Excuse me, but I think your fault line just bumped into my fault line.
It feels like earthquake season. Yesterday’s quake, so soon after the previous one, and fast on the heels of a little tsunami scare for California and Oregon, make me wonder what the earth has in store for us next.
In case you’d like to check up on seismic activity anywhere in the world, I’ve linked online resources below.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)
USGS Earthquake Activity World Map
USGS California and Nevada Earthquake Activity Map
Right about now, I think “a lot” of us are interested in knowing more about earthquakes! Thanks for giving us these links. I made a desktop folder for them for easy access to pass them on to others.
I just wrote a long comment and lost it. Mostly I wanted to know where you live. I’m guessing someplace in California.
Whenever we go to visit Don’s Dad, brother or sister around the LA area, there’s always a tremor or two. We haven’t been there for anything big, and I think it would really scare me.
Patty Ann:
Thanks for visiting. I checked out your site, and really enjoyed the samples of your music.
Cassie-B:
We’re in north San Diego County, within an hour and a half drive of both the Anza and Yacaipa earthquakes. Luckily we’ve never had a really big event here like they had in Northridge (north of Los Angeles) in 1994 and the San Francisco area in 1989. Those were huge and caused devastating damage and loss of life.
These latest two north of us didn’t cause serious damage (except some structural damage to that fire station in Warner Springs). They were a series of bumps and rolls that got our adrenaline going. The seconds stretched out as we wondered whether it was going to stop or get worse, and it felt a little like someone trying to pull a rug out from under us. The last one was followed by two immediate aftershocks that we also felt.
The shaking travels, and there’s a delay and lessening of what someone feels depending on how far away they are. During the first of these two my sister, who lives several miles south of us, happened to be on the phone with my dad, who lives even farther south. My sister felt it, and asked if he did. He said no, but then he felt it a few seconds later.