earthquake!

[FrontlineWarrior]

felt taht in LA

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

you beat me to it you bastard

i'm here in riverside

 

[SuepaFly]

Dang it, I just posted too

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

yea, I posted it too, quicker than me. I'm on the westside too, I wonder if it was near us, or if it was far away

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Magnitude 4.5 - local magnitude (Ml)
Time Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 4:20:15 AM (PST)
Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 12:20:15 (UTC)
Distance from Big Bear City, CA - 6 km (3 miles) N (10 degrees)
town of Big Bear Lake, CA - 10 km (6 miles) NE (38 degrees)
Lucerne Valley, CA - 17 km (11 miles) SSE (147 degrees)
San Bernardino, CA - 48 km (30 miles) ENE (61 degrees)
Coordinates 34 deg. 18.8 min. N (34.314N), 116 deg. 50.6 min. W (116.843W)
Depth 7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Location Quality Poor

 

[JonnyDuke]

Kewl... natural disaster report as it happens...LOL

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

4 miles N of Big Bear City, California
(ID 13935988)
FEB 22 2003
04:19:10 PST
5.2

 

[SuepaFly]

Cool, thanks for the info. USGS website?

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

yup
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

looks like from the map that it was two of them, a 4.5 and a 5.2. I barely felt the 2nd one.

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/117-34.htm

 

[Eli]

I can't find it on the map..

On the site now..

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov

Edit: Okay, found it.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/FaultMaps/117-34.htm

 

[bUnMaNGo]

grr I got woken up by the earthquake hehe

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

5.2 is not bad. i can deal with a whole lot of 5.2's

 

[Copperman]

i'll tell you what

I live in Ohio and man I couldn't handle a earthquake

That scares me just thinking about it

Cliff

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

I don't get out of bed for anything less than a 6. I wouldn't have felt this one if I wasn't awake. No one in my house woke up. Looks like it was a mess of little aftershocks, rattled something loose up in big bear

3.6 2003/02/22 04:25:00 34.320N 116.858W 5.9 6 km ( 4 mi) N of Big Bear City, CA
2.8 2003/02/22 04:24:47 34.323N 116.845W 2.2 7 km ( 4 mi) N of Big Bear City, CA
2.3 2003/02/22 04:24:23 34.316N 116.847W 4.2 6 km ( 4 mi) N of Big Bear City, CA
3.0 2003/02/22 04:23:10 34.356N 116.864W 0.7 10 km ( 6 mi) N of Big Bear City, CA
3.3 2003/02/22 04:22:39 34.309N 116.845W 4.0 5 km ( 3 mi) N of Big Bear City, CA
4.2 2003/02/22 04:21:32 34.317N 116.856W 1.2 6 km ( 4 mi) N of Big Bear City, CA
4.5 2003/02/22 04:20:15 34.314N 116.843W 7.9 6 km ( 3 mi) N of Big Bear City, CA
5.2 2003/02/22 04:19:10 34.315N 116.850W 2.9 6 km ( 3 mi) N of Big Bear City, CA

http://www.scecdc.scec.org:3128/recenteqs/Maps/117-34.html

 

[Mill]

If it was a 9.5 would you have gotten out of bed?

 

[SuepaFly]

Originally posted by: bUnMaNGo
grr I got woken up by the earthquake hehe

And heads right to the computer to post, thats dedication for you.

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

Originally posted by: The Dancing Peacock
I don't get out of bed for anything less than a 6. I wouldn't have felt this one if I wasn't awake. No one in my house woke up. Looks like it was a mess of little aftershocks, rattled something loose up in big bear

none of my family woke up either. i wasn't even sure it was an earthquake for a while. i thought maybe i was shaking my legs too much hehehe.
they just mentioned it on foxnews. for like 3 seconds. heh

 

[bUnMaNGo]

Originally posted by: The Dancing Peacock
Looks like it was a mess of little aftershocks, rattled something loose up in big bear

I wonder if there was any snow up there to cause an avalanche or something though

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Originally posted by: Millennium
If it was a 9.5 would you have gotten out of bed?

a 9.5 I wouldn't have a bed left. That sh;t would rock anyones world. I'd probably be underwater if there was a 9.5 here. I'm about 1/2 mile from the ocean. I can't remember, but for every 3/10's its one order of magnitude worse. It's not a linear scale of force. Lemme see if I can find it.

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

Originally posted by: Millennium
If it was a 9.5 would you have gotten out of bed?

i would have gotten out of socal

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

i thought it was every .1 = 10x

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Originally posted by: The Dancing Peacock

Originally posted by: Millennium
If it was a 9.5 would you have gotten out of bed?

a 9.5 I wouldn't have a bed left. That sh;t would rock anyones world. I'd probably be underwater if there was a 9.5 here. I'm about 1/2 mile from the ocean. I can't remember, but for every 3/10's its one order of magnitude worse. It's not a linear scale of force. Lemme see if I can find it.

Here it is:

he Richter Scale is logarithmic, meaning that whole-number jumps indicate a tenfold increase. In this case, the increase is in wave amplitude. That is, the wave amplitude in a level 6 earthquake is 10 times greater than in a level 5 earthquake, and the amplitude increases 100 times between a level 7 earthquake and a level 9 earthquake. The amount of energy released increases 31.7 times between whole number values.

from: http://science.howstuffworks.com/earthquake6.htm

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

i stand corrected

 

[Eli]

A 9.5 would be incredible. There would be very little standing... that wasn't under water.