Earthquake?

yep we felt it here in Hull, where are you?

I'm in Lincoln, it was pretty shaky here!

It lasted about 30 seconds here, power went off.

Nottingham. How was it for you? It wasn't too bad here, but I've never noticeably felt one before, so I'm still a bit freaked. Started like a car thrum, but became properly wall-shaky quite quickly.

we didn't lose power but it was pretty shaky

No power cut here, though, and the animals haven't gone crazy loud. I feel a bit dizzy, mind you.

feelable tremors in hackney -- i was looking at my computer desk thinking why is it shaking, then the whole building shook a bit and made noises

haha turned to ile for reliable info obv, hi foax long time no etc

Just hit us. Fucking terrifying. I thought the picture on my monitor was going funny, then realised it was shaking, then it built to a crescendo.

where are you lynskey?

Manchester btw

The power didn't stay off long, it just went off 2-3 times quickly. We're in an old house though, so the shaking might have mesed with the electrics or soemthing.

bbc says "reports of tremor felt in west midlands area, more soon"

manchester building shake craziness. wow so was this north only?

myspace bulletins section has just exploded into life with a mix of hysteria excitement and apocalyptic panic.

now on news24

yo
leicester big quakin

north only if north includes hackney pisces

ah. gotcha. is that better or worse i wonder.

Yes, woke me up in North Yorks.

the wonders of blogging..sorted by date on Google Blog Search
http://tinyurl.com/3yzblh

bloggers report the following locations re: experiencing the earthquake...

Derby
Rotherham
Lancashire
Oxford
Norwich
Manchester
Lincolnshire
Coventry
Nottingham
Bedfordshire
Leamington
Market Harborough

is hackney furthest south on that list? it was negligeable here but enough to get me back on ilx!

Nooo! I wanted to feel an earthquake! I was hanging up my clothes at that time I think, but didn't notice anything. Nearest I've come was being woken up by that fuel dump exploding in Hemel Hempstead a couple of years ago.

Mark, I first heard about it on my AFC Wimbledon forum so it's likely it made it further south.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275158.stm

checked again...No mentions that i can see of London...Nottingham mentioned alot

4.8

Oh arse, I'm thick, someone pointed me to an old story. Sorry.

BBC 5 live..4.7 on the richter scale

35 miles south of kingston-upon-hull according to yank expert

being in a block of flats in manchester, that was a bit spooky!
the lights wobbled and the lamp stand was all over. :(

yank expert sez some reports even in London ...expect aftershocks

cool!

35 miles south of Hull..that would be somewhere in Lincolnshire? as the centre

i am way ahead of yank expert

"35 miles south of kingston-upon-hull"

This must be bloody close to Lincoln then

took bbc news 19 mins to mention.
a poor effort

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=0.30%C2%B0W+++53.46%C2%B0N&ie=UTF8&ll=53.501117,-0.65918&spn=5.988068,14.172363&z=6&iwloc=addr

Real link this time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7266136.stm

Wow, Caistor

Nothing ever happens in Lincolnshire, we'll never hear the end of this

BBC 5live were on the case quick...they had phone calls in from the public, just after the news at 1.00

it had never occurred to me that earthquakes happen in britain

i feel mad dumb

I live on a main road and there are a lot of lorries going by at night which shakes the house a bit. So even if there is a decent aftershock I won't know it really is one, grrr.

Well BIG HOOS you can tell by the excitement at a wee one that they're something of a novelty to us!

I was pretty surprised at how slow the BBC site was with this.

Still feel dizzy ;_;

xxxpost HOOS they don't happen often (or at least, ones that you can feel don't, there are lots of undetectable ones)

west midlands is the usual centre -- theere's a big fault line and small ones aren't uncommon

the unit my mum and dad's record player was on fell off the wall during one, and another left cracks all along the landing ceiling

in the first one mum thought a helicopter was landing on the roof; the second she thought a cow had jumped in the downstairs window -- when quizzed how on earth a cow jumping in the downstairs window was a vibration she felt she recognised, she gave NO CONVINCING ANSWER

This all seems like an excellent opportunity for SCIENCE

BBC News now saying it was 15 miles northeast of Lincoln

and 4.7

Take that West Midlands

I’m sure we’ll survive, it’ll be forgotten about by the evening after Gordon Burns has said his piece on it.

felt it here in lincolnshire, pretty cool. i was mixing down some music staring at the moon out the window, super weird!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

bah all my LJ buddies are tucked up in bed sleeping dreamlessly as infants -- i have no one to compare it to except mark c who didn't notice it!

Nothing here. It's been extremely windy for about 3 days though.

On 5 Live they're saying it is more like 5.1 on the Richter scale.

'Biggest earthquake of my life'

we do like a drama don't we?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7266146.stm

This all seems like an excellent opportunity for SCIENCE

hurrah!

British Geological Centre now saying 5.3.

'I was lying in bed playing poker online.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7266146.stm

Ken C?

This all seems like an excellent opportunity for SCIENCE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41194000/jpg/_41194623_science300.jpg

The bugger woke me up. If the earth feels that it must shake, could it please do so at a reasonable time (like when I don't have to be up early for work the next morning)?

It started off as the same sound as our fish tank and my mid linked the two and I thought the fish tank was exploding.

I want to move to LA and feel the real thing now (but without any of the associated dangers obviously).

Epicentre in Lincolnshire? The Daily Mail will probably link it to Portuguese migrants and their loud parties.

Nothing here. It's been extremely windy for about 3 days though.

Something banging and rattling woke me up at the back of one this morning, but I can't claim it was earthquake-related. It certainly wasn't the wind though.

I thought I was having a heart attack. But I think that a lot.

I couldn't get to sleep last night so I wandered off to the sofa to see if I could sleep there. I looked at the clock and it was 00.53. I was just drifting off when I felt a kind of ripple and judder. I thought my wife must have come into the room and shaken the sofa to ask me what on earth I was doing there, but when I opened my eyes there was nobody there. I thought 'that's strange', then fell asleep. What drama.

My first memory is my mum waking me up as a child and going "hey there's an earthquake!" I'm sad I slept through this one - maybe you couldn't feel it in South London though?

Apparently people in East Dulwich felt it. I slept through it

I slept through it too.

I love the way that ppl don't realise that the Richter scale is logarithmic.

what a fucked up night, i came home to warrington from bristol to find half my town in a power cut. But this was about 7.30pm. power didn't come back up until 10.30 and then i get woken up to my house wobbling.

apparently my flatmate felt the earthquake in his room in holloway.

i felt nothing but then i was quite drunk and probably passed out.

our house have shitty foundation though - it shakes when a bus goes pass - apparently it just felt like a really big bus had been coming pass, for a long time.

'I was lying in bed playing poker online.'

lol

PATRICK - NOTTINGHAM

i was in bed masturbating at the time, I didn't know anything was going on for a while as the bed was rocking anyway, but then i realised i didn't have to move my hands in order to masturbate - it was so awesome i wish it'd happen again

I slept right through last night so I've no idea whether anything was felt in Fulham but going out this morning there seemed little evidence of a whole lotta shakin' havin' gone on.

Epicentre in Lincolnshire? The Daily Mail will probably link it to Portuguese migrants and their loud parties.

Sian, the voice of the Daily Mail (well, she just looks and sounds like one) on your BBC Breakfast sofa, expressed disbelief and no little fear that the earthquake would not be bound by borders, and could be felt even in Wales and Scotland.

I was asleep, but my girlfriend felt it, and somehow thought it was my doing.

It was VERY DRAMATIC here in Nottingham. First I thought the washing machine had gone onto spin (the magnets don't work, so it rumbles more heavily than it should), but the rumbling was coming from the wrong side of the house, so then I thought it was something to do with the heating system. I was on the ground floor and, as they say, The Whole House Shook. It was quite trippy really. Lasted about 10 seconds and set car alarms off outside. Checked on my partner two stories up and it had woken him. We both acted like complete drama queens for a minute or two (OH MY GOD I STILL FEEL SO SHAKY!), then I went back and made virtual cocoa for my Twitter pals.

I felt it slightly in south Oxfordshire. It wouldn't have been enough to wake me though. I thought I was probably imagining it or had managed to kick the bedsprings, but I couldn't recreate the side-to-side bed-wobble and it felt a bit like the thump of the last mini-earthquake, so I did wonder at the time if it'd been another.

I'm sure there was a small earthquake in Swindon in the 80s which took chunks off the college, a year or two before freak winds took the roof off it, in a God-really-does-hate-Swindon sort of way, but googling is not finding me any confirmation of either.

like Mark i felt the minimum effect. pretty much exactly the same sensation as the Dudley one in '02 - lying in bed watching in TV, hear this tapping sound from outside and slight shaking of the bed for about 5-10 seconds.

I was asleep, but my girlfriend felt it, and somehow thought it was my doing.

Surely you are required, as a man, to employ a godawful line about making the earth move for her (baby) in this instance. YOU'LL NEVER GET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY.

West London, felt nuffin. Lame.

I** A**** APOLOGISES FOR ANY INCONVIENIANCE HE MAY HAVE CAUSED LAST NIGHT BY MAKING THE EARTH MOVE SO VIVIDLY ;o) lol. 1m ago

Worst Facebook update ever.

i thought it was a very strong wind!! looking back on it now, that makes no sense, everything wobbled for a good 20 seconds or so, including the lid of my laptop

I** A**** APOLOGISES FOR ANY INCONVIENIANCE HE MAY HAVE CAUSED LAST NIGHT BY MAKING THE EARTH MOVE SO VIVIDLY ;o) lol. 1m ago

we really need a cull

west london, felt the voib

oh what am i having like, muscle spams now > UH NO WAIT!!! > oh nm it's gone > back to watching shonky 90s detective movie ZERO EFFECT lol

up in grim north-east, I felt not a thing, though apparently some people in newcastle did. I feel a bit cheated.

pfft. i was watching star trek, that's as exciting as it was here

in cambridge, which is closer to lincoln than a whole lot of places, it did not stir my whisky-soaked brain i did not feel it at all :/

Felt it in Ormskirk just north of Liverpool, picture started banging against the wall, then the whole room moved for about 2 seconds.

i woke up to this...
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/disasters/earthquake.jpg

Charlotte Green and Rob Wilkinson were enjoying a sexy cuddle in Gainsborough, Lincs.

The Sun's use of the term 'sexy' is alays cringeworthy for some reason.

Also, how much were they paid for this photo? Not enough is my estimate.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00443/snn2804mn384_443931a.jpg

Green pillowcases with red/orabge duvet cover!

The earth moved for me in North London. I am on the top floor of a building, I suppose that makes a difference.

i thought it was a very strong wind!!

That was all I could think of at the time too!

There was a couple on the telly last night and she had just given birth and he was just cutting the umbilical cord as the room started shaking. Can't have been fun trying to, say, conduct open heart surgery or something as the trolley goes sliding down the theatre or whatever.

Sting being interviewed in the NME in 1980: "I mean, why do the Sun always refer to me as Sexy Sting? I don't go up to people and say hello, I'm Sexy Sting."

Doesn't he?

No, he went up to people and said "hello, I'm Gorgeous Gordon"

"Controversial Colin"

i apparently woke up and told my girlfriend the bed was shaking (in stoke newington) and we had a conversation about it, but i remember none of it.

You'll never get your picture in The Sun with that story

in cambridge, which is closer to lincoln than a whole lot of places, it did not stir my whisky-soaked brain i did not feel it at all :/

wait wha? you are in cambridge now?

ps. i felt it really violently and freaked out a bit since i was half asleep and it never clicked that it might be an earthquake

In NEW JERSEY? Moments ago?

Rockaway. As report on 4NY

Er...near Morristown

usgs link or it never happened.

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212205053.shtml

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/37.47.-80.-70.php

3.0

Small Earthquake Hits New Jersey

"What the fuck?" said John Passano, 25, of North Brunswick.

So that just now was the 2nd earthquake Melbourne has had in 2 weeks - we normally dont have them at all (minor tremor in '06 and thats all I can recall in 15 years here).

2 in 2 weeks? Rather disconcerting...

hellmouth's gonna open up, mark my words

There's some maaaaajor quakin goin on in Indonesia, has been for weeks, so I guess that's triggering faultlines or something I dunno?

how large?

the quake that is, not the hellmouth

Not much, both were 4.6 and not centred in Melb itself (town about 2 hrs away), but both quakes had the same epicentre which is odd.

slept through today's but woke up about 2 mins after - must have nudged me awake. yeah it is weird that there's been two within such a short time and originating in the same area.

At least you guys aren't in Darwin (for many obv reasons, but relating to earthquakes)

?

Magnitude
? (uncertain or not yet determined)
Date-Time
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 17:40:29 UTC
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 10:40:29 AM at epicenter
Location
37.284°N, 121.620°W
Depth
6.4 km (4.0 miles)
Region
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances
18 km (11 miles) N (7°) from Morgan Hill, CA
19 km (12 miles) E (91°) from Seven Trees, CA
20 km (13 miles) ESE (117°) from Alum Rock, CA
25 km (16 miles) ESE (104°) from San Jose City Hall, CA
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.7 km (0.4 miles)
Parameters
NST= 25, Nph= 25, Dmin=10 km, Rmss=0.05 sec, Gp=104°,
M-type=duration magnitude (Md), Version=0
Source
California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR
Event ID
nc40234037

I felt it in SF. It was really small here though. I almost thought it was a truck going down the street.

I think this was the first earthquake I've felt in our office building (Mission+Beale, 20th floor)

Magnitude 4.4 first estimate.

Funny thing is that 9:30 - 10:00 they were talking about quakes and some socal quake on Forum.

I read that as "social quake," which actually sounds somewhat pleasant.

Felt this in Cupertino. Nobody even got up from the meeting table, though. Jaded Californians.

Strong 6.3-magnitude quake rattles Italy:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/05/italy.quake/index.html

and it doesnt look good.

Yipes, family of an ex of mine live in that area.

breaking news via facebook update:

xxxx xxxx got woken up by an earthquake with epicentre 60km away. 6.7 on richter scale. scary shit! breathe.

WAU!

fun

5.0

Hrm http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci10410353.html says 3.1

Oh wait, I am clicking on wring dot :)

Err wrong. Must have been an aftershock.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci10410337.php

i felt nothing! but i was up in eagle rock listening to loud music when it happened. :-)

i used to go out with a seismologist
she was always trying to find faults in me

"Inglewood, always up to no good"

I was in Claremont, experiencing James Turrell's skyspace installation at Pomona College, and also felt nothing.

never forget
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-05/46978698.jpg

what, i never posted my smash youtube sensation on this thread?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_re_us/us_socal_quake_9

ok, something about bldgblog is just fanciful and great

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/earthquakes-on-street-view.html

A 5.0 earthquake hit Los Angeles less than an hour ago – and, aside from the fact that it was remarkably close to my old neighborhood and I hope no one was injured, it seems to be the first earthquake I know of where you can see the epicenter on Google Street View.

The U.S. Geological Service gives us a Google Maps option for viewing tonight's earthquake reports, but what's extraordinary is that you can zoom all the way down to the urban surface to see that this earthquake actually had an address: it was epicentered at 3706 W. 106th Street.
Perhaps you could even send it postcards.

Imagine, though, owning the building centered directly over the earthquake that destroys your whole city... And imagine the weird derived value such a property might hold in the future for disaster enthusiasts.

You go to purchase a small house at 3706 W. 106th Street in Los Angeles – only to find that you've been outbid, by several orders of magnitude, approaching $50 million, by an earthquake enthusiast in Japan. He or she has gone around the world purchasing epicenters, strange plots of land in the middle of nowhere that have no apparent use or distinction other than that they figure into the unfolding seismic history of our planet's surface.

It's an otherwise unknown subculture that has remained camouflaged within the international property market.

i heart bldgblog!

here we go again

what the hell is going on lately?

haha, warming up the big one

*for*

this one was bigger than the one a couple nights ago i think

Damn, all I get is boring ol hurricanes on this side of the country. I want to try out one of them earthquake thingies.

3.9, the other night was 4.7

this one was sort of a slower version

maybe i'm just closer to the epicenter

4.1 in hawthorne

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.9396+-118.3378(M5.0+-+GREATER+LOS+ANGELES+AREA,+CALIFORNIA+-+2009+May+18++03:39:36+UTC)&f=d&t=h&hl=e&ie=UTF8&ll=33.939791,-118.337753&spn=0.002158,0.004313&z=19&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=33.93979,-118.337852&panoid=8ZQAhjnNkbKaUfkRhwVpPQ&cbp=12,52.58,,0,19.27

I'm in inglewood, but it wasn't nearly as big as the other one

almost the exact same spot as the one a couple days back fyi

i think since i'm in an office building i felt it more than the last one

Didn't feel it here in OC at all.

still didn't feel it, and didn't notice anything out of place when i got home. i don't mind.

weird, there was a fairly decent southern california earthquake last night

REALLY hope our new zealanders are doing fine.

Tsunami warning after 7.8 quake off New Zealand

17 minutes ago

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A tsunami warning was issued by the U.S. Geological Survey after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand's western coast Wednesday.

The quake's epicenter was 100 miles (161 kilometers) west of Invercargill, off the west coast of New Zealand's South Island at a depth of 21 miles (33 kilometers). It hit at 0922 GMT on Wednesday, the USGS said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii sent an e-mail alert warning of a possible tsunami in New Zealand.

"An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines in the region near the epicenter within minutes to hours," the warning center said.

The quake was felt widely across South Island, where the earthquake was centered.

Police in the town of Tuatapere on South Island said they had reports of minor cracks in buildings and stock falling from supermarket shelves.

However, no reports of serious damage or injuries have been received so far, police said.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A Queenstown resident living in a three-storey apartment said the building shook and swayed. ''Holy crap that was significant,'' the resident said.

whoa, earthquake in cleveland

and in montreal, ottawa, toronto...

upstate NY

Must have been more than a little one, then.

yeah felt it in Montreal

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2010xwa7.php

5.5 61 miles from ottawa! weird.

ya montreal was a rumblin

my dog got up and looked around as if trying to find out who was responsible, it was a pretty funny lol a dog's universe moment

tbh I did the same thing as your dog- there were contractors on the floor below me.

I work in a building right next to a train track, it took us about half the earthquake to figure out that this wasn't just a really big train going by.

Didn't notice it in Toronto, I must have assumed any quaking was bass from speakers on the ground.

3.3 in Bay Area. First twitter result:

Kool_Dude_Domo: da earthquake knocked my homegurl out her bed and she fucked up her knee, dayum!!!

kool dude riding lawnmower

7.2, 30KM NW of Christchurch?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010atbj.php

holy shit that's huge

Blimey.

So was there any further news on this Christchurch quake? I don't know of any ILXors from there, they were either north or south IIRC.

Ned there were no casualties and few injuries, thanks largely to strict building codes and strengthening programs, and the fact that it was at 4am and nobody was out to have a building fall on them. The majority of the buildings with hardcore damage are heritage/really old which is pretty upsetting to see. From what I've heard the emergency response/cleanup has been very well handled but hampered by lots of STRONG aftershocks which apparently they're still getting. No fun for anyone.

I'm an expat btw, getting my info from friends & family and online reports.

Thanks! Hope your friends/family weren't among the injured.

Nope, thankfully everyone I know is fine. Someone's cat still hasn't come home, though :(

Berkeley?

4.2

looks like it

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71667366.html

"this event has not yet been reviewed by a seismologist"

4.2 stars -- would tremble again

I've been through a lot of them and it seemed a lot stronger than 3.9, it sounded loud here too if SF.

Right under Clark Kerr Campus, where all the rich assholes at Cal live before they rush.

4.5 hours after earthquake drills today, what a coincidence!

22 years and 2 days after Loma Pietra...

We also had earthquake drills today. I guess it was city-wide?

Earthquake Awareness Day yo!

Statewide.

http://www.shakeout.org/

@ShakeOut
Aren't you glad you practiced ducking, covering, and holding on earlier today, Bay Area?
21 minutes ago

We felt it really violently - kind of scary in a rickety old building

i was on my back porch on the phone, and i was like, "wait hold on a second. either a truck just hit my house or there was a quake." my friend on the other end started laughing cuz she just moved away from the Bay Area.

Uh....

hmm

Y'all ok there I hope!

That one caught me off guard even more than the first one, haha

I missed the one earlier today, but this one got the adrenaline going a bit.

This was was located under International House, a stone's throw up the street from the last one.

O_o

and another this morning at 5.30 - i woke up a minute before it and couldn't get back to sleep.

ya i hate the ones when i'm waking up...

I was in the shower. My gf thought it was one of the cats careening into the bed.

hello socal

just got a little rattled here

i felt that

Didn't notice it at all!

oblivious in koreatown

damn i was pooping with the bathroom door open and i thought someone was breaking through the front door

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#data: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

God was telling you to shut the damn door.

So Montreal, how ya doin'

i thought a car crashed into my building

9km NNW of Beloeil, Canada, 9km deep. Magnitude 3.9 ("Vibrations similar to the passing of a truck").

Only earthquake I've ever been present for was in Montreal.

This actually woke me up last night. It felt like more than "Vibrations similar to the passing of a truck". That would have to be a pretty huge truck.

Anyway, I guess it's something to talk to my coworkers about this morning.

UM WHAT THE FUCK I THINK WE JUST FELT AN EARTHQUAKE IN BOSTON

one in maine 15 mins. ago. 4.6. not bad!

Yep, that's the one!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00mc0dsp#summary

Me too, the house shook! Fortunately, nothing fell down.

Oh great - that's about 1/2 mile from my house in Maine. Hope it and those in it are okay.

Tenants are safe, and no obvious damage to the house. Hope nothing appears by the light of day.

hmm

Felt nothing down here

looks like a 3.2 in marina del rey. didn't feel it, only noticed it because it rattled some pictures on the wall.

it rattled my windows

3.7 in Meiner's Oaks, which is about 5 or 6 miles from me, I think. Big lurch, nothing, smaller lurch.

That's in California, of course.

That woke me up. Anyone else in L.A.?

i was already up, but barely. that gave me a good jolt tho.

Already awake and felt it. 4.4, between Encino and West LA, deep undeground so no damage, from what I've heard.

5.4 by la habra just now...two of those of that size pretty close together...ugh.

yeah, had a little shake here in mt washington, la. this house doesn't feel like it'd survive anything much stronger that well. my first earthquake!

i live very close to where they think it came from and it was moderate, it just seemed to last a long time.

news is so great right now.

didn't see this in SNA, 8.0 off the coast of Chile, tsunami alert for Chile/Peru/Ecuador

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/01/world/americas/chile-earthquake/

My mum lives in Valparaiso and I just spoke to her tonight. They're saying 8.2 magnitude now, epicenter off the far northern coast of Chile. Here's some distances from the epicenter:

95km (59mi) NW of Iquique, Chile
139km (86mi) SSW of Arica, Chile
190km (118mi) SSW of Tacna, Peru
228km (142mi) SSE of Ilo, Peru
447km (278mi) SW of La Paz, Bolivia

Governor of Iquique reports two known fatalities.

#terremotoenchile is trending

btw 300 inmates escaped from a prison in Iquique.

Felt one just now.

4.6 near Big Bear.

Nottinghamshire has been hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.6, the British Geological Survey has confirmed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-29810050?

Just finished reading an account of the Tangshang disaster of '76 so it is pretty hard to gaf about some wobbly carriage clocks in Mansfield. Seismic activity on the UK section of the Eurasian plate is so fucking lame, I even slept through that 5.2 UK quake in '08 that started this thread.

spooky stuff happening on the West Coast, heads up

lots of small tremors from BC to San Diego

ruptured pipeline

volcano off Oregon coast

might be nothing, but having some extra bottled water and canned food never hurts

Look out, PNW.

The Big One

fuck

That was some vertiginous reading

see my post from May above, spooky indeed

there was another swarm out in the Oregon/Nevada desert area a day or two ago:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/07/swarm_of_earthquakes_shake_sei.html

got some cans of food and bottled water, stashed them in a trailer outside on our property. we should probably keep our camping supplies out there as well.

Because there rarely seems to be any public follow-up to scary articles: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/07/kathryn_schulz_s_new_yorker_story_on_pacific_northwest_earthquake_geologists.html

Takeaway is that yeah, it will be bad, but probably not quite as bad as the article claims. A lot of destruction, especially on the coast, but nothing will be exactly be "toast." Coast looks potentially worst off, major cities look like they'll experience problems a la Katrina, but nothing completely catastrophic. The dude quoted puts the chance of this happening in our lifetime at around 15%, but the piece sums up the potential schedule as a major quake happening sometime between tomorrow and the year 2600. Which is still scary and hardly reassuring, but wide enough a span that I would still slot this in with other "this will likely eventually happen" scary predictions, a la asteroids.

Other takeaway is that while we are way behind Japan in terms of preparedness, we're not at ground zero (so to speak). Seattle has an earthquake preparedness plan, and they are currently testing tsunami warnings. Per politics, I hope piece like this one speed the process a lot.

there has been a lot of backpedaling regarding the "toast" comment, but not w/r/t the coast, just the interior west of I5. I think your assessment (and that followup article) is overly optimistic. I mean, statements like:

Thankfully, this is why we have Reddit.

don't exactly fill me with confidence.

being more prepared for disasters never hurts, as long as you don't go down the prepper rabbit hole.

good, sober followup interview with one of the main sources for the OG article:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/07/tsunami_earthquake_cascadia_ch.html#incart_big-photo

Q: How likely is a magnitude-9 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami in our lifetimes?

A: It depends where along the coast you are. The probabilities are spatial, because we have at least four types of Cascadia earthquakes that have different rupture lengths. There's a probability of 15 to 20 percent in Washington during the next 50 years, not necessarily of a 9 (magnitude), but of an earthquake that's capable of leaving a geological record – roughly a magnitude 8. That probability includes a mix of earthquakes, and probably half to two-thirds of them are in the 9 range, but there are smaller ones as well. We're going to be giving new numbers at a meeting just this week in Zurich. It's up a little bit from where it was.

Q: What's the probability in Oregon?

A: The central part of Oregon is on the order of 25 to 30 percent. That's from central Oregon southward, on the coast. Then for southern-most Oregon and in northern California it bumps up a little bit more: 37 to 40 percent.

that's in the next FIFTY years, not until 2600.

live chat later today as well:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/07/the_really_big_one_osu_earthqu.html#incart_big-photo

I got the 2600 from this:

Vidale said that the chances of the worst-case scenario happening in your lifetime, if you’re planning on living another 50 years or so, is about 15 percent. That’s probably a better way of looking at the recurrence statistics than on an annual basis. Historically, the frequency of major earthquakes in the region is about one every 300 years, which means we’re overdue for a megaquake if you average the past 10,000 years of Northwest geology. But the spacing between past magnitude-9 quakes was between 200 and 900 years. If the fault system maintains that pattern, the next big one could happen again tomorrow or in the year 2600. There’s no way to know.

And I wasn't being optimistic, unless you think "Katrina level event" is optimistic. Just more optimistic than "west coast collapses into the sea."

Scientists have learned a lot since the Nisqually earthquake in 2001, and it’s mostly bad news.

4.0 in the Oakland hills was a hell of a jolt with coffee this AM

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oops

San Francisco and what to do in it

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/9/17/1442461010054/4ffe5d79-4c7c-4466-8a5d-6e9fd6555179-1020x880.jpeg

sorry

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/sep/17/chile-earthquake-massive-83-magnitude-tremor-strikes-santiago-live-updates

Here we go again

Just a few days after my mother returns to Chile....this... Same as in 2010

Haven't been able to get through to her, and she lives in a 15th floor apartment just north of Viña

scary, hope she is ok <3

be prepared:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/29/1493107/--There-is-a-Major-Carbon-Monoxide-Explosion-on-the-West-Coast

http://www.snopes.com/carbon-monoxide-spike-earthquake/

thanks, good article.

I'm still prepared, though.

always good to be prepared

Awesome, a 3.3 and a 3.8 about 30 miles away from here (they were 20 miles ENE of Ojai in Ventura County) within an hour and a half. Not at all freaked out.

Had a 4.5 in Kathmandu this evening which i didn't even notice (other than the electricity cutting out) but understandably scared the hell out of people with the anniversary of the 8.1 coming up in a fortnight.

Fuck! The earthquake has followed me to Delhi! This is more than 4.5 - my hotel is shaking, though thankfully seems to be fairly solid.

7.1, seems to be centred in Northern Pakistan but shook all the way through Punjab to Delhi. This is big.

1200+ dead in Indonesia

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/2/headlines/indonesia_death_toll_from_earthquake_and_tsunami_tops_1_200

Happy 4th — 6.6 east of Bakersfield. Felt pretty strong here in L.A.

Did you do anything interesting during it?

yikes, that wasn't very far away - same county. we are basically on top of San Andreas fault here in Redlands ( don't think today's was on that fault?). i live in a house from ~1908 and am a little nervous if something bigger than what just happened strikes while i'm in my apt. but that was a gentle 30 second sway. i lived through the Northridge quake which was scary af

by “strong” I should say it was the first quake I’ve been unnerved by since I moved here, it kept going for just a bit longer than most. I didn’t do much interesting during it except suggest to the kid to get under the table just in case.

I started keeping shoes and pants under my bed since we get a lot of earthquakes in early morning or the middle of the night. Also we sometimes open the apt. door if it seems to be gathering strength because we had a friend get locked in his apt during one of the 8somethings (door frame jammed the door.)

that is some quality preparedness info. thx, Yerac

i need to start keeping water supplies and some cliff bars or something at the very least in preparation for the pnw big one. completely unprepared atm

should've been scared straight by that new yorker article but alas complacency reigns

I always worry about what I should do when I’m in Japan. I’ve already been woken in my sleep by some aftershocks in Hokkaido; and missed the bigger one that hit Osaka last year by a day. Both of those had fatalities. Given I’m spending about 3 months a year there I should be a bit more prepared.

Since I've been living in Christchurch people have been telling me about the most basic things I should be doing so I'm prepared when another earthquake hits - keeping the car at least half full of petrol, keeping a few hundred dollars in cash, keeping a torch with fresh batteries next to the bed - I don't do any of these things, I really should, it's not that difficult

lol wow ok
my husband was in SF during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and he does all those things — i only just now realized the significance

I slept through the Northridge one and I didn’t feel today’s because I was in a moving car.

It’s sad to see the damage it caused at the epicenter. Other than that, no big deal.

(Granted I was far from the epicenters both times)

I was in a moving car during the loma prieta quake. it was surreal to feel the rough road, to see buildings and telephone polls swaying and to watch as everyone pulled over to the side of the road.

and also to hear kqed announce that a section of the bay bridge had collapsed and then immediately cut out

by the time I got to my home in the planets the electricity was already out. I called my family members when I got home tell them I was ok just before the phone lines died. it was evening and everyone in my neighborhood came out into the street, not sure why but that was my instinct too

Xpost I am not really terribly prepared. Sometimes if it feels above a 5ish and is sustained I go stand by the drink cart which is near the kitchen entry. I figure if the building becomes unstable at least I am near drink and food options and I have a usable Israeli gas mask on the drink cart. The worst that ever happens even during the 8 was a crack appeared and we had to regrout some tiles. That may have been a bad grout problem though.

FYI the friend that got locked in his apartment was drunk at the time and had to wait for the firefighters to eventually break open his door.

This one was the longest by far, really weird to have a quake last well over 30 seconds. Never super intense but the length added a new dimension. I saw my downstairs neighbors run outside, my fam just sort of rode it out and waited

woah. this felt quite a bit more than 30 seconds

ok shit

7.1

!

6.9, seemed much like the one yesterday but just a little stronger and longer. i briefly feared for my cocktail so i grabbed it from the table lol

ooh just felt another aftershock

now upgraded back up to 7.1

That was not fun

shit u guys

stay safe guys!

take care Californians

We were swimming laps in the Arcadia Park pool when the 7.1 came through yesterday - very strange experience. Didn't feel any shaking, but suddenly I felt like I was swimming backwards and I could see the water in front of me slosh up to the pavement.

whoa

my husband will be in SoCal in a few weeks - please don't have a big one then please
take care everyone

7s are good! the more 7s the better, because it means 8s, 9s, or 10s are less likely to follow because stress is being more evenly relieved. at least I think it works like that

anyway earthquake pool footage is one of my favorite things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5gJQYlmM0

I don't think it does, according the Dr. Lucy Jones. It relieves stress at that locale, but can increase stress on other faults.

that makes sense. I wonder what determines the locality of stress-relief - how much of it is a function of epicenter depth and how much is proximity to more continuous/historically active faultlines. However I do not wonder this enough to actually research it, and will instead retreat further into the blissfully ignorant world of neat lookin earthquake pool youtube videos.

I was in a pool in Palm Springs during the 2010 Easter earthquake. the wrongfooted feeling and the water splashes out of the pool were alarming

if there are any Oklahoma tornado survivors reading this thread, they're gonna think you're the biggest asshole in the world. "I can relate to your splashy terror, because I once watched my patio furniture decapitate my dog in the sky."

lol

it wasn't that bad but the thing about these experiences that amazes me is that it's impossible to know in the moment what to expect or how to react.

I was scared enough at the time to run into the house to make sure the 1 year old was ok. she was sound asleep in the crib and seemed annoyed that I woke her up

The New Yorker follows up on their big/terrifying cascadia piece https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/oregons-tsunami-risk-between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea

well that's horrifying

didn't realize that northern California to southern Canada was the likely tsunami inundation zone

temblor!

6.5. It's probably bad that I do look out the window to make sure no buildings are collapsing.

sounds like it was not too bad? off the coast, no tsunami.

where is this?

off the coast of chile, 6.5

I am on the 10th floor and there was one big sway in the middle where I got my phone and considered going outside.

I like how aftershocks are called replicas. It feels so sci-fi.

i feel like i've been feeling these often since the July 5 one in mojave desert. and sure enough they've been constant, according to:

https://earthquaketrack.com/us-ca-redlands/recent

colton is like the next town over. and in the last four days there've been 4 between 3.1 and 3.6. they feel very innocuous but the thought of a big one near me freaks me the **ck out. and i've done no preparedness yet.

holy shit @ being up so high!

the new yorker pieces about the pnw big one got me really scared, but not scared straight, still haven't done anything for preparedness. the one thing that irked me about the pieces is that they more of less completely ignored british columbia. like let me explain the possible ramifications of this huge natural disaster that is looming but let's ignore that other country right there that will be massively affected. american exceptionalism is something else.

xpost with the small ones we play the game of trying to guess the magnitude. My spouse isn't sensitive to them at all and thinks I am typing too hard and shaking the sofa or something.

I heard someone in the elevator during the peak and kind of felt bad for them.

the new yorker is not a magazine with a reputation for an international outlook xp

xp. oof, i would not like that

I just guessed a 6.7 (per my above game). I am still awaiting on confirmation. I think I was super close.

is your residence/place of work well proofed?

yeah, almost all buildings here (in santiago) are. I was in one above an 8 a couple of years ago. We almost went outside.

I can usually feel them start, but this one was sudden. Or maybe because I was walking around making food that I didn't feel it. My spouse was on a telecom and didn't even notice until 10 seconds in.

Big one in the middle of nowhere (Tonopah) in Nevada 30 minutes ago. 6.4 preliminary. I'm 100+ miles away and it was a bit scary.

yes! we’re in Sacramento & it woke us up. No shaking that i saw but in my halfasleep daze i definitely heard rattling sounds

i've heard from ppl in Fresno that it startled them too.

An #earthquake swarm has kicked off southwest of the #SaltonSea today, producing 240 earthquakes as of 8pm Pacific. The largest earlier this evening was M4.9.
So what does this mean? We’ve put together some scenarios to explain what could happen next. https://t.co/wMzKa8FKQM pic.twitter.com/ow9r7J5FH4

— USGS Earthquakes (@USGS_Quakes) October 1, 2020

(thread)

not obvious from that thread but that's the salton sea is right on the san andreas fault iiuc.

What shall become of Slab City?!

Trevor's gonna love this!

7.0 in Antartica

if a tsunami wave hits only uninhabited shores, does it exist?

5.1 near Truckee, CA (north of Tahoe/Reno), apparently felt in Reno and San Fran based on tweets.

8.2 in Alaska. Possible tsunami hazard.

USGS now has the earthquake near Alaska as an 8.2! pic.twitter.com/HefBvKmHKM

— Steve Lookner (@lookner) July 29, 2021

A sixer! Strongest quake aus has had since 97. Boy howdy I felt that one - I was yelling at everyone to run outside. No one did, so my family are fucked if we have a real disaster lol sheesh.

apparently outside is a bad idea? - falling trees, powerlines, buildings etc.
doorway in a loadbearing wall or possibly under a table is the go… is what i gather. i think? - i quiz california-born mr veg about this all the time & he just shrugs like its nbd

Yeah you don’t run outside *during* an earthquake. You are also not supposed to go in door frames any more. General idea is protect your head and get away from windows.

I just stood uselessly in the living room flailing my arms yelling "get outside!" but the kids were still in bed asleep upstairs. I should have ducked under the dining table but I was thinking about the kids uptairs.

The whole house sounded like a herd of teenagers was running laps heavily all over the upstairs floors - shuddering and creaking and everything was juddering heavily. No cracks or popped doors or broken glass so I guess it held up ok.

Bay Area folx: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/tellus

It wasn't big, but it felt like it lasted 5-10 seconds. Called the 'rents to make sure it wasn't just a truck driving by, and they actually said that it lasted a lot less time even though they're closer to the epicenter.

Bay Area folx: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/tellus

It wasn't big, but it felt like it lasted 5-10 seconds. Called the 'rents to make sure it wasn't just a truck driving by, and they actually said that it lasted a lot less time even though they're closer to the epicenter.

2 people are dead, 11 injured after 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California (near Eureka)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/us/humboldt-county-california-earthquake/index.html

that's where my family is, where I'm from.. hard to get a hold of them this morning. They're fine but shaken up

But they have earthquakes there all the time, that's probably the most seismically active spot in the lower 48

yeah the power was out for like 75% of Humboldt County this morning, one bridge is down. did not realize there were fatalities though. it was a solid shake from what ppl told me, a good 30 seconds in Trinidad

HUMBOLDT EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE: Residents in Fortuna, CA are waking up to scenes of broken storefronts and damaged merchandise follow Tuesday morning’s 6.4 magnitude #earthquake. pic.twitter.com/utA97IUUiJ

— Austin Castro (@AustinCastroTV) December 20, 2022

7.4 near Taiwan, possible tsunami alert for the U.S. west coast.

Yes, we experienced it! Mt wife and I are in Taiwan right now, visiting her sister. We were in bed but already awake when the building started swaying! It is a modern block and we are on the 11th floor of 13. Nothing broken, just a few things moved around on shelves. Weirdly, yesterday we went up Taipei 101 and saw the damper (essentially a giant pendulum) which stops that building - tallest in the world until Burj Khalifa surpassed it) from swaying too much.
Had we been in the Taroko National Park today instead of Sunday/Monday it could've been very different...lots of rock falls there and people trapped in their cars.

12 confirmed fatalities; they are still looking for 18 missing people. The roads in Taroko National Park are pretty treacherous at the best of times: we saw many signs warning people to keep moving on a/c of rock falls and roads and trails which were now impassable because of either erosion, rockfalls or a combination of the two. Still freaks me out that we could've been trapped there had our itinerary for this trip had been different.

New York?

damn my whole house was shaking!!

i thought all the record shelves in my bedroom were gonna come down.

4.8 magnitude ... pretty impressive

Yeah that was something (Brooklyn) Only the third one of my life

i felt a tremor around 6.30pm
last night - turns out there was a 4.2 in Plumas County yesterday

(i’m in Sacramento)

7 minute drive from the epicenter to trump national in bedminster nj.

Dang, maybe there is something to these wild conspiracies about the New Madrid fault being in the center of two separate total solar eclipses.

https://i.imgur.com/VXBs9Mj.jpeg

Based on the location of the earthquake (magnitude 4.8, depth 5km), my initial guess is that this occurred along the Ramapo Fault line which runs through Northern NJ. Still waiting for more official information. pic.twitter.com/mR2vC4WxrB

— New York Metro Weather (@nymetrowx) April 5, 2024

i'm in midtown and felt nothing fwiw

Oh shit
Shaka laka BOOM
What’s that?
AFTERSHOCK

just felt a little rumbling in LA

same! felt a little wobbly. husband and i watching tv on the couch and were both like “…are you doing that?”

A deep echoing here in the foothills.

It was the first real earthquake I have felt in the last 3 years or so. More to come??

We had one last night in the Melb region but I guess I slept through it.

Mild rolling in Pasadena, apparently centered around Bakersfield.

4.7 epicenter Pasadena a little bit ago. In Westwood at work but still felt it acutely, my husband and friends closer to it said it was scary

Actually I guess it was South Pas https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/preliminary-4-7-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-south-pasadena/3486291/?amp=1

about a mile from my old house in el sereno. we have friends there who had stuff fall off shelves.

nerds having fun

https://bsky.app/profile/caltechseismo.bsky.social/post/3kzkayras3c2n

Here in Sierra Madre it felt like someone pounding an aluminum baseball bat into the side of the house.

felt it pretty strongly in westwood as well. felt stronger than last week’s

didn't feel it in the west valley but dove under the dining table when the alert came through and cleaned up some crumbs while i was there

Felt sharp here in Pasadena but not that strong. 4.4 3 mi SSE of Highland Park, per Caltech.

good morning 4.7 in Malibu

felt the quake before the alert arrived...maybe too close

same here. I heard it was 5.1 too

6.9 in Humboldt County. Tsunami warning holy shit

I just got a tsunami warning too

My family lives in Humboldt Co.

it was probably off Petrolia on the Lost Coast, west of Ferndale

Felt that one down here in SF. Was like a high 3 light 4 shake. But 200 miles away? That was no small quake

Hope everyone stays safe up there

Where am I supposed to evac to? Twin Peaks??

I remember when I was in high school in humboldt, we got a tsunami warning and everybody went out to watch it lol

Got the warning, felt nothing.

the tsunami thing probably won't materialize... those are usually associated with quakes in Alaska etc., where the waves have a long distance to build up

it was probably off Petrolia on the Lost Coast, west of Ferndale

Exactly, now upgraded to 7.0 offshore. Another 5.8 one near Cobb, CA.

Got the warning, felt nothing.

Same here. Very disorienting.

Dunno how legit this is but I'm not in the hazard zone: https://www.sf72.org/hazard/tsunamis

CA geological survey website is unsurprisingly not accessible.

my family up there not responding to texts, maybe some cellphone outages

apparently there was a cluster of smaller quakes in the same area, yesterday morning

Here's when it would happen, if anything (12:10 p.m. PST):

Tsunami waves are expected to reach the coast in San Francisco around 12:10 pm. Tsunami sirens are going off along the coastline in parts of Northern California.

Waves may already be impacting Eureka and Fort Bragg. pic.twitter.com/9cmFi9jWOS

— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 5, 2024

!

Evacuation Order for Tsunami issued for West Berkeley:

"Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. EVACUATE NOW. Stay east of 7th St. See https://t.co/Q7EBsaq1Se.

Immediate threat to life. This is a lawful order to leave now. The area is lawfully closed to public access." pic.twitter.com/9zgM9k1BNl

— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 5, 2024

heard from the family - they said it was really long and rolling, but not much damage reported

Good to hear Andy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMlCj0hf4M

my stepbrother said all his surfing buddies are out on the water, they may not have even known about it

Tsunami warning is being rescinded, which is good.

too bad, that could've been the end of Emeryville

!

🐦[Evacuation Order for Tsunami issued for West Berkeley:

"Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. EVACUATE NOW. Stay east of 7th St. See https://t.co/Q7EBsaq1Se🕸.

Immediate threat to life. This is a lawful order to leave now. The area is lawfully closed to public access." pic.twitter.com/9zgM9k1BNl🕸
— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 5, 2024🕸]🐦

too bad, that could've been the end of Emeryville

RIP Pixar

That's what they get for announcing TS5.

Looks like the Berkeley evac order is also rescinded: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/05/tsunami-warning-issued-for-california-berkeley

Is that Chevy’s still there?

i didn't feel this at all though my kid claimed to in santa cruz which is weird. I was at the gym when this evaucation order hit (I'm about three blocks away from the evac zone in berkeley), my wife told me to go home and rescue our dogs. So left, heading toward this potential tsunami, to rescue two chihuahuas who did not even register that there had been an earthquake earlier and continued licking themselves in their dog beds. evac order cancelled when I was halfway home. what an annoying day!

the Chevy's is empty, they moved out, leaving that awesome location vacant.

too bad, that could've been the end of Emeryville

hey now my recording studio is there

you should move your studio to the vacant Chevy's, though freeway noise might be an issue

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/earthquakes/california-earthquakes-aftershocks-tsunami/3576434/

a fair number of aftershocks

i like how news organizations always send a crew to photograph supermarket aisles full of items that fell off shelves, because that photo-op is so completely reliable

the Guardian had a photo of a destroyed bong shop, glass everywhere

San Diego 6.0? 😬

Magnitude 6.7 earthquake
Affected countries: United States and Mexico
3 miles from San Diego Country Estates, CA · 10:08 AM

I'm seeing 5.2?

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40925991/

ah ok, I got the earlier one from a coworker in CA

Pretty decent lil 4.2 earthquake. The epicenter was Dwight and Piedmont in Berkeley.

A couple things fell over in my kitchen. That was a good jolt, I had a hard time getting back to sleep

Yeah, I felt it pretty strongly. I had a hard time going back to sleep because I started thinking about how the current federal government might (not) respond to a massive quake in this area.

oh yeah... if they won't even help Huckabee in Arkansas with flood relief, there's no way they'd lift a single finger for the Bay Area

that was kinda fun

Agreed, a nice little jolt. But I also thought similar to beard and Andy there.

Yeah I woke up with an "oh shit", but fortunately it was quick (<10 seconds I think). This is def the last time we want a big one hitting the bay. I also left my emergency water jug in the storage unit. Need to grab it and fill it again.

Had a plate fall off the dishrack and it didn’t break. Felt grateful for the soft story retrofit the landlord did awhile back. I also felt gratified by my upbringing in storing valuable breakable items on lower shelves or at the very back of cabinets.

I felt a baby aftershock yesterday afternoon... just a quick 'thud!', no real shaking to speak of

Yeah, felt that too. Like a quick snap of the fingers.

another little jolt