6.0 magnitude earthquake has struck near the San Francisco area
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[quote=CBC]Thousands of Californians were left without power after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook an area north of San Francisco early Sunday morning.
The earthquake hit around 3:20 a.m. local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and could easily be felt by San Francisco Bay Area residents.[/quote]
I'm all shook up about the events
This is certainly a much better thread than the one we had before on the subject.
-Scratch that, 6.0 is kinda bad-
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The one in '89 was a 6.9, wouldn't be surprised if there's a heap of infrastructure damage.
Buildings don't have to come crashing down to have critical damage.
Oh fuck. This wont trigger that huge fault line nearby, will it?
[QUOTE=Bradyns;45784859]The one in '89 was a 6.9, wouldn't be surprised if there's a heap of infrastructure damage.
Buildings don't have to come crashing down to have critical damage.[/QUOTE]
6.9 is actually a hell of a lot more powerful than 6.0
[QUOTE=callumshell;45784936]6.9 is actually a hell of a lot more powerful than 6.0[/QUOTE]
Yep. Isn't the Richter scale one of those where every full number is 10 times more powerful than the one before?
[QUOTE=Riller;45784969]Yep. Isn't the Richter scale one of those where every full number is 10 times more powerful than the one before?[/QUOTE]
Yeah. It works on a logarithmic scale. I'm Australian so i don't have a good grip on how serious earthquakes are, so if someone would like to chime in that'd be great. Although apparently the SF fault is well "overdue" for a major, major earthquake.
[QUOTE=Riller;45784969]Yep. Isn't the Richter scale one of those where every full number is 10 times more powerful than the one before?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it uses a base10 logarithm; so 6.9 is almost 10x more powerful..
Still, 6 is a whopper!
I feel like every big earthquake I've felt in Cali so far was night to early in the morning before the sun comes out
It kinda scares me 'cause I don't want my ceiling crashing down on my entire body as I'm shaken awake the last moment
Earthquakes are terrifying. I've only ever felt a 5.5 earthquake, but that was enough to scare the shit out of me once I figured out what it was.
God dammit, my sister is unlucky as fuck when it comes to colleges.
Goes to a quiet literary college in Ohio, and a family gets murdered, chopped into pieces, and stuffed in a tree.
She studies abroad in New Zealand, there's a huge earthquake there.
She goes to San Francisco to get her master's, and there's another goddamn earthquake.
I, on the other hand, leave my college in Colorado and a fire starts that very same day, and the next semester there's torrential rains, floods, landslides, etc.
Apparently it wasn't too bad, my gf lives in sf, and said it wasn't as strong as most we've had down here in south Cali. She also the only homes that really got damaged were the ones people refused to renovate.
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;45784930]Oh fuck. This wont trigger that huge fault line nearby, will it?[/QUOTE]
It could load or trigger, we'll have to give it some time.
[editline]24th August 2014[/editline]
PAGER estimates quite some loss
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[QUOTE=Last or First;45785465]God dammit, my sister is unlucky as fuck when it comes to colleges.
Goes to a quiet literary college in Ohio, and a family gets murdered, chopped into pieces, and stuffed in a tree.
She studies abroad in New Zealand, there's a huge earthquake there.
She goes to San Francisco to get her master's, and there's another goddamn earthquake.
I, on the other hand, leave my college in Colorado and a fire starts that very same day, and the next semester there's torrential rains, floods, landslides, etc.[/QUOTE]
If you're sister decides to study at UNF, let me know so I can move.
I felt that all the way out in the tri-valley area. On a springy bed, it was like being in an ocean, bobbing up and down.
I got sick yesterday so I was awake for it. I felt a quake and when it ended, I grabbed a tissue to blow my nose, felt something on my face, turned on the lights, and ants came into my room to eat my bloody tissues.
Right down the road did not feel anything.
I'm not a sensitive sleeper so I slept right through it
Shit I sleep too hard
People said they felt it in the high desert. I was sleeping too heavily
My connection in Boulder Creek said it was nothing eventful.
It was like 3:XX AM and I was about to finally fall asleep. Then there's like a weak ass 2 second quake (I don't live in SF) which kept me awake for another hour.
:suicide:
slept through it, wasn't shit.
was too passed out to notice
fuck earthquakes
I live about an hour from SF when I was going to bed last night I thought I felt my bed shake a bit. I just thought that was me moving around settling on my bed, holy shit. Reminds me of this one time about 7 years back when I was home alone and got up off my chair to take a shit when my legs started shaking; thought maybe I was sitting on my legs for too long.
Well shit. My grandpa and cousin just got on a plane to go there about 3 hours ago.
I was trying to sleep and then I felt my bed moving, I was like "the fuck" and then I heard my drapes (they're metal) make a little "tick...tick...tick..." noise and I got up and was screaming ho[B]SHIT[/B]. It was only like 5 seconds long but damn, where I live, we haven't felt an earthquake since like 2009, so shit was spoopy.
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