Bill
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Re: We just had a big quake here in southern Calif.
Not too bad. This one was more of a slow, long, roller. |
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| I agree. The rolling kind aren't as startling for me as the jerky ones that lift my world and slam it back down again. 
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RayW
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Down graded to a 5.4 (»www.seismolab.caltech.edu/). Still a good roller if you are a few miles away. And 57 after shocks by 4PM?
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| Closer to the source as I am, it had two features: an initial two sharp hits followed by the gentler rolling, which was basically the bowl of jello continuing to wobble around after the initial shock. The quake event itself only lasted 3 seconds, but the ripply-wobbles continued for another 15 seconds or so.
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We suffered no damage at all and considering that we live in a double wide that is something, but I have all three units tied together, the third unit being our long porch.
The initial motion was a hard jolt followed by about 30 seconds of hard rolling then fading to about 3 minutes of swaying, but that could have been my Vertigo too.
The Ralph's Market on Baseline is reporting about $80,000 in damage from stock following off the shelves and was closed as is the Staters up on 19th.
Many homes had interior damage, IE computers and shelves tv's down etc etc.
At the junction of the 50 and the 57 freeways, there is now a 6 inch gap in the overpass to the eastbound 60.
Not to bad for a shake that would have been devastating in an area say like New York. Everything here is built to withstand a 7.5 quake.
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Notice from the USGS...MotherNature is forbidding to eat chili peppers. 
Glad that everyone is OK! |
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Well, I didn't run in circles or order any one, but I did ask the guys why they didn't go for cover. I went to the door of the cleanroom because I figured it was safer there. IIRC, the one that happened there was at about the same magnetude as this one, but I could be wrong.
It was like this: Up and down HARD, felt like what wrestlers do to each other, spiking your feet up and down like a sledge, it went like that about 6 times, then there was this broad swinging back and forth about 5 times, followed by a short shiver.
The first part actually made my feet hurt a little.
I was in a clean room and my first reaction was what if the very heavy clean part of the clean room ceiling came down on us...
Anyways, these smaller earthquakes, they help reduce the likelihood of bigger ones, don't they? Like more frequent small ones reduce the amount of movement of large ones!
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said by CurtesyFlush  :Being the source as I am, it had two features: an initial two sharp hits followed by the gentler rumbling, which was basically the bowl of chili continuing to wobble around after the initial shock. The seismic event itself only lasted 3 seconds, but the ripply-warbles continued for another 15 seconds or so. That same paragraph could be used to describe some gas expulsion events I've had, with very few edits...
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said by signmeuptoo :Anyways, these smaller earthquakes, they help reduce the likelihood of bigger ones, don't they? Like more frequent small ones reduce the amount of movement of large ones! Caltech said this one reduced strain by a whopping 1%.
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I've experienced only one earth-quake in my young life.
'Bout twenty years ago, in the city of San Francisco CA.
We had just landed and got transport to the hotel. I was signing in and it started. I distinctly remember the desk clerk saying, "DUDE!! GO OUTSIDE!!". He didn't have to tell me twice!
I think I managed to make it to the door, and it stopped as quickly as it started. I felt like I looked like a spastic clown, running in place, suspended a few inches off the ground!!!
The closest I have been able to describe the feeling is:
Felt like I was trying to roller skate on a bowling ball.
Something I NEVER want to experience again!
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| Lets see, I've experienced the Bakersfield quake, which destroyed Bakersfield, Missed the 1970 quake (was in Nam) but have gone through some of the other big ones we have had.
They say now that this quake which has caused about $20 million in home damages (Interior) released stress on the locked San Andreas by about 00.010 percent.
Which means we still have the real Big One to look forward too.
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said by rusdi :I've experienced only one earth-quake in my young life. 'Bout twenty years ago, in the city of San Francisco CA. We had just landed and got transport to the hotel. I was signing in and it started. I distinctly remember the desk clerk saying, "DUDE!! GO OUTSIDE!!". He didn't have to tell me twice! I think I managed to make it to the door, and it stopped as quickly as it started. I felt like I looked like a spastic clown, running in place, suspended a few inches off the ground!!! The closest I have been able to describe the feeling is: Felt like I was trying to roller skate on a bowling ball. Something I NEVER want to experience again! Noob. Tyro.
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Glad everyone's OK, I grew up out there, my house was 100 yards from the San Andreas fault in Palmdale. I got out of town after the Northridge quake, but couldn't get away from the quakes. They followed me to Salt Lake City and to Seattle.
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| said by OmenQ : They followed me to Salt Lake City and to Seattle. Aha! So it was YOU! 
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| Yes, I caused the 2001 Seattle quake. I moved to Seattle, and 3 weeks later there was an earthquake.
That was the first time I was above the second floor of a building during a quake. I had a 3rd floor apartment. My girlfriend at the time had never been in a quake, and she got to feel her first one on her birthday!
Yes, I gave her an earthquake for her birthday... 
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| Well, thanks for sharing and tell her we all wish her a happy birthday belatedly. Maybe you cold go visit Jack for birthdays from now on?
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said by signmeuptoo :Well, I didn't run in circles or order any one, but I did ask the guys why they didn't go for cover. I went to the door of the cleanroom because I figured it was safer there. IIRC, the one that happened there was at about the same magnetude as this one, but I could be wrong. It was like this: Up and down HARD, felt like what wrestlers do to each other, spiking your feet up and down like a sledge, it went like that about 6 times, then there was this broad swinging back and forth about 5 times, followed by a short shiver. The first part actually made my feet hurt a little. I was in a clean room and my first reaction was what if the very heavy clean part of the clean room ceiling came down on us... Anyways, these smaller earthquakes, they help reduce the likelihood of bigger ones, don't they? Like more frequent small ones reduce the amount of movement of large ones! it would take 10,000 of them LoL
yes these smaller one can cause LARGER ones it's called an foreshock |
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