Earthquake!

[debilorrah]

Shoot HOWDY! 6.9 in Baja, CA. I felt it all the way up here!!!!

 

[barred-rocks-rock]

Just saw it on the news! Hope everyone is OK

 

[Lolita]

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[77horses]

Wow! Another one?? I didn't feel it though.

Hope everyone is OK!

 

[PotterWatch]

I was out putting up some tomato cages and didn't even feel it. Dave and the kids were inside relaxing after our seder meal (left it a bit late this year), and they apparently really felt it. I had no idea anything had happened until Dave came out and told me.

 

[ChooksChick]

My sister's in Venice- wonder how she felt about it if she felt it...Kansas girls laugh at tornadoes, but earthquakes are weird!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Didn't feel anything...but I've been asleep ALL day!

Getting up early to cook has it's perks.

 

[saddina]

Got it here too, it just rolled and rolled, reminded me of the 89 SF quake that one just went on as well.

 

[debilorrah]

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It did go on and on!!! Apparently they are getting 5.5 aftershocks down there every few minutes. I am not feeling those.

I just heard - 45 seconds!!!! Average quake is 15 seconds. WOW!

 

[MoSo]

My son's out camping the desert this weekend, probably 35-40 miles from the epicenter and they definitely felt it. They called home to friends in the Riverside, CA, area who said that they felt it but it was minor, no damage.

As an engineering geologist - you need to look at earthquakes in a longer time frame, like, say, the last 100-200 years. All looking at them in shorter time frames does is skew perception and lead to conclusions which aren't particularly meaningful.


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/list.php?n=sc&y=2010

The highest quake is a 6.9 and the recorded aftershocks have been in the 4s. Not 5.5 and several minutes apart.