year 2600. There’s no way to know.

And I wasn't being optimistic, unless you think "Katrina level event" is optimistic. Just more optimistic than "west coast collapses into the sea."

Scientists have learned a lot since the Nisqually earthquake in 2001, and it’s mostly bad news.

4.0 in the Oakland hills was a hell of a jolt with coffee this AM

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oops

San Francisco and what to do in it

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/9/17/1442461010054/4ffe5d79-4c7c-4466-8a5d-6e9fd6555179-1020x880.jpeg