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Rick Darge

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I've felt more minor tremors and small earthquakes this past year alone and I've been a resident of Los Angeles for 10 years now.

There was just a a few minutes ago...

This video may seem funny to some, but could be a safe warning, I guess it's the price we pay for such great weather.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2FHAg5TnB4
 
5'9 mexicali...

just wait dude... things are just getting warmed up....

earthquakes.. volcanoes.. solar storms.. hurricanes...

its gunna get wild...

I dont know if anyone else is a nerd like me and follows the sun... but its been doing some out of control stuff lately.. big ass flares and what not...

look up in the sky.. everynight in the west at sunset.. see that big ass bright light that keeps getting bigger and brighter...

its not venus as some might say..
 
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From CNN

A moderate earthquake rattled Southern California Monday evening, just north of the Mexican border, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The magnitude 5.7 quake stuck at 9:26 p.m. PT and was centered 70 miles east of San Diego, California. At least 20 other quakes shook the border region in an hour's time, measuring between magnitude 2.6 and 3.9.

Authorities throughout Southern California reported no damage in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake.
 
get out if you want to live :-)
 
I was at a stop light in my truck when it happened and I thought the guy behind me was bumping me or someone was jumping on my rear bumper. Then I turned and I thought my engine was running badly all of a sudden making the truck shudder. I was listening to a news station on the radio and they mentioned the quake and I realized I had never driven during a quake before.

Zak buddy! You are just a perpetual ray of sunshine aren't you!
edit- just realized that was sort of a pun... where do find out about solar weather online?
 
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Brian Ferguson said:
I was at a stop light in my truck when it happened and I thought the guy behind me was bumping me or someone was jumping on my rear bumper. Then I turned and I thought my engine was running badly all of a sudden making the truck shudder. I was listening to a news station on the radio and they mentioned the quake and I realized I had never driven during a quake before.

Zak buddy! You are just a perpetual ray of sunshine aren't you!
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Yep the only time I've driven during anything shaky was driving a good friends vintage MG sportscar, I was so worried that it was the engine about to blow, it felt like that car had just started to run really really rough very suddenly.
Happy it wasn't a biggie for you guys.
 
I hate it when I miss a quake. I was driving at the time on Mulholland Dr. so its kind of hard to tell if a quake is happening. Unless some rocks roll off the hill. All you can do is have a plan incase a really big one hits down here in CA. Have plenty of water and food you can eat from a can or freeze dried stuff that keeps for a while.
 
Brian Ferguson said:
I was at a stop light in my truck when it happened and I thought the guy behind me was bumping me or someone was jumping on my rear bumper. Then I turned and I thought my engine was running badly all of a sudden making the truck shudder. I was listening to a news station on the radio and they mentioned the quake and I realized I had never driven during a quake before.

Zak buddy! You are just a perpetual ray of sunshine aren't you!
edit- just realized that was sort of a pun... where do find out about solar weather online?
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http://spaceweather.com/

I too follow the activities on the sun. I think it was somewhere in the mid-2000s we dodged a huge bullet. One of the largest solar flares ever recorded fired off. It happened at a point in the sun's rotation where the flare wasn't pointed directly at us, but at a perpendicular to oblique angle. Had it fired at us directly it would have probably knocked out many of the satellites orbiting earth or at least caused them to be knocked into a different orbit (due to either the expansion or downward pressure on our magnetosphere... can't remember which.)

I think we learned a lot from that near miss and now they feel they can protect the integrity of the satellites themselves if they have sufficient warning, by rotating them and shielding them from the radiation. (Not to worry... our magnetic field protects us from all but a little of the radiation). One like the big one we just dodged during the last Solar Maximum arrive pretty soon. The previous big one that hit us before that happened back in the days of the Telegraph and knocked out that service for quite some time. AFAIK, that was about the only damage from it, but back then everything didn't depend on satellites and electronics.

Of course, a Solar Minimum that lasts for a hundred years or so, like the one from about 1600 to 1700 that caused a mini ice-age in Europe are pretty devastating too. Until recently it looked like we might be at the beginning of one of those, but a new cycle seems to have now begun. They can tell this by the orientation of the magnetism of a sunspot, or something like that, so even though this last Minimum was longer than usual, it now seems to be normalizing, which means the new Maximum may be stronger than usual (speculation).

Boy, I'm really gonna hate it when the Sun goes Super Nova or whatever... about a billion or more years from now.

(Sorry for the long post... I usually don't read anything this long, much less write it.)
 
Brian Ferguson said:
I was at a stop light in my truck when it happened and I thought the guy behind me was bumping me or someone was jumping on my rear bumper. Then I turned and I thought my engine was running badly all of a sudden making the truck shudder. I was listening to a news station on the radio and they mentioned the quake and I realized I had never driven during a quake before.
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ive been driving the last 3 quakes we have had! pisses me off, cuz i never feel them
 
this is a large coronal hole that just happend recently...

that hole is MASSIVE beyond what you could imagine..

we might see some crazy space weather june 16-17..

EQ's and what not (im saying japan)
but who knows.. it could miss us completely
 

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Zakaree Sandberg said:
ive been driving the last 3 quakes we have had! pisses me off, cuz i never feel them
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The ones that happen while I'm at work are always kind of weird. The quakes that happen when your asleep are a pain in the ass. You wake up and it feels like someone is running laps on your bed. Then its the whole should I get to the door or just stay in bed. I guess it all depends on how crazy it gets.
 
Andrew Walker said:
The quakes that happen when your asleep are a pain in the ass. You wake up and it feels like someone is running laps on your bed. Then its the whole should I get to the door or just stay in bed. I guess it all depends on how crazy it gets.
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How crazy it gets? Try this one:

Being sound asleep in a wooden shack right on the beach in Chile on February 27, when at 3:34am a giant 8.8 quake (the 5th largest earthquake in recoded history) explodes into motion just offshore from the beach you're on! It starts with a low rumble, moderate side to side rolling, then literally explodes like a giant bomb, with the earth lurching wildly in every direction - huge crashes, breaking glass, collapsing roof, and furniture flying everywhere - while you're hanging onto your bed with your fingernails as it flies around the room in the dark.

This goes on for two full minutes - which seems like an eternity. Finally the shaking begins to diminish, giving way to a sick side to side rolling of about 20' each direction alternately. This lasts for another 30 seconds...

All this time you remember from your reading that Chile has a history of huge tsunamis after giant quakes! You scramble to grab what you can, including your Red camera, crawl through the debris, shout at your friends to jump in the truck - and everyone knows that right next to you in the darkness a giant wall of water is on its way! Starting the truck you speed down a dirt road full of fresh huge cracks - as you hear the first tsunami crashing ashore just behind you! You somehow barely escape that, speed down sunken and cracked roads trying to find high ground, turn up a dirt road into the hills only to slam on the brakes as a giant landslide of trees and boulders crashes over the road right in front of you, completely blocking the road!

You quickly back down the road, race along the low road expecting at any time to be taken out by the tsunami, race up another dirt road into the kills, and see the embankments on the side of the road crumbling before your eyes. Somehow you escape to the top of a hill, and sit there hyperventilating in the darkness while a series of huge aftershocks shake the hill for the next two hours until daybreak.

Come morning you descend to what looks like a moonscape warzone - giant cracks in the earth, bridges out, collapsed houses everywhere, fishing boats washed 2 miles inland by the series of eight giant tsunamis ranging from 27' to 66' in height, the entire coast destroyed and radically changed from what it was just the day before. You have no food or water and spend all day and into the night navigating a minefield of devastation trying to escape the killing zone.

The above is no fictional story - its exactly what I experienced this past February in Chile. Having grown up in Southern California and experienced many quakes up to 6.5 I thought I was a quake veteran. But there is nothing which can prepare you for the total violence and devastation a great quake over 8 can cause. If the San Andreas fault unleashes a 8+ quake on its southern end or northern end, the loss of life and property damage will be astronomical.

I'm a Viet Nam war veteran - full year tour. My experience in Chile totally reminded me of some severe rocket and mortar attacks I experienced in Viet Nam. For about 20 years now I've kept backpacks of survival gear, including water, food, tents, clothing, etc. in all my trucks, SUV, and cars. I'd strongly suggest all of you who live in natural disaster prone areas to do the same. If you're prepared, and you survive the disaster itself, with survival gear and skills you just might survive the aftermath of the cataclysm.

Be prepared my friends...you never know when you'll need that gear and those survival skills...
 
Steve, we are so very glad you are here to tell the tale.

I have heard that the earthquake scales have changed recently no longer the old Richter scale. But in looking that up I found out some wild info on the Chile quake (albeit on wikipedia)

"Seismologists estimate that the earthquake was so powerful that it may have shortened the length of the day by 1.26 microseconds and moved the Earth's figure axis by 8 cm or 2.7 milliarcseconds. Precise GPS measurement indicated the telluric movement moved the entire city of Concepción 3.04 metres (10 ft) to the west. The capital Santiago experienced a displacement of almost 24 centimetres west, and even Buenos Aires, about 1,350 kilometres (840 mi) from Concepción, shifted 3.9 centimetres (1.5 in). It is estimated that Chile's territory could have expanded 1.2 km² as a result."

I still hear about the Haiti disaster but I wonder why we hear so little about Chile. The difference bothers me why some disasters are more politicized and publicized than others.
 
Thanks Brian...

The city of Conception was hard hit, but much farther away from the quake epicenter then where I was on the coast. I was just a few miles north of the mouth of the Rio Maule, which empties into the ocean by the fishing village of Conception. The U.S. Geological Survey initially named the quake Offshore Maule, but has since re-named the quake the Offshore Bio Bio quake. The location of the quake epicenter was just offshore from the Rio Maule, with Bio Bio is a more recognizable location name in Chile. Right there at Constitution was the single largest loss of life in the entire disaster zone, with 520 people being killed by the first tsunami. They were camped on a small island in the mouth of the Rio Maule. They were in Constitution for a music festival which started the evening before. They didn't really have a chance. The giant quake hit at 3:34am, they were trapped on the low lying island with no way to get off, and the first tsunami, which was about 30' tall, completely swept the island clean and probably killed them all, although the second tsunami which hit 40 minutes later was estimated to be 66 feet tall, which would have taken any who weren't killed by the first tsunami. This was just 3 miles south of where I was sleeping on the coast - and that first tsunami which killed them all was the one crashed ashore just 5 minutes after the shaking stopped - right behind our truck as we raced to escape the beach.

USGS Rio Maule quake link: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010tfan/

Life is tenuous...it can be taken in a split second.

The 8.8 earthquake in Chile released somewhere around 200 times the energy of the 7.0 quake in Haiti. Because of the sparse population on the central coast of Chile, "only" around 2,500 (but maybe up to 5,000) people lost their lives - but the economy and livelihood of the Chilean people was devastated. There were many more lives lost in Haiti because of the close proximity of the quake to the large population of Port Au Prince . That said, I agree - there was massive press coverage of the Haiti quake, but very little press coverage of the Chile quake. My heart goes out to the Chilean people. They suffered greatly and it just seemed like the world largely ignored their plight.
 
Gibby you are the man. You survived an ordeal that changed the earth's axis and shortened our day. How many can say that?
 
Thanks Brian. I'm not really the man...but I sure was fervently praying to the man upstairs for my survival that night.

I have good survival skills and training, but beyond that, it just wasn't my time to go...and I'm deeply happy it wasn't. Since then, to me every day is a gift and a great day! Its really good to be alive...I take nothing for granted anymore.
 
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