10% chance of another 7+ happening in the next week or so. “Approaching certainty” of another 5+.
I just found a video from last night of Lucy Jones saying 5% chance that a BIGGER quake hits in the next week.
“Certain that this area is going to be shaken A LOT today,” she says, with many exceeding 5.0 so expect damages.
The NBA Summer League plays here in Las Vegas at the Thomas & Mack Center. Last night’s game between the Knicks and the Pelicans was stopped because of the quake.
…in Sensurround!
Cripes, another one? I’m a bit too far away to have felt it.
News says it was 7.1. That’s bigger than the Sylmar one in 1971, and the Northridge one in 1994.
Stay safe, everyone.
Back in 1974 I was in the Army. Another gal in the barracks had been through the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. When that movie came out with Sensurround she said it really did sound a lot like that, except in real life the sound would go up and down, rather than a steady level.
I lived in San Francisco when the Loma Prieta quake hit but there is no way it lasted as long as this one. I don’t think it was even 30 seconds.
I did exactly the wrong thing at the time. I lived in a wood frame apartment building and it shook like crazy, so I ran downstairs and out the front door. Standing in a door frame or getting under a table seemed ridiculous. Just before it started, my cat ran into the kitchen, leapt on top of the fridge and dove down the back. I said ‘Kitty, what the hell is…’ and then brggaa bragga blam.
If you live in Southern California now, go camping.
The initial data shown on the USGS site had the earthquake centered .9 km in the air. It would have been a momentary blip but that’s also when the site froze, so that data was displayed for quite a while.
After the San Simeon quake (m. 6.6, 2003), I learned to keep an eye on my cats. Whenever an aftershock was coming, they would drop to their bellies and creep for the nearest exit. I followed their lead.
I’ve just realized that I am regularly unconsciously looking at hanging things to see if they are swinging.
My daughter in Orange CA texted me to say that they got to experience a movie in 4D with the shaking action.
No extra charge for those D-Box seats!
Our cats didn’t even move. They just sorta came alert. Nobody ran, nobody freaked. Maybe because they saw that I wasn’t running and freaking. But a quake that lasts that long is very nervous-making.
hey if you were affected or just experienced the quake you can help the USGS by filling out a Felt Report at https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38457511/tellus
friedo posted the link in the other thread; I’m just continuing his good work.
Ha! I do that, too.
as i said in the other thread …i felt a 15-second aftershock about 5-10 minutes before the second quake and then another one between 12-1 am lol aunt was on the toilet or that one …
A swimming pool appears to be a good indicator to determine whether an earthquake is happening.
Sidebar: I saw Midway in the theater (in Sensurround), thinking it would be a neat experience. It didn’t “work” for me–the bombs sounded like they were frying instead of exploding. Much later, it occurred to me that maybe the decrepit theater I saw it in wasn’t equipped, speaker-wise, to handle those low frequencies. A shame.
Fairly big one, but no one was seriously hurt, damage was quite light. It hit in a sparsely inhabited region out by Bakersfield.
Link seems to broken, like you accidentally pasted in text rather than a URL.
This Yahoo article appears to have the video, as well as a link to the Facebook post.