Earthquake!

[VF21]

Did you feel it?

A 6.5 quake hit off the coast of Northern California at 4:27 p.m. I felt it here...

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

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc71338066.htm

 

[xrzn]

Nothing here in Los Angeles.

Hope everyone is ok up above.

 

[VF21]

It was 22 miles west of Ferndale, and some 224 miles from Sacramento. I generally don't even feel those quakes... it was a roller, not a shaker if you know what I mean.

 

[VF21]

Several smaller quakes have occurred, including one centered about 20 miles from me, near LaPorte. That one was only a 2.7, though, and I didn't feel it - most likely as I was outside talking with my neighbor about the bigger one and didn't notice my windchimes swaying.

 

[6th]

Well, I don't know what I was doing, but I didn't even notice it. I was probably too busy winning at poker. lol

 

[xrzn]

Warning signs of 2012! UH OH

When was the last time you guys had an earthquake you felt? I really can't remember any significant quakes that happened in recent memory down here.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Felt it rather intensely here in Arcata. I was a couple miles away at my sister's house when it happened and was surprised to find out nothing shifted or fell down when i got back home. Close to the epicenter there was both rolling and shaking and it lasted a good while.

 

[6th]

Felt it rather intensely here in Arcata. I was a couple miles away at my sister's house when it happened and was surprised to find out nothing shifted or fell down when i got back home. Close to the epicenter there was both rolling and shaking and it lasted a good while.

Glad you checked in GGG. Was thinking about you when I heard this. Happy to hear that all is well.

 

[VF21]

We also have a member in Eureka, if memory serves. I hope he/she is okay. Thus far, the news - the little I watched between football plays - hasn't reported any significant damage.

 

[PurpleHaze]

Warning signs of 2012! UH OH

When was the last time you guys had an earthquake you felt? I really can't remember any significant quakes that happened in recent memory down here.

I bought my Sacramento area home in 1984 and can only remember two quakes I felt living here. The first one was famous Loma Prieta quake (7.1) in 1989 that struck hard in Bay Area. I was driving home from work and was at a stop light with the radio on. I was listening to World Series game between Athletics and Giants. All the sudden the red light was swaying a bit, my car bouncing a tiny bit and the announcers saying something about experiencing an earthquake. I was less than 5 minutes from my house so when I got inside I saw all the news and that game at Candlestick had been canceled. Just before dark I went into the backyard and my spa which is built into the deck had experienced a minor tsunami, with about a quarter of the water splashed out.

Only other quake I felt was around late 90s when there was one centered near Lake Tahoe (I think around 5.6) jolting me in bed in early morning just as I was about to get up. Very minor and really barely felt it.

Sacramento is one of the few big metro areas in the California unlikely to suffer a major quake with only known faults relatively close by around Oroville, near Vacaville and maybe a small one up by Auburn. Not that it couldn't happen here, but more likely the "big one" strikes with more devastating affect elsewhere in the state.

 

[VF21]

Sacramento is one of the few big metro areas in the California unlikely to suffer a major quake with only known faults relatively close by around Oroville, near Vacaville and maybe a small one up by Auburn. Not that it couldn't happen here, but more likely the "big one" strikes with more devastating affect elsewhere in the state.

The devastating effects to Sacramento would come when Oroville Dam bursts and/or the San Andreas fault opens up enough to allow ocean water to flood the entire central valley.

If you drive up near Chico, you can actually see what once was the shoreline of a long-ago inland sea. It could easily be that again...and Sacramento would be under a couple of hundred feet of water.

 

[PurpleHaze]

The devastating effects to Sacramento would come when Oroville Dam bursts and/or the San Andreas fault opens up enough to allow ocean water to flood the entire central valley.

If you drive up near Chico, you can actually see what once was the shoreline of a long-ago inland sea. It could easily be that again...and Sacramento would be under a couple of hundred feet of water.

It would be very hard if not impossible for Oroville dam to "burst" since it's not concrete but all dirt. In fact, it's highest dirt-fill dam in the U.S.

I tend not to be an alarmist about such things, but am well aware of long geological history of California and the entire west coast. The biggest danger to Sacramento is from seasonal flooding along on Sacramento River and American River watershed. Of course, if the Folsom Dam (which I live close to) was ever compromised by huge water surge from ragging south ,middle and north forks of the American River all feeding it - could be a problem. A quake (again, not likely to be that big around here) that actually cracked massive concrete and steel damn structure - could be a problem. I lose no sleep and don't have expensive flood insurance like folks who live in Natomas, Pocket and few other areas locally where it's required. I've never met anyone in Sacramento area with earthquake insurance, although my sister who lives in Ventura County has it.

 

[Entity]

I felt nothing here in alabama. But it is is 20 degrees here which is weird for us.

 

[Tomcat]

It was probably the biggest quake I felt since moving from Sacramento to Humboldt County in Fall of 1992. I was knocked to the floor when the quake happened. Surprisingly nothing fell out of my kitchen cabinets or china hutch. My chandelier over the table fell off its hook and was shaking violently.

Seems like Eureka and Ferndale took the brunt of the losses. I was in Eureka today visiting my grandmother in the hospital and a lot of the old non-reinforced brick buildings are damaged while passing by. Thankfully no one died in the quake.

 

[Jechtsphere]

I live in Antioch, I swear we are just far enough from earthquakes that we never have one really.

Lived here for 15 years and the best was it felt like a soft vibration on the ground lol

 

[crutonimo]

Another Humboldtian here..
The Earthquake was bad...but the worst part was that it knocked out the NBC feed up here...20 MINUTES BEFORE THE EAGLES/COWBOYS GAME

There was nowhere to watch football up here....Atleast it wasnt a a Kings game that got knocked out

 

[Tomcat]

Another Humboldtian here..
The Earthquake was bad...but the worst part was that it knocked out the NBC feed up here...20 MINUTES BEFORE THE EAGLES/COWBOYS GAME

There was nowhere to watch football up here....Atleast it wasnt a a Kings game that got knocked out

I was so mad about not having the Cowboys game available on NBC in Eureka. I ended up watching the NBC feed on the Sports Mix channel on my DirecTV - more or less I listened to it. I have Over The Air local channels for TV and they were all knocked out except for KEET (PBS) after the earthquake. Radio stations did a great job of getting information out though.

It was good to see the Kings game. It helped to calm my nerves!