California Earthquakes

[Foggy]

If you live in California have you noticed the land beneath your feet moving lately?

This just might be the reason (since 8-17-2024):

22 earthquakes in the past 24 hours
235 earthquakes in the past 7 days
1,061 earthquakes in the past 30 days
7,825 earthquakes in the past 365 days
https://earthquaketrack.com/p/united...ifornia/recent

Map of earthquakes
https://earthquakes.berkeley.edu/map/index.html

Also here is a list of the earthquakes with the date, time, location , and
Magnitude (since 8-17-2024 to 8-10-2024):
https://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Quakes/quakes0.html

[Foggy]

Worldwide Earthquakes in the last 24 hours on Sunday, August 18, 2024


In the past 24 hours, there were 965 quakes of magnitudes up to 7.0:

1 quake above magnitude 7
4 quakes between magnitude 5 and 6
37 quakes between magnitude 4 and 5
98 quakes between magnitude 3 and 4
221 quakes between magnitude 2 and 3
604 quakes below magnitude 2 that people normally don't feel.

https://earthquakes.volcanodiscovery...kes/today.html

[Caroline13]

Facts about New Madrid Seismic Zone

While not as well known for earthquakes as California or Alaska, the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), located in southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky and southern Illinois, is the most active seismic area in the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. The area includes major cities such as Memphis, Tennessee, St. Louis, Missouri, Little Rock, Arkansas and Evansville, Indiana. Every year hundreds of small earthquakes occur in the NMSZ, however, most are too small to be felt by humans and can only be detected by sensitive instruments.

History
The NMSZ is famous for a series of three major earthquakes (believed to have been magnitude 7.0 or larger) which occurred in the two month period between Dec. 16, 1811, and Feb. 7, 1812. In addition, hundreds of moderate earthquakes (magnitude 5.0-6.5) and thousands of smaller (magnitude 5.0- 4.0) earthquakes occurred in between the larger earthquakes and continued shaking the area for several months. These earthquakes were felt and recorded in personal journals as far away as Louisville, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio.

https://dnr.mo.gov/land-geology/haza...d-seismic-zone

[Dude111]

Wow I feel bad for you guys in Cali!!!

[opus]

I know this is a controversial take but I’m just gonna say it. Earthquakes are bad.

[Fleet]

I did not feel either of the recent earthquakes (5.3 magnitude near Bakersfield and 4.4 magnitude at Highland Park).

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by Fleet

I did not feel either of the recent earthquakes (5.3 magnitude near Bakersfield and 4.4 magnitude at Highland Park).

OMG !! I did !! The 4.4 felt way stronger than the 5.3 because it was closer I guess . But I was scared after the Bakersfield one because my Son lives up there and I texted and called and he didn't get back to me right away !

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by opus

I know this is a controversial take but I’m just gonna say it. Earthquakes are bad.

Yeah . The only thing you can do is pray . And have plenty of beer and good food on hand ! Cause it is definitely better to go through them and all the aftershocks drunk and with a full belly of delicious food !

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

Yeah . The only thing you can do is pray . And have plenty of beer and good food on hand ! Cause it is definitely better to go through them and all the aftershocks drunk and with a full belly of delicious food !

Are you saying it is better to be full of the SPIRITS?

[opus]

Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

Yeah . The only thing you can do is pray . And have plenty of beer and good food on hand ! Cause it is definitely better to go through them and all the aftershocks drunk and with a full belly of delicious food !

Earthquakes are the only weather type thing with no warning. Blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes all come with pre event warnings.

[Caroline13]

Mother Nature Rules and what will be will be....

I think I felt a rolling about 12:30am or so last night and I'm trying to verify that....I have not turned on my radio yet as it is on most of the day, and I like to give it a REST,,,,and give my mind a rest...

[Dead2009]

Originally Posted by opus

Earthquakes are the only weather type thing with no warning. Blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes all come with pre event warnings.

And theyre actually in the process of creating a warning system now

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/shakealert/

[Caroline13]

Oh they have been TRYING stuff for decades....now I hear the brainiacs will give or sell an Ap to alert when one is coming. BIG DEAL, what can one do,,,,in a second or so??????

Roll with the rolls and HOPE the EQ's are WEAK.......I went thru the candlestick one in SF and then the LA shaker in 1994 or about there....

Now IF the wizards can develp a device to HOLD BACK THE EARTH FROM MOVING.....

[biffbronson]

My aunt and uncle's families in northern Greece experienced a devastating earthquake back in 1981. Lots of rebuilding since then, with reinforced concrete. Thankfully there's been nothing comparable to that event in recent decades.

[Caroline13]

The earth is moving worldwide, and don't feel sorry to we in CA because the earth moves more here, in the almost 60 yrs of living here I have been in 2 memorable EQ's...