You SoCal guys ok?
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The Southern California Deserts are rocking tonight
Southern California was jolted by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake at 8:19 p.m. on Friday one day after the region was hit by a 6.4 quake, the USGS reports.
The epicenter was 10.5 miles away from Ridgecrest, Calif., and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. According to the USGS, the quake was felt as far north as San Jose and as far south as parts of Mexico.
After Friday night's quake, the USGS said Thursday's 6.4 quake was a "foreshock" for the earthquake Friday night, and Southern California residents should expect aftershocks.
The USGS also did not rule out the possibility that Friday night's 7.1 quake could be a foreshock to something even bigger. After Thursday's quake, USGS officials said there was a 5 percent chance a bigger quake could strike the same region.
"With any earthquake, there is a 5 percent chance something even bigger will happen within the next three days," USGS seismologist Susan Hough told SFGATE on Thursday. "If it did, it would be in the same remote area." A 5.4 quake early Friday morning was the largest aftershock of the Fourth of July quake.
The quake was felt in both Los Angeles and Las Vegas. An NBA Summer League game between the New York Knicks and New Orleans Pelicans in Las Vegas was postponed indefinitely.
Thursday's quake struck at 10:33 a.m., and was the largest temblor to strike the region in 20 years, until Friday night. According to the USGS, the 7.1-magnitude earthquake was 11 times stronger than the 6.4 earthquake.
http://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Quakes/ci38457511.html
Southern California was jolted by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake at 8:19 p.m. on Friday one day after the region was hit by a 6.4 quake, the USGS reports.
The epicenter was 10.5 miles away from Ridgecrest, Calif., and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. According to the USGS, the quake was felt as far north as San Jose and as far south as parts of Mexico.
After Friday night's quake, the USGS said Thursday's 6.4 quake was a "foreshock" for the earthquake Friday night, and Southern California residents should expect aftershocks.
The USGS also did not rule out the possibility that Friday night's 7.1 quake could be a foreshock to something even bigger. After Thursday's quake, USGS officials said there was a 5 percent chance a bigger quake could strike the same region.
"With any earthquake, there is a 5 percent chance something even bigger will happen within the next three days," USGS seismologist Susan Hough told SFGATE on Thursday. "If it did, it would be in the same remote area." A 5.4 quake early Friday morning was the largest aftershock of the Fourth of July quake.
The quake was felt in both Los Angeles and Las Vegas. An NBA Summer League game between the New York Knicks and New Orleans Pelicans in Las Vegas was postponed indefinitely.
Thursday's quake struck at 10:33 a.m., and was the largest temblor to strike the region in 20 years, until Friday night. According to the USGS, the 7.1-magnitude earthquake was 11 times stronger than the 6.4 earthquake.
http://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Quakes/ci38457511.html
Been there, got the T-shirt. Still shell-shocked. Not fun to live through this. Immediately after, we were getting aftershocks every 5 minutes or so, they eventually became further apart...that took around 3-4 months. The seismologists were spot on about the causes, the delayed effects and how it would propagate afterwards, which made it seem a little better, but it was a hell of a wild ride that I don't want to repeat.
Been there twice. Humbolt state 1980 7.1. Loma Prieta 1989 6.9 1 mile from the epicenter. really got tossed around.
Its insane
Its insane
Be safe out there, monkeys.
There's a large military installation in Ridgecrest/China Lake so population is greater than you'd normally expect for such remote area.
I felt the last night's earthquake, 200+ miles from the epicenter.
Something like 20k? I'm too lazy to look it up.
Twice as a kid, both times at home. The freakiest part was the high pitch "twang" the fishing line made from all my model airplanes that were hanging from the ceiling several seconds before you could actually feel the earth shake. 
A few months ago we got pretty good at hearing the aftershocks before they’d hit. There was a low frequency rumble like a dumptruck driving through your neighborhood that would proceed the earthquake by several seconds.Twice as a kid, both times at home. The freakiest part was the high pitch "twang" the fishing line made from all my model airplanes that were hanging from the ceiling several seconds before you could actually feel the earth shake.
Aerial view of faulted road on the China Lake NAWS base. Total measured right-lateral offset of about 6.5 feet and approx 3 feet vertical. Large offset at bottom of pic is ~5 feet. SO COOL!! #Ridgecrest#earthquake #RidgecrestEarthquake
From (mrbrianolson) https://t.co/qMMJZNgcq5
From (mrbrianolson) https://t.co/qMMJZNgcq5
Look up our earthquake pictures where the soil liquified, real interesting, especially when zoomed out. That’s the real problem up here. Once it liquifies it amplifies the effects like crazy.Aerial view of faulted road on the China Lake NAWS base. Total measured right-lateral offset of about 6.5 feet and approx 3 feet vertical. Large offset at bottom of pic is ~5 feet. SO COOL!! #Ridgecrest#earthquake #RidgecrestEarthquake
From (mrbrianolson) https://t.co/qMMJZNgcq5
Something like 17% of Seattle is built on filled tide lands that will liquefy. Only a few of the newest buildings were built with sufficient piling to prevent a complete loss in such a circumstance. There is a 30% chance of a >9.0 in the next fifty years. I am slowly seismically retrofitting my house but I suspect it will make little difference. Not too long ago earthquakes weren't even considered a threat here so the area is totally unprepared. This place will become turn into the third world overnight. I suspect the seasoned and practiced homeless will have a good laugh.
Where I was during loma prieta was inside Pizza my Heart on the beach at the Capitol Esplanade. Wooden building on pilings driven into the sand at the mouth of Soquel Creek. That area and the Marina District of San Francisco suffered liquifaction and the most severe ground movement. I remember the 1000 pound 500* pizza ovens bouncing in the air, their doors opening and closing in syncronous harmony, door jambs flexing 20* each way for 30 seconds, everything coming off the shelves and hitting us. Then silence followed by a chocking dust clound from the collapse of the beach cliffs. Zeldas kitchen catching on fire as i struggled to turn the rusty gas valves that fed all the restaurants. It took everyones fire extinguishers to put it out. Then we headed for high ground. I was on my MT Bike and from the top of the hill you could see the smoke from the fires in Santa Cruz and Watsonville. we had no power for a week and constant aftershocks
Yea, all good here. Wife and I were watching a movie on the couch and both initially thought the other was kicking or moving around. Then it started to roll more. Our pool sloshed over and was moving pretty good. Other than that, we are pretty far from it and even though we felt it roll pretty good, there wasn't any damage and it was pretty mild.
The earth is pissed at yall.
