Earthquake?

slept through today's but woke up about 2 mins after - must have nudged me awake. yeah it is weird that there's been two within such a short time and originating in the same area.

At least you guys aren't in Darwin (for many obv reasons, but relating to earthquakes)

?

Magnitude
? (uncertain or not yet determined)
Date-Time
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 17:40:29 UTC
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 10:40:29 AM at epicenter
Location
37.284°N, 121.620°W
Depth
6.4 km (4.0 miles)
Region
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances
18 km (11 miles) N (7°) from Morgan Hill, CA
19 km (12 miles) E (91°) from Seven Trees, CA
20 km (13 miles) ESE (117°) from Alum Rock, CA
25 km (16 miles) ESE (104°) from San Jose City Hall, CA
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.7 km (0.4 miles)
Parameters
NST= 25, Nph= 25, Dmin=10 km, Rmss=0.05 sec, Gp=104°,
M-type=duration magnitude (Md), Version=0
Source
California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR
Event ID
nc40234037

I felt it in SF. It was really small here though. I almost thought it was a truck going down the street.

I think this was the first earthquake I've felt in our office building (Mission+Beale, 20th floor)

Magnitude 4.4 first estimate.

Funny thing is that 9:30 - 10:00 they were talking about quakes and some socal quake on Forum.

I read that as "social quake," which actually sounds somewhat pleasant.

Felt this in Cupertino. Nobody even got up from the meeting table, though. Jaded Californians.

Strong 6.3-magnitude quake rattles Italy:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/05/italy.quake/index.html

and it doesnt look good.

Yipes, family of an ex of mine live in that area.

breaking news via facebook update:

xxxx xxxx got woken up by an earthquake with epicentre 60km away. 6.7 on richter scale. scary shit! breathe.

WAU!

fun

5.0

Hrm http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci10410353.html says 3.1

Oh wait, I am clicking on wring dot :)

Err wrong. Must have been an aftershock.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci10410337.php

i felt nothing! but i was up in eagle rock listening to loud music when it happened. :-)

i used to go out with a seismologist
she was always trying to find faults in me

"Inglewood, always up to no good"

I was in Claremont, experiencing James Turrell's skyspace installation at Pomona College, and also felt nothing.

never forget
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-05/46978698.jpg

what, i never posted my smash youtube sensation on this thread?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_re_us/us_socal_quake_9

ok, something about bldgblog is just fanciful and great

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/earthquakes-on-street-view.html

A 5.0 earthquake hit Los Angeles less than an hour ago – and, aside from the fact that it was remarkably close to my old neighborhood and I hope no one was injured, it seems to be the first earthquake I know of where you can see the epicenter on Google Street View.

The U.S. Geological Service gives us a Google Maps option for viewing tonight's earthquake reports, but what's extraordinary is that you can zoom all the way down to the urban surface to see that this earthquake actually had an address: it was epicentered at 3706 W. 106th Street.
Perhaps you could even send it postcards.

Imagine, though, owning the building centered directly over the earthquake that destroys your whole city... And imagine the weird derived value such a property might hold in the future for disaster enthusiasts.

You go to purchase a small house at 3706 W. 106th Street in Los Angeles – only to find that you've been outbid, by several orders of magnitude, approaching $50 million, by an earthquake enthusiast in Japan. He or she has gone around the world purchasing epicenters, strange plots of land in the middle of nowhere that have no apparent use or distinction other than that they figure into the unfolding seismic history of our planet's surface.

It's an otherwise unknown subculture that has remained camouflaged within the international property market.

i heart bldgblog!

here we go again

what the hell is going on lately?

haha, warming up the big one

*for*

this one was bigger than the one a couple nights ago i think

Damn, all I get is boring ol hurricanes on this side of the country. I want to try out one of them earthquake thingies.

3.9, the other night was 4.7

this one was sort of a slower version

maybe i'm just closer to the epicenter

4.1 in hawthorne

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.9396+-118.3378(M5.0+-+GREATER+LOS+ANGELES+AREA,+CALIFORNIA+-+2009+May+18++03:39:36+UTC)&f=d&t=h&hl=e&ie=UTF8&ll=33.939791,-118.337753&spn=0.002158,0.004313&z=19&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=33.93979,-118.337852&panoid=8ZQAhjnNkbKaUfkRhwVpPQ&cbp=12,52.58,,0,19.27

I'm in inglewood, but it wasn't nearly as big as the other one

almost the exact same spot as the one a couple days back fyi

i think since i'm in an office building i felt it more than the last one

Didn't feel it here in OC at all.

still didn't feel it, and didn't notice anything out of place when i got home. i don't mind.

weird, there was a fairly decent southern california earthquake last night

REALLY hope our new zealanders are doing fine.

Tsunami warning after 7.8 quake off New Zealand

17 minutes ago

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A tsunami warning was issued by the U.S. Geological Survey after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand's western coast Wednesday.

The quake's epicenter was 100 miles (161 kilometers) west of Invercargill, off the west coast of New Zealand's South Island at a depth of 21 miles (33 kilometers). It hit at 0922 GMT on Wednesday, the USGS said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii sent an e-mail alert warning of a possible tsunami in New Zealand.

"An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines in the region near the epicenter within minutes to hours," the warning center said.

The quake was felt widely across South Island, where the earthquake was centered.

Police in the town of Tuatapere on South Island said they had reports of minor cracks in buildings and stock falling from supermarket shelves.

However, no reports of serious damage or injuries have been received so far, police said.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A Queenstown resident living in a three-storey apartment said the building shook and swayed. ''Holy crap that was significant,'' the resident said.

whoa, earthquake in cleveland

and in montreal, ottawa, toronto...

upstate NY

Must have been more than a little one, then.