Earthquake off of Eureka?

[SDKing]

We just got a tsuami warning in San Diego becuase of a 7.6 quake off the coast of Eureka. Have you all heard anything about this?

 

[Fillmoe]

tsunami in SD cuz of earthquake in eureka....... i know about the earthquake it was like a 7.2 but i doubt a tsunami would reach all the way SD

 

[VF21]

Wrong, Fillmoe. If the earthquake was generated by a fault off the coast the resulting tsunami could very well affect southern California.

 

[thesanityannex]

yeah, they're saying from the Mexican border all the way to northern cali. The first wave is supposed to hit around 10:30 tonight. My buddy just called me from Arcata and said it was a decent sized quake. I felt one two days ago around 8:45 in the morning, but it was small.

 

[VF21]

Find current information here:

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

Click on the big blue square.

 

[SacTownKid]

Canceled warining.

 

[thesanityannex]

Still going off on my T.V.
Bugging the hell out of me.

 

[SDKing]

You're in SD aren't you Sanity?

 

[thesanityannex]

Long Beach now.
Grew up in SD though.
The warnings finally stopped here. Thank God.

 

[SDKing]

I live about 1 mile from the water, I was pissed that I was going to have to leave more than anything. Stupid Phil Jackson is on TV now instead

 

[hoopsfan]

yeah, they're saying from the Mexican border all the way to northern cali. The first wave is supposed to hit around 10:30 tonight. My buddy just called me from Arcata and said it was a decent sized quake. I felt one two days ago around 8:45 in the morning, but it was small.

I was down in OC on Sunday and felt that too. It was a 5.6..I was surprised, I thought my friend's little boy was jumping on my bed.

 

[SDKing]

^^^I was asleep and didn't feel a thing. It's funny because I've lived in Cali my whole life, Norcal until I was 18 and so cal for 8 more and I can only remember feeling one earthquake in my life.

 

[GoGoGadget]

^^^I was asleep and didn't feel a thing. It's funny because I've lived in Cali my whole life, Norcal until I was 18 and so cal for 8 more and I can only remember feeling one earthquake in my life.

I grew up going back and forth between parents in the Bay Area and Pasadena/Altadena and I felt several earthquakes during that time. Like any decent Los Angelino, I didn't even bother with concern unless the richter was in the high 4's.

In fact, I got in trouble once because my best friend and I stayed on the phone during an earthquake and my mother couldn't get through to make sure I was okay. I don't care what anyone says, someone has to die to interrupt high school gossip. A little rumble ain't gonna do it.

 

[HumboldtKing]

I live in Eureka and it was minor here. The epicenter was too far offshore to do any damage along the coast. The only real threat was tsunami, but we'd need a quake similar to the '64 quake to pose a real tsunami threat. There have been quakes much larger than this 7.0 off the coast of Petrolia that didn't create tsunamis. We'll get concerned when there's an 8.0+ off the coast. No worries.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/125-41.html

 

[quick dog]

Strike-slip faults apparently don't do much underwater,and I'll bet this was a strike-slip event. When I read the post I thought folks were confused and were talking about the recent swarm of southern Califonia quakes. An offshore-Eureka event would have to be a hell of a quake to do much to San Diego given the distance and coastal topography.

 

[quick dog]

It appears my guess regrding the nature of the subject fault was correct. It is woth noting that there are always large subordinate thrust faults associated with these major strike-slip fault zones. Apparently, north-coast people got lucky this time.

There has been lots of crazy speculations on the radio regarding the potential for impacts on the coast of California, including a statement by a geologist that a tidal wave could make its way up the Sacramento delta. Not true!

Places like Fort Brag, Crescent City, and Eureka, with west-facing coastlines and broad low-lying inhabited areas are at greatest risk. Beaches south of Santa Barbara might be hard to impact from a big north-coast earthquake because much of the southern California coastline faces generally southwest. The Hunting beach, the Balboa Peninsula, and Laguna Beach would be in serious trouble if there was a major earthquake in the offshore region south of Santa Catalina. Watch out Kobe!

 

[thesanityannex]

and again, another little shaker today at around 2:30 pm. 5.0 magnitude, no damage i've heard of.

 

[hoopsfan]

I remember in the mid 90's there were so many tremblers that it became old. A bunch of my friends were sitiing around when one hit...we took bets on the magnitude before we turned on the radio. I won.