5.9 magnitude earthquake shakes northern California
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[quote=Reuters]A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck in Northern California on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.[/quote]
USGS page: [url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc71996906#summary[/url]
heh
my house just jiggled
is everyone alright???
is this a normal sized earthquake for california?
It's always bizarre, having grown up in a very earthquake prone area of California, to see the reactions of other people from other areas when they experience an earthquake themselves.
Hopefully it won't hit California as badly as past earthquakes have.
I didn't feel shit.
Woah. First a bridge collapse, then this on the same coast.
I wonder if there is a connection....
Edited: Nah.
Oh it's actually quite far from where I am (Bay Area).
I thought I was getting dizzy lol
You'll never pull me apart!
The last earthquake I felt in southern Cali would probably be in 2006-2008 and it wasn't even bad.
james bond would like there. cause it was shaken, not stirred.
Felt it, was my first
Chandelier swayed slightly, roof creaked a bit, other than that nothing much.
Southern Californian here; good luck with that, Northerners!
Huh, I didn't even feel anything.
Isn't that in a volcanically active (Geologically active, not daily news active) area, relatively far away from the subduction zone/transform fault (forget which, at the moment)? If so, this could be interesting.
I'm near Sacramento, I think I felt one of the aftershocks. Was mid-Durumu fight when my chair and the nearby door startled shaking and my parrots went nuts in their cages. Crazy D:
Didn't feel shit here in Southern California, you got this northern brothers!
Damn it, I just want to feel an earthquake, we can take it and it's exciting!
I felt it at my bible study near Sacramento. It was loads of fun. I hope it happens again.
Earthquakes are neat to experience when they're minor. I've only felt one and it was a bit of floor jiggling and then that was it. None of that training we got given throughout primary/middle/high school kicked in either - I didn't dash for a doorway or go under the desk. It was only a second or two long through, so I imagine I didn't realise what it was until after.
I wouldn't want to be a homeowner during even a mild quake though, having to inspect it all and see your home with cracks and whatnot
[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;40761913]Damn it, I just want to feel an earthquake, we can take it and it's exciting![/QUOTE]
I live far from any earthquake zone that I am aware of and even I think that I occasionally feel the [I]slightest, slightest[/I] tremors.
I didn't feel a thing. Then again I'm in SoCal. I honestly think Northern California gets the worst of it every time.
[QUOTE=FreakyMe;40761862]Isn't that in a volcanically active (Geologically active, not daily news active) area, relatively far away from the subduction zone/transform fault (forget which, at the moment)? If so, this could be interesting.[/QUOTE]
The epicenter of the quake was near Greenville which is a few miles NNW I believe of Susanville. Mount Lassen is pretty close to there and so is Shasta but I wouldn't worry too much about anything possibly happening. It would take a quake relatively more powerful than a 5.9 to cause anything to happen with Lassen or Shasta.
[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;40762321]The epicenter of the quake was near Greenville which is a few miles NNW I believe of Susanville. Mount Lassen is pretty close to there and so is Shasta but I wouldn't worry too much about anything possibly happening. It would take a quake relatively more powerful than a 5.9 to cause anything to happen with Lassen or Shasta.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I'd just worry it might be indicative of times to come. Looking at earthquake history maps, that spot isn't often too much of a shaker.
I felt it, about Sacramento here. I was pretty cool I thought.
Haha I remember when New Jersey had a little 2.1 earthquake and everyone was freaking out. I was on an insurance claim and everyone got out of their houses wondering wtf, and I tried to call my Mom and the lines were busy. I'd love to feel a bigger magnitude quake, it was such a weird sensation.
What if it's a warning sign?
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