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John M
climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 21, 2012 - 03:14am PT
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5.3 11:55 PM
Anyone else feel it? It was 30 miles East of Coalinga. Very short.. Woke me up though here in Wawona.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 21, 2012 - 04:23am PT
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hey there say, john m.... i just got on to check mail, fast...
and i heard this from another post, elsewhere by a gal i know, in calif...
a climber gal here..
i just found a link... let's see what it says...
http://ww2.cox.com/myconnection/northernvirginia/today/news/national/article.cox?articleId=DA21QJI00&moduleType=apNews
Moderate earthquake shakes central California; hundreds report feeling it
10-21-2012 03:52 AM EDT
SALINAS, Calif. (Associated Press) --
A moderate earthquake has rattled a coastal area of central California with hundreds of residents reporting feeling the temblor.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 5.3 quake struck shortly before midnight Saturday.
It was centered near King City, about 40 miles southeast of Salinas.
USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan says more than 1,500 people reported on the agency's website that they felt the temblor.
She says a magnitude 5 quake is capable of causing damage, often causing things to fall off shelves and causing moderate cracks in walls and foundations
thanks for sharing... got to go now...
god bless...
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Oct 21, 2012 - 04:41am PT
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It was on the San Andreas. 4 aftershocks since then.
There was also a 3.4 on the San Andreas on 10/19, also close by, just 8 miles from Pinnacles.
3.3 26km ENE of King City, California 2012-10-21 07:51:33 36.307°N 120.852°W 9.8
2.5 27km ENE of King City, California 2012-10-21 07:41:16 36.308°N 120.847°W 10.2
3.7 27km ENE of King City, California 2012-10-21 07:37:47 36.313°N 120.852°W 9.5
3.1 25km ENE of King City, California 2012-10-21 07:18:03 36.306°N 120.862°W 8.0
5.3 26km ENE of King City, California 2012-10-21 06:55:09 36.311°N 120.856°W 9.4
3.4 24km NE of Greenfield, California 2012-10-19 17:44:45 36.467°N 121.035°W 8.5
2.5 24km NE of Greenfield, California 2012-10-17 11:32:18 36.465°N 121.035°W 5.0
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
Reminds me of the time a few years back (December 22, 2003) when Bruce and I were climbing at Pinnacles and I was hanging from a hook, drilling a bolt. I thought my leg was shaking from the cold, but I could feel the whole formation rocking back and forth for 15 seconds! It was a 6.5 centered in Paso Robles. Fortunately it was in one of those rare solid rock spots and nothing fell on my head. :-)
http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eclint/rep/03dplong.txt
And for random periodicity folks:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/today/
"Today in Earthquake History
Earthquake History for October 21st
M8.0 - Russia, 1907
12,000 deaths.
One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
Two earthquakes destroyed Qaratog and many mountain villages in the Gissar and Denau areas of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
M6.8 - United States, 1868
At 7:53 AM local time, the destructive waves from an earthquake on the southern end of the Hayward Fault, quickly traveled across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Because of its location in the heart of the Bay Area, then having a total population of about 260,000 (Federal Census records), and its magnitude, variously estimated as between 6.8 and 7.0, this earthquake was one of the most destructive in California history. Property loss was extensive and 30 people were killed. Five deaths were reported in San Francisco, out of a population of 150,000, where the total property loss was estimated to be $350,000 ($5-100 Million in 2007 dollars). This earthquake was known as the "great San Francisco earthquake" until the magnitude 7.8 shock on 18 April 1906. The cracking of the ground along the Hayward Fault was traced about 20 miles (32 km) from San Leandro to Warm Springs in Fremont, although modeling of survey data suggest that the fault moved as far north as Berkeley, and from these data the average amount of horizontal movement along the fault is inferred to be about 6 feet (1.9 meters).
October 21, 1868 Hayward Fault Earthquake"
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MissJ
Social climber
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Oct 21, 2012 - 09:47am PT
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Geez! I just woke up from a nighmare that I was outside and we began to shake and roll and then my entire upstairs was just completlely shaken off right in front of me onto the ground...Whew! Glad it was only a dream/nighmare.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 21, 2012 - 09:53am PT
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hey there all.... glad to hear from you all...
am up early, well, for me... with baby boy i am babysitting...
say, missJ :O oh my, glad it was dream, :O
somefolks have such, not--but real.... whewwwwwwwww...:O
say, many times, as we are half awake our brains incorperate what is around us, happening, and mix it into our mid-state... and we may either hope, or fear, or etc, (as to circumstances and the past experieces, etc) WITHIN our 'dream state'...
hard to discern, for a moment, then, when we do wake so quickly...
reallyyyy glad you knew, all was well... :)
god bless you this day.... keep in touch, if more take place...
:)
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Oct 21, 2012 - 10:06am PT
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Just a couple of memories from quakes I've experienced. Dimitri Barton and I were soloing After 6 or 7 (can't remember which). We were near the top when things started getting lively. Various gullies were filled with the sound rumbling debris and the rock was swaying back and forth. Turned out it was the Coalinga quake of 83.
In 1980 I was working as a lift mechanic at June Mountain after the big Mammoth quake that same year. During the summer, when we would be on the top of lift towers doing off-season maintenance, sometimes an after shock would hit and the tower we were on would rock quite a bit. It made things a bit more interesting then warding off the vicious deerflys and mosquitoes.
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MissJ
Social climber
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Oct 21, 2012 - 10:11am PT
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Hey Neebee, thanks for the blessing my day. I am absolutle afraid of them . The last one experienced in 1994 was off the top. I lived in Granada Hills and thought it was the last time I'd see earth. I thought a plane had crashed on the house.
Oh say, did you find out what caused your poor doggy's rash? How is your dog doing?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 21, 2012 - 11:53am PT
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hey there say, missJ... sent you a good neat answer, full of all info, and glad that you were well from other quake...
but:
dial up ate it up...
to tired to try and type and fix all the 'backwards stuff' that i do, as well...
so, i am so very sorry, will have to answer, later...
been a bit sick and got to go sleep now...
for all the other folks here, in calif...
my folks are there, too, and famiyl, so i will be
pryaing for you all...
god bless...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 21, 2012 - 11:59am PT
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hey there say, all....ooops, forgot...
will call my folks later and see if they noticed it, etc...
and--to mousefrommerced:
book is on the way, media-mail, i got a small babysitting job,
so thereeeeeeeeeeeeeeee you go--a neat book, zooming off to greet you...
:)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 21, 2012 - 08:39pm PT
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Thank you, neebee. LOL (little old landslides).
I was looking at
what Borut wrote about:
Lubejena rocks.
Old
Dingus directed
me here. That's as spooky as
what happened last night.
See,
In California
or in Lublejena the rocks
are never quiet.
They say
Its supposed to snow
but you never know if it will,
just like an arthquake.
As they go, this was not hot and heavy. Quakes you know, neebee, as you've lived here. What was added to this one was the duration. It kept it up in spaced apart spurts of varying intervals for the better part of a minute.
It wasn't one jolt, but then you had to be here to experience it. And if you out-of-staters, earthquake-haters, m__s, haven't, then you should.
Keep your cyclones, tornadoes, and twisters,
Keep yer heads down, God save California.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Oct 22, 2012 - 01:39am PT
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Aha! So there was an earthquake! I was going to bed in my in-laws cabin up in Kings Canyon (Wilsonia) near Grant's Grove last night and the whole thing started shaking. I was wondering if something happened with the cabin or if it was an earthquake.
Almost turned on the TV to see if it was the super quake that's gonna drop part of CA into the Pacific. No such luck.
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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Oct 22, 2012 - 11:26am PT
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It shook the house some here in the Santa Cruz area.
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Nicole Hoepner
Sport climber
Fresno
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Oct 23, 2012 - 12:58pm PT
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Was sleeping in a tent on the ground (backpackers campground near Washington Column). Woke up from the shaking and thought a bear or a drunk fellow camper was shaking me awake...after the first moment of being annoyed i realized what it was. Earthquake! Glorious! Felt like John Muir and barely contained my enthusiasm enough to keep from shouting "A Noble earthquake!!" Two faint aftershocks. My thoughts then went right up to everybody out there,on Valley climbs' portaledges. Hope they were all safe and not too spooked.
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Inner City
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Dec 17, 2018 - 08:11am PT
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Thanks DMT,
That was a fascinating geography lesson.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Dec 17, 2018 - 09:42am PT
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Cool to note the abrupt stop of the valleys coming out of the Temblors into the faultline.
I've occasionally wondered when flying over the coastal ranges who owns those flat gems of land atop the mountains... little cultivated Shangri Las in the rugged country. I wonder if they were cleared in the days of the Mexican expansion or if they were grasslands maintained by the natives before that. Or just a modern miracle of bull-dozing by someone who wanted a private farm?
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Dec 17, 2018 - 10:12am PT
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Salinas is incredibly rich in Big Agriculture money. The very rich own fantastic ranches in the surrounding hills. It's also ground zero militarized zone for the Sureño vs Norteño(and Peckerwood, CA Blacks and Asians, The Fuzz and everybody else who isn't Sureño).
Silicon Valley and Hollywood have money but Salinas has real money.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 17, 2018 - 12:24pm PT
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what a planet to find ourselves on.
makes me want to crawl around and marvel.
having a buddy in the sky scoping it out 'n
passing it around is like ...
supernatural, man!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Dec 17, 2018 - 12:30pm PT
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Thanks, Dingus! What a great lesson! A wonderful ST moment.
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