California Earthquakes???

[angelsmom10]

I came across this site and was wondering if this is an everyday occurance to have this many earthquakes/aftershocks in CA.
 
http://www.data.scec.org:3128/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

[griffsmom]

I wouldn't be surprised, but at such small magnitudes, we don't feel them. They are only picked up by the seismolgy instruments.
 
 
As a native Californian, I'd rather face an earthquake than a tornado, hurricane, or significant flooding. Of course, God willing, may none of us be in such a position to have to experience any of these catastrophes of nature.

[calstate360]

Contrary to popular belief not all of California gets hit with earthquakes.
We're about 35mi from the one earlier in Ione and I would not have known about it without checking the link. I was born 9 mi from here and in 51 years have only felt 2 and the first one I had no idea what it was. The second I was on the 12th floor of a building and felt a minor sway. We also don't get 365 days of sunshine, or any snow, and it rarly freezes.
I can spend most days of the year kicked back on the patio with a cup of coffee. (Home and the Camper).
Although retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be, it does have it's benefits.:sombraro:
Sal

[towrod]

I wouldn't be surprised, but at such small magnitudes, we don't feel them. They are only picked up by the seismolgy instruments.
 
 
As a native Californian, I'd rather face an earthquake than a tornado, hurricane, or significant flooding. Of course, God willing, may none of us be in such a position to have to experience any of these catastrophes of nature.

Ditto that!
I think I've felt 3 in all my years in California and neve had any damage within 75 miles. I would much rather ride out temblor than a tornado. :yikes:

[mike4947]

Sacto invited me out last year but I had to decline. Friends in CA had told me to stay out of the state. Seems I've been there 4 times over 25 years and every time was a major quake.

They are afraid if I come out again it'll be the big one that sends CA either to the bottom or sailing toward Japan.

[Camperroo]

After shocks are very common but you don't usually notice them. I experienced a couple of 6.0's when living in southern LA, they definitely made the floor in the house move back and forth, strange sensation, but they were over relatively quickly.  The thing I hated more than the earthquake is just that the TV news stations wouldn't stop running info on them all day and then of course the big interviews with the specialists saying yes...this could eventually lead to the big one...

[birol]

I have a job offer from a company located in CA paying 200K grand but now that I found about this situation, I will pas it  :eyecrazy:  :eyecrazy:  :p  

[griffsmom]

The thing I hated more than the earthquake is just that the TV news stations wouldn't stop running info on them all day and then of course the big interviews with the specialists saying yes...this could eventually lead to the big one...

What's even worse than their coverage of earthquakes?  Any slow-speed car chase on one of our freeways, or heaven forbid...A RAINSTORM, otherwise called "Storm Watch 2004" :banghead:

[abbear]

Based on this site, I'd be careful if I was living in the midwest.



One of the biggest earthquakes in US history was near Island #10 on the Mississippi (between Missouri and Tennessee).  A 9 point something.  Felt for hundreds of miles.

[Starcraft Dad]

When I lived in Tenn, I was surprised to learn we had earthquakes all the time.  But because they were so small and the bedrock, we never felt them.  I have felt two of them here in Michigan.  The first one when I was a kid and the other a few years ago.  The epicenter was in Penn, but we felt it here.  I worked nights and was asleep during the day.  Just about 3 pm I felt a bounce on the bed like someone sat on it.  I thought someone was in the house so I grabbed the ball bat and went through the house.  No one there.  It was just about time for me to get up anyway so I turned on the T.V.  Thats when they came across with a news report that we had an earthquake.  Sure surprised me I must say.

[campingboaters]

We had an earthquake last September on the east coast.  I believe the epi-center was in Maryland, but it was felt all the way in Pennsylvania.  I felt it, but chaulked it up to still being a bit motion sick after a ferry ride.  It wasn't until later that I turned on the TV and realized what was really going on.  :eyecrazy:
 
I was in San Francisco during an earthquake when I was a teen.  My cousin knew exactly when it was coming because something was rattling that only rattles during an earthquake.  For the two seconds before the big part of the earthquake hit (and for the 3-4 seconds during), my friend and I were scared whit-less!  :swear:
 
We had a pretty big earthquake centered in central Pennsylvania (near Reading) a few years back, so they are EVERYWHERE!  :yikes:
 
I've also experienced a SMALL tornado that ripped through our area during the night (June 1998).  When they say it sounds like a freight train coming through, they were right!  Luckily, in the time I was trying to decide whether to grab my daughter out of her bed and run to the basement with DH, it passed and we were fortunate enough to not have damage -- unlike many others in our area.
 
Of the earthquakes and tornadoes I've experienced, I'll take the earthquakes.

[Steve-o-bud]

We have earthquakes that I can feel about 10 times, every day. It's SUV's passing by, with their Bling Bling wheels, and boom boom car stereo systems.

But, actualy, in my 41+ years here, I have never had major damage from a quake. I try to keep things in perspective, because you can't rely on the TV media for any sort of intellegent coverage.

Even our more serious earthquakes cause significant damage to generally small areas. For instance, the Whittier quake damaged a bit of downtown Whittier, a small area, with older buildings. However, on the TV news we get endless, nonsesensical drival, the same pictures of the same damaged chiminey or storefront. And don't forget the obligatory picture of items knocked off the store shelves. From the TV news, you would think that the whole city of Whittier was in ruins, but that wasn't nearly the case.

Even on most of our brush fires, we see over and over the same burned up house, with only the chiminey standing.

Not to say that it isn't terrible, because if you are one of the few people actually impacted, it is truly a disaster. But, in perspective, 99.99% of our population is not impacted. Our homes stay habitable, we are not injured or killed, and at most we have a glass vase that falls off a shelf. As my yardstick, I figure: have I, or anyone I know, or anyone they know, been impacted? If not, it is a pretty localized event. And most of the them are.

There are exceptions. Last year's October fire storm was huge. It was amazing to see the lame TV news media running about, trying to be important, but not beig able to get a handle on any of it because there was just too much going on.

The Northridge Quake was a biggie. Significant damage, over a significantly large area. Even with that, there was a pretty low loss of life, although that is small consolation to anyone who lost someone.

We are constantly reminded by the news that the BIG ONE is ready to happen any day. Half jokeingly, I say, let's get the BIG ONE over with today, because I'm kind of tired of hearing about it, and waiting for it, and worrying about it all my life. So...I'll take my quakes and brushers, and the Bling Bling Boom Boom...

[aw738]

I want to ask a stupid question of anyone who lives in California. If people's houses keep burning down because of the trees growing around them why don't they cut the trees?  :confused:

[calstate360]

I want to ask a stupid question of anyone who lives in California. If people's houses keep burning down because of the trees growing around them why don't they cut the trees? :confused:

It's usually not the trees but the brush that never seems to be cleared. If they would just clear the brush back a good distance from the buildings they would have a better chance.
Do you know how hard it is to cut down a tree out here thanks to the tree huggers? Especially if it's old growth! A better solution would be to stop money hungry developers and tax strapped counties from letting them build in the woods to begin with. Then the yuppies would not have vacation homes where they have no clue on how to live with nature.
Sal