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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: billt on April 04, 2010, 06:09:01 PM
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3:44 Phoenix time. The kitchen chandelier was swinging, and the pool water was sloshing back and forth. Sam and the cat were running around like the world was ending. Really weird. Bill T.
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci14607652.php
13.1 miles deep. 3:40.39 Pacific Time. (We felt it 3 1/2 minutes later.) (40 miles) SW (225°) from San Luis, AZ. Bill T.
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Your right billt, check out USGS.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_c6e7e37e-403c-11df-bb93-001cc4c002e0.html
6.9 in Baja, Ca,
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REGION: USGS reports 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Baja California
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North County Times | Posted: April 4, 2010 3:48 pm | 1 Comment | Print
The U.S. Geological Survey has reported a 6.9 magnitude earthquake at 3:40 p.m. in Baja California. The center was located 16 miles south-southwest of Guadalupe Victoria.
That is approximately 108 miles east-southeast of Tijuana. The depth of the quake was 20.1 miles.
An aftershock of magnitude 3.4 struck three miles south-southwest of Julian at 3:55 p.m. Another aftershock, a 5.1 magnitude, hit 4 miles north-northwest of El Centro at 4:15 p.m.
Moments after the quake, dozens of North County residents clicked onto the USGS Web site and filled in the "Did you feel it" questionnaire. Most locals reported feeling it in light to moderate intensities, with zero to light damage.
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Here in socal we were having lunch and everthing was shacking. Nothing to bad though just a little wiggle. ;D
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Global Warming ;D
Glad you're ok ... even if the pets are frazzled. What about Mel ... Did she need comforting and consoling, or did she take care of you ;)
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Global Warming ;D
Glad you're ok ... even if the pets are frazzled. What about Mel ... Did she need comforting and consoling, or did she take care of you ;)
Did anything fall over in the safe???? ::)
Wouldn't want any scratches or dings,.... ;)
Glad you and Mel just got a shaking not a stirring...
You may have beachfront property soon, if the San Andreas fault takes some of CA, back to the ocean...
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I was sitting in the Lay-Z-Boy and I saw the kitchen light swinging. Mel went out in the backyard, and both mine and the neighbors pool was sloshing back and forth. The pendulum of the grandfather clock started banging into the chimes. That was about it. No guns or ammo fell over. I may have to start buying heavier guns now! Bill T.
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Sounds similar to when I experienced a New Madrid fault earthquake. I was in college, taking an extra-curricular Judo class, and I distinctly remember the wall across from me moving left then right as I moved right then left. Weird experience.
Glad everyone is cool, no dings or dents. And I'm talking about the arsenal collection, as well as you or Mel!! ;D
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I just checked the site Bill gave and they are now showing 7.2.
BillT, I'm glad you and your's are fine.
Check this out: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/115-33.html
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Cool. I wasn't even aware there was a tectonic plate or whatever near there.
I've really only felt one and it was strange. The whole building felt like it was twisting on its foundation. Thank god for building codes.
... Ah, I see it ocurred between the Pacific and North Amercan plates near mexicali. I guess it's not a stretch that you felt it in AZ.
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It's Bush's Fault!!!!!! All the bombing in Afghanistan. Same as the one in Haiti. Just ask the dear leader. He'll set you straight. ;D
Glad everyone/thing is ok.
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Just a Cartel's meth lab.
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It's Bush's Fault
Nice pun :D :D
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we had one here Friday night
whole house was shaking for about 5 seconds
MIL called about 1 min after and she felt it at her place ( she is about a 20 min drive away )
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/story/0,668,26997552-2682,00.html
they are talking about more to come
apart from having a a kit with food, water, Ect.
is there much you can do to the house to help protect it.
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we had one here Friday night
whole house was shaking for about 5 seconds
MIL called about 1 min after and she felt it at her place ( she is about a 20 min drive away )
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/story/0,668,26997552-2682,00.html
they are talking about more to come
apart from having a a kit with food, water, Ect.
is there much you can do to the house to help protect it.
Move it to tasmania! ;D
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we had one here Friday night
whole house was shaking for about 5 seconds
MIL called about 1 min after and she felt it at her place ( she is about a 20 min drive away )
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/story/0,668,26997552-2682,00.html
they are talking about more to come
apart from having a a kit with food, water, Ect.
is there much you can do to the house to help protect it.
Not after it's been built, but TAB would know more about that.
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I did read an article that contradicted some conventional guidelines about what to do in a quake.
It was written by a guy who has been involved in many rescue operations in the aftermath of a quake.
One point he mad is that in a school he went into after a quake, he found the kids had ducked under their desks and all were killed.
He said that the roof collapsed onto the desks crushing them to the floor with the kids underneath.
He said that between the desks in the aisle there was enough clear space for the kids to have survived.
He said don't get under something big and solid, like a workbench. bed or desk, get next to it.
He talked about how in the recent bridge collapses, those who stayed in the cars perished while those on the roadbed next to the cars survived.
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That makes sense Solus. I never thought of it that way. Not that I really have to worry about it. I only heard about 2 tremors here. I slept through one and I think I was out of country for the other.
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that makes sence Solus
however not what I have seen kids taught in earthquake prone area's
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that makes sence Solus
however not what I have seen kids taught in earthquake prone area's
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Not really a contradiction.
The report I read was about going into collapsed structures and finding those who took cover under something sturdy died.
Both the videos assume the structure you are in will not be collapsing. One even mentions covering your head with a bed pillow. They assume falling pieces of plaster, ceiling tiles, lamps and other objects will be what will hit you, not collapsing structure itself.
If it were me and I was without a doubt, positive that the building would not collapse, I'd hide under something sturdy. If I wasn't that sure, I'd curl up next to it and take the beating from the plaster.