Magnitude

[desert_sailing]

Having lived in Alaska for 10 years, I felt plenty of them. I am fascinated by them. They sure have a way of making one realize how insignificant we humans are. Witness to the power of the planet.. truly humbling!

As long as there is no loss of life/injury I will go on that ride.

Yes Virginia, the Earth IS alive.

 

[crofter]

.... Witness to the power of the planet.. truly humbling!....

The felt map was all the way to the Bay area.

So sad about that stretch of road though, it was so nice and smooth. Now a 40 foot pothole in my fave highway. Sure hope they put up a bump sign so I don't fall in there.
-crofter

 

[desert_sailing]

95 is a beauty but in my section of it here in central Idaho it is soo very dangerous. Several fatalities and far more accidents than I would like. It is usually off limits to me unless absolutely no other way around it. Nice scenery but too many people not paying enough attention. 

My skin is crawling at the mere thought of it.

 

[crofter]

Check this out, on quake echoes.
-crofter

Description: link to article.
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-scientists-unexpected-widespread-earth-core.html

 

[Qxxx]

So, is that the "fourth" shoe to drop now?

#1. 500,000 covid deaths worldwide.
#2. worst economic meltdown since the 1930s.
#3. half the population just plain fed up with everything.
#4. the pacific ocean splits the earth in half. ????

Fun always comes in quadruples.

 

[crofter]

5.8 in Lone Pine CA.  -c

Description: link to shake map.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci39493944/executive#dyfi

 

[crofter]

More broken plates in El Centro, 5.3 magnitude with aftershocks reported at the south end of Salton Sea. About 100 miles from the epicenter, I was sitting in a chair reading, and felt like I was driving over a washboard. Now my led reading lamp is flickering like crazy. Hmmm.

More later on this. Link to site.
-crofter

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/ea...5-2021-8-km-WNW-of-Calipatria-California.html

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci39919392/executive

 

[crofter]

Still finding quake damage, the bricks were pushed up out of the driveway and it self destructed. Never seen set bricks do that. I spent yesterday resetting them all (brick set on sand base over gravel). The larger brick survived but the smaller 4x8s broke into pieces. So that was what that popping sound during the quake was.

Can't get concrete work done right now, so I reset the rubble with some big ones placed for stability.

Also, the concrete curbs broke. They are done in 10 foot sections and many broke into multiple pieces. Hope someone is checking the bridges.
-crofter

 

[crofter]

Oh, there were 603 quakes according to this report. I tried counting them, like counting sheep. But no wonder that it broke up the bricks & concrete slabs.
-crofter

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/05/us/earthquakes-california-mexico-border/index.html

 

[crofter]

Another swarm of 292 low magnitude quakes in that same spot today and guess what, the water main just broke again. Here is the link to USGS custom search for salton sea area. I'm waitin for the big one tomorrow.
-crofter

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqu...:-116.494,"minmagnitude":1,"orderby":"time"}}

 

[crofter]

Rocks reported on Hwy 395 after quake, near Walker on the Cali NV state line.
-crofter

https://www.sfgate.com/earthquakes/article/earthquake-Highway-395-Coleville-Boulders-16303750.php

 

[wayne49]

My son lived in Hell Centro for a year, he tells me that there were always minor quakes in the Salton Sea area.

Currently, there is some drilling going on in that area for resource extraction.

He was working in the local newspaper offices the day a big quake hit El Centro. Hid under his desk, then went out and did interviews, captured images, and wrote the news article, which then got picked up by RT (evil Russian news site).

Now he does think about the Cascadia Fault and an overdue big one, but he doesn't obsess about it as much as when he first moved from El Centro to the PNW.

 

[crofter]

8.2 off Alaska. Link to article includes the spaghetti model of magnitude.
-crofter

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...-years-strikes-alaska-heres-what-we-can-learn
via Natgeo App
https://www.nationalgeographic.app/

 

[desert_sailing]

Called a friend up there the morning of this quake.. 3 of my friends all together. When I asked them how was it.. not a SINGLE one was aware of that quake. They argued about it for nearly 10 minutes until they actually looked it up.

Ohh indeed how the media likes to scare us. 

There wasn't even a tsunami to speak of... (lower than high tide).

No doubt, to the majority of Alaskans this was a nothing burger.

 

[crofter]

Good to hear your friends ok. The article lists the depth of the quake and distance from population centers reduced damage.

Media scare? Prob not from Nat Geo, more of a science mag. I am only scared of quakes when the building I am in is moving.
-crofter