Earthquake affecting today's eggs?

[Henriettamom919]

We had a smallish earthquake at about 3am last night. It was 4.7 but the epicenter was only about a mile away from us so it shook hard enough to knock things off shelves, tip over things in the garage, etc.

I went out to check on my girls last night and while wide awake and clearly shaken they seemed okay. Went to let them out at 6am and two of them had laid right on the coop floor - one was normal enough but kind of rough and the coloring was more a marble and the other was very thin shelled.

They usually don't start laying until around 8am or later so is it possible they dropped them prematurely from having a good scare? They wouldn't leave the run for hours this morning, either and they usually free range.

 

[SueT]

We had a smallish earthquake at about 3am last night. It was 4.7 but the epicenter was only about a mile away from us so it shook hard enough to knock things off shelves, tip over things in the garage, etc.

I went out to check on my girls last night and while wide awake and clearly shaken they seemed okay. Went to let them out at 6am and two of them had laid right on the coop floor - one was normal enough but kind of rough and the coloring was more a marble and the other was very thin shelled.

They usually don't start laying until around 8am or later so is it possible they dropped them prematurely from having a good scare? They wouldn't leave the run for hours this morning, either and they usually free range.

Of course it is possible...
Why don't they tell the rest of the country about earthquakes in the NW? I would be interested to hear as we'd like to move to OR, and we're often thinking about the Cascadia subduction zone....and when it's going to slip more. What else have they reported on the news about your earthquake, and are more expected?

 

[m1chelle1]

yeah, theyre just prob a little thrown off. natural disasters does that to birds. I heard some pretty mighty distressed bird calls ALL day 4th of july because im in a legal firework zone so it was absolutely like a war zone where i live all day. that def affected all my local bird wildlife, ive never heard them so up in arms before. it was fascinating...and sad at the same time.

I digress

 

[m1chelle1]

Of course it is possible...
Why don't they tell the rest of the country about earthquakes in the NW? I would be interested to hear as we'd like to move to OR, and we're often thinking about the Cascadia subduction zone....and when it's going to slip more. What else have they reported on the news about your earthquake, and are more expected?

anywhere on the pacific coast is going to be prone to earthquakes, Washington and Oregon get plenty every year, its just that the California earthquakes suck up all of the media attention anywho, yeah at least i think thats why our earthquakes dont get much media attention.
And theryre usually larger/more destructive than ours are. but its always possible for us to have just as much of a "big one" than they (cali) are. In addition, we all are a part of the "ring of fire" meaning that any of our active volcanoes could go off. another under-realized natural disaster on the pacific coast. guess everyone already forgot about mt st helens in the 80's. guess its been long enough........

 

[IamRainey]

Sorry for the drop in production. Hope it picks up soon.

I'm pretty concerned about he quake activity on the West Coast. There were a couple significant ones north of Los Angeles in Ridgecrest on 7/4 and 5. We felt them as long slow rollers a hundred miles away in Los Angeles. The second (larger one) on the 5th made me more nervous than the Northridge quake that knocked my house off it's foundation in '94.

Just a few hours earlier they had 3 off the coast of British Columbia. Friends who live in Vancouver tell us they didn't notice them but they were 4s. And there was also one in Alaska on the 6th.

Now yours. They're not on the same faults but I can't help thinking it's significant that they're all running north and south of the coastline.

I can only hope these all all letting pressure off instead of staging for something bigger...

 

[IamRainey]

You can't drive up the 5 without taking note of one volcano after another! And we don't discuss how they're related to plate movements. I suspect we should!

It's less, I think, that our CA shakers are bigger than that they tend to occur in more populous areas and impact more people. As you say, there are quakes on a daily basis somewhere in North America but when they rattle forests and plains they just don't have the same destructive potential.

 

[AmyJane725]

Of course it is possible...
Why don't they tell the rest of the country about earthquakes in the NW? I would be interested to hear as we'd like to move to OR, and we're often thinking about the Cascadia subduction zone....and when it's going to slip more. What else have they reported on the news about your earthquake, and are more expected?

My mom tells me that eventually there is gonna be a megaquake that takes out all of western Washington, so I really try no to think about that...hopefully it kills me, because all my irreplaceable knick knacks on my shelves will be destroyed, not to mention my house, the power grid, all the stores and businesses, etc.

 

[IamRainey]

Sorry for the thread highjack but this is just too current!

I am in a disaster preparedness program. The idea is to be ready to organize the neighborhood to be self-sustaining and able to respond to emergencies for as long as 2 weeks following a major earthquake.

One of this week's lessons was that the streets of downtown LA -- where the high-rises are -- could be 8'-12' deep in debris. The buildings are built to earthquake standards but that doesn't mean they can't and won't be shedding glass and cladding up to 1 1/2 times their height. That means nothing in the streets will move which is to say no emergency vehicles and people may not be able to exit buildings whose doors are buried!

Gee! I don't think I feel like laying any eggs either...

 

[m1chelle1]

Sorry for the thread highjack but this is just too current!

I am in a disaster preparedness program. The idea is to be ready to organize the neighborhood to be self-sustaining and able to respond to emergencies for as long as 2 weeks following a major earthquake.

One of this week's lessons was that the streets of downtown LA -- where the high-rises are -- could be 8'-12' deep in debris. The buildings are built to earthquake standards but that doesn't mean they can't and won't be shedding glass and cladding up to 1 1/2 times their height. That means nothing in the streets will move which is to say no emergency vehicles and people may not be able to exit buildings whose doors are buried!

Gee! I don't think I feel like laying any eggs either...

me too!! haha!

yeah, its def good to have a "bug out" plan in these parts. Definitely always good to be prepared in some sort of way.

Grab your best laying hens on the way out!!

 

[Henriettamom919]

Our last "real" quake here in the Seattle area was in 01', I think. That was a 6.5/6.6? But the epicenter was quite a bit South so it felt more like the "rolling" type of quake. This was just a mile off and we're not in a suburb laid on concrete so these jolts knocked stuff off counters, rocked the house hard and our entire neighborhood was awake afterwards.

I used to worry about the big one but what can we really do? It was a good reminder I need to swap out my three day emergency trash can supplies and add chicken products to the human and cat supplies!