Earthquake?

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

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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.

Yes, we experienced it! Mt wife and I are in Taiwan right now, visiting her sister. We were in bed but already awake when the building started swaying! It is a modern block and we are on the 11th floor of 13. Nothing broken, just a few things moved around on shelves. Weirdly, yesterday we went up Taipei 101 and saw the damper (essentially a giant pendulum) which stops that building - tallest in the world until Burj Khalifa surpassed it) from swaying too much.
Had we been in the Taroko National Park today instead of Sunday/Monday it could've been very different...lots of rock falls there and people trapped in their cars.

12 confirmed fatalities; they are still looking for 18 missing people. The roads in Taroko National Park are pretty treacherous at the best of times: we saw many signs warning people to keep moving on a/c of rock falls and roads and trails which were now impassable because of either erosion, rockfalls or a combination of the two. Still freaks me out that we could've been trapped there had our itinerary for this trip had been different.

New York?

damn my whole house was shaking!!

i thought all the record shelves in my bedroom were gonna come down.

4.8 magnitude ... pretty impressive

Yeah that was something (Brooklyn) Only the third one of my life

i felt a tremor around 6.30pm
last night - turns out there was a 4.2 in Plumas County yesterday

(i’m in Sacramento)

7 minute drive from the epicenter to trump national in bedminster nj.

Dang, maybe there is something to these wild conspiracies about the New Madrid fault being in the center of two separate total solar eclipses.

https://i.imgur.com/VXBs9Mj.jpeg

Based on the location of the earthquake (magnitude 4.8, depth 5km), my initial guess is that this occurred along the Ramapo Fault line which runs through Northern NJ. Still waiting for more official information. pic.twitter.com/mR2vC4WxrB

— New York Metro Weather (@nymetrowx) April 5, 2024

i'm in midtown and felt nothing fwiw

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