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E A R T H Q U A K E; I just felt one
Topic Started: Jun 16 2005, 12:57 PM (618 Views)
kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
It was substanital but nothing fell off of the shelves here.

I'm in Los Angeles.

Anyone else feel it?
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JBryan
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I felt it too.

(Might just have been lunch)
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Steve Miller
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I felt it while stopped at a stop sign.

Might have been a good-sized one, the truck shook pretty good...
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kenny
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A 5.3 magnitude between Big Bear and Riverside.

Here's a map of the epicenter:

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/STORE...im_display.html

Steve, what city were you in?

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Luke's Dad
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Aftershock from the weekend?
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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jgoo
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Wow, there's been a lot of activitey down there lately, hasn't there? Peru also had an earthquake recently, as well as Alaska.

:o Maybe Washington is next. We haven't had any really noticable quakes in the puget sound area since the 6.8 of February 2001. :o
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KlavierBauer
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luckily most of our earthquakes happened while forming the Rockies!

There have been a few little burps in my lifetime, but I don't ever remember feeling one of them.

I would think it very scary to experience that.
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Steve Miller
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kenny
Jun 16 2005, 02:04 PM

Steve, what city were you in?

Anaheim Hills
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jgoo
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Jun 16 2005, 03:19 PM
I would think it very scary to experience that.

It all depends. Small quakes are kind of fun, but large quakes do get scary, especially if they're long ones. Fortunately, the 6.8 is the largest earthquake that's occured here so far in my lifetime. We're overdue for a big quake from the cascadia subduction zone though, or so experts say.
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apple
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I had moved to Greece and while on my journey, the city experienced a significant earthquake.. disrupted phones and electricity... the city camped in city parks.. I couldn't find my home. There were aftershocks for about a week. shudder shudder.
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rkvs1
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There was a small earthquake about 2 months ago in SE Missouri (near "the BootHeel" ). It was in the mid 3's, I believe, which means just slightly less significant than the after(lunch)shocks fessed up to by JBryan.

Carthage, Missouri (or the area where Carthage is located now, had a very large earthquake (6 or 7 R-Scale) in the past, but I don't know if it was in the near (written history) past or far ( deduced from geological evidence) past.

Anyone know anymore about that quake? I'm thinking it was "recent" ... 1840's or so, because I think I remember stories about it disrupting steam-ship travel on the Mississipi by changing many or they channels.


Bob

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Fizzygirl
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I'll take blizzards and tornadoes over an earthquake anytime. At least we know they are coming!!

I'd be scared to death to live near a fault line in CA. Yikes!! :hair:
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big al
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Bob, you may be thinking of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812. These were among the largest earthquakes to occur in North America since European settlers arrived. See the following US Geological Service link for more info:
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/usa/1811-1812.html

My wife lived in Long Beach for awhile after college. She slept through her first earthquake. Found her bed in the middle of the room when she woke and some things fallen off of shelves.

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jgoo
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Stuff like this really interests me, so I did a little research.

I already knew about a few major earthquakes that occured in your area a long time ago, rkvs1, but have since forgotten a lot of details about them (other than the fact that a couple of them happened within just days of eachother).

The earthquakes of 1811-1812 (December 16, 1811 - February 7, 1812) are collectively known as the New Madrid earthquakes. At least 3 of these earthquakes (from what scientists can tell) measured at least an 8.0 on the richter scale (though another, and most likely more reliable source, says 5 quakes during that time were of that magnitude), and vibrations of these quakes could be felt as far away as the Rocky Mountains, the Atlantic Coast, and from Mexico to Canada.

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Five towns in three states disappeared, islands vanished in the Mississippi River, lakes formed where there had been none before, and the river flowed backward for a brief period.


Here are some links:

http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/spring1996/bagnall.htm
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/usa/181...html#february_7
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/missouri/...ri_history.html
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/missouri/

Find more here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Misso...G=Google+Search
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jgoo
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Drat! Big Al beat me to it! :mad2:

Oh well. :)
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Friday
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There are fault lines all over the place. I think NYC has one.
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rkvs1
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Big Al was quicker, jgoo, but you were more thorough. :) Thanks for correcting me about the New Madrid/Carthage thing. I think the earth "moved for me" once in Carthage, and that might be what I was referring to. :rolleyes2:

Had you met your wife at that time, Al? are you sure you just didn't TELL her there had been an earthquake? :sombrero:


Bob
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big al
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:rolleyes: :wub: :smile:

No, I hadn't met her yet.

Big Al
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jgoo
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Friday, New York's biggest (recorded) earthquake occured at Massena in 1944, and registered at 5.8 on the richter scale. It was felt from Canada to Maryland and from Maine to Indiana.

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/usa/1944_09_05.html

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/new_york/
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jgoo
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Hmmm, I'm beginning to think that maybe I should have gone to school to become a geologist instead of a computer network technician.
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big al
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jgoo, I work with some geologists, soils engineers, and similar people in the consulting engineering firm I'm employed by. We also have a subsidiary firm that does field testing for engineering foundations, slope stabilizations, dams, etc.

If you like to get outside in the course of your work, you might want to make a career change.

Big Al
Location: Western PA

"jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen."
-bachophile
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AlbertaCrude
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Big Al are you involved in contaminated soil remediation?
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big al
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AC, the firm I work for does some remediation work, primarily in the area of industrial hydrocarbon contamination. As an electrical engineer, I have very little involvement other than arranging electrical services for permanent or semi-permanent extraction facilities.

Please PM me if you would like details about my employer or link to their website.

Big Al
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Jamie
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Here in Newfoundland, we have the unfortunate distinction of having the biggest documented loss of life from an earthquake in Canada. A 1929 tsunami generated by a massive quake and ocean floor landslide on the continental slope south of the island wiped out a dozen or so fishing communities on the south coast. See this interesting link for more details:

1929 Tsunami

One other Canadian earthquake may surpass this death toll - circa 1700, off the coast of British Columbia, which was said to have wiped out an entire First Nations village, potentially a larger loss of life than the 1929 earthquake, but numbers were never confirmed.
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Gehirn
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hmm, i heard of tsunami warnings in the west coast of BC and some of washington.

maybe there will be another quake?
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