BRKG M6.2 earthquake off the coast of northern California (USGS)

[Babs]

I think the next large one will be in S. America or near Vanuatu. But could also hit Hawaii

 

[packyderms_wife]

You get the Official Disastercat Award for being present for Earthquake, Hurricane, Tornadoes, Derechos, and Floods.

A friend was going to do a "Disastercat World Tour" t-shirt for me that said things like:

1974 - Night of the Tornados

1979 - Flood of the "Mighty Pearl" River Jackson Mississippi and Hurricane Frederick

1982 - The Great Winter of 1982 in Colorado

1989 - Loma Prieta Earthquake

1992 - Oakland Hills Firestorm

You get the idea back then it was before 2012 and it was going to say at the bottom

Coming Soon 2012, the Apocolypse Tour!

I still have the early draft of this t-shirt/poster on the wall of my textile room lol!

I've also survived the great blizzard of 1978, two massive ice storms, the floods of 1993, 95, 2003, and 2008 here in the midwest, two flash floods, and a few other major weather events. I was going to go to Montana this summer but that got put off for another year, so fortunately or unfortunately Yellowstone won't be erupting this year. I have friends who refuse to travel with me because weird stuff, weather wise, always happens.

I was in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN/Canadian border, when DNR was doing controlled burns and one got out of hand near our camp ground and we had very little warning and had to flee the area, so I guess this means I've survived a forest fire as well.

 

[packyderms_wife]

I think the next large one will be in S. America or near Vanuatu. But could also hit Hawaii

Sandwich Islands late last night.

 

[Txkstew]

Everyone here who ever visited the World Trade Center understands how you felt.

In 1972, we were in NYC for 5 days. We went to Battery Park and Wall St. There was a big construction site, where you walk through a plywood tunnel over the side walk. They had these port holes, where you could look out. I did. It had to be the Trade Centers under construction. I was 17 at the time.

 

[Carl2]

The Mendocino Triple Junction off Petrolia makes the area the most seismically active region in the lower 48 states. Driving the roads to and around Petrolia, you see and traverse very interesting "chopped up" terrain resulting from seismic activity. The last major movement involving much or all of the Cascadia Subduction Zone was circa magnitude 9 and happened around or in the year 1700. The date is known because the resulting tsunami wiped out towns on the east coast of Japan.

 

[Siskiyoumom]

The Mendocino Triple Junction off Petrolia makes the area the most seismically active region in the lower 48 states. Driving the roads to and around Petrolia, you see and traverse very interesting "chopped up" terrain resulting from seismic activity. The last major movement involving much or all of the Cascadia Subduction Zone was circa magnitude 9 and happened around or in the year 1700. The date is known because the resulting tsunami wiped out towns on the east coast of Japan.

It is a beautiful coast line there for sure.

 

[Siskiyoumom]

Glad you survived with no damage from the quake... I don’t know about you, but this far north in CA, I’m not really expecting earthquakes. Did this surprise you?

Not surprised at all. As a teen I lived in the SF Bay Area and often felt small quakes. I read up on the Hayward and San Andreas fault lines and decided to move north. Since living here from the mid 1970s I have felt a lot of quakes, both largish and small.
This last quake was a slow rolling nausea inducing the some fairly significant shaking then slow gently rolling. I fully expected aftershocks of close to same magnitude.
The largest after shock I felt was a 4.8 this morning.
I live next door to a noted seismology professor and she stated that we can expect after shocks for at least a month or so.
And a probability of 28% of this last big quake being a precursor event for a much larger future quake.
In 1993 we had a series of small quakes that were close to us and shallow and had significant damage to our home.
This last quake reminded me of the first big one back then.