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Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on April 12, 2019, 08:46 AM:
this morning.
Hit around 0445. Couldn't figure why the bed was rolling. Then the pocket doors rattled and banged together.
USGS said 3.4 on White Valley Mtn several miles to my west. I can see some of the mountain from the house.
Nothing cracked, fell off the walls, no water leaking or spraying to the sky. Not quite the way I like to wake up in the mornings.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 12, 2019, 10:34 AM:
I've been thru not one but two 6.5 earthquakes. Northridge & Nisqually. Anything under a 5 only serves to remind that one should be prepared for a serious one.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 12, 2019, 11:34 AM:
Didn't make the news, here?
When we do have a shaker, all the local hispanic community starts sleeping in the public parks for a week or two afterwards. Mildly amusing.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on April 12, 2019, 04:21 PM:
Supposedly, I've been through a half-dozen little 3.something or others here in Kansas. Never felt any of them, yet one of my neighbors will ask me the next day if I felt it, too. Occasionally will find a picture on the wall askew so I guess that's something. Used to never happen. Anymore, I guess we have more earthquakes than we do any other natural events.
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on April 13, 2019, 04:00 AM:
Been through a few the most notable was in the 50's in San Fernando as a child I remember watching the street roll like the ocean and then the Sylmar quake while I was dressing for work sounded like a locomotive coming through the house for the Northridge quake I was in Az. working a project my wife got to go that one alone. No phones could not get any first hand info till late in the day she went to the top of a hill and the call came through !
Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on April 13, 2019, 04:33 AM:
SE Idaho by Soda Springs has been shaking over the last month and over by Lima MT has been doing some shaking lately. Nothing big but enough to get ones attention.
I was in down town Boise when the big one hit under Mount Boarh.
Killed a little girl due to a brick facade on a building falling off. Neighbor said it was wild for a while.
You can see the land drop down by the center of the quake.
We were driving through town and everyone was standing in the doorways took a while for us to figure it out. Our dog was in the back of the truck and at every stop light he would look at the ground. We thought he needed to go do his thing.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 13, 2019, 05:48 AM:
That big San Francisco earthquake, not the one in 1906, the one when the world series was being played and the fucking freeways were collapsing and trapping 50 cars under bridges, etc. Well, my daughter, who met her future husband in college, had just moved up there a week before and we had no contact information, if you can remember before I-phones? Well, as any parent would, we were worried until she got around to contacting us about a week later. She didn't understand the fuss because she was across the Golden Gate in Marin and they had zero damage on the other side of the San Andreas Fault. Like, how were we to know that? The Media never said, don't forget, although the Oakland bay Bridge fell down and the I-980 is closed forever, the folks up in San Rafael didn't feel a thing.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 13, 2019, 05:52 AM:
Forgot all about the Sylmar Quake. Quite an event for a kid from back east.
One thing we learned; The copper lines on water heaters tend to get old and brittle. They crack & leak if the water heater's not secure from the shaking. After the Northridge Quake, there was a run on them even at $50 a set. Hell of a deal to finally get Utilities back on and still not be able to take a shower. Only takes a bit of time while you're waiting for the bbq charcoal to glow to strap down the hearer and hang a spare set of flex lines close by.
And while you're at it …………………… Buy a cheap wrench at a yard sale, wrap it in an oily rag, Zip-Loc it and hang it next to your gas shut-off valve. Hopefully, you'll never need it.
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on April 13, 2019, 06:37 AM:
Good advice KOKO when I was in the peoples republic I had a crescent wrench permanently attached to my gas meter !
Posted by www (Member # 3918) on April 13, 2019, 06:46 AM:
Coalinga earthquake . I was about 40 miles away from the epicenter.I can't imagine what it was like in town. Pretty much destroyed downtown.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 13, 2019, 07:50 AM:
As far as feedlots go, where would we rank Coalinga against the midwest or Chicago? It just seems like a hell of a lot of beef!
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on April 13, 2019, 07:55 AM:
Just looked at the quake map and it looks like on the 11th there was a smaller quake up the country on the Yellow Jacket mountains.
Just glad we don't have gas into the house and no underground gas lines up here other than the small ones from the tank to what ever you are using it for. We installed a back up generator for such emergencies. It's across the parking lot at a good distance from the house.
This winter in McCall had a house blow up from a cracked gas line and it was leaking in under the house. The teenager kept telling her guardian she could smell gas and he kept saying it's just a closed up house smell. Well the furnace kicked on and the house exploded he's dead and she is recovering. They figured the snow came off the roof and cracked the line when it hit the meter/ground area.
Posted by www (Member # 3918) on April 14, 2019, 07:40 AM:
That's not beef you're smelling ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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