Earth Quake in Greater Los Angeles area

[NoStateofMind]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/

No links to stories as of yet. Hope no one got hurt.

Greater Los Angeles area.

Map

From what I understand, Californians sleep through quakes this size. <shrug>

 

[compuwiz1]

No biggie

They eat those for breakfast.

 

[Darthvoy]

yeah I felt it. This one was quite stronger than the ones we've had over the last few weeks.

 

[OCGuy]

Didnt feel it here in Orange County

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: Darthvoy
yeah I felt it. This one was quite stronger than the ones we've had over the last few weeks.

Lately, how often has your area experience earth quakes?

 

[Darthvoy]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: Darthvoy
yeah I felt it. This one was quite stronger than the ones we've had over the last few weeks.

Lately, how often has your area experience earth quakes?

Over the last month I would say there have been at least three.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: Darthvoy

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: Darthvoy
yeah I felt it. This one was quite stronger than the ones we've had over the last few weeks.

Lately, how often has your area experience earth quakes?

Over the last month I would say there have been at least three.

Whoa!

Where do you live?

 

[aka1nas]

The wife and I barely felt things shake. We're probably due for another big one anytime now.

 

[jackschmittusa]

link with a few facts here

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: Darthvoy

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: Darthvoy
yeah I felt it. This one was quite stronger than the ones we've had over the last few weeks.

Lately, how often has your area experience earth quakes?

Over the last month I would say there have been at least three.

Whoa!

Where do you live?

I believe the small ones (most are) just don't get reported nationally.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
No biggie

They eat those for breakfast.

With maple syrup. There was one in my town (Berkeley) last week (3.2?) but I didn't feel it because I was 15 miles away on a shopping junket. Well, I have my maple syrup ready.

 

[Cuda1447]

Obama is the....... err, wait what? This isn't a political thread, its a news thread? /me checks forum What the fuck? Where am I?!?!?


5.0 EQ no big deal? Hrmm, glad I don't live in Cali. I'll take my hurricanes that I can see coming from two weeks away

 

[JeepinEd]

We need at least a 6 just to get our attention.

 

[Lemon law]

More importantly, given the raw number of side faults in the LA area, a quake like yesterday's has almost zero predictive value regarding an inevitable coming "big one" that sooner or later must hit LA.

And in facts its far better to relieve the stress build up in rocks at the plate boundary with a long series of very small quakes, than wait for one big one where 20 -30 feet of stored up energy is stress slip released in a matter of seconds.

 

[First]

It was a bigger quake than we've had in a while I think. I heard on the local NBC news that it was a 4.7 centered somewhere in Inglewood. It was a nice solid shake, but it wasn't a quake that would do any significant damage.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Being from the midwest and now living on the east coast, I have absolutely no idea what would be a 'big' quake and what's 'oh, that's just another little earth mover. I think we lost a couple plates and cups'
You guys on the coast are so laid back about that. Earthquakes scare the hell out of me. No place to hide at all. Except up in a plane/helicopter/blimp.....

 

[Lemon law]

No matter how big the quake, you are almost totally safe on the hypothetical grassy knoll. Just as long as its not near to something higher that is likely to fall on top of you. Usually what kills in a quake is poorly constructed building falling on sleeping occupants, in the case of the San Fransisco quake the damage was magnified by the following fire, and any higher reservoirs of water can cause local floods or landslides.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I was hoping it would have been about 5 points higher

 

[Lemon law]

I do not know why JeffL would wish for a 9.7 quake, that would be a world record class quake that the relatively weak basement rocks under the St. Andris fault could not support anyway.

Hate to tell you a 4.7 magnitude quake is not half as strong as a 9.2, we are dealing with a logarithmic scale here, and a 9,7 would be many orders of magnates stronger.

Not sure if I am totally correct, but 5 extra Richter points is 10 to the fifth or a 100,000 times stronger.

 

[Kadarin]

In the western US, a 5.0 quake typically causes zero to very minimal damage. Had the same quake hit in parts of China or Iran, we'd be hearing about 10000+ deaths and widespread damage, etc.