Just rode an earthquake!

BeaucoupFish · #1 10-30-2007, 11:30 PM

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/M..._Francisco.htm

Biggest one I've felt, I am sure.
Everyone in San Jose Ok?

NT! · #2 10-30-2007, 11:32 PM

wow, AWESOME thread!

i just felt a bowel movement, it was exciting

Jon1000 · #3 10-30-2007, 11:34 PM

what are the chances on aftershocks and the like. This one was bigger than most, but after i got out of the archway, i went right back to playing poker and watching tv.

skunkworks · #4 10-31-2007, 12:45 AM

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wow, AWESOME thread!

i just felt a bowel movement, it was exciting

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east coast bias

loose passive · #5 10-31-2007, 01:16 AM

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wow, AWESOME thread!

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east coast bias

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Yeah...thanks for adding to the thread NT. Your insight is appreciated by all.

NT! · #6 10-31-2007, 12:00 PM

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wow, AWESOME thread!

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east coast bias

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solid

NozeCandy · #7 10-31-2007, 12:08 PM

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Yeah.. I feel bad for people in the SF Bay Area... they're screwed eventually... just a matter of when.

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So is LA. There is a lot of evidence that a few blind thrust faults are underneath the city, which equal pwnage for a lot of people.

cbloom · #8 10-31-2007, 12:24 PM

The log10 Richter scale can give people a really off idea of magnitude. 5.6 is really nothing (I didn't feel it at all in SF). 6.6 would be 10x stronger ; Loma Prieta was around a 7.0 which makes it about 25X stronger.

It would be sort of funny in a horrible way if SF got smacked with a massive earthquake just as San Diego is getting torched by wildfires.

LOL at Wikipedia's Richter scale strength reference page. 12.0 magnitude = fault Earth in half through center.

Patton4 · #9 10-30-2007, 11:35 PM

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http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/M..._Francisco.htm

Biggest one I've felt, I am sure.
Everyone in San Jose Ok?

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The 89 earthquake made me fall over while I was kneeling down at soccer practice. About 90 miles from that one as well. I didn't even know it was an earthquake till I got home and found out the World Series was postponed.

ncboiler · #10 10-30-2007, 11:35 PM

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http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/M..._Francisco.htm

Biggest one I've felt, I am sure.
Everyone in San Jose Ok?

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If they aren't OK they are pussies. It wasn't that big.