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...felt the 6.5 quake off the Lost Coast less than an hour ago. Made my monitor bob and weave a little while watching a video of some Vietnam Era Black Ops guy talking about trying to recover his memories of just what the hell he did over there. Didn't lose any service, but did decide to stand in the doorway for a few moments....
I'm thinking there has been so little response from Petrolia thus far because everybody's still trying to pick their computers up off the floor.... Or... maybe they all have them bolted to their desks and walls like they have always had their TVs....
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Wait, were there more than one?
ReplyDeletemy bad - lotsa quakes.
ReplyDeleteI guess no tsunami
One large quake at 4:27pm. One second of shaking. Stopped for one second. One more second of shaking. Done. But, yes, lotsa quakes today.
ReplyDeleteThe image link takes you to the USGS page that shows it was a 6.5 magnitude, offshore a few miles from Ferndale. Mouse over the map and you see where it was felt and how strongly.
ReplyDeleteThere's almost no chance you wouldn't have felt it if you were awake. Easy to sleep through though.
ReplyDeleteThat's a shaky spot up there. I read 28,000 electric meters aren't spinning. Milpitas had a quake yesterday. Hmmmm.
ReplyDeleteI wish one of them was MY electric meter....
ReplyDeleteI was driving on the way to the feed store and didn't feel anything, however there were lots of reports from around here of water sloshing out of swimming pools. We're over 300 miles from the epicenter. Many reports from Grass valley and Yuba City of people actually feeling it.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Loma Prieta hit in '89 the local news had just started when suddenly the hot spots from the stage lighting started dancing around the backdrop. We felt a wave of nausea, but not movement. I turned and looked at the dinning room chandelier and it was swaying about six inches side to side and the water in the aquarium was rushing from one end to the other, spilling over the ends.
The Loma Prieta hit about fifteen minutes after my friends left the campgrounds where the epicenter was. They were driving down the road when it suddenly became nearly impossible to keep the car on the road. Everyone on the road came to a stop until the shaking stopped. Once they started moving again they only made it a couple more miles before they came to a stop. Land slides had blocked the road. They finally made it to Castroville at about 5 am the next morning - out of gas.
ReplyDeleteThe power was out so the gas stations were shut down. By that evening the owner of the gas station they parked at showed up with a generator and got the pumps going so they could continue. They had to drive almost to Fresno to find roads that were open to make it back to Sacramento three days later.
I was awake. Didn't notice a thing. Neither did the cat.
ReplyDeleteWell, the intensity distribution seems to be stronger to the north and lighter to the south. There were far more people reporting it in Willits than in Ukiah and Lakeport. There was a 2.5 earthquake about equal distance between Healdsburg and Lakeport forty-five minutes before the 6.5 one off Ferndale.
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