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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2019 13:43:18 GMT -8
California is doing a lot of rockin and rolling here lately.........everyone on this forum ok?
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Post by nikeajax on Jul 6, 2019 13:57:57 GMT -8
Michael, that was a very stiff jolt, 6.4, with who knows how many aftershocks, but it's epicenter was in the middle of nowhere: thank you for asking! The epicenter was situated between Death Valley and Bakersfield in the Mojave Desert. The Loma Prieta EQ from 89 was a 6.9, and it was in the middle of the World Series between the A's and Giants, 64 people lost their lives in that one: the reason why it was so low was because of the Series, people were trying to stay away from the traffic. I live about 1/4-mile from the Hayward fault, which is part of the San Andreas system: it is long over due: the last time it had a catastrophic failure in 1868, and before the SF quake in 1906 was know as "The Great San Francisco earth Quake". One of my permanent book marks is: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/I like to keep an eye on what the faults are doing: they are really swarming down there, but that is to be expected for such a big movement... JB EDIT The one that jolted Napa, CA in 2014 was a 6.0 and the 1906 SF EQ is estimated as a 7.9 and the Good Friday Alaska EQ of 1964 was a mind boggling 9.4
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Post by SeaRat on Jul 6, 2019 14:58:53 GMT -8
I hear that this morning's new quake was 7.1 on the Richter scale. I think it was mainly to the south of most of our people here. Hopefully, everyone's okay.
John
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Post by nikeajax on Jul 6, 2019 15:36:27 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2019 15:48:56 GMT -8
Stay safe guys and stay off Hiwy 170 or whatever that hiway is near Ridgecrest, there is a section that is totally toast from the new photos.
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Post by nikeajax on Jul 6, 2019 16:34:08 GMT -8
There're towns out there that they send people who are in the "witness protection program" to keep them safe; that's how out there this area is! I know of one where gas was 6bux a gallon in 2004! Also, this is the area that they had the "Uranium Rush" in the mid-1950's...
JB
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Jul 7, 2019 4:26:07 GMT -8
Dramatic pictures of the effects of the 'quake and a video of shocked CBS newsreaders reacting to it on the BBC website at California earthquake: Power 'restored to most' after 7.1-magnitude quake. Personally, I've only experienced one earthquake. Not in San Francisco, which I have visited several times over the years, but in a castle in West Germany's former capital city, Bonn, where I was spending my first night on a course for German teachers. My first thought was that the castle was haunted, so I just pulled the bedsheet over my head to hide! The epicentre of the earthquake was of all places in Holland, which almost never has tremors. DRW
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 5:46:05 GMT -8
I experienced a tiny shaker in Lima Peru once........3 or 3.5....something small.......at night in bed.......that was all I wanted......my wife, who is from there, just laughed. In all the time I spent in the Marines when stationed in Calif. never felt anything.
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Post by nikeajax on Jul 7, 2019 7:26:24 GMT -8
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 25, 2019 16:06:14 GMT -8
Michael, don't look now but:
M 3.0 - 66km W of Mentone, Texas
M 2.9 - 41km SSE of Pecos, Texas
Last week my wife and I were watching the teevee and a sharp jolt hit the house: it was a something like a M 2.6, about 1/2 mile due north of our house. We adopted two new kittens about a month ago and at the time I was the thinking, "What he heck are they up to now... Oh, that's an earthquake!"
JB
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Post by snark3 on Aug 26, 2019 12:08:36 GMT -8
To all my friends in California- I hope everybody is OK. Please be safe. We don't get many quakes here in New England, and when we do they're usually small.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2019 13:57:42 GMT -8
Michael, don't look now but: M 3.0 - 66km W of Mentone, Texas M 2.9 - 41km SSE of Pecos, Texas JB JB, that might as well be on the Moon.....Pecos is almost as far from me as it is from you.......there are several old extinct volcanoes south of Pecos......I imagine there is a very old fault line around there as well, that finds some energy to slip a tad.
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 26, 2019 15:03:01 GMT -8
Nawww, it's us Californians comin' ta get you: inchin' closer an' closer! Of course you Texans'd probly say it was just ol' Pecos Bill stampin' his foot or somethin'
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 8:54:15 GMT -8
Nawww, it's us Californians comin' ta get you: inchin' closer an' closer! Of course you Texans'd probly say it was just ol' Pecos Bill stampin' his foot or somethin' Well, Ol' Pecos was a legend, but we did have a few real Texans who could fit his personna and they did a lot of shaking up way back when......Big Foot Wallace, Jack Hays and Frank Hamer and a old commercial diver and dive shop owner who is retired and sold his shop and perhaps no longer with us, Don Reese. (haven't gone by the old shop in ages, been there for 40 years in present location, first location is where I started doing business with him in 1967, 52 years ago. Oldest dive shop still operating in Fort Worth).
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 8, 2020 14:35:37 GMT -8
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