We just had a big rolling Earthquake here

[NoCar2023]

We had a little roller down here earlier this week.
Been pretty quiet for a while now. My son is 20 and it was the first one he really experienced---or that he was awake for.

 

[Mike67]

yeah I'm pretty used to them
I lived in the bay area for 27 years, we had them often
it's no big deal, I keep moving east

the 14-15 years I've been/bought up here 2005- present
& the 10 years prior in Rancho Murieta 1997-2007
we don't usually feel much if anything up here

like I said we're on lots of granite & clay here,
pretty firm footing

just something to talk about, I find it interesting
not really scary, I'm a Calif. native it's old hat stuff

I'm waiting for the Hayward fault 'to snap'
that will be a bad one, it's way overdue too

I hope nothing comes of them... yall are as used to quakes as we are to hurricanes.
No much ya can really do sit back and ride it out.
Yall stay safe!

 

[MarPar]

Glad to hear you're ok Buds.

 

[eldubb440]

yes...... now please get out of there, so I can get back to rooting for "the big one"

 

[747mopar]

I've only experienced a few small ones in my life, definitely a weird feeling in Ohio.

My aunt lived in Monrovia for the better part of her life so I've heard all about the damage they can cause, glad it wasn't a big one.

 

[Hey-O]

Glad to hear you're ok Buds.

X2, be safe!

 

[ckessel]

Didn't hear about that one, good thing all is well in your area. Wonder how long till quakes get deemed as racist.

 

[Budnicks]

Hope everyone in California is okay.

Never been through an earthquake, I live pretty far from the coast so we are probably safe here but they keep saying the “big one” is coming for the Pacific Northwest. Who knows though, could be tomorrow or 10,000 years from now. Although it kicks out a 9.0 every few hundred years or so. Last one was in 1700 I believe. The one in Alaska in 64 was a big one...
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yep my stepfather was there
Anchorage at Fort Richardson US Army base
during that era, he was stationed there from 63-65
before he married my mother

said; 'it was a real wild ride'
he didn't talk much about it really
Alaska wasn't really populated in them days
even far less than today
(Anchorage now is 10 times what it was in 1964)
still devastating to have all your **** swallowed up
by earth shaken to ****
still signs of it there today
(the building are gone but there's a Burum left where it just crumbled)

'he was sort of use to earthquakes'
he said; 'he was out with National Gaurd crews helping the citizen,
dig out' etc.

but 8.? (IIRC it was org. rated at 8.4)
I have a commemorative coin from it, from when I lived there
in the mid 80's
that is 20+ - 40+ (?) times worse than what we just experienced, 5.99

Anchorage pretty much was divide by C street & 4th st
everything west of that, towards Cook Inlet
was pretty-much gone, shook to **** or sunk

 

[Budnicks]

The 64 alaska quake pictured above was a 9.2 richter. I cant concieve of the difference in power from a six or seven. I know LA would look like hiroshima 45.

seems over the years that Richter scale # keeps growing
it was org. rated at 7.9 (?) & updated to 8.4 IIRC in months after, 1964

 

[Budnicks]

yes...... now please get out of there, so I can get back to rooting for "the big one"

Where I'm at will be Oceanfront, 'sort of' beachfront property

with a 4,000+ ft cliffs, down to the beach if it did

or maybe split by a canyon of molten magma

if it spilt in 1/2 like some of the Negative Nancys'
"scientists" geologists or wild *** guessers/prognosticators
'all say it will be'

 

[33 IMP]

seems over the years that Richter scale # keeps growing
it was org. rated at 7.9 (?) & updated to 8.4 IIRC in months after, 1964

I just googled earthquake ratings.... and i am a lot more confused now. There appear to be at least tbree new,rating systems, not counting the modifications to the original Richter scale, because Richter seem to be inaccurate/inadequate after 7-something.
Some scales are logrithmic, five is ten times worse than a four, six is a hundred times, seven is a thousand, etc. Intensity (energy released) seems to be a 32x function, a six is 32 times more energy than a five.
I guess Geologists have to keep busy between quakes. So i guess the next big quake will have five correct answers as to how "big" it was.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Alaska was originally rated an 8.4 but as they reevaluated damage they raised the number, then they reevaluated the Richter scale & changed to the moment magnitude scale, then late the revised Richter scale.... End of the day Alaska was a hell of a ride with a tremendous amount of damage... Luckily the population at that time was low cause today it would likely be much worse...

 

[barnfind]

Stay safe
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