WHEEEEEE! Who needs roller coasters when you have FAULTLINES?

[athelind]

We just had a decent-sized quake here in the South Bay:



I was surprised that it was only a 5.6. The only other time I've experienced this much shaking that lasted this long -- more than a minute -- was during the Loma Preita quake of '89. I keep forgetting that I was more than sixty miles from the epicenter of that quake -- I was maybe 12-15 miles from this one. The waves were long and rolling, and we heard a deep, low rumble over the rattling and shaking of the house and furnishings. There's no structural damage that I can see, and nothing fell over.

For Bay Area folks who want to keep tabs on recent quakes:

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-37.htm

So, to pick on the two people I can think of who are new to the area: susandeer, bigtig, what did you think? Was this a trick, or a treat?

Comments

[svashtar.livejournal.com]

No information on which fault the quake was centered? I've been keeping an eye on the USGS site for the past few minutes.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Looks like the Calveras fault.

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for casual shakings. ^^() Some large fellow must have been partying extra hard. Hopefully there's no damage to anything.

[jakebe.livejournal.com]

Treat. :)

-J

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

Icon Love~

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Ah, good times. I got to sit this one out -- I'm in the Sierra Nevada -- but it sure brought back memories of LP.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

I was on City of Villains when it happened, talking about earthquake machines. Sorry about that.

[shdragon.livejournal.com]

I've only been here a little over a year, I guess that means I don't count as 'new' anymore, huh?

And it scared the bajeebus out of me, personally. I'm a firm believer that the ground shouldn't move. :P

[athelind.livejournal.com]

You're "new" until you get to ride the seismic roller coaster.

Congrats -- NOW you don't count as "new"!

[shdragon.livejournal.com]

Oh, then I'm afraid I actually didn't count as new for this one. :( That was the third that I can remember off the top of my head since I've been out here.

One smaller one a couple months after I moved that scared the daylights out of me. One tiny one that woke me up in the middle of the night that scared the absolute crap out of me. And that one last night, which was the strongest I've felt, that scared the screaming heebie jeebies out of me.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Well, as you may have read elsewhere, that was the strongest quake to his the Bay Area since the '89 Loma Prieta, so gettin' the heebie-jeebies scared out of you is ENTIRELY appropriate.