Earthquake?

Haven't been able to get through to her, and she lives in a 15th floor apartment just north of Viña

scary, hope she is ok <3

be prepared:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/29/1493107/--There-is-a-Major-Carbon-Monoxide-Explosion-on-the-West-Coast

http://www.snopes.com/carbon-monoxide-spike-earthquake/

thanks, good article.

I'm still prepared, though.

always good to be prepared

Awesome, a 3.3 and a 3.8 about 30 miles away from here (they were 20 miles ENE of Ojai in Ventura County) within an hour and a half. Not at all freaked out.

Had a 4.5 in Kathmandu this evening which i didn't even notice (other than the electricity cutting out) but understandably scared the hell out of people with the anniversary of the 8.1 coming up in a fortnight.

Fuck! The earthquake has followed me to Delhi! This is more than 4.5 - my hotel is shaking, though thankfully seems to be fairly solid.

7.1, seems to be centred in Northern Pakistan but shook all the way through Punjab to Delhi. This is big.

1200+ dead in Indonesia

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/2/headlines/indonesia_death_toll_from_earthquake_and_tsunami_tops_1_200

Happy 4th — 6.6 east of Bakersfield. Felt pretty strong here in L.A.

Did you do anything interesting during it?

yikes, that wasn't very far away - same county. we are basically on top of San Andreas fault here in Redlands ( don't think today's was on that fault?). i live in a house from ~1908 and am a little nervous if something bigger than what just happened strikes while i'm in my apt. but that was a gentle 30 second sway. i lived through the Northridge quake which was scary af

by “strong” I should say it was the first quake I’ve been unnerved by since I moved here, it kept going for just a bit longer than most. I didn’t do much interesting during it except suggest to the kid to get under the table just in case.

I started keeping shoes and pants under my bed since we get a lot of earthquakes in early morning or the middle of the night. Also we sometimes open the apt. door if it seems to be gathering strength because we had a friend get locked in his apt during one of the 8somethings (door frame jammed the door.)

that is some quality preparedness info. thx, Yerac

i need to start keeping water supplies and some cliff bars or something at the very least in preparation for the pnw big one. completely unprepared atm

should've been scared straight by that new yorker article but alas complacency reigns

I always worry about what I should do when I’m in Japan. I’ve already been woken in my sleep by some aftershocks in Hokkaido; and missed the bigger one that hit Osaka last year by a day. Both of those had fatalities. Given I’m spending about 3 months a year there I should be a bit more prepared.

Since I've been living in Christchurch people have been telling me about the most basic things I should be doing so I'm prepared when another earthquake hits - keeping the car at least half full of petrol, keeping a few hundred dollars in cash, keeping a torch with fresh batteries next to the bed - I don't do any of these things, I really should, it's not that difficult

lol wow ok
my husband was in SF during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and he does all those things — i only just now realized the significance

I slept through the Northridge one and I didn’t feel today’s because I was in a moving car.

It’s sad to see the damage it caused at the epicenter. Other than that, no big deal.

(Granted I was far from the epicenters both times)

I was in a moving car during the loma prieta quake. it was surreal to feel the rough road, to see buildings and telephone polls swaying and to watch as everyone pulled over to the side of the road.

and also to hear kqed announce that a section of the bay bridge had collapsed and then immediately cut out

by the time I got to my home in the planets the electricity was already out. I called my family members when I got home tell them I was ok just before the phone lines died. it was evening and everyone in my neighborhood came out into the street, not sure why but that was my instinct too

Xpost I am not really terribly prepared. Sometimes if it feels above a 5ish and is sustained I go stand by the drink cart which is near the kitchen entry. I figure if the building becomes unstable at least I am near drink and food options and I have a usable Israeli gas mask on the drink cart. The worst that ever happens even during the 8 was a crack appeared and we had to regrout some tiles. That may have been a bad grout problem though.

FYI the friend that got locked in his apartment was drunk at the time and had to wait for the firefighters to eventually break open his door.

This one was the longest by far, really weird to have a quake last well over 30 seconds. Never super intense but the length added a new dimension. I saw my downstairs neighbors run outside, my fam just sort of rode it out and waited

woah. this felt quite a bit more than 30 seconds

ok shit

7.1

!

6.9, seemed much like the one yesterday but just a little stronger and longer. i briefly feared for my cocktail so i grabbed it from the table lol

ooh just felt another aftershock

now upgraded back up to 7.1

That was not fun

shit u guys

stay safe guys!

take care Californians

We were swimming laps in the Arcadia Park pool when the 7.1 came through yesterday - very strange experience. Didn't feel any shaking, but suddenly I felt like I was swimming backwards and I could see the water in front of me slosh up to the pavement.

whoa

my husband will be in SoCal in a few weeks - please don't have a big one then please
take care everyone

7s are good! the more 7s the better, because it means 8s, 9s, or 10s are less likely to follow because stress is being more evenly relieved. at least I think it works like that

anyway earthquake pool footage is one of my favorite things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5gJQYlmM0

I don't think it does, according the Dr. Lucy Jones. It relieves stress at that locale, but can increase stress on other faults.

that makes sense. I wonder what determines the locality of stress-relief - how much of it is a function of epicenter depth and how much is proximity to more continuous/historically active faultlines. However I do not wonder this enough to actually research it, and will instead retreat further into the blissfully ignorant world of neat lookin earthquake pool youtube videos.

I was in a pool in Palm Springs during the 2010 Easter earthquake. the wrongfooted feeling and the water splashes out of the pool were alarming

if there are any Oklahoma tornado survivors reading this thread, they're gonna think you're the biggest asshole in the world. "I can relate to your splashy terror, because I once watched my patio furniture decapitate my dog in the sky."

lol

it wasn't that bad but the thing about these experiences that amazes me is that it's impossible to know in the moment what to expect or how to react.

I was scared enough at the time to run into the house to make sure the 1 year old was ok. she was sound asleep in the crib and seemed annoyed that I woke her up