pics from this morning's northern california earthquake

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11559485/Two-people-confirmed-dead-dozen-injured-6-4-earthquake-hit-Northern-California.html

[brush]

1. Why hasn't this been covered on TV news outlets?

[Retrograde]

4. It's in a remote part of California

not near major population centers, and not that easy to get to. The San Francisco NPR station didn't mention it while I was driving home - and SF is the nearest big city to Eureka. Just goes to show if you want attention for your natural disaster make sure it happens near a big media outlet

There's a well-known fault system off the coast there - it was the site of the Ferndale quake back in the 90s.

[Tree Lady]

5. Because only poor hippies

Live out there.

[FailureToCommunicate]

13. And by "poor hippies" you mean secretive rich cannabis growers toting uzi's?

[NullTuples]

20. Ca's legalization put most of the secretive ones out of business. Especially in the North State.

Besides, the "hippies" are now in their 70's and at most grow a small plot for their own use.

The real pot growing is now done out in the open, in licensed greenhouses & processing facilities.

[Tree Lady]

36. There are those out in the woods

I lived in McKinleyville for 2 years, basically right in the area. The whole area is very low income. Sure there are a few with money but not many want to live there, lots of crime, and bad medical. I loved being by the ocean, how liberal it was, the hiking and the organic stores but we moved to get better medical. My hubby is older than me.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

17. probably more conservatives than hippies. also that church got a foot hold

[msongs]

7. media like here consumed with trump, musk, and the royals nt

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

16. it's waaay up there in northern California. flew up there a few years ago

one small plane round trip a day. very very sparsely populated. lots of land, few people.

[Warpy]

23. Dunno, 6.4 is getting up there

and the damage is certainly photogenic. Maybe they'll bother with some pics tomorrow.

Northern CA is rural, wild country, lousy with government phobes fired up on old time religion, anti tax retirees in elaborate houses surrounded by the kind of forest that tends to explode instead of burn and does it fairly frequently, and a few very rare diehard hippie types.

It didn't appeal to me for the same reason the PNW didn't, I wanted to get away from rust and mildew. When I finally left Boston, I headed for the desert.

[Polly Hennessey]

2. I saw it this morning on the Chris Jansing show, MSNBC.

[Cha]

3. Wow..TY! I had no idea.

[roamer65]

6. Right up near the boundary between the San Andreas and the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

Hmmmm…

[DuranDuranDUme]

8. Exactly

Worth keeping an eye on

[roamer65]

9. I'd definitely stock up on supplies a bit if I lived out there.

Just in case either decides to make a larger move.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

18. zero high rises

[Codifer]

12. Now I must relearn all I forgot about the

Mendocino Triple.

Pressure along the coast must be incredible. California will be (is) splitting from south to north. The Owens Valley will be wider.

I've got some texts somewhere.

[niyad]

10. Damn. I like Eureka.

[Rebl2]

11. Saw it on

National news this morning and tonight. Thought originally thought they said it was in Ferndale, CA

[usonian]

14. From the quake app.

Ferndale is buried under green pins.
This shows the general area, and the fault lines.

[BigmanPigman]

15. That seems like a lot of damage for a 6.4.

Usually you see damage like that in places with inferior construction, especially in CA where there are so many codes and rules to prevent damage. I guess the brick building was on a list of buildings to be reinforced eventually. Sometimes the pain in the ass rules and codes are there for a good reason.

Power is out for the area and people are told to boil water.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/northern-california-earthquake-humboldt-county/index.html

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

19. the guy who lost his front porch thing...it looks sketchily built

[BigmanPigman]

22. That looked like it was held up with duct tape.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

29. indeed. here is closeup pic

from nyt

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/us/california-earthquake.html

[BigmanPigman]

30. Aww, there are even tiny Xmas lights still

attached to the roof he is standing on. It doesn't look like he has much $$$ for construction to begin with but now this event occurring and right before the holidays makes it suck even more.

[NullTuples]

25. The house itself looks to be from 1910-1922 & has likely withstood many quakes.

Our first house was from that era and I learned everything I could about them. Knowing the homes up in Humboldt, it's likely built of red fir and not those thin little knot & split filled so-called 2x4's they sell today that seem made of white balsa but are still labelled "fir". We had to try to match the originals for some work we did...there's simply no comparison. Those buildings - the ones that survived - are built like tanks.

[Tree Lady]

37. Very poor area not much money

To build with.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

38. in dense cities, LA, SF / building codes would have say, no matter the $$

permit required, then inspection

[Auggie]

24. Damage depends also on the soil type and to a lesser extent ...

proximity to the epicenter.

[BigmanPigman]

26. How true!

I am paranoid about places being built on dredged up soil to form new land and bays. I have seen videos from Japan's 9.4 and water came up through cracks in sidewalks. Earthquakes are very complicated with a zillion factors involved in their study. I have been watching videos from the Japanese Tsunami and that is a whole other area to study. Those videos are mesmerizing to me...

[vanlassie]

32. Pacifica in San Francisco.

[mountain grammy]

21. Wow.

My cousin stayed near Garberville a few summers and we spent some time there. Really different and laid back Great experiences

[CaptainTruth]

27. Yoyushida are you ok???

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

28. more quake pics

[spike jones]

31. San Andreas fault line.

https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/Blog/2020/San-Andreas-Fault-Line-Map

[love_katz]

33. ....

[madamesilverspurs]

34. Got to spend several months in Eureka back in the late '70s.

A family friend offered the use of their guest room, and I gladly accepted knowing that it had a wonderful view of Humboldt Bay. The neighbors referred to the house as the "wedding cake"; our friends had designed it with the second floor having a smaller footprint than the first, and the third floor was smaller yet, and I can attest to the home's earthquake survivability having been awakened by being vigorously shaken one morning. My hostess had her teacup collection hanging from small hooks on her kitchen wall; she called it her quake monitor, the motion of the hanging cups varying from slight quiver to the wide swaying that she interpreted as "get your ass out, NOW!" My folks had a small place uptown and they loved living there, Dad could sail and Mom could revel in the gardens and Victoriana. They tried mightily to get me to stay there instead of going back to Colorado, they worried about my being squarely in "tornado country," to which I observed that, unlike earthquakes, one can see tornadoes coming. And their newspaper had DAILY earthquake reports.

Having been through earthquakes in Los Angeles and Eureka, I promised to visit often and headed for the Rockies, and I've been back in Colorado ever since. Ironically, my first earthquake happened in my childhood in Denver suburbs. To be sure, we're not immune, we have our own quake history. Sadly, the fracking industry has seen fit to contribute to that history, their dismissiveness of that reality notwithstanding.

[nightwing1240]

35. Looks nasty

I had seen a couple had died and several injured from the quake. Such a shame

[NBachers]

39. My son went to Humboldt State in Arcata, so I'm familiar with all those locations. It's worse than I

originally thought. Having lived through the 1989 Loma Prieta quake which was 6.9, I know how intense it can get.

[shanti]

40. Sacramento here

(not Sacremento!) Never felt a thing. I felt Loma Prieta, but not this one.

[Qutzupalotl]

41. Those sodas are now little bombs

but I et they'll be sold anyway.