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Anyone feel all that quake activity? 6.0 near Paso Robles...close to 200 quakes in the area in the past few hours.

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i would say no, i havent felt a thing..

man, i sure dont how you guys deal with that all the time.. but i guess its no worse than tornados around here, or hurricanes in florida.. i reckon ya just get used to it?!!!

bigjohn

Didn't feel a thing! We don't get to many of those up in these parts!

spiff, time to move back to new england? just rain here today.

Spiff,

I read in our local paper here in Indiana this morning about hundreds of earthquakes in Washington State. Scientists are concerned that Mt. Saint Helens might be a danger again. They were supposed to fly over the crater today. Maybe the earthquakes in N. California are related to that.

Scott

I read that about St. Helens too. Pretty scary $@%!. I was only 8 when she blew last time, and I still remember the pictures. Let's hope she's just letting off a little steam. It's unlikely that the quake North of me have anything to do with the St. Helens issue.

I've been pretty darn lucky. I moved out here in Aug. '94. Just 8 months after the huge Northridge quake. Since then SoCal has been very quiet. I know it's just a matter of time before I have the crap scared out of me though. SoCal is over due for a good one.

I did not feel a thing. The web stated it could be felt as far north as SF. But, I'm in SF and felt nada.

jr

I rather like a series of small quakes; I think they release pressure incrementally that would otherwise build up into a big one.

They seem pretty sure that *something* will happen pretty soon at St. Helens, and that the something will not be terribly major. Scientists study the bleep out of that pile of rocks nowadays.

I live in the shadow of (currently dormant) Mt. Rainier, 100+ miles north of St. Helens. There are signs all over the place directing you to higher ground for "Volcano evacuation route". The fear is that Rainier will erupt and create giant lahars (mud flows) that go down the river valleys. While there is ancient historical precedent for such an event, I choose to believe that it may or may not happen 500 years from now.

But hey, we've got no poisonous snakes, tornados, hurricanes, dust storms or truly nasty bugs. It's always something.

I felt it on the 4th floor in Sunnyvale, CA, between San Jose and San Francisco. Wasn't jarring, just kind of like a rolling feeling. I felt dizzy for a bit and saw the overhead lights swaying. My coworkers in the next cube didn't even notice it.

Pardon me, but I like my natural disasters to be a surprise. I'd hate to be in hurricane/tornado areas where you're just waiting for it to show up. But hey, that's just me...

Few things genuinely give me the creeps, but springtime in Tennessee can be positively eerie. The air gets warm, thick, and very, very still and that's about the time you need to find some f'n shelter. I can't imagine what it's like to live in the cornbelt and have to deal with that by a factor of 100.

I'm in SF, and have felt nothing. Until now, when it feels like everything is swaying. Power of suggestion combined with standing with my knees locked...

I felt it this morning, but just barely. I'm on the 5th floor of a building on the UCLA campus.

BTW, the most recent data says it was only 4.0.

Hey...yer right down the road from me.

Where'd you get the 4.0 info. The website I'm looking at still says 6.0.

Not down the road anymore. Now I'm in a hotel room near the UCSD campus.

The website I was using is here:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/120-36.html

And you are correct. It was 6.0. I must have clicked on an aftershock.

I live right near Paso, about 30 minutes away, and the quake was nothing. both my roommates slept through it and I just thought it was a semi driving by. My Velodyne causes much more room shaking.

You non Californians who are afraid of earthquakes are silly, I have never experienced a bad one in 23 years of living here.

Knock on wood

Many other Californians would beg to differ. Loma Prieta and Northridge were both in your lifetime.

I felt that quake all the way down in Chino, BTW.
My wife was eating breakfast in her parents' home in Whittier during the Whittier quake (around a 7.0 I think). She said it was really weird the way things floated around the room.

I have lived in California all my 40 years. I lived about 35 miles from the Northridge epicenter. That quake scared the crap out of me....I thought it was THE one.

I have friends that were in SF for the big one up there...friends that have also lived in California their whole lives....they too that it was THE one.

Quakes are a real danger, but I would still rather get hit by a quake than a hurricane.

Your sources were right on, Tom.

Something did happen, and it was not major. Still, you don't see something like this everyday, and if you live closeby it must make you nervous.

Aaaah! That link TALKS! I hate those ads.

Anyway, I read another report that said that this may be the end of it, or it could be a precursor to something larger.

just noticed it -- and ad-blocked it. I love FireFox.

Not sure what that has to do with anything, but yeah, that was a great movie.

I'm proselytizing for firefox on a daily basis. Brother, 2 sisters, mom.... I love it.

Just watch the pop up blocking. It messes up your game when you are playing Kingdom of Loathing...

jr

Fascinating, but a non-event for most people, even those living relatively close. Looks like it's pretty much "over" at the moment.

But, how often do you get to utter the phrase Volcano-Cam? Cool view that really shows the results of the major event 24 years ago.