It's earthquake weather
 

Hope they're wrong.

https://www.foxnews.com/weather/a-swarm-of-small-earthquakes-in-california-san-andreas-fault-questions

Wow, 100x higher chance. Hopefully, they are wrong. Good luck, folks!

Having grown up in Southern California and having experienced a few quakes (later a few in San Diego) I can say unequivocally that I'd rather do the Housewife's of the Weather Channel Hurricane Show than a large quake.

The Housewife's of the Weather Channel is really annoying but I can see the thing coming.

Best.

scary. real scary.

but as a civil engineer - job security.

I've been through a lot of earthquakes, but they've either been relatively small or far away. Enuff to shake things but not to do much damage.
But the san andreas is about 30 miles away where it goes past san berdo, and if it breaks that won't be far enough.

We had a 4.5 earthquake about 5 years back. There was a loud BOOM that sounded like a large empty dumpster being dropped on the street out front. Then the floor had a wave of motion roll through. We have a concrete slab floor with carpet in my home office, and it moved. The door to my closet started rattling, and I even went over and pushed on it to stop the rattle, and it started rattling again so the wave was still moving but I could not feel it.

Zero damage to our house or area. I can't imagine a big one like Japan had at 9.1 a few years back. I will take a risk of tornadoes any day. They hit one very small area and the civilization just a few blocks way is fine. Large earthquakes or hurricanes wipe out huge areas and take years to recover.

Good luck. I will dig out the picture of the lawn chair in the back yard that was knocked over Sammy posts when the weather is bad in other areas.

The lawn chair is fine, just keep those flying cows away. ;)

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This is the restaurant at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, OK. Really!

Millions of humans live on the sides of volcanoes, or in the path of the destruction. The entire gulf coast and east coast of the US will have a hurricane again. No maybe, it will happen. Just like the "the big one" that is 100 years overdue already. It simply will happen, no one know for sure just when.

Look how many people live along the Mississippi river. From Lake Itasca, Minnesota to the gulf millions of people live within the floodwaters of the river. It will flood again. 100% guarantee. Floods kill more people than any other weather event.

Pick your location. There is risk. I am 100% safe from tsunamis. That is certain!

We had a 5.1 on Sunday...

So the odds of an earthquake are now better than the odds of dying from CV? Time to panic!!!:D

Quick.......get some toilet paper before it's too late.

What? stores near you still have toilet paper?

I check area earthquake activity on a fairly regular basis and happened to notice this activity in Niland and commented to my wife about them. We have small ones on a semi regular basis and got rocked really well during the one that hit Calexico some years back. Even though the faults in the area aren't directly connected with the San Andreas, I recently read about how they are learning faults are more interconnected than once thought. I went through a major earthquake in 1952 in the small town of Tehachapi, CA. It devastated the town. If you're curious, do a seach on it. I'm glad we live in an area of few, local faults nearby and over a good base of bedrock.

Well before my time, but the wik says:

Well wouldn't that complete the trifecta. Fingers crossed for them being wrong.

Good luck. I'm also not a huge fan of earth quakes.

Here in CA, earthquakes were always a bit of a "WOW" moment for me since I first felt one back in 1975. That was until Oct. of 1989, when a 6.9 magnitude 'quake hit about 10mi. from here. I take them much more seriously now...

Me too. I'd never noticed one until I was about 21 years old. I always thought they were those things that made the house plant leaves waver a bit, or gave you that "wooo too much coffee" feeling.

Then, post Christchurch earthquake, all the earthquakes have been big ones. Walls moving 100mm back and forth, a bit hard to stand up. One even made the sea recede about 200 meters :eek:

Having experienced a few very mild earthquakes I’m with Glenn. I’ll take tornadoes and hurricanes all day long. What a creepy and disorienting feeling.

I was in SF in 1989, it was impressive

earthquakes are awful.

but in general, CA is sorta prepared. our infrastructure is designed against catastrophic failure. it doesnt mean you wont get beaned in the head by a brick. but the new bridges wont disappear below your car. that's the plan.

that said, it would still be a nightmare. most people i know, live "ready". i wont even let my truck fuel gauge drop below half. (till i get to AZ)

I'm in North county San Diego ~ 20 years and just a few rumbles and shakes now and then so far... My understanding is that our location is on lots of bedrock and should a big one hit SA we will hopefully be somewhat protected. My home Santa Barbara likely not as much, but it's a stick home built in the '60s and has gone through several good sized quakes with no damage.

I was in Tokyo for the big quake, in the bus heading to Narita. We pulled out of the hotel entrance and at the first light in front of Starbucks it hit. I was stranded there for 24 hours...managed to find operating transport to Narita for the next day departure. Plane was at 10% capacity...most could not get there for the flight.

Growing up in SoCal I have lived through a few memorable quakes. The Japan quake was very different. Many hours after the initial big hit the ground was still moving. We were stranded in the bus terminal (T-CAT) the night of and the coat hangers never stopped moving. I headed to a Japanese equivalent of 7-11 for some beer, sushi, and chips and made it a party in the middle of the terminal. I was not aware of the loss of life far North due to Tsunami...so sad.

tokyo is wild!! i was in the train station and i noticed these HUGE columns in the underground areas. i was thinking..that makes no sense to put a column that big in a crowded walkway. until i went outside..it dawned on me that those giant columns were the foundations to the skyscrapers built above the underground city. blew my mind. i bet it is an extra pucker factor when the world shakes over there.

When the big one comes, head to Barstow.
When I consulted for the DoD, I saw the maps.
The USMC @ Nebo & Yermo have layouts for giant tent cities. The spot I staked out will be called Nebo Heights when I get there to my corner lot :)

It has to suck real bad at home to ever WANT to go to Barstow. Maybe another garden spot like Boron, CA or Needles. For sure not the mental picture people think of when they think of California.

The good news for Barstow is it is the start of I-40 headed east out of there.

LOL detail of faults under and around Barstow:


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Last year they had a 7 in Lone Pine which I felt here in LV..then there were literally hundreds of after shocks which I could feel a slight swaying in the house.

Go directly west of Lone Pine and see that that fault zone intersects the San Andreas just south of San Louis Obispo in the Coastal mountain range.

the wik


The white dots are sites of earthquakes of mag 3.0 or larger during a 10 year period.
Not zackly stable

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Does anyone else find this kind of creepy?

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100 mm? :eek:

Tehachapi 1952. I think it was around 11 people killed that morning in town (pop. less than 2K). A few funny stories were told to my dad who was the manager of the Standard station at the main intersection in town. One: A guy came into his station a couple of days later with black eyes. Told my dad he slept on the outside of the bed with his wife. When the quake went off, he stood up in bed and jumped out right into the wall. The quake had walked the bed across the room so his side was near the wall. Two: Of course everyone was paniced to get out of their houses. Two neighbor couples ran out of their houses and were standing out in front. The men were standing together talking as were the wives. The men noticed the women snickering and looked at each other and realized they were both naked.

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I fell asleep reading about Nostradamus earthquake prediction and woke up to news reports of that earthquake. Very freaky.

Yes, a bit scary. I kept thinking is this going to get worse, there are much more fun things to die of than an earthquake. Quite lot of noise too. Someone said it's the nails in the house pulling out then back into their original locations. Cats and dogs don't know whether to run or not so they stared at me for an example.

It's a wooden house so doesn't crack like concrete.

Yep, that's a lot of people to die in an earthquake.

In the earthquake we went through in 1952, I was awakened in the beginning light of morning by what sounded like a freight train bearing down. My bed started moving, & I jumped out & looked out the window. A big tree outside had a large, horizontal limb that started moving violently up & down & I realized what was going on,even though I'd never experienced one. I ran to my sisters' bunk beds & woke up my sister on the top, who jumped down to the floor from the top. We had to struggle to wake up our little sister on the bottom bumk. As we ran into the hallway, we could see our parents (one bare bulb in the center) running toward us from the other end, but none of us were making any headway. It was really loud and supposedly lasted 40+ seconds. Finally as we were all running through the front room toward the front door, one of my sisters sat down on the couch & we had to pull her up & outside. Ouside on the front porch, my dad wanted to go in for jackets, but every time he tried there was an aftershock. Eventually he just went inside & got jackets for us. My cat disappeared for three days before and came nonchalently walking in a couple of hours afterwards. I remember seeing horses rearing and neighing in their pens (sort like they were panicked) for a few days before as we drove by & asked my mother what was wrong with them. We had a long, side yard with some fruit trees lined up. I remember sitting on the yard days later when a "rolling" aftershock came and could see the ground slightly undulatiing.

That is a lot of dead people Bill, especially an earthquake in a sparsely populated area like that.
At least we know who to blame now.

If your TV is still working, the earthquake was in the desert or mountains.
No TV means L.A. region was epicenter

I always turn off my house power, the Big bear quake in 95 had the neighborhood down to 70 volts. All of my neighbors had microwaves and TV's that were toasted.