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Earthquake just felt in hills above Sonora California, like 3:00pm pst

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No idea how strong, I'd guess 4.0-5.0 (?)
but we don't feel most of them up here very often, unless it's really close
or from somewhere else & really strong
we're on Granite & Clay on top of that
must have been a good one, rattled the house a couple time 2 strong
& 1 lil' aftershock in like 30-45 seconds time 3:00pm pst

couldn't find anything on the -www- "yet"
I'm sure it'll be on the news tonight

like the 4th one in California in as many days, one bigger one 7.0
was way up north Humbolt area on the coast last week
another moderate one was this AM, 100-ish or so mile N&E of Santa Barbra/SoCal
like a 4.6 they said
 
They've been talking that up on several podcasts since it occurred. There's some speculation on it also. Apparently they monitor Radiation levels along the Coast Lines, and there was a surge detected after this quake ? No pre-rumbling on this one, just a sudden surge on the graphs, like zero to 100, in a few seconds...
 
We used to live at Pismo beach area.
Man we had a couple I can remember
 
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There was a 2.8er at Willits, CA, this morning about 10 AM. Are you close enough to feel that?
 
Rishi said:
There was a 2.8er at Willits, CA, this morning about 10 AM. Are you close enough to feel that?
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I'm in Tuolumne Co. above Sonora, maybe/but I'd say probably not...

I think it may have been the one in NV we felt
or we are rural so it may not been reported much

Calif. is really active earthquakes of late, lots of lil' ones, all over
maybe Gruesome pissed off Mother Nature & the constituents

Fault running right thru Hayward, is gonna' be a big one,
someday, it long overdue...
 
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Budnicks said:
Tuolumne Co. above Sonora, maybe not...
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The strength of an earthquake is measured on the Richter scale or the moment magnitude scale (Mw). Generally, the following guidelines can be used to determine how strong an earthquake needs to be for people to feel it:

  • Magnitude 2.0 - 2.9: Generally not felt, but recorded by seismographs.
  • Magnitude 3.0 - 3.9: Often felt, but usually causes no damage.
  • Magnitude 4.0 - 4.9: Noticeable shaking, may cause minor damage, especially to weak structures.
  • Magnitude 5.0 - 5.9: Can cause damage to buildings and is widely felt by people in the area.
  • Magnitude 6.0 and above: Can cause significant damage in populated areas, with the potential for severe impacts depending on depth and distance from the epicenter.
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Living in California my whole life, I've experienced probably 20 earthquakes. Some of them pretty big. One, while I was laying under a car up on jack stands. Boy, was that spooky. The Loma Prieta one that collapsed the freeway in San Francisco in 1989, I was an hour's drive north in a vineyard and remember seeing the land undulating in waves like it was liquid.

But this last summer, there was a 4-pointer epicenter'd about a mile from me. That one, by far, was the most turbulent one I've ever felt, and it was only a 4-pointer. It was pretty remarkable. The front door still doesn't close quite the same as it used to.

I think I like earthquakes and turbulent rain storms.... as long as no one gets hurt, of course.
 
Guy here on talk radio said that one off the coast had a tsunami warning that read like "Head for the hills!"
I looked it up. Guess that was the red one with move to higher ground immediately?
 
Speedbird said:
Guy here on talk radio said that one off the coast had a tsunami warning that read like "Head for the hills!"
I looked it up. Guess that was the red one with move to higher ground immediately?
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Yeah normal for here, way over cautious, warnings & panic
I'd guess better to be a false alarm than something like that crap
in Indonesia happen Christmas a couple/10 years back

Most of the northern coast or Calif as a whole
most beaches are down below, 50' to 100' or a bunch more in some cases...
Yeah It could cause erosion & slides, wash out roads etc.
they have a lot of that on the 'well beaten coastline' too...
Where most people live is pretty high above sea level, to ground surface too...
There's lots of cliffs & steep rockfaces along the coast,
with a quite a few exception here & there...
Touristy right on the beach & beach oriented communities,
tourist stuff/board walks etc.
Most down south of from San Jose/really Santa Cruze to San Diego,
but still just here & there...
It's not like an Island, in most places here, it has cliffs...

But **** happens though...
I think they mean well, just overly cautious (borderline panic mode) IMO...
 
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Budnicks said:
Yeah normal for here, way over cautious, warnings & panic
I'd guess better to be a false alarm than something like that crap
in Indonesia happen Christmas a couple/10 years back

Most of the northern coast or Calif as a whole
most beaches are down below, 50' to 100' or a bunch more in some cases...
Yeah It could cause erosion & slides, wash out roads etc.
they have a lot of that on the 'well beaten coastline' too...
Where most people live is pretty high above sea level, to ground surface too...
There's lots of cliffs & steep rockfaces along the coast,
with a quite a few exception here & there...
Touristy right on the beach & beach oriented communities,
tourist stuff/board walks etc.
Most down south of from San Jose/really Santa Cruze to San Diego,
but still just here & there...
It's not like an Island, in most places here, it has cliffs...

But **** happens though...
I think they mean well, just overly cautious (borderline panic mode) IMO...
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That one was in 2004, with a Death Toll near 300K. They said the Earth shifted on it's Axis 3 degrees from that, and it has kept on tilting since...
 
VANDAN said:
That one was in 2004, with a Death Toll near 300K. They said the Earth shifted on it's Axis 3 degrees from that, and it has kept on tilting since...
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Yep that's the one couldn't remember the year,
didn't remember it was that long (20 years) ago...

:thankyou:
 
VANDAN said:
That one was in 2004, with a Death Toll near 300K. They said the Earth shifted on it's Axis 3 degrees from that, and it has kept on tilting since...
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That had an effect on our weather changes currently. The Greens keep chirping about climate change when Mother Nature can bump good ol' Earth any which way she chooses and we cannot do a damn thing about it. Shifted the earth's axis 3 degrees to the North!!! cr8crshr/Bill :usflag: :usflag: :usflag:
 
I was awoken up at 4:36am today ......luckily it was a fella from Ohio who I bought a steering box from. Letting me know it was delivered successfully.

It felt like 2:00am when he called....my alarm went off 3 minutes after I hung up......I hate that. :rolleyes:
 
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