@tinamarie1974 - Not really here in WA. Since a 6.8 in 2001.
The area is seismically active and we’re warned that a massive one is coming. Like an 11, which has happened before here in geological history, but mostly very small ones occur in Western WA. Bigger ones seem to happen offshore.
But I’m from California. I lived one house away from the San Andreas fault line. Different story.
Interesting about the Richter Scale -
[The] Richter is a “logarithmic” scale, which means that each one-point increase on the scale represents a tenfold increase in the magnitude of the earthquake.
@kdemo I find it fascinating. Being from Missouri I hear the same thing. I live on/near the New Madrid fault. We do not see much activity though, thank goodness.
@kdemo One house from the fault line? What fool would build a house there?
Near Stanford there is a small bell tower maybe 6 or so feet from the fault line (which has a nice very, very, very miniature canyon along it) and when there are earthquakes there the bells ring.
@Kidsandliz - Lakefront property. We didn’t know about the fault when we purchased.
You don’t have to be near a fault to suffer earthquake damage. The biggest earthquake in my area (1989) was felt almost as much 60 miles away in San Francisco.
If no one built near a fault, CA would be pretty empty.
Earthquakes are our tornadoes, our hurricanes, our volcanoes (oh, right, we have those too). We’re on a large chunk of granite between the San Andreas and San Gregorio faults, about 25 miles north of the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake - things shake a lot but the ground holds together, mostly. The house was built in 1890, and survived two really big ones, so we feel kind of safe.
@stolicat - As you know, that granite must be what saves you if your house survived that 7.9 in 1906.
I now live on a solid rocky hill. I was at work when our 6.8 quake hit, and I was petrified to get home and open the door expecting to see everything demolished.
I held my breath and opened the door to find only one jar of spice fell off the rack.
I noticed that the incidence of local earthquakes considerably increased during (and for a few years after) the height of the fracking/injection well activity.
Whoever would have thought that Cleburne, TX would be notable for earthquakes? It wasn’t for the several previous centuries.
I didn’t feel this one, but I was out walking.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
4.0?
Pfffft.
Come talk to me when something around a 6 hits.
Biggest one here in the last two weeks was 3.1. Hardly anyone would notice that. I watch here:
https://pnsn.org/earthquakes/recent
@kdemo do you get them that often?
@tinamarie1974 - Not really here in WA. Since a 6.8 in 2001.
The area is seismically active and we’re warned that a massive one is coming. Like an 11, which has happened before here in geological history, but mostly very small ones occur in Western WA. Bigger ones seem to happen offshore.
But I’m from California. I lived one house away from the San Andreas fault line. Different story.
Interesting about the Richter Scale -
Well, you asked.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@kdemo I find it fascinating. Being from Missouri I hear the same thing. I live on/near the New Madrid fault. We do not see much activity though, thank goodness.
@tinamarie1974 - I do, as well. Earthquakes have really affected my family over time.
@kdemo One house from the fault line? What fool would build a house there?
Near Stanford there is a small bell tower maybe 6 or so feet from the fault line (which has a nice very, very, very miniature canyon along it) and when there are earthquakes there the bells ring.
@Kidsandliz - Lakefront property. We didn’t know about the fault when we purchased.
You don’t have to be near a fault to suffer earthquake damage. The biggest earthquake in my area (1989) was felt almost as much 60 miles away in San Francisco.
If no one built near a fault, CA would be pretty empty.
Earthquakes?
Every day
Earthquakes are our tornadoes, our hurricanes, our volcanoes (oh, right, we have those too). We’re on a large chunk of granite between the San Andreas and San Gregorio faults, about 25 miles north of the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake - things shake a lot but the ground holds together, mostly. The house was built in 1890, and survived two really big ones, so we feel kind of safe.
@stolicat - As you know, that granite must be what saves you if your house survived that 7.9 in 1906.
I now live on a solid rocky hill. I was at work when our 6.8 quake hit, and I was petrified to get home and open the door expecting to see everything demolished.
I held my breath and opened the door to find only one jar of spice fell off the rack.
I noticed they increased considerably during the Obama administration, but have decreased in the last few years.
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@therealjrn
I noticed that the incidence of local earthquakes considerably increased during (and for a few years after) the height of the fracking/injection well activity.
Whoever would have thought that Cleburne, TX would be notable for earthquakes? It wasn’t for the several previous centuries.
Hmmm.
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