6.0 magnitude earthquake has struck near the San Francisco area
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Grab our drinks and walk outside lol
Barely even felt it lol
I remember when a little tremor went through Rockford
God I nearly flipped the fuck out :v:
(Not used to them, so)
It seemed there was an earthquake about 16 years ago before I was born.
I'm saying this based on my parents memory.
It was night, both of them were abed, and when mom felt the bed moving she thought it was dad masturbating or something, but knew better when she heard the ceiling fan squeak a bit.
Total damage was a crack in the wall in our utility room, and the brick wall surrounding our yard has cracks and is actually weak.
If you slam the door shut hard enough you can actually see it wobbling a bit.
[QUOTE=Bumrang;45786880]Barely even felt it lol[/QUOTE]
True Californian right here, folks.
for a 6.0 it wasn't even that strong, it just lasted a bit longer than most.
scared the fuck out of me at 3 in the morning, my whole house was shaking, a couple of things even got knocked over
i slept through it and when i woke up i was totally confused when i went on my facebook
now i know what happened
hope it doesn't get any worse
I wish god would patch out these lag spikes.
The best part was hearing the power lines make a ton of noise.
[editline]24th August 2014[/editline]
It was like the 4th of July!
I slept through this one. Tbh I never even know there's earthquakes unless somebody tells me afterwards.
I like not living near fault lines...
Wow, I didn't know so many Facepunchers live in cali (Including me)
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;45784930]Oh fuck. This wont trigger that huge fault line nearby, will it?[/QUOTE]
Earthquakes don't "trigger" fault lines. This isn't a Hollywood gas explosion. Earthquakes relieve pressure from fault lines, making a bigger event less likely. If California goes a very long time without any seismic activity, THAT is when people should be concerned, because that means pressure is building up.
I slept through it, but my dad woke up because of it. We're down near the Alameda County Fairgrounds, and apparently it made the water in our pool slosh about. Drove one of our puppies insane when it happened, she didn't know what the fuck was going on. :v:
7.0 in Peru now...
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/24/world/americas/peru-earthquake/index.html?hpt=hp_t2[/url]
Living in a three-person dorm, I woke up, along with one of my roommates.
It took us a second to realize that we were experiencing an earthquake.
A bunch of people woke up and started talking outside of their dorm rooms.
Some girls ran to the stairwell and started panicking.
It was a pretty eventful morning.
Shit we should have a FP meetup with all these bay area homies. I'm amazed how many we actually have.
I wonder if this is going to start another scare, a few years ago the media randomly started reporting every "large" earthquake that happened and people thought the world was ending.
In the last month there's been 11 magnitude 6+ earthquakes, the map the USGA runs is quite useful. [url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/[/url]
It made my TV wobble and i just went back to bed. Fuck earthquakes they're dumb.
I'm literally a few minutes away from San Francisco, and I thought I was dreaming that there was an earthquake. Turns out it was an actual earthquake after reading about it on Facebook.
[QUOTE=darunner;45790042]Earthquakes relieve pressure from fault lines, making a bigger event less likely.[/QUOTE]
Not true:
[QUOTE=USGS]Seismologists have observed that for every magnitude 6 earthquake there are about 10 of magnitude 5, 100 of magnitude 4, 1,000 of magnitude 3, and so forth as the events get smaller and smaller. This sounds like a lot of small earthquakes, but there are never enough small ones to eliminate the occasional large event. It would take 32 magnitude 5's, 1000 magnitude 4's, OR 32,000 magnitude 3's to equal the energy of one magnitude 6 event. So, even though we always record many more small events than large ones, there are far too few to eliminate the need for the occasional large earthquake.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/megaqk_facts_fantasy.php"]source[/URL]
[QUOTE=pentium;45786126]My connection in Boulder Creek said it was nothing eventful.[/QUOTE]
Well, yeah. Boulder Creek is well, well south of Napa. He wouldn't have felt a damned thing. Closer to the center, though, there's plenty of damage and multiple people have been hurt (mostly in cleanup, though, I don't think there were any quake-related serious injuries).
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