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Please tell how things are following 5.8 mag. quake if you are in California and Southwest; thanks very much.
Up in the Fresno area, I did not feel it myself, nor did anyone that I've talked to.
On CNN they said there was no damage, which is good, but they also have said they some folks as far as Las Vegas had felt it, so I don't know, folks in Bakersfield or as far as up here and fresno or even the Bay may have felt it too?---
Any of ya guys in the Bay Area feel it?
Or anyone down in SoCal where it happened?
I work in Burbank, in a large building thats on rollers. It felt so minor in the building, like the building was doing a slight hula. I didn't even think it was more than a 3-4.
It was not felt in the Bay Area. I was on the 7th floor of a building that's designed to flex, and frequently does during high winds. I felt nothing. LA is over 400 miles from SF. The quake they had was comparable to one in San Jose last fall. That one was felt throughout the Bay Area, but not in LA.
When I lived in the East, I used to track hurricanes all the time on the NOAA site. Now I watch quakes here:
USGS Quake Site
And here I look at Weather Underground and the Vaisala Lightning strike map to track severe storms and lightning so I guess we all have our location specific monitoring tools : )
anyway I'm glad the quake wasn't as bad as I had first feared -- I forgot that 5.8 is slightly mild.
My house was rockin' and rollin' today.
I was working at home.
The pool water was moving back and forth.
It was a little unnerving.
The initial shake wasn't much but after a short pause, another shake followed.
That always gives me pause.
Wondering if the intensity will increase.
But all is well that ends well, I suppose.
Peace,
josh
My son, who just moved to the LA area, called to say he was fine, and to complain that he'd been there for less than a month and they were already having quakes.
Jim
High!
In the Cologne area, we had a 5.7 mag quake in April 1992... one person was injured, several houses damaged (such as cracks in walls), but no major destruction. To me, it was an awing experience - I lived on the 9th floor back then, had been awaken by the first jolt, and as the second one struck, I felt that the whole building was about to fall on its side.
Normally, perceivable earthquakes are very rare here (some minor quakes are triggered by extensive soft coal mining nearby, due to sinking groundwater tables) - but as Cologne lies on a fault line, the outlook towards a major quake (according to calculations, up to 7.8 mag!) some day isn't entirely far-fetched...
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
I must correct myself: it was 6.0 mag, and throughout the whole affected area, 40 people had been injured and about 500 buildings damaged! But most incidents happed further west, not in Cologne itself...
Back in February 2001, Seattle got a 6.8 quake. I was at school, in the gym for the church service, and we all went outside following the shake. Seattle did get minor damage. It just so happened that it was on Ash Wednesday. That was the second quake I remember getting in Seattle.
For more information on that earthquake, look up on google.
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