Earthquake?

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

The New Yorker follows up on their big/terrifying cascadia piece https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/oregons-tsunami-risk-between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea

well that's horrifying

didn't realize that northern California to southern Canada was the likely tsunami inundation zone

temblor!

6.5. It's probably bad that I do look out the window to make sure no buildings are collapsing.

sounds like it was not too bad? off the coast, no tsunami.

where is this?

off the coast of chile, 6.5

I am on the 10th floor and there was one big sway in the middle where I got my phone and considered going outside.

I like how aftershocks are called replicas. It feels so sci-fi.

i feel like i've been feeling these often since the July 5 one in mojave desert. and sure enough they've been constant, according to:

https://earthquaketrack.com/us-ca-redlands/recent

colton is like the next town over. and in the last four days there've been 4 between 3.1 and 3.6. they feel very innocuous but the thought of a big one near me freaks me the **ck out. and i've done no preparedness yet.

holy shit @ being up so high!

the new yorker pieces about the pnw big one got me really scared, but not scared straight, still haven't done anything for preparedness. the one thing that irked me about the pieces is that they more of less completely ignored british columbia. like let me explain the possible ramifications of this huge natural disaster that is looming but let's ignore that other country right there that will be massively affected. american exceptionalism is something else.

xpost with the small ones we play the game of trying to guess the magnitude. My spouse isn't sensitive to them at all and thinks I am typing too hard and shaking the sofa or something.

I heard someone in the elevator during the peak and kind of felt bad for them.

the new yorker is not a magazine with a reputation for an international outlook xp

xp. oof, i would not like that

I just guessed a 6.7 (per my above game). I am still awaiting on confirmation. I think I was super close.

is your residence/place of work well proofed?

yeah, almost all buildings here (in santiago) are. I was in one above an 8 a couple of years ago. We almost went outside.

I can usually feel them start, but this one was sudden. Or maybe because I was walking around making food that I didn't feel it. My spouse was on a telecom and didn't even notice until 10 seconds in.

Big one in the middle of nowhere (Tonopah) in Nevada 30 minutes ago. 6.4 preliminary. I'm 100+ miles away and it was a bit scary.

yes! we’re in Sacramento & it woke us up. No shaking that i saw but in my halfasleep daze i definitely heard rattling sounds

i've heard from ppl in Fresno that it startled them too.

An #earthquake swarm has kicked off southwest of the #SaltonSea today, producing 240 earthquakes as of 8pm Pacific. The largest earlier this evening was M4.9.
So what does this mean? We’ve put together some scenarios to explain what could happen next. https://t.co/wMzKa8FKQM pic.twitter.com/ow9r7J5FH4

— USGS Earthquakes (@USGS_Quakes) October 1, 2020

(thread)

not obvious from that thread but that's the salton sea is right on the san andreas fault iiuc.

What shall become of Slab City?!

Trevor's gonna love this!

7.0 in Antartica

if a tsunami wave hits only uninhabited shores, does it exist?

5.1 near Truckee, CA (north of Tahoe/Reno), apparently felt in Reno and San Fran based on tweets.

8.2 in Alaska. Possible tsunami hazard.

USGS now has the earthquake near Alaska as an 8.2! pic.twitter.com/HefBvKmHKM

— Steve Lookner (@lookner) July 29, 2021

A sixer! Strongest quake aus has had since 97. Boy howdy I felt that one - I was yelling at everyone to run outside. No one did, so my family are fucked if we have a real disaster lol sheesh.

apparently outside is a bad idea? - falling trees, powerlines, buildings etc.
doorway in a loadbearing wall or possibly under a table is the go… is what i gather. i think? - i quiz california-born mr veg about this all the time & he just shrugs like its nbd

Yeah you don’t run outside *during* an earthquake. You are also not supposed to go in door frames any more. General idea is protect your head and get away from windows.

I just stood uselessly in the living room flailing my arms yelling "get outside!" but the kids were still in bed asleep upstairs. I should have ducked under the dining table but I was thinking about the kids uptairs.

The whole house sounded like a herd of teenagers was running laps heavily all over the upstairs floors - shuddering and creaking and everything was juddering heavily. No cracks or popped doors or broken glass so I guess it held up ok.

Bay Area folx: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/tellus

It wasn't big, but it felt like it lasted 5-10 seconds. Called the 'rents to make sure it wasn't just a truck driving by, and they actually said that it lasted a lot less time even though they're closer to the epicenter.

Bay Area folx: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/tellus

It wasn't big, but it felt like it lasted 5-10 seconds. Called the 'rents to make sure it wasn't just a truck driving by, and they actually said that it lasted a lot less time even though they're closer to the epicenter.

2 people are dead, 11 injured after 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California (near Eureka)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/us/humboldt-county-california-earthquake/index.html

that's where my family is, where I'm from.. hard to get a hold of them this morning. They're fine but shaken up

But they have earthquakes there all the time, that's probably the most seismically active spot in the lower 48

yeah the power was out for like 75% of Humboldt County this morning, one bridge is down. did not realize there were fatalities though. it was a solid shake from what ppl told me, a good 30 seconds in Trinidad

HUMBOLDT EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE: Residents in Fortuna, CA are waking up to scenes of broken storefronts and damaged merchandise follow Tuesday morning’s 6.4 magnitude #earthquake. pic.twitter.com/utA97IUUiJ

— Austin Castro (@AustinCastroTV) December 20, 2022

7.4 near Taiwan, possible tsunami alert for the U.S. west coast.