From USGS:
Earthquake Details
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
| Magnitude | 4.1 |
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| Date-Time |
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| Location | 33.908°N, 117.778°W |
| Depth | 9 km (5.6 miles) |
| Region | GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA |
| Distances |
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| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 0.3 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 0.7 km (0.4 miles) |
| Parameters | Nph=190, Dmin=9 km, Rmss=0.39 sec, Gp= 18°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=2 |
| Source | |
| Event ID | ci15189281 |
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h/t to WUWT reader “Rusty”
The quake occurred this morning.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci15189073#shakemap
I live in Irvine, CA and I woke up at that time.
There was an aftershock here a few minutes ago. I felt what seemed to be a “push” on one side of my chair. Nothing more.
Must be the heat.
I live in Yorba Linda. 4.5 last night before bed, then a 4.5 this morning, followed by a 3.4 20 minutes later. It’s feeling like a flurry. I hope that’s the last of them.
Where is the obligatory press release out of N.A.S.A. proclaiming Hansen’s latest paper demonstrates a clear and unprecedented perceived connection between man induced warming of the Northwestern Hemisphere and the increased frequency and severity of Earthquakes therein?
Last one is stronger at M4.5
MAP 4.5 2012/08/08 16:33:22 33.898 -117.792 8.0 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
It´s the CO2 again, just wait and see
Upgraded to a 4.5: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/118-34_eqs.html
They had another 4.5 at 11:30 last night in same spot.
I’m 20 miles west in Long Beach, CA. Felt a gentle roll here.
I lived around there the first 40 years of my life. Not sure I’d even notice a 4.1…
The support tech I’m on the phone with reported the first one at 9:33 and noted that on the 4th floor where he is that it shook his computer. He later reported a very short after shock. Hmm, 10 – 15 minutes after the first one.
That’s two M4+ quakes in 24 hours on the Whittier fault zone. No joy in that. Many large quakes have been preceded by a pair of M4-M5 quakes.
No doubt AGW will be blamed…
So what happened, did Al Gore, while visiting his California mansion, fall out of bed? Or fall off a masseuse?
Isn’t “Chakra Release!” used to cause earthquakes in some of that Japanese videogame-type anime? Al should be more careful.
Have been through several of ~7 within a couple miles of epicenter. Just my luck. They are amazingly violent. The noise is deafening. Now all my large case furniture is bolted to the walls, cabinet doors are rigged not to open, dogs are on there own. No more resorting hundreds of CDs,books, etc.
Good luck to all in LA!
I found the “Live Earthquake Mashup” from ‘The Ö-Files’ at http://www.oe-files.de/oefiles/gmaps/eqmashup-info_html to be very helpful in following swarms of ‘quakes in close-to-real-time. Good luck to you folks in CA.
I would like to apologize for the earthquake. We were jumping on the trampoline, and apparently I put on a few more pounds than I’d realized…
Here’s a question.
Are “head crashes” a problem for computers during earthquakes ?
Where’s Hansen on this – shouldn’t he be issuing a press release claiming that this is more extreme “weather” caused by man? Can we expect increased earthquakes if we don’t lower our CO2, Jimbo?
George, it’s comments like that which make me v-e-r-y glad not to be anywhere near LA. O_O
u.k.(us) said on August 8, 2012 at 11:37 am:
If the computer falls off the desk and hits hard while the hard disk drive is in use, sure, it could be.
If the drive is not in use, these days it’ll probably be fine. Wikipedia has a good write-up here describing how modern HDD’s are given “shock resistance” (impact, not electrical).
I am old enough though to remember the warnings about how a system can get screwed up if the drive is writing critical data, like a system file, when there’s a power loss, as can happen with earthquakes. The technology is there to sense a power loss (or sudden movement) and safely park the heads. But they can’t hurry up and get a file written, and if something like the Master Boot Record gets screwed up from a discontinued write, the hard drive could be bricked or the system otherwise unbootable.
Of course if you upgrade to a Solid State Drive, at least for important files like the OS and programs, you’re much less worried about physical impacts. And hey, they’re getting cheap. I’m pricing them now, looks like I can get twice the capacity for half the money compared to last year.
Lived in Los Gatos California in 1987, we had a dozen or so 4.0 to 5.0 magnitude quakes leading up to the Loma Preada (SP) earthquake of October 17th 1987, I hope and pray these are not that…killed people from Okland and San Francisco to Santa Cruz.
I just heard on ABC top-of-the-hour news on the radio that some dolt is proclaiming that AGW causes increased earthquakes. He went on to say that July was the warmest on record.
I wonder if it was caused by global
warming… err, climatechangedisruption.It’s very easy to be facetious about these things. After all, the CAGW hoaxsters claim every bad thing that happens is caused by global warming/climate change. Let’s hope we can continue to make light of these quakes. After all, as much as I dislike the majority of Californians, I still don’t wish a major natural catastrophe on them. The man made catastrophes they are creating are doing enough harm to them and the rest of the country.
Jay Davis
I’m sure that we will find out that it’s actually caused by Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, Climate Instability, ……….I forget..
Dammit, my wife stomped out of the bedroom this morning demanding to know who broke her favorite trophy. I checked, and sure enough, the quake had knocked her big triple-decker trophy off the side table and broken it, along with a picture frame. Which really was a nuisance because it was 100 degrees outside today and I had to go into the even hotter garage to fix the thing. I got a hug for it, so the earthquake did me a favor. Wish I could do something about that global warming in my garage. It’s an oven in there in the summer.