Another Quake

[caligurl]

5.3 actually! i was sitting here at my desk.. and felt it....

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs...ci14155260.htm

we've had a ton of aftershocks since, too.. haven't felt those, though!

i hate earthquakes

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs...-118.-116.html

[wabisabi]

yes, there's something about the very earth no longer being reliably stable that is very unsettling

[snapdragen]

I vaguely remember hearing something along the lines of, we had a nice long period of quiet. Now the earth is getting active again, and it will continue to be active for a while.

Or I could be making it all up.

[yellow]

I think it's related to this rackin' frackin' weather.

Dumping (again) here in Kalifornia and expected to snow in the mountains.

Oh, did I say?

Krabby in Kalifornia (oka yellow)

P.S.

[bikerHen]

Earthquakes are one of reasons I now live in Washington State. I had my fill of them growing up in Southern California. There's not much worse than being shaken out of bed at 5AM. Sorry to hear they are rumbling again. I have inlaws in Hemet, CA that keep us posted on the weather and the quakes. This has been a weird year for the southwest.

[Trek420]

Thanks for that thought... ;-)

Trek, typing from over the Hayward Fault

Still I'd rather face the prospect of Quakes than "Hurricane Season" and "Tornado Season" each and every year.

Seriously folks those of us in the Bay Area and Kaleefornia in general it's not "if" we'll have a major quake (8.0+) but "when". So do check sites like USGS, Red Cross and formulate a safety plan such as;

http://www.redcross.org/services/dis...0_568_,00.html

now...one of the things mentioned there is that after a quake or natural disaster *stay off the ever lovin' freakin' phone* and that means you.

A word about that, gonna "out myself" here as a phone co. worker.

Dial tone was never meant to work for everyone at once. Your Central Office which is where your dial tone comes from (and yes folks that includes your internet access) is an amazing peice of work and simply phenominal technology but it can't handle when everyone in a local service area picks up the phone at once ..... or calls in at once. So the system is designed to "protect itself" will shut down if overloaded that way. This is why for example if you leave your phone off the hook for a long time you loose your dial tone.

Am I right Spazz "technology goddess" Dog?

So as part of your disaster plan establish a phone tree.

Pick someone in your family waaaay outside any effected area. Tell them that *when* (not if) the big one hits you will try to call them and that they can notify everyone else and everyone else can call them, not you.

You may have to wait 48-72 hours to get a call out. When you feel it's ok if you pick up the phone and there is slow dial tone or no dial tone *stay on the line* don't hang up and try again. Repeated attempts slow the system for all. Make your call to the outside world and then get back to whatever.

Trek "safety first" 420

[BikeMomma]

Earthquakes are one of reasons I now live in Washington State. I had my fill of them growing up in Southern California. There's not much worse than being shaken out of bed at 5AM.

Sooooo....to get away from earthquakes, ya moved to Washington State, where not only do they get (small) earthquakes, but they have an active volcano, that ---ummm--- could also wake you up at 5am and fill the air with ash to boot!

Just had to tease ya, BikerHen!

Washington sure is pretty...I don't blame you. But I honestly don't think I could bear to move too far away from my dear Yosemite National Park, and I rather dig earthquakes (however, I might think a little more conservatively if I lived closer to a major fault line, Trek You guys get soooo many little ones every day up there that you don't feel!! Comforting not, I'm sure). I think I was a seismologist in my past life. All this worldwide earthquake activity since Indonesia Dec. 26 is extremely intriguing.

Oh yea! Editing to say that we had yet another in California earlier this evening...6.4 (per first reports by the USGS) off the coast, just to the east of the off-shore 7.0 we had the other day. Fun!

[MightyMitre]

Eeek - earthquakes, volcanoes! Very glad I'm in boring, damp old England. It must be terrifying to live somewhere that has earthquakes. Hope everyone is safe and well, if a little shook up.