Anyone else feel it?

[leggtnut]

So I live all the way up in boulder creek and it had our chandlier rocking, my desktops were tapping each other and the cats were freaking out.

 

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40194055.html

[CreoSTi]

I didn't feel this one, but I felt the 3.2 last week near Berkeley.

 

-Mike-

[leggtnut]

I couldn't believe that we felt it so well and we are so far away. My cats didn't settel down till about 2am.

[pleiad7]

I felt it all the way up here in the North Bay. Very strange, the house was making no noises, but the couch I was sitting on at the time (watching American Idol ) suddenly started quivering. I thought I was imagining things until they interrupted AI for the "breaking news" 10 minutes later.

[soyboy004]

I felt it all the way up here in the North Bay. Very strange, the house was making no noises, but the couch I was sitting on at the time (watching American Idol ) suddenly started quivering. I thought I was imagining things until they interrupted AI for the "breaking news" 10 minutes later.

 

 

hahaha me as well. two quakes two weeks.

[RobE]

.....its all leading up to the big one

[Tocsin]

It shook our place pretty hard for a 4.2

 

I think when the epicenter is to the east it shakes our place hard. north or south seem ok... unless of course it's 'big one' which I'm looking forward to.

[leggtnut]

And how many years have they been warning us about the Big one . I know when I was in The PACNW They have been talking about it since long before the Northridge one. But they are saying that the one that will hit Seattle will be so much worse than any of the ones down here.

[pleiad7]

^^ yes, the Pacific NW is sitting on a powderkeg, as far as earthquakes are concerned. Watch Seattle slide right into the Cascadian Subduction Zone when the Big One hits...

[Tide]

yeah felt it pretty well, like someone punched my house.

[RedDevil]

3 miles from the epicenter, so erm, yeah, definitely feel it...

My cats were jumpy for the next hour...

[pillboy]

We visited San Francisco a couple years ago and it is a BEAUTIFUL area, but I don't know how you guys can live waiting for "the big one".

[matt]

I felt it clearly down in Mountain View. I was working late and it gave the office a little shakedown. It's the second quake I've felt since moving out here two summers ago.

[SubaruCrazy]

Thought someone had ran their car into my house but then when the house kept moving that thought was quickly gone, haha. Some picture damage in the hall way, my house sucks, I am lucky it didn't fall apart ROTFL

[Ferenczy33]

Sounds like the day is approaching when I will have some nice ocean front property here in the central valley when the bay slides into the ocean.

[CreoSTi]

Sounds like the day is approaching when I will have some nice ocean front property here in the central valley when the bay slides into the ocean.

 

From the USGS;

 

California will eventually fall into the ocean.

FICTION: The ocean is not a great hole into which California can fall, but it is itself land at a somewhat lower elevation with water above it. It’s absolutely impossible that California will be swept out to sea. Instead, southwestern California is moving horizontally northward towards Alaska as it slides past central and eastern California. The dividing point is the San Andreas fault system, which extends from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north. This 800 mile long fault is the boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. The Pacific Plate is moving to the northwest with respect to the North American Plate at approximately 46 millimeters (two inches) per year (the rate your fingernails grow). At this rate, Los Angeles and San Francisco will one day (about 15 million years from now) be next-door neighbors, and in an additional 70 million years, Los Angeles residents will find themselves with an Alaska zip code!

 

http://www.geol.lsu.edu/Faculty/Juan/PhysicalGeology_F2004/Megaquake/calif.gif

 

So, if they're correct... You'll be further away from the ocean in about 15 millions years.

 

-Mike-

[Ferenczy33]

From the USGS;

 

California will eventually fall into the ocean.

FICTION: The ocean is not a great hole into which California can fall, but it is itself land at a somewhat lower elevation with water above it. It’s absolutely impossible that California will be swept out to sea. Instead, southwestern California is moving horizontally northward towards Alaska as it slides past central and eastern California. The dividing point is the San Andreas fault system, which extends from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north. This 800 mile long fault is the boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. The Pacific Plate is moving to the northwest with respect to the North American Plate at approximately 46 millimeters (two inches) per year (the rate your fingernails grow). At this rate, Los Angeles and San Francisco will one day (about 15 million years from now) be next-door neighbors, and in an additional 70 million years, Los Angeles residents will find themselves with an Alaska zip code!

 

http://www.geol.lsu.edu/Faculty/Juan/PhysicalGeology_F2004/Megaquake/calif.gif

 

So, if they're correct... You'll be further away from the ocean in about 15 millions years.

 

-Mike-

 

Hey man...don't squash my dreams of vastly increasing the calue of my home. Of course I was not being serious...just silly. I had it explained to me once as a giant zipper working its way up the coast. Baja California used to be attached and there was no Gulf of California until the San Andreas fault slowly unzipped the land away.

[red beast]

i'm feeling it but, i don't think you want to know whats in my hand