EARTHQUAKE

[Blarg]

11 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Water splashing out of the pool here. 

I had just shut off the jacuzzi and hit the bathroom when it hit.

The rest I'll just add to the How many times do you wipe thread.

[Pancake Bear]

25 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Our cat started freaking out after about 20 seconds. It was funny.

Ours also. My two year old told her grandparents on the phone afterward: “The ground was shaking! I was a little scared.”

[Taylor]

Just now, Sean-Regan said:

Ours also. My two year old told her grandparents on the phone afterward: “The ground was shaking! I was a little scared.”

Your 2-year-old cat can talk?

[Pancake Bear]

10 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Your 2-year-old cat can talk?

Not really, I just tell people that. The dog is actually a ventriloquist. 

[Jay]

Yeah, earthquakes are fun. I kind of miss it.

For years I felt we were exposed to our property value being crushed by a big quake.

Maybe irrational but I grew up in So. Cal. and lived through all of the big quakes of the last 60 years. All you hear about on TV there is "the big one" etc. Felt like we always dodged the bullet.

I remember one of my neighbors used to say he never paid down his mortgage because if "the big one" hit he would just walk away and let the bank take the hit. Instead of paying down his loan he used the money to take lavish vacations with his wife and kids, and lease expensive cars. Interesting strategy I guess.

We on the other hand, completely paid off our house after 30 years.

Anyway we cashed out of that situation. But I still miss the occasional shaker.

 

[wopphil]

They say that when the San Andreas goes, it will rupture just east of Palm Springs. If a 7.5 were to hit there - about 100 miles away from Orange County - what kind of impact would it have? Would it be worse than Northridge, or similar to the Landers quake in 1992?

[fan_since79]

Dr Lucy Jones is on TV saying this is part of an "energetic earthquake sequence" and there could be an even bigger one coming.

She's calling yesterday's 6.4 a "foreshock" of tonight's quake.

 

[UndertheHalo]

That lady is the best.  She’s awesome. 

[fan_since79]

1 minute ago, UndertheHalo said:

That lady is the best.  She’s awesome. 

When she's on, I stop everything and listen.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

Gotta love the reporters trying to get them to say there’s something bigger coming. 

[Jay]

1 minute ago, Catwhoshatinthehat said:

Gotta love the reporters trying to get them to say there’s something bigger coming. 

They've been playing that game with her for 30 years.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

Yeah but more so trying to say if yesterday was a foreshock couldn’t the one today be one too. Some of the reporters definitely sound frazzled. 

[Jay]

There's just no way you're going to get a seismologist to say that there's a bigger earthquake coming.

They'll say "there's a 60 percent chance in the next 30 years that something big will happen" or words to that effect.

But we've been hearing that for 30 years.

 

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

Of course not. Both her and the guy being interviewed kind of smiled and said we will know in so many days when another one that’s bigger does or doesn’t hit. 

I’m betting a lot of earthquake kits are bought in the next few days. 

[Jay]

Yeah it's the same thing every time.

 

[Mark68]

On ‎7‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 12:33 PM, fan_since79 said:

Lucy the Earthquake Lady is briefing the media at Cal Tech. She reminded us that this has been a very quiet time for quakes. The 6.4 today is the biggest one in southern California since 1999. In the previous decade before that there were about eight magnitude 6's. 

I remember two of them that were on the same day in 1992. Landers & Big Bear. Was in Riverside at the time.

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

Our cat started freaking out after about 20 seconds. It was funny.

Aren't they supposed to start freaking out about 20 seconds before the quake?

[Jay]

1 minute ago, Mark68 said:

Aren't they supposed to start freaking out about 20 seconds before the quake?

Yeah an experienced earthquake dog can definitely hear them coming.

Lots of dogs are experienced now.

 

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, Sean-Regan said:

Not really, I just tell people that. The dog is actually a ventriloquist. 

I liked that post then realized I had to change it to meow. So few posts really deserve that. 

[fan_since79]

Dr Jones is back on saying there have been two magnitude-5 aftershocks in the past hour and 16-magnitude 4's.

60% chance of another mag-6 earthquake and 11% chance of another 7.

 

[fan_since79]

49 minutes ago, Mark68 said:

I remember two of them that were on the same day in 1992. Landers & Big Bear. Was in Riverside at the time.

 

June 28, 1992.

I was on the first night of house sitting for a family on their way to Alaska. Second floor bedroom, quake hit just before 5 am. 7.2 in Landers. Scared the crap out of me.

The Big Bear one hit around 10 am and was around 6.5. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

This is bullshit. Almost never happens here, now two days in a row.

[m0nkey]

We were out at the night market in Arcadia, and it was a pretty surreal experience. First time experiencing an earthquake outside

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, wopphil said:

They say that when the San Andreas goes, it will rupture just east of Palm Springs. If a 7.5 were to hit there - about 100 miles away from Orange County - what kind of impact would it have? Would it be worse than Northridge, or similar to the Landers quake in 1992?

Depends on too many factors. 

But forget san andreas. (The fault, not the game. Its a classic). The ones that are going to crush will be the newport-inglewood fault, and the one that runs along malvern in fullerton....

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, Mark68 said:

I remember two of them that were on the same day in 1992. Landers & Big Bear. Was in Riverside at the time.

Aren't they supposed to start freaking out about 20 seconds before the quake?

Yeah, the two in one day one was crazy. I was a kid but remember it well. One of the only times i ever saw my dad get worked up.

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 7/5/2019 at 11:07 PM, Vegas Halo Fan said:

This is bullshit. Almost never happens here, now two days in a row.

In all honesty, we should hope for more.... being that they are hitting the desert the worst.

SoCal hasnt had good ones in 20 years.... that will make the next real one even worse.

 

Edited July 7, 2019 by ten ocho recon scout