Just got a news alert saying there was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Northern California. Y’all okay?
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Just got a news alert saying there was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Northern California. Y’all okay?
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kindness
No damage in Oakland on my way in this AM. I didn’t even feel it. News says it was off the coast of Humbolt.
SWMBO
@kindness: Are you still too numb from the election to feel anything?
rikyrah
6.8?
wow.
kindness
@SWMBO: I’m recovering but thankful I live in the Peoples Republic of California so I’m safer than most.
Major Major Major Major
Didn’t notice.
Dirk Walls
Chico here, also didn’t notice or hear anything about it till just now.
Mj_Oregon
I’m up in the southern Willamette Valley of Oregon and didn’t feel anything. The current shake map at the USGS shows just moderate shaking felt on the coast near Arcata. Still it’s early yet to have heard too much from the affected area. But it makes me nervous as it was on the southern boundary of the Cascadia Subduction zone out to sea and only 10 miles deep. That area of the Gorda plate has been increasingly active over the past few years and I think this is the largest quake down there in decades. Excuse me while I go look at my emergency supplies!
trollhattan
Looks pretty far from the coast and thankfully, no tsunami warning. Didn’t feel it here but admittedly, it was before coffee unit #1 was consumed.
mawado
We didn’t feel it in South Bay. Heard it could be felt in SF, but mild (esp. given the 6.8 number). It was off coast of Arcata, so we may get some reports in a bit.
Anaranthine RBG
Didn’t even know about it before I read this on BART going into SF.
Amaranthine RBG
Didn’t even know about it before I read this on BART going into SF.
Thoroughly Pizzled
Remember, y’all, moment magnitude is a logarithmic scale, meaning that a 6.8 earthquake is 32 times weaker than a 7.8!
Elie
I’m in WA state — didn’t feel anything but send my regards and best wishes to anyone affected. Who knows what’s next, right?
trollhattan
@Thoroughly Pizzled:
True, but there are quakes and then there are quake locations–Loma Prieta was 6.9.
amygdala
The earth didn’t move for me in SF, either.
Eljai
I did not notice a thing. I don’t have my radio on in the morning anymore, so thanks for letting me know!
Larkspur
@Mj_Oregon: Yeah, that’s definitely cause for re-checking the emergency supplies. Just the phrase “Cascadian Subduction Zone” makes me shiver, and I’m nearer to SF than to Oregon/Washington.
I didn’t feel it at all. But OT, I do wish to report that the election results for my county are in, and we had a record turn-out of 89%, and the breakdown went like this:
HILLARY CLINTON: 77.27%
DONALD TRUMP: 15.48%
GARY JOHNSON 2.97%
JILL STEIN 2.21%
GLORIA LA RIVA 0.25%
Write-in Votes 1.82%
The write-in votes were mainly for Bernie. The results match the number of depressed-looking people walking around in my general neighborhood. I guess this shows that I and many of my neighbors aren’t “real” Americans. Come visit us, Mr. President-Elect! Really. It’ll be all curated and artisanal and cool and you’ll have so much to tweet about. I promise.
Lizzy L
Reporting in from the East Bay, across the bay from San Francisco: didn’t even feel it. I wouldn’t expect to: it was up the coast from me and 100 miles offshore. Thanks for asking!
Bill_D
The earthquake was roughly 300 miles from San Francisco.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
I’m in Chico, CA. Didn’t feel anything here, but everyone is exhausted. Just brought home last night my girlfriend’s 27 year old son from the hospital after an eight day stay for chronic vomiting syndrome.
Larkspur
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Holy crap. I didn’t know there was such a thing. Best wishes for the young man, and may you all get some rest.
gorram
I’m also in the East Bay. It’s funny, I thought I felt a quake, but it was a good 10 hours before this one? Quakebot seems to suggest it might have been this one near Orinda / in the University’s backyard (I’m a smidge north of Berkeley and my apartment’s on the top floor, so it moves around a lot from quakes – I woke up from the one in Napa in 2014).
Larkspur
@gorram: I was in San Anselmo for the Napa quake and the dog and I both woke right up. It felt like we were on a wagon with the wheels falling off. Then a framed picture fell on my head. Small bump, no big deal. I was house-sitting – in my own place I don’t have anything above my bed that can fall on me.
raven
@Larkspur: Snow in San Anselomo!
Larkspur
@raven: Cool. Thanks!
laura
Sacramento reporting in, no lights swaying.
raven
@Larkspur: Funny, my ex and I saw him at the Lion’s Share in San Anselmo on out honeymoon right after Hard Nose came out.
gorram
@Larkspur: I live near the BART tracks and it sounded like the track cleaner they occasionally use, but the ground was shaking. As I was waking up I couldn’t figure out if it was a massive truck driving past or the cleaner, so I just angrily closed my window and went back to bed. I went into work and got some shocking news about what it actually was. Haha.
Kurt Montandon
Northeastern California here. I’m not OK. Nothing to do with the earthquake, it’s just that Trump’s President.
I haven’t felt an earthquake in 4+ years (we had a 5.7 in 2012).
Origuy
Didn’t feel it in San Jose. Commenter humboldtblue may have felt it, they’re up in that area.
I was in Tahoe City during the Napa quake and it woke me up.
Politically Lost
Damn! I’m just a few miles from Bodega Bay / Sonoma coast and I slept right through. I love earthquakes and hate missing them. You haven’t lived until you’ve surfed the pavement, have your stereo equipment tossed on your head while sleeping, or have a transformer explode next to the gas station your working at.
Humboldtblue
Been an extraordinarily busy morning on the North Coast. Oakland and the Bay Area are really just the top of the Central Valley, up here in northern California where the quake struck all is well. The temblor was 100 miles off the coast at a depth of 6 miles and was a strike-slip quake in which the two plates gently passed by each other without too much impact.
The effects of the quake itself were very odd, it was very much a rolling motion far different from the thrust fault quakes which shake and jar and this rumbler lasted more than 20 seconds. It’s been listed as 6.5 and was followed by a series of smaller aftershocks in the 4-5 range. There was no tsunami concern from that incident due to the location and nature of the quake.
However, at just before 10 o’clock PST a 7.7 magnitude quake struck off the coast of the Solomons six thousand miles to the west and for more than an hour we were on a tsunami watch before it was lifted. There are two small ports to the north, Crescent City harbor in California and Brookings Harbor in Oregon just over the border that have been slammed by tsunamis in the past including the 2011 Fukushima quake due to their geography.
All is well here.
NW Phil
@Humboldtblue: Thanks for the report.
It just can’t be said enough times that earthquakes are not all the same. Even though the media love to talk about the magnitude, it really has little meaning by itself. I’ve been through 2 major earthquakes and even though they were rated magnitudes 6.8 & 6.9, they were very different experiences because of the depth, type of slip and geology. I barely gave the 6.8 Nisqually a notice, I was working at my desk; the 6.9 Loma Prieta tossed everything in the apartment, and the shaking was so bad I couldn’t even stand up.
Note – unreinforced masonry buildings will fail in both.
PatrickG
I’m suddenly feeling much better about the shit-ton of money we’ve been forced to spend on our foundation. Previous owners had unbolted studs resting on a 30 degree concrete slope. Sloping *down* the hill, on the downhill side of the house, at that. Which we only found out because we removed some plaster and discovered dry rot had eaten our corner support post and a godawful amount of shear wall. Following the dry rot led to a real “this is what our house is standing on. Great.” moment.
God, I’m starting to channel Cole here. This fucking old house…
(Also in Oakland — hi kindness! — also didn’t feel it.)
EBT
Didn’t even hear about it here in Sacramento.
humboldtblue
@NW Phil:
You nailed it, Phil. I have a small apartment on the ass-end of the building and I have endured 4.5 temblors that shook books off the shelves and danced my monitor off the desk. Today’s quake was completely different and didn’t have any serious impact at all.
I went through Northridge ’94 (50k damage to my parents house) and 15 seconds of sheer fucking terror mixed with a near giddiness at the overpowering awesomeness of nature and I’ll say this, my stomach tightens each time the ground shakes and it doesn’t get easier, it gets harder to take as you silently scream in your head — OK stop now … OK stop now … OK stop now … goddammit OK STOP NOW!
Tehanu
@humboldtblue:
We went thru Northridge ’94 too: rudely awakened at 4:00 a.m. or so by the bed bouncing so hard we couldn’t get out of it and a noise like a plane crashing right next to us. It turned out the bouncing bed was a good thing, because if I had managed to get out I would have been just in time to have the TV by the door fall on me. We only lost a few cups and saucers because our house was built on bedrock; the back of the house on the other side of the street literally fell off, because it was built on the fill that had been moved from our side to flatten out the hillside for the street. Oddly, the quake itself didn’t bother me too much, but the aftershocks — which were nothing like as strong — made me crazy for several days. My favorite story about the quake: it was a clear night and the electricity was out all over L.A., and 911 received hundreds of calls from panicked people about a “mysterious silver cloud” hanging overhead … namely, the Milky Way, which the callers had apparently never seen before because they never got out of the city with all its lights.
Arclite
Hey! Not gonna ask about us Hawaii folks? We’re right in the line of fire!
humboldtblue
That describes it. I can feel it.
humboldtblue
@Arclite:
You, Hawaii, were all over my and colleagues twitter account until the all-clear was sounded. Does that count?