04july2019 California earthquake

[flykiller]

well, that was fun. felt like I was riding in the back of an old truck going down a very bad road. afterwards for an hour or so could hear and feel it in the background too, like a very distant engine. actually getting used to the aftershocks, "eh there's another one". cat's totally weirded out now, acts all abused and ptsd'ed. helicopters overhead constantly, along with a number of high-flying jet aircraft that I assume are reconaissance. stopped by the local grocery store expecting a disaster, it was all spic-and-span, they said a grocery store disaster response team showed up with 30 supervisors (!) and several trucks and had the place cleaned up in half an hour.

 

[Spenser TR]

I’m glad you’re okay.

And it’s always nice when a plan comes together, even at the supermarket.

 

[chipla]

How far were you from epicentre if you don’t mind me asking?

Also I’m not gonna lie - gonna use that description next time my players encounter an earthquake in any games I run. Was a really good description that was easy to envision.

 

[McPerth]

I've read nothing about this earthquake in the news...

In any case, glad you're OK (I hope there have been no casualties), and I agree with chipla about your description of how yo ufelt is worht to be used as narrative when playes endure a quacke...

 

[GypsyComet]

This one didn't really hit the news as it was centered far from population centers and didn't do a lot of damage.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38443183/executive

 

[aramis]

Thanks for the info - there are quite a few Traveller fans in the LA area, and one of the board staff is in San Diego...

Tsunami.gov, a USGS eqarthquake and tsunami info site, currently says:

Event Information
Earthquake
Location: CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Magnitude: 6.5
Event Depth : 1 Mi.
Lat : 35.6 ° N
Lon : 117.4 ° W

Origin Time 7/4/2019, 10:33:48 AM

[m;]Edit note: I edited the thread title to include year and state[/m;]
We don't time-delete threads, so... year and state makes for future-proofing.

 

[agorski]

Supposedly it was felt in Phoenix but I didn't notice it up in central AZ.

 

[flykiller]

how far were you from the epicenter

not very, just up the road a piece.

I"ve read nothing about this in the news

? it's all over drudge, the uk sun times is reporting it ... don't see how you can miss it.

glad you're ok

yeah, for a 6.4 expected quite a bit more damage but there wasn't much. some neighbors had their water heaters walked off their mounts, one guy had his garage full of restored cars burned down, and the local hospital found a few structural cracks and so prepped to evacuate all their patients - don't know if they did.

use that description

it's pretty close. spent a number of years at sea and it was a bit like that only faster-swaying. the house was creaking quite a bit, heard a vast background rumbling, could hear the low-frequency sounds of the earth's bedrock shifting and banging around far below, had to assume a tripod stance and flex my knees to stay upright, but really wasn't that bad. if it had been much worse my house might have been damaged. later outside in my garden when an aftershock came through, the ground jumped all at once and the pots seemed to hop up a bit.

lots of after-shocks, all mild so far. the follow-on quake this morning woke me up, but I didn't bother to get out of bed, and fell back asleep immediately afterwards - guess I'm a california boy now.

 

[infojunky]

Supposedly it was felt in Phoenix but I didn't notice it up in central AZ.

I'm in the state and didn't feel it either...

 

[Shadow Shack]

Supposedly it was felt in Phoenix but I didn't notice it up in central AZ.

Ditto for NV. I work graveyard so I was asleep when it happened, however my dogs & cat that sleep in the bed didn't freak out or wake me up either so it couldn't possibly have been as "bad" as many locals claimed --- we actually had some idiots griping on the news that their homes weren't destroyed. We truly do have some stupid people living here.

 

[Xerxeskingofking]

How far were you from epicentre if you don’t mind me asking?

Also I’m not gonna lie - gonna use that description next time my players encounter an earthquake in any games I run. Was a really good description that was easy to envision.

ive been in one earthquake, out in Kabul back in October 2015. I was based in HKIA (Kabul airport), and was sat down eating my lunch at the time.

It was.....weird. Honestly, my initial thought was "My, this helicopter is taking his time landing, isn't he?". It was a much deeper earthquake than the recent LA one, and I was much further form the epicentre, so it felt pretty mild. It felt like someone driving a truck past the canteen, or being sat in a vehicle with a big, meaty engine that was idling.

It was only when the Turkish soldiers and local Afgan workers in the canteen started scurrying for the door that I realised it was a earthquake. With true British aplomb, me and my companion made our way, quite unhurried, out the building, making sure to take our trays with us and scrape the remains of the meal off into the bins as we left. it was only afterwards I realised the Turks were running because they were used to buildings collapsing during earthquakes and that a rocket-proofed canteen was not inherently earthquake proof.

 

[infojunky]

Ditto for NV. I work graveyard so I was asleep when it happened, however my dogs & cat that sleep in the bed didn't freak out or wake me up either so it couldn't possibly have been as "bad" as many locals claimed --- we actually had some idiots griping on the news that their homes weren't destroyed. We truly do have some stupid people living here.

It was bad, just not as destructive as it could have been. I have been seeing reports of a meter or more displacement at the surface. Just not anywhere we care about.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

What happens at China Lake, stays at China Lake.

 

[Mako]

Rocking and rolling again tonight, with a much larger quake.

 

[aramis]

Rocking and rolling again tonight, with a much larger quake.

only about 4x the energy...

Event Information
Earthquake
Location: 60 miles E of Bakersfield, California
Magnitude: 7.1
Event Depth : 62 Mi.
Lat : 35.5 ° N
Lon : 117.9 ° W

Origin Time 7/5/2019, 8:20:04 PM

 

[whartung]

only about 4x the energy...

"only"

Yea I was on the freeway when the first hit, so didn't notice it, but we sure noticed this one. Slow roller that lastest quite a long time.

Hoping to not find a new crack in a wall of my brand new house, we're neck deep in moving right now and the new house is closer than we are.

 

[GypsyComet]

The second one (July 5) was rolling us here, 200 miles away.

 

[JimMarn]

A seismologist on tv today said the 7.1 was 100 times the 6.4. Then I remember the Richter scale is logarithmic.

 

[flykiller]

'nuther quake, getting tired of sweeping up broken glass. crowd control issues at the liquor stores, guards standing around at the grocery stores, lots of cops driving around, but no big deal. feels quieter now, less low frequency background, probably fading.

just a reminder to everyone, anchor your bookshelves and store your heavy stuff at ground level and put latches on your cabinets so they don't just swing open and dump everything. not something you think about normally but not hard to get in the habit of doing.

what happens at china lake, stays at china lake

not anymore. you should see all the native chinese who barely speak english as a second language who work there now.

 

[aramis]

A seismologist on tv today said the 7.1 was 100 times the 6.4. Then I remember the Richter scale is logarithmic.

Richters scale isn't used any more. The modern magnitude system is revised from Richter's...