66jack

Just felt a 6.2 or bigger quake..

It was west of my town about 150 miles from Redding, CA
the same place as last months quake....Eureka, CA....close to the Oregon border...

jack

mechron

holy cows jack, laying here in santa rosa watching TV. i didn't feel a thing.... a 6.2 i should have felt. i am very upset, i missed it!! i like earthquakes, the shaking is fun...

jimh_1962

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...nc71348851.php

MiguelsC2

YA they say it hit just off the coast. Is it time to buy future shore front property on the east side of the San Andreas? Hope that was your last one for a while.

MiguelsC2

Maybe. Be sure and get your Vette out of that garage. I would hate to see it as fodder for the 6 o'clock news.

1955 copper

Also felt it here at Nevada City, Ca.

mechron

FUNNY!!!. 1 story houses never fall down besides that, how can you tell if a quake is coming? afterwords it's to late. i rode out the 89 quake in SF, now that was fun, it made my hair stand on end-->

amtronic1

I must have felt it here in Florida, my beer fell over. oopsie!

LT1driver

solution is the move from the socialist state of california

Kensmith

Didn't feel a thing in Rocklin. But then Rocklin is on top of granite. We never feel any quakes. When I lived in the east bay area, we got them all the time.

jimh_1962

My mom in Redding did not feel it. I felt my first earthquake in 1999 during thanksgiving at my parents house. I used to deliver furniture to people who transplanted from the bay area or la area to Redding. They would ask me to mount the top of the china cabinets. I would ask "What for? We do not have earthquakes up here!". The small earthquake sounded like a train going through the house. All I could think about was all of the top of the china cabinets falling down.

turbocat

I live in Eureka and we are so used to these things that a 6. quake is nothing. When it gets to 7 then you get a little excited. I have two corvettes on lifts right now and they didn't move a bit.

KENS78SILVERANNIV

As any native Californian will tell you. The best thing about the quakes here...is they scare the crap out of people from other states. They usually go home.

jimh_1962

Yeah, that and the fires. The fires are guaranteed to occur every summer.

MarvBarrish

While we on the west coast are more experienced with earthquakes, the rest of the country is not immune to them. There are plenty of fault lines running thru out this country and they will let loose at some point in time. At least out west we view the many quakes as relieving pressure so as to hopefully avoid a catastrophic event. Hopefully.

vt65

yes too many beautiful cars would be lost to a bad quake...i shudder to think of it lol

Fordracer9

[humor]Holy isht! Do we need to get George Clooney to start a Telethon?[/humor]

jim lockwood

Another advantage(?) to the California earthquakes is that building codes here require earthquake-tolerant construction.*1 I'd hate to be in a quake in any part of the country where the codes are not as stringent.

Jim

*1 My home at the time was 12 miles from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake epicenter. A filing cabinet turned over and a bottle of pancake syrup fell on the floor.

vettefred

You are right Marv.....I used to live just north of NYC (Putnam County) and in the early eighties we had a 2.5 earthquake from the Ramapo fault across the Hudson....scared the you know what out of me. First time that ever happened in my life in that area.

Fred

Cj_

Quick earthquake tip...

Use rolling storage. I have all my storage & tools in my garage on rolling shelves. When we had the 6.4 quake, not 1 item was out of place. the shelving just rolled and took the shock.

I guess closed doors works too

Cj