# Earthquake! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611 "2019-07-06T03:21:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/1 "2019-07-06T03:21:51Z")
SoCal is rocking and rolling right now. If this was an aftershock from yesterday, it surpassed it by far. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/2 "2019-07-06T03:23:49Z")
Ok, that was WAY longer and stronger than yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/3 "2019-07-06T03:24:47Z")
Preliminary is 7.1. Same fault as yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/4 "2019-07-06T03:28:30Z")
That’s a big quake. Guess it makes yesterday’s a foreshock. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/5 "2019-07-06T03:34:05Z")
Yeah this was big. I ran outside. Went on for like 90 seconds. Yesterday things that hang in my house were kind of swaying a bit, tonight they were swinging. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/6 "2019-07-06T03:34:36Z")
The long ones are the worst. You’re never sure if it is going to get worse and worse or if it is going to settle down. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/7 "2019-07-06T03:38:52Z")
Swaying to the seismic beat here near San Diego! Didn’t feel the 6.4 the other day but I sure felt this one. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/8 "2019-07-06T03:40:15Z")
I kept listening for something to fall somewhere. The swinging planters set off all the motion-detectors, so the yard lit up like high noon. It went through in a sine wave - low, then higher, then higher, then down the slope to the end. Freaked the wife - the cats handled with aplomb. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/9 "2019-07-06T03:40:55Z")
My cats ran and hid as I was running outside. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/10 "2019-07-06T03:42:09Z")
USGS say 6.9. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/11 "2019-07-06T03:42:15Z")
My parents live about 150 miles as the crow flies from Ridgecrest. They felt yesterday’s. Bet they _really_ felt this one. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/12 "2019-07-06T03:45:27Z")
Quick- change the channel! I’ll quote myself from the other [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21734778#post21734778): > [@"Strongest earthquake in years rattles Southern California; damage reported" (July 4, 2019)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strongest-earthquake-in-years-rattles-southern-california-damage-reported-july-4-2019/836533/22): > > If you can, tune into ESPN2 in about 15-20 minutes. They are showing the WSOP on 30 minute delay (commentators are live, action is delayed by 30 minutes). The commentators talked about their reactions as it happened. I’d expect to see some very interesting onscreen reactions in a few minutes… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/13 "2019-07-06T03:50:09Z")
I found [this video taken during a kid’s 4th of July performance yesterday](Yari Mower, a mother whose three children were performing “Our Country Tis of Thee” at Burroughs High School Performing Arts Center in Ridgecrest, Calif., captured the Thursday quake on camera.). > [@](#): > > Yari Mower, a mother whose three children were performing “Our Country Tis of Thee” at Burroughs High School Performing Arts Center in Ridgecrest, Calif., captured the Thursday quake on camera. 20 seconds in is the EQ. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/14 "2019-07-06T03:52:00Z")
Our dachshund slept through it! It was a little bouncier than yesterday, but the rolling is making me nauseated. We lost power for less than a minute. Scary one. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/15 "2019-07-06T03:55:16Z")
I’m now seeing this listed as 6.9, which is the same as the quake that ripped up San Francisco, Santa Cruz, etc. back in 1989. ETA: Aftershocks rolling thru here just now. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/16 "2019-07-06T03:55:50Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > That’s a big quake. Guess it makes yesterday’s a foreshock. Maybe this one is, too… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/17 "2019-07-06T03:57:24Z")
That’s what we’re all afraid of. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/18 "2019-07-06T03:58:32Z")
It’s no fair for an earthquake to come after I’ve had a couple of beers. My wife asked me if it stopped and I said, “Maybe?” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/19 "2019-07-06T04:11:48Z")
Yesterday, for the first maybe 3 seconds, I wasn’t sure if I was experiencing a weird vertigo or something. Then I remember thinking “geez I haven’t even smoked any weed yet” which is when I realized it must be an earthquake. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611/20 "2019-07-06T05:05:06Z")
I was just watching the USGS press conference at Caltech and one of the reporters said something like “I’m hearing some people are saying it was an above ground earthquake.” And the USGS seismologist was like, “Well, that probably wasn’t a scientist whoever said that.” She guessed the depth data accidentally registered as a negative initially. Or, you know, could be a fakequake. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/836611.md?page=2)