they're not big or anything but they keep me up. just had 2 in the last 10 mins that were only about 3.0s but we've officially had 309 since friday night and a butt load before friday night. one this morning woke me up at 4:30...theyre pissing me off. what pisses me off even more are the people in my retarded town who act like the world is ending. the biggest was a 4.7 and thats not even very big. its all thats been on the news and its just getting really old. more of an annoyance than anything. my dad is real worried, i told him ill worry when they get into magnitude 5 and 6. sorry, just had to vent.

damnit, just had another one when i was typing this.

*sits and seceretly hopes a big one doesnt hit*

Wow you are getting that many?? Where are you at ohio? I heard they were getting a lot

reno f***ing NV. i guess this is the only time anything like this has ever happened in recorded history. if you look at the reports we're having one like every 7 mins...some you cant feel and some wake you up.

damn thats a lot. over on my side of the country we have been getting nore activity in the past month then in YEARS!!

That is very, VERY bad dude.


That means everything is unstable, and the pressues under the ground are reaching a fever pitch.


Something has got to give, and give BIGTIME

ORIGINAL: connor90

reno f***ing NV. i guess this is the only time anything like this has ever happened in recorded history. if you look at the reports we're having one like every 7 mins...some you cant feel and some wake you up.



Wow thats scary

HUGE +1 to zanador
dude given what youre telling us...
all hell is about to break loose.

im not ****ting around either, you and your family better get prepared for a BIG on (think 6.5+)
soon

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-125.-115.php

They're mostly just aftershocks from the previous larger one. Though they could be foreshocks to something larger. Don't feel bad though, I'm sitting in between 2 major faults, the San Andreas and the Garlock, and am only a few miles from a 3rd, the White Wolf, that leveled this town in '52. I definately remember the shaking we felt during the Loma Prieta and Northridge quakes.

So is it fair to start ranting yet about all the people who are gonna need to be evacuated because they chose to live in an earthquake prone area, and not start leaving with the ground starting shaking for over 5 days? How much is this gonna cost the government? I know where there's a bunch of FEMA trailers if you guys need them, we're almost done with them.

I guess people down here in Louisiana are the only ones who can get hit by major natural disasters...

ORIGINAL: RyansQuick6

So is it fair to start ranting yet about all the people who are gonna need to be evacuated because they chose to live in an earthquake prone area, and not start leaving with the ground starting shaking for over 5 days? How much is this gonna cost the government? I know where there's a bunch of FEMA trailers if you guys need them, we're almost done with them.

I guess people down here in Louisiana are the only ones who can get hit by major natural disasters...




I am just waiting for yosemetie to decide to explode.


It will cover about 75% of the continental US in ash. Let's see FEMA take care of THAT one :D

ORIGINAL: Zanador


ORIGINAL: RyansQuick6

So is it fair to start ranting yet about all the people who are gonna need to be evacuated because they chose to live in an earthquake prone area, and not start leaving with the ground starting shaking for over 5 days? How much is this gonna cost the government? I know where there's a bunch of FEMA trailers if you guys need them, we're almost done with them.

I guess people down here in Louisiana are the only ones who can get hit by major natural disasters...




I am just waiting for yosemetie to decide to explode.


It will cover about 75% of the continental US in ash. Let's see FEMA take care of THAT one :D


That's Yellowstone. And yeah, it seems like a nice place until you realise it's one massive super-cauldera. On the bright side though, it'll kill so many people that FEMA won't have to worry too much about helping survivors in the immediate area. Immediate area being like a 500mi radius.

well generally speaking when earthquakes come in groups usually its a big one followed by subsequent smaller ones but most are hovering around the 3-4 range. like a 4.6 followed by a 3.8 followed by a 4.1 with 1-2s in between. today hasnt been bad though, only felt a couple so far. theres this kid from sweden in one of my classes and he's never felt an earthquake so he's freaking out.

california will now become an island.... WOOOOO them and their silly laws.

I've never been in an Earthquake. Whats its like?

btw i've never seen a tornado either yet i live in Oklahoma:D

well the ones we are having arent too bad...the floor just kinda moves from side to side a little and it shakes stuff up and knocks stuff off shelves. its like your house is floating in water and a wave hits it. either that or a giant comes over and just starts shaking it. haha...

and holy crap...we're supposed to be having wind gusts of 90mph today. dust storm warning too...they're just starting to pick up.

ORIGINAL: RyansQuick6

So is it fair to start ranting yet about all the people who are gonna need to be evacuated because they chose to live in an earthquake prone area, and not start leaving with the ground starting shaking for over 5 days? How much is this gonna cost the government? I know where there's a bunch of FEMA trailers if you guys need them, we're almost done with them.

I guess people down here in Louisiana are the only ones who can get hit by major natural disasters...


Here, I will start because I feel exactly about Louisiana as I will the west coast when they get their big ass earthquake.

To the west coast, if I were you I'd be selling my sh!t and getting my ass out of town so A) I don't get myself killed and B) so that I don't have to whine about not being warned about it and blaming whatever president is in office for not using Scotch tape to keep the fault from moving.

kthanxbi

Ok that would freak me the F out if i was in a actual earthquake.

Tornadoes just flat out scare the ****e out of me, you can always tell when its perfect for a tornado
it'll be pretty warm out and than 10 mins later it will get pretty chilly and its all dark out side and 30 mph winds start, im always looking out for wall clouds and trying to spot rotation.
Than it'll hail, my car is in the garage by now. all of this mainly happens at night and happen to live 100 yards away from a siren[:@]

right now its tornado season

ORIGINAL: kngdaka


ORIGINAL: RyansQuick6

So is it fair to start ranting yet about all the people who are gonna need to be evacuated because they chose to live in an earthquake prone area, and not start leaving with the ground starting shaking for over 5 days? How much is this gonna cost the government? I know where there's a bunch of FEMA trailers if you guys need them, we're almost done with them.

I guess people down here in Louisiana are the only ones who can get hit by major natural disasters...


Here, I will start because I feel exactly about Louisiana as I will the west coast when they get their big ass earthquake.

To the west coast, if I were you I'd be selling my sh!t and getting my ass out of town so A) I don't get myself killed and B) so that I don't have to whine about not being warned about it and blaming whatever president is in office for not using Scotch tape to keep the fault from moving.

kthanxbi


I dont know the whole deal but it sounds like its the states job to get it fixed or the cities. I wouldnt live near in an area that had potential for hurricanes anyways.

oh and i just read a study that said there is a 99% chance of a magnitude 7 or greater earthquake happening in southern california in the next 20 years...97% in northern california.

ORIGINAL: connor90

oh and i just read a study that said there is a 99% chance of a magnitude 7 or greater earthquake happening in southern california in the next 20 years...97% in northern california. Â*


Well, based on when they started collecting data I'm pretty sure you guys are long over-due for a big one. I don't know by how many years, might even be decades, but I know it's some figure in that ballpark. Someone's gotta have a link.

ORIGINAL: kngdaka


ORIGINAL: connor90

oh and i just read a study that said there is a 99% chance of a magnitude 7 or greater earthquake happening in southern california in the next 20 years...97% in northern california.


Well, based on when they started collecting data I'm pretty sure you guys are long over-due for a big one. I don't know by how many years, might even be decades, but I know it's some figure in that ballpark. Someone's gotta have a link.


knock on wood

Since natural disasters are alot more frequent these days as predicted, The only natural disaster that hasnt been big making national news is an earthquake

well it was a study done by some seismologists...its nearly impossible to predict earthquakes so that was the best figure they could come up with.

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ORIGINAL: Explosive

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that about covers it

But if California breaks off, who will be Oregon's Mexico?

^mexico?

ive been feeling them here in Ky

major fault lines around here. 200 years over due for " the big one" est 8.0+

well its been cold in NY lol.. um 37 today at one point... we freeze and buried in snow...you shake...everyone gets **** once in awhile[:@][:@][:@]

ORIGINAL: kngdaka

^mexico?

Nah, Mexico is the United States' Mexico, you can't have Mexico be Mexico for a country and a state.

What an earthquake feels like depends on a lot of different things. The type of soil you're on, the type of building you're in, the type of fault and the direction it slips etc. Some feel like being on a vibrating bed, some are a violent up-down movement, or side-side movement, sometimes both and on and on. And the new Madrid fault in the mid west is about due for a major move, and here in Cali we seem to have a mag 7.0+ in a regular basis, like every 10-15 years. We're about due.

****!!!!!!!! Its never going to stop!!!! we've been having smaller ones but today we've had 4 that were magnitude 3.0 or bigger...usually we only have like one of those a day. we just had 2 of them a second ago and they freak me out.

the idea of an earthquake disturbs my mind. I just don't like it. I have only felt a tiny bit of something once. I was walking thru the house and saw a picture on the wall shake just a tiny bit and thought i felt a little shake. i thought maybe they were blasting at the quarry near our house, but it was seismic activity according to the tv. lol

yeah, they suck. just kind of unsettling when you're trying to go to bed. this has been going on for almost 2 weeks now...it let up for a few days but now it seems like its picking up again. according to the interwebz the last one was a 3.8, not too bad i guess. you can actually hear them coming like a second before they hit

that would make me crazy. It would take a lot of them before I would stop absolutely freaking out at the first little quiver.

well you get used to the little ones pretty quick, its the bigger ones that give a decent shake that freak me out a little.

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RUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bah. 4 isn't even enough to wake you up. It'll happen though, for the next year or so there will be the occasional 3 or 4 and they'll get fewer and fewer. We had a 4.4 around here the other weak. Try riding through a 6 or 7, or bigger. THAT'S a wild ass ride.

ORIGINAL: MustangFanatic4

I've never been in an Earthquake. Whats its like?

btw i've never seen a tornado either yet i live in Oklahoma:D

I've never been in an Earthquake either, but they had one near Norman a day after I left like 2 years ago. Wish I was still there.

Tornadoes though... Haha, I used to go storm chasing. I love tornadoes. :D

well its been nice and sunny and warm here with an air temp in the 80's andwater temp of about 74 at the lake any takers? though it is a little over cast today oh and the ground aint shakin thats a plus

ORIGINAL: moontang

well its been nice and sunny and warm here with an air temp in the 80's andwater temp of about 74 at the lake any takers? though it is a little over cast today oh and the ground aint shakin thats a plus

It's rainy a little further east.

ORIGINAL: moontang

well its been nice and sunny and warm here with an air temp in the 80's andwater temp of about 74 at the lake any takers? though it is a little over cast today oh and the ground aint shakin thats a plus

damn, I wish it would be that nice here, it's just starting to warm up this week. I need to go wakeboarding so bad.:(

AJ yea i know i dont want it to rain here but its suposed to today oh well

and fast65 i went out on thursday for the 4th or 5th time this year the first time we went out we had to wear wet suits water temp of 57-60 is effin cold plus it was rainy and windy out but on tusday it was niiice nothing but the board shorts and PFD and i was more than comfortable a good time

ORIGINAL: moontang

AJ yea i know i dont want it to rain here but its suposed to today oh well

and fast65 i went out on thursday for the 4th or 5th time this year the first time we went out we had to wear wet suits water temp of 57-60 is effin cold plus it was rainy and windy out but on tusday it was niiice nothing but the board shorts and PFD and i was more than comfortable a good time

yeah, the first couple of times I go out I usually have to wear the wet suit to, fortunately it usually glass all day though. Last year we had the perfect spot on the lake where you could just ride the glass all day without another boat in sight, it was AMAZING.

connor90, I can't wait for Peavine Mountain to erupt and splooge magma, rock, dust, and debris everywhere!!! The part about this that sucks.............I live right on the base of the mountain.[:@]

Hurricanes coming this summer. Government's got to spread more fear of an oil shortage or supply disruption to keep the prices up. Remember all that post 911 scare tactics or that big failure war in Iraq that lost all those American lives?

ORIGINAL: miloman

connor90, I can't wait for Peavine Mountain to erupt and splooge magma, rock, dust, and debris everywhere!!! The part about this that sucks.............I live right on the base of the mountain.[:@]


really? yeah, thats what ive been telling my parents haha. we live right off Mayberry and McCarran....right by walden's coffee house and across from roy gomm elementary. but seriously, dont these things just piss you off?

To be honest, the only quake I felt was the 4.7 we had a couple Friday's ago. I was at Parklane watching Harold and Kumar. Of the hundreds we've had over the last couple months, especially the last couple weeks, I felt ONE...........weird. I sleep to deep to feel or here anything. I'm too busy at work to even think about a quake. I would suck if Peavine really did explode, but it would be cool at the same time.

What's reallypissing me off...........................this stupid wind we've had lately. I swear my house nearly blew down a couple weeks ago. Every damn day, nothing but wind.[:@][:'(]

thats weird...i mean i know they're not huge or anything but anything bigger than a 2 will get our house shaking pretty good. i was actually down in malibu and san diego looking at colleges during the 4.7 so i didnt get to feel that one...a few of my friends called me and told me about it though.

haha, yeah...thats reno for ya. windy as hell.

Yeah, it's always windy here, but it seems like it's been stronger than normal the last couple weeks. I live in Stead and the wind the rips down off Peavine can be ridiculous sometimes. If the weather man predicts 40-60 gusts in town, it's 80-100+ out here.

We're still due for that late snow storm too!

yeah, i dont get as much wind as you but we had those huge gusts the other day...i swear to god, if it gets cold again i dont know what im going to do. its been fairly nice recently though.

We had a 6.7 on the island today, I didn't even get out of bed...

And California will not "break off" into the ocean. It is on a transform faultline, it will be up in Alaska's neighborhood in a few million years...

conner, it's supposed to be 90* by the end of next week!!!!!! WOOOOOOHOOOO!

sweet jesus...time to hit the lake! haha

lol...well im glad im not in guam. the thing about that quake was that it was 125 miles from the island...the ones we've been having are around 5 miles from my house. not saying ours are huge, they're not, but they are pretty annoying and they keep you on edge for a while. they seemed to have calmed down finally...

ORIGINAL: dubarado

california will now become an island.... WOOOOO them and their silly laws.


they say that technically the peoples republic of kalifornia moves 1" furthertowards the ocean per year due to the statesborder laying right on a fualt.

Guam is right next to the Marianas trench...it is deeper than Mt. Everest it high.

Ok, little Plate Tectonicslesson here...there are 3 types of faults....divergent, convergent and transform.

Divergent is where the plates come apart...the plates spread, and new material is formed in the gap.
Convergent is where they come together...the plates fold in each other, and material is absorbed into the Earth
Transform are sliding boundaries, nothing is made or absorbed.

So, bring your hands together, that is a convergent motion...slide your hands together, that is a transform motion. When you take your hands apart, that is a divergent motion. So, with the Pangaea landmass theory, we have been spreading apart. There is an estimate that the Atlantic Ocean grows by 2 inches every year, and the Pacific shrinks by that much. And like I said earlier, because the San Andreas Fault line is a TRANSFORM boundary, it will not make California fall into the ocean, it will slide north, while the rest of North America slides south.

I learned this in an Oceanography class, taken on deployment in 2005, during the Tsunami that wiped out most of Indonesia.