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Earthquake In East Bay (epicenter around Walnut Creek, 4.5)
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South of SF was basically right on furthest part of the epicenter, so you were probably okay.
My brother in Milbrae barely felt anything.
Felt nothing here in Fresno.
The scale is exponential. The quakes we had eariler this year were 6-7's. We actually have several hundred <3.0 quakes per year, and 15-20 over 4.0 per year in California. The depth of the quake can make a big difference on how it's felt, though.
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Does that mean anything for potential stronger one later tonight? Scared the shit out of me
Felt it in Sunnyvale!
Freaked me out a bit but the cats didn't seem bothered so figured it was okay.
Freaked me out a bit but the cats didn't seem bothered so figured it was okay.
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No idea.
I feel the depth was given more to understand how the quake acted from the epicenter, and how it dissipates to different parts around it from the depth.
Not too familiar with quakes in general, so won't be able to give you a concrete answer.
But nobody has said anything about a bigger one other than, hope this isn't a precursor to one.
I was under the impression that smaller ones are good for relieving pressure from bigger movements from happening. It's when the pressure builds for a long time then has one major slip it's when you get huge ones. That's what I've been told anyway. I'm no seismologist.
We've had quite a few in the area. I want to say 3-4 in the last two weeks. Hopefully that lets some of the pressure slip?
bay area-ERA really assembling like crazy this past week
4.7 honestly sounds about right because the epicenter was so close by. wobbled for a good 10 seconds over here
4.7 honestly sounds about right because the epicenter was so close by. wobbled for a good 10 seconds over here
I've heard this, and it would make sense, but then I also read otherwise from articles earthquake people wrote :/ None are really "good" from what I gather.
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Don't speak such things into existence please. lol
I really hope that was the worst of it, but if more pressure needs to release.... I hope it's far from here, and somewhere much more remote with little repercussion afterwards.
Haha true. I'm in the Pacific NW. We get them all the time here too but I never get used to them. Cant sleep any time I feel anything. Hate living in the Pacific rim sometimes. I just keep telling myself when a smaller one happens that its postponing a big one lol
Anytime one happens down there I worry something up here has to give.
Stay prepped. My fam still remembers Loma Prieta (my bday incidentally lmfao) but they were more terrified of the chaos that followed.
No, it's still pretty tame. 4-5 is an everyday occurrence here in Indonesia.
You're thinking of 7 and higher.
the scale is logarithmic, so a 5.0 is ten times "stronger" than a 4.0
chair_falling_over.gif is meant to indicate a very tame quake.
Personally I use the LEGO Darth Maul test.
If he doesn't fall over, then it wasn't a quake worth worrying about for me.
He didn't fall over.
Felt it in Sonoma County, pretty tame here. I thought it was my neighbors heavily walking down the apartment stairs until GF came in asking about it. It's been several years since I've noticed one since moving back from SoCal where earthquakes seemed much more common.
Pretty tame, if the big one happening is a matter of when and not if then I hope it comes soon so I can finally afford a home here.
I feel like this thread title should be changed in case anyone reads it and thinks we're in shambles haha
Hahaha my apartment wiggles everytime the bus goes by and the wiggle felt a lot stronger than normal. Should've googled if we had another quake.
Down in Union City , felt a quick short jolt then about 3 seconds later a larger one. Both relatively short
Is a 4.7 really "huge"? We had a 5.7 a few days ago near Tokyo and it felt like a fat person falling over.
To be honest moment magnitude is a pretty terrible measurement of anything to do with an earthquake that actually amounts to impact on humans since it doesn't take into account, distance, depth, movement type, etc.
Japan's shindo scale is a much better measure of how 'big' a quake actually was in a certain area.
there was a smaller one last week in the middle of the night, right?
i sure like sleeping through these earthquakes
i sure like sleeping through these earthquakes
Looks like a 5.0 out by Tres Pinos per the US Geological Survey
Office in San Jose was noticably shaking.
Office in San Jose was noticably shaking.
