MSNBC breaking.....Earthquake central California

[AnnInLa]

center around the Pasa Robles area..no link yet..5+ on Richter Scale

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. Didn't Paso Robles get a relatively big one

about a year or so ago? Was it the same place?

[progressivebydesign]

11. Paso Robles had one last year.. it killed a few people.

Downtown Paso Robles, which would be the most affected by this new earthquake, is a lovely little town. The downtown, however, is populated by unreinforced masonry buildings.. many of which were damaged last time.. and that was where the fatalities occured last time.

While the quake was centered outside of Paso Robles, a 5.8 would still affect Paso Robles, Cambria, Atascadero, etc.. 15 miles from epicenter is not that far away...

We moved from that area a year ago. I'm amazed at the two earthquakes.. In the 15 years I lived here, I can only remember the San Francisco earthquake remnants as any significant earthquake event. Hope everyone is okay there.. I'm sure I'll be getting phone calls from relatives there any time now. Probably shaken nerves more than anything... but those unreinforced masonry buildings that populate most of the cities in San Luis Obsipo County are problems...

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. Thanks cali,

I thought so.

Hope everyone there is OK. It's a shame that some of the prettiest buildings and the most charming have to be so dangerous.

FSC

[Renew Deal]

2. DU had it first!

[jayfish]

10. The New Media Strikes Again.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2422680&mesg_id=2422680

Kudos to ParanoidPat and DU.

Jay


EDITED TO PROVIDE LINK

[ParanoidPat]

44. DU ! "It's just like being there!"

:evilgrin: :toast:

[Pirate Smile]

3. CNN states it is a 5.8.

[underpants]

4. It's official God is REALLY trying to send us a sign

Damn I hope it isn't bad. Seriously.

[wryter2000]

7. That's out in the country

If there are any stores there, I imagine the stock flew off the shelves. Probably no serious damage. We felt it in Oakland. A real nice shaker.

Earthquakes aren't scary like hurricanes.

[theHandpuppet]

33. Next up... the Yellowstone Caldera

Record-breaking hurricanes, massive flooding, earthquakes, volcanoes, wars and rumors of wars... all we need to know now is where Georgie has a 666 tattoed on his body.

[Fridays Child]

41. Yikes! I saw the show on th Discovery Channel.

We're all fucked, when that one blows. But, the part about mitochondrial DNA was pretty cool.

[Anus Retainus]

5. Yep

That one was a 6.5. Today was a 5.9. This one was on a different fault line than that.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/120-36.htm

My house was badly hit by last years, but this one just shook it good. (My house is about 25 miles from the center of this one, and about 15 miles from last years).

[napi21]

9. I've never lived in quake country. Can't they predict these too?

I have heard they monitor plate movement, and temperatures. Did someone predict this and no one paid attention?

[progressivebydesign]

14. They've tried to... in Parkfield, in fact..

Right near the epicenter. There is or was a program to try and predict earthquakes.. so far, it hasn't worked. So.. no way to warn people. You just head for a secure doorway and ride it out. And.. stay away from the front of buildings, especially in that area.

[Anus Retainus]

20. Well,...

They did predict a biggie east of LA that was supposed to be a 6.5 or bigger, but that was supposed to happen by September 5th though.

[merh]

26. And October was supposed to be the month that the

hurricanes were active in the Southeast! Guess the guys making the predictions may be off a few days or months, but they got the year right!

[Journeyman]

6. Well, at least we didn't have to watch it coming for a week . . .

on every newscast and weather channel on the tube. Or suffer through insipidly stupid reporters trying to 'tell it like it is' through chattering teeth as they dodged falling brick and crumbling building facades. Disaster the way it should happen: unexpected and quick.

[Poll_Blind]

8. Amen! (n/t)

PB

[Nashyra]

12. Everytime Ca has an earthquake

We should point out how close Yucca Mountain is in respect to the earthquake. Yucca Mountain is not earthquake safe. I never hestitate to remind people that the jet stream runs WEST to EAST, what happens in the air to Nevada will spread far and wide across the US.

[PROUDNWLIBERAL]

23. Yucca Mountain

I went to a talk by a person that did a great deal of the geological work on Yucca mountain---works for the USGS. The person stated that this is about the worst area that they could have picked for a nuclear depository. One just needs to look at the geological maps to see that this is an area where several major fault lines intersect. Thanks to bush and his cronies---there is a major problem going to occur if this project goes forward. Kerry said he'd stop it.

[alexisfree]

13. is not true.

i did not felt anything...like always.

[burythehatchet]

17. welcome to DU alexisfree

:hi:

[Emboldened Chimp]

15. Didn't feel a thing down here in LA

I fear that some day soon there will be a big one. We're about due...

[Anus Retainus]

21. I did

I'm currently in LA, about 200 miles from the center, and I felt it on the 10th floor!

[Zorra]

16. I have the ability to sense earthquakes a few minutes before they happen.

I get dizzy and almost faint right before an earthquake. It is a feeling of extreme distress, almost panic, and is a feeling that I never experience otherwise - only when there is going to be a quake.

I sensed this quake although I am not in the actual vicinity.

I was sitting right here at my computer and got my "earthquake feeling" minutes before this quake, and I almost posted that there was going to be a quake.

[shraby]

18. According to the usgs

the quake was near Parkfield. Parkfield has a quake about every 20 years or so and this one is a couple years overdue. Here is a map of the quakes.

<http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Parkfield.htm>

[arikara]

19. Very interesting

Can you sense other phenomena? How close are you to the quake?

[Zorra]

34. I can sense a rattlesnake in my proximity most of the time.

The feeling from a rattlesnake is way different than from an earthquake, more like an adrenaline rush or heightened awareness.

Earthquakes and rattlesnakes are the only "off the wall" type phenomena I can sense that I am aware of. I have spent almost my whole life in natural surroundings (often where there were tons of rattlers), so this may have something to do with it, I don't know.

I'm not sure how far I am from the quake, but am between Tecate and Mexicali, Mexico, not too far from the US border.

[bif]

25. Can you sense when the UPS guy is going to show up?

n/t

[Zorra]

35. No. But I can sense a snake in the WH from 3,000 miles away.

And for 3+ years I've really wanted to get rid of this horrible distress.

[bif]

37. Good one!

n/t

[spooked]

36. You might be interested in this site for earthquake "sensitives"

http://www.syzygyjob.net/sensitives/

If you haven't seen it before, people here predict earthquakes and share their symptoms, as well as report when pets are acting strangly. It's very interesting!

[Zorra]

38. Wow, thanks.

Seems like other people feel similar distress prior to an earthquake.

[arikara]

46. My old cat started acting strangely

pacing around and meowing just before a quake around here. He had my husband following him in and out of the house so I have to say that my husband was acting strangely too. :D

I used to have hunches around the telephone. I knew before answering who was calling and what the call was about. Now we have call display so I dont' know if I could do it anymore.

[Moderator]

22. CA Earthquake Map

Earthquake Map

[ScrewyRabbit]

27. Felt it up here in the Bay Area

200 miles to the north. Building swayed in the middle of a meeting.

[happynewyear]

28. 6.0 2004/09/28 10:15:24 35.815N 120.374W 7.9 11 km ( 7 mi) SSE of

Looks like a good shaker down south!

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

Hope everyone is ok!

:dem: :kick:

[4_Legs_Good]

29. I didn't feel a thing in the Santa Barbara area.

[mitchtv]

39. felt nothing here in Palm Springs

I guess that is the earthquake that was predicted for this area in early Sept.

[lordwhorfin]

45. Certainly we felt it on campus

I was on the 2nd floor of Phelps, and we was wiggling. But then, that's Phelps.

[4_Legs_Good]

47. Wow!

We're right on ground level kinda across the airport from Campus (the old Applied Magnetics building). A couple people here said they felt it, but I'm pretty oblivious to earthquakes normally.

david

[DFWJock]

30. This

is clearly John Kerry's "fault."

[SoCalDem]

31. Shit..Paso Robles is one of the prettiest small towns I have ever seen

The one they had last year damaged or destroyed some of their historic old town area..:(

I hope no one was killed this time..:(

[Palacsinta]

32. I hate earthquakes!!!

Since my son moved to Oakland. I'm on a Berkeley quake email list and I've gotten quite a few quake alerts in the past week. Mostly 4.7's or so.

[tinrobot]

40. Parkfield - This is actually a good thing!

It's pretty close to Parkfield, which has the highest concentration of earthquake monitoring equipment in the world. They've been waiting almost 20 years for this quake.

This is good. Hopefully, this quake will help us understand earthquakes better and take us another step down the road to predicting them.

[eek]

42. Speaking of signs sent from an angry G-d...

Did you notice that Mt St Helens is showing signs of erupting?

I'll go root around for a link. The article said it was having 'contractions'.

[eek]

43. Oh - and not for nothin'..

I'm really annoyed that the phony TV preachers like fallwell and robertson were mighty damned fast to claim that the WTC attacks were G-d's punishment to the festering pit of depravity that is NYC.

Umm...Preacher Dudes?
What's your take on the 4 hurricanes in a week in Florida?
Just wonderin'. *






* you nasty, appalling, hate-filled, self-righteous bullsh&t artists!