Little earthquake - 10:38 pm PDT

[bikerz]

Did any other Bay Area TE gals just feel that little earthquake?

USGS says it was 3.2 magnitude - 6 km from Moraga. Felt like a nice strong thump here in Oakland. Got both my dogs barking too.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51171219.htm

[LL_Super_D]

I'll take little earthquakes over the big one anytime. I didn't feel it over here in Albany though.

[slinkedog]

Did not feel it here in South San Jose.

[Trek420]

So that's why dogs were barking. I probably slept through it.

Surfs off to stockpile water and check the earthquake supplies.

[aka_kim]

Felt it out here in Concord, although I wasn't sure if it was just a very strong gust of wind or a small quake. It did, briefly, bother the cats too.

[BikeMomma]

Didn't feel it, but I'm probably too far away for that magnitude quake, anyway. Darn. :D A bigger one I might have felt, since I think I was sitting down at around that time. Have you guys checked out the USGS site lately? Indonesia area has been going nuts with activity. Awesome.;)

~Kim

[winddance]

I felt it. It made the cats go nuts for a minute, but they quickly went back to their normal state of fast asleep...

I, too, will take little earthquakes over big ones.

[spazzdog]

Didn't feel it here in my part of Oakland... of course, since I'm next to a very popular parking lot I never know if it's a quake or the rap music set with the bass on RIDICULOUS! that's shaking my house.

I'm thinking a point-n-shoot EMF device would come in handy.

Whenever "I wanna F*&% you B*#)h and your pig motha too" or whatever is shaking the house, I could just aim and "poof"... dead car.

Any inventors out there??

* don't get me wrong. I like all kinds of music. Just not at a volume where all my dishes are shaking in the cabinets at 11:30 pm.

[BikeMomma]

Hey Spazz! What's shakin'??? (yea, that pun was intended) :D

[spazzdog]

She do live... until tomorrow :eek:

[BikeMomma]

Hey, do you gals know about this? Looks like it's on display until my b-day (6/30).
http://1906centennial.org/activities/calendar/?id=135

Neat! I have to figure out when I can drive over there.

~Kim

[Trek420]

In light of the recent quakes to find out the likelihood of damage where you are, here's how. Courtesy of one of my Aikido teachers who by day is a mild manered Geology professor
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to get the info you gotta look at the maps - it will show a section on which you can approximately locate your house. Anyway, the simplest way for me to give you instructions is to paste in the following from one of my class exercises.

I bet both the places you mention are in the 9 or 10 zone. For comparison, you can also select the1989 eq for whereever you were then and get a comparison.

Cheers,

Scott

Procedure:
1. Go to this website: http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/mapsba.html

2. Click on #8220;View Earthquake Hazard Map #8211; byCity#8221;.

3. Scroll down the city list, and select the city where you currently live. Scroll down the fault list and select the N. Hayward Fault. This fault maybe the most likely to have a large earthquake in the near future. Find your street on the resulting map. Print the map. Black and white is fine, printin color if you wish. Put a dot where your house is,and label it (please do not give your address). What intensity of shaking on the Modified Mercalli Scale can you expect whereyou live?

4. On the Web, go to http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/general/handouts/mercalli.html, whichshows the Modified Mercalli Scale. You may also wish to consult the linkto the Modified Mercalli Scale on the "On Shaky Ground" webpage -http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/doc/mmi.html (this is a good idea, butdon't get obsessed by all the types of building materials).

[maillotpois]

Wow - that is very cool! Thanks Trek!

[laughlaugh18]

You also can go to this website, find your earthquake (you may have to click on archives) and click on it. It'll show maps, plus a link called "Did you feel it? Tell Us!" where you fill out a questionnaire to describe how you experienced the quake. http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/

Here's the page for the Moraga quake back in May. Click on Statistics and it shows how others reported the quake. http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/STORE/X51171219/ciim_display.html

Talk about being a nerd - I love this site! :D

[dachshund]

There goes another one... 5:50 pm, just now.
It's like Mother Nature giving a little Smack!

[BikeMomma]

No FAIR....I'm too far away to feel 'em!! :(
~BikeMomma

[winddance]

I use the map here:

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/SF_Bay.html

You can click on each event, and it also does the same reporting thing that laugh's link does. I just filled out the form for the 5:50 quake.

[Trek420]

Dr Scott also once told me...these little clusters, not to worry about but when we have clusters of 5.0+ ..... time check the batteries, change your water stockpile and get everything on:

www.72hours.org

[winddance]

If I can make it to your party, I'll bring the MREs. I had a friend visit from Scotland earlier this year and he said it was the only time he'd visited anyone who had included emergency suppies in the grand tour. But they, these are interesting times...

[Trek420]

I know what I'll be doing over the long weekend (besides riding I hope) is working on the earthquake supplies. Not to politicise the thread but the lesson of Katrina is "you are on your own" :o

[laughlaugh18]

"you are on your own" :o

I don't see that as political, just reality. As good and well prepared as the emergency service agencies are here in California, they're gonna get overwhelmed in a really big disaster - there's just too many of us. I'd much rather have all I need to be self-sufficient for a few days and just stay out of everyone else's way!

Cathy (office, car and home earthquake kits)