Cali Quakes & Tremors

[Rick Darge]

What's with all these quakes and tremors lately?

I just felt another tremor

:head_explode:

[Rick Darge]

http://www.google.com/search?q=california+earthquake+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[Alan Skinner]

Richard,

It is your incredible Mojo. Shakin' things up a bit....

Was that really you in the silver wig? :)

Alan

[M Most]

What's with all these quakes and tremors lately?

I just felt another tremor

:head_explode:

How long have you lived here?

[Rick Darge]

10 years and I've never felt them this frequently, past week.

Haha, no that wasn't me in the silver wig. That was my old roommate. I can't act..

[Alan Skinner]

Quit standing still and loafing about!

That way, you will not notice the "Earth Moving Under Your Feet!" :)

Truth be told, I was never sensative about quakes before the Loma Prieta. We had just finished work, sat down to watch the World Series in a pizza bar and the TV went out first. The place started shaking and I was looking at my beer thinking: "I only had one sip!"

The place went wilda and the parking lot was rolling in 24" waves. Trees moving around like liquid. Wow! The bar lost a lot of glass and all I remember is my brother looking up at me from under the table while I pondered my first beer and asking if I was going to get under the table!

Since then, I notice the slightest of shakes.

Guess it is a certain amount of acclimitization (spelling?)

I get sick in my stomach, then the ground moves, then I get better.

(and that is up North!)

Alan

[Conrad Hunziker]

USGS page is here:

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html

I was in Candlestick Park at the World Series in the upper deck when the Loma Prieta quake struck. The weirdest thing about that quake was that I knew I was standing on solid cement, yet I looked across the field and I can see the waves of the earthquake IN the cement - and Im on that very same "solid" cement. After the quake there was no power - not even emergency generators - so there were no lights and no PA system. We didnt know how bad the quake was until someone near us with one of the first portable Sony Watchmen showed us the images of the Bay Bridge.

I have it on video somewhere - Hi8 no less.

Good times.

I find that once you experience a quake you are hyper-sensitive to them. Even if its a truck rolling by outside, because you just experienced one you will think there are more. There are dozens every day in SoCal - and NorCal too for that matter. But you will never feel any until they are 3.0+. Had I not discovered photography, I would have studied quakes. I find them fascinating and fun.

[Bayden Docking]

when i got told that there was a quake the morning of our premiere of our film (not shot on red) over there in the action on film festival i freaked out, then found out about the frequency of them and settled down a little.