A magnitude 7 earthquake shook parts of Humboldt County on Thursday morning, temporarily forcing a tsunami warning that led to evacuations in coastal areas of Northern California and the San Francisco Bay.
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The tsunami warning was cancelled. God had a chance to flush the toilet but decided not to for some reason.
Didn't feel a thing. 125 miles south of me... on a different plate.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the nines made it through safely. This is good.
ReplyDeleteThanks for thinking of me, dear. A friend down in Ukiah emailed me to ask if I'd felt it, and I was SHOCKED... like maybe it was going to crawl up here and grab me. Heh. He didn't have the time straight and I thought maybe I'd slept through it, but nope. Not a ripple.
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Those quakes always happen down there where the Juan da Fuca hits the Pacific Plate. My theory is that the JdF is SO close to completely subducted under the North American Plate that it's practically all gravel and lava now, so the whoppers don't whop too hard up here anymore.
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I bet, though, that everyone in Petrolia is dealing with toppled appliances of every size. Seems to be just liquor bottles and vitamin bottles hit the decks, some rock slides, inland from them. Seems no one was hurt in this one. Thank God.
My bride felt it as she went out the gate on the way to town. I was in the house and didn't feel a thing. Weird.
DeleteGod has spoken. Leave CA now and do not look back.
ReplyDeleteCommon in that area. Lived in Brookings, OR, 100 miles N of Eureka for 12 years. Everybody from Juan de Fuca to Fort Bragg is rolling the dice. Cascadia subduction zone will hiccup soon. Glad we moved to ID in 2015.
ReplyDeleteMy nephew is working a long term job in Eureka, he loaded his bike in his camper and headed inland.
ReplyDeleteYa know. It gets my hopes up Everytime I read a headline of an earthquake. Then hopes are dashed when I read the article and the cali coast is still not in the ocean.
ReplyDeleteChecked into motel in Eureka. Picked up newspaper in the lobby. An article explained how the epicenter of this earthquake zone was 50 miles west of us! Parked our stuff by the door, slept with one eye open. The next morning I did not stop worrying until traveling 15 minutes south, heading inland and climbing.
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