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Small Earthquake hits near Danville, CA today.
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TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
At 9:30 AM local time, (17:30:30 UTC), a 3.4 Magnitude Earthquake hit San Ramon, CA. (Well, 2km ENE of San Ramon.) I felt it, the house shook, no damage, and the TARDIS is fine. :-) TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
I forgot the USGS link... Earthquake near Danville, and San Ramon 11-13-2013 TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
3.4? Is that even worth posting about? Shake, rattle, and snooze. There was a 3.4 "something" in McCook, IL a couple weeks ago, that nobody seems to be able to explain. My best totally uneducated guess is that a quarry blast triggered a mini-quake. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
There have been several of those lately SW of Sydney, but their cause is likely old underground coal mines collapsing. Cheers. |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
3.4? Is that even worth posting about? Shake, rattle, and snooze. The title of the Thread does say "Small..." Plus, it is the third or fourth one to hit this area in two weeks. I hope nothing bigger comes out of it; but, who knows??? TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
it is the third or fourth one to hit this area in two weeks. I hope nothing bigger comes out of it; but, who knows??? I suppose that is something to worry about. I'm still waiting for New Madrid to let go. Last time, it rang church bells in Boston. (That's probably a good reason to have a portable gasoline or diesel generator instead of an installed one connected to natural gas.) David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
I have been in 3 earthquakes in my life. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1993_09_21.php |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
I have felt many, but you never forget your first one. 8/6/1979 5.7 Gilroy/Hollister area. Just picked my son out of his crib and thought I was having a dizzy spell. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I've been in at least two, but they were so minor I didn't even notice the first and I only noticed the second because I happened to be awake at 4am and heard stuff rattling a bit. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well I've suppose to have been there at 3 in Sydney, but for 2 of them I was on a water bed and the other I was driving a bus over the Sydney Harbour Bridge so I missed them all. Cheers. |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
The one I wont mention almost got tossed.......... Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
That's 1 good thing I suppose (IMHO), and that is we down here live on 1 entire plate. Cheers. |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
heh 3.4 ... we get those from the Fracking here in Texas... allegedly In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
5.8 Palm Springs California, slept right thru the quake. |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Living much of my life in Central California, I've long stopped sounting eathquakes. The ones I remember: Sylmar late 1960s (1969?) Doobie Bros album "The Captain and Me" shows the damage to the freeways going over the Grapevine. Guam, September 1975. Just moored alongside the Submarine Tender USS Proteus. Lasted about 30 seconds, seemed like 5 minutes of bouncing up and down. Quake was in the Marianas Trench just west of the island. San Diego, 1983. Off the coast, bounced me out of my waterbed. Northridge (L.A.) - was home on leave, woke us up. Loma Prieta, Sept 1989 (World Series). Was at Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, CA, 30 miles north of Oakland/Berkeley. Another bucking bronco ride like the Guam quake. Coalinga, 1995-ish. Sloshed water out of our swinning pool. Last year, in Ventura County. Several of us were online here when it happened. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
My first was on Ellesmere Island in 1972, it was a quick little table shaker.... |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
There was a 3.1 quake in Genoa yesterday, but the USGS has not put it on its map. Maybe its magnitude was less than 2.5. Tullio |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
There was a 3.4 "something" in McCook, IL a couple weeks ago, that nobody seems to be able to explain. My best totally uneducated guess is that a quarry blast triggered a mini-quake. It seems the experts have decided I was right. USGS is putting a seismograph in the quarry in case it happens again. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
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