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Did you feel the earthquake?

What earthquake? (I'm about 2.5 mi SSE of El Cajon, so I may have been out of range.)

I may be used to earthquakes and not feel / notice smaller & farther ones anyway, though. For example, I slept through Landers in 1992, Northridge in 1994, and must have completely not noticed Hector Mine in 1999, cause I just now was reminded (have seen it referenced before on Wikipedia but thought nothing of it) courtesy Wikipedia of its existence.
On the other hand, I did feel the 2010 Baja quake. With that one I could even hear which direction it was coming from as it was happening (basically mostly southeast or east/southeast). I also remember hearing (but not feeling) one around 1-4am one early morning several years ago - sound was from the east/southeast, and only seemed to last a few seconds, if that. It sounded like it was from the Tecate / Potrero / Campo direction, but I'm not finding anything online about it. I was up and working on the computer, otherwise I likely would have slept right through it.
 
KDM 7000 said:
And here I still remain an earthquake virgin :(
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Even though I'm a life-long Californian of 60 years, I am also a "virgin," unless you count the little 2 - 4 point piddly quakes.

I was an LA resident during the '71 Sylmar earthquake (6.6 on the Richter scale), but had been on the road driving for many hours, and managed to sleep through it at a friend's house in Santa Barbara. Everybody else there was awakened by it.

Then I was living in the SF Bay Area during the '89 "Loma Prieta" quake (a 7.1). I was driving to pick up my wife at the time it hit, and didn't feel a thing. When I got to her office, all the employees were standing outside on the sidewalk, acting nervous and excited. My first impression was that there had been a fire, a hostage situation, or something similar.
 
Lkeller said:
KDM 7000 said:
And here I still remain an earthquake virgin :(
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Even though I'm a life-long Californian of 60 years, I am also a "virgin," unless you count the little 2 - 4 point piddly quakes.

I was an LA resident during the '71 Sylmar earthquake (6.6 on the Richter scale), but had been on the road driving for many hours, and managed to sleep through it at a friend's house in Santa Barbara. Everybody else there was awakened by it.

Then I was living in the SF Bay Area during the '89 "Loma Prieta" quake (a 7.1). I was driving to pick up my wife at the time it hit, and didn't feel a thing. When I got to her office, all the employees were standing outside on the sidewalk, acting nervous and excited. My first impression was that there had been a fire, a hostage situation, or something similar.
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That's funny. :)
 
recto101 said:
Update KNX is reporting 2.3 and 3.x quakes in Southern California again.
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There was a swarm of 4's and 5's just a few miles southeast of the Palm Springs / Coachella Valley market today. The total number now exceeds 200, with the biggest being a 5.5.

http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20120826/NEWS0805/120826002/More-than-200-earthquakes-hit-near-Salton-Sea?odyssey=mod|breaking|text|Frontpage

I could feel all of the ones that were about a 4 or greater.
 
DavidEduardo said:
recto101 said:
Update KNX is reporting 2.3 and 3.x quakes in Southern California again.
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There was a swarm of 4's and 5's just a few miles southeast of the Palm Springs / Coachella Valley market today. The total number now exceeds 200, with the biggest being a 5.5.

http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20120826/NEWS0805/120826002/More-than-200-earthquakes-hit-near-Salton-Sea?odyssey=mod|breaking|text|Frontpage

I could feel all of the ones that were about a 4 or greater.
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Thanks for the Update.
 
Being a "Flat Lander" in Texas, the thought of the earth moving freaks my ....
But I guess you all feel the same about tornadoes.
 
Dirty little secret. LA Basin has more tornados per square km than Oklahoma. But they are all F0 and F1. Had one come through my back yard when I was living there.
 
K6JHU said:
Dirty little secret. LA Basin has more tornados per square km than Oklahoma. But they are all F0 and F1. Had one come through my back yard when I was living there.
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OT but...
Wow!
Guess you get it both ways...
Well there's always the Texas HEAT
103 today heat index 110. I learned the true meaning of severe weather in my stay in OKC..
73
NS5F
 
Being in the Pacific Northwest, we don't get earthquakes as frequently as SoCal. But when they do come, man you can FEEL them! Believe me, for all the times we go without a bump, we make up for it in one HUGE rattler.....
 
Bug on the rug said:
Dayum! Another one in Bev Hills! All the radio stations will turn into news stations in the very near future when the Big One hits! Scary stuff!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...-quake-strikes-near-beverly-hills-juef3k.html
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Well go back to February 2012 and March 2012 there were 3.x quake swarms near Vallejo in the Bay Area and it was near the North end of the Hayward Fault. At it time there are way more faults out there but we need the next big one to prove that they exist. Look at Philippines they had a 7.6 quake in Visayas area this week and back in February 2012 they had a 7.1 quake in the Visayas area too. Also Costa Rica had a 7.6 quake too this week and of Course Indonesia where its normal to have a 6.x and a 7.x quake every few weeks or months?
 
Speaking of the Cali "big one" and the reference to quakes in the Pac NW .... (somewhere I've seen a reference on Wiki that one has at times triggered the other)

I have, on one or more occasions, briefly entertained the thought of the San Andreas fault *AND* the Cascadia Subduction zone both simultaneously letting go with huge quakes (like 9.x or 10 or larger) - something that would affect the entire USA west coast. Since this is a radio board ;), I was thinking a quake big enough to topple radio & TV towers in the area, such that if you're in an affected area you'd *HAVE* to rely on skywave from a distant 50kW like WCBS, WBBM, etc. to get news.
And if that isn't enough, add having the Yellowstone Caldera blow, a plethora of F5 tornadoes through the entire midwestern US from the Rockies to the Appalacians and from Mexico & the Gulf to Canada, along with a few simultaneous Category, let's say 13 (yes I know it only goes up to 5, but you can probably guess what I mean) hurricanes hitting the gulf & Atlantic coasts .... and I suspect it'd be quite significant. :eek: In that case, I would think even the aforementioned WCBS & WBBM would be knocked off the air, so maybe we'd have to turn to TA (from England) or DU (from Australia / New Zealand) signals? :eek: (Should I stop short of having a tsunami in the Pacific *and* Atlantic caused by something that briefly enables someone who's properly positioned to get an aerial view of the ocean floor?)

Or do I just have a bit of a wild "doomsday scenario" imagination? ;)
 
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