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Date: August 20, 2023 at 14:46:50
From: mimici/socal, [DNS_Address]
Subject: holy crap |
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Just had a good size shaker very close to me, see my post
on groans. I felt it coming and I'm still feeling it.
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Date: August 20, 2023 at 19:24:18
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: holy crap |
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felt weakly (a little jiggle 58 mi from epicenter) in
Tehachapi...but my cell phone gave me an earthquake
alert on this one. First time I ever got one of those.
I'm busy watching the rain and water outside with the
storm when the phone alert went off. My reaction was
"Oh freaking hell"...because it said it was a 6.0 at
first.
been a helluva week up here. I had to hang up on my
mom who called to see how we were with the storm and I
had to tell her, "Will call you back..earthquake..."
I haven't heard of any real damage yet. 5.1 is
definitely better than 6.0. Glad you are safe, mimi.
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Date: August 20, 2023 at 20:21:38
From: mimici/socal, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: holy crap |
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This made me laugh out loud! Crazy daze! I was texting my
friend about the earthquake when an aftershock hit and
that happened twice. Lots of aftershocks with this and
I'm getting a wee woozy again so I'm thinking we're not
done. Hope I'm wrong cause we just had a flash flood
warning. Can't make it up!! Lord be with us. <3
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97249 |
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Date: August 21, 2023 at 08:05:37
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: holy crap |
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Well, Don in Hollister used to talk about the hurricane
effect. It has to do with pressure changes in the
atmosphere above as an extreme low pressure system
approaches a land mass.
Also, the "weight" of excessive water (water is pretty
heavy) can change stresses. Just like when they filled
the Aswan dam in Egypt some decades ago and
inadvertently triggered some large quakes. The weight
of the water changed the pressure above some ancient,
inactive faults beneath the new lake triggering the
quakes.
The same theory can apply to excessive rain..it has
weight, a lot of it.
As far as "lubricating" the faults with rain, it takes
minimum 3 months to 9 months to actually have the water
seep deep enough to do that. It's not instant. What's
more likely is all that rain from 6 months ago is now
much deeper and helping, rather than the rain that fell
yesterday.
Basically...the faults that do trigger were probably
already primed and ready to go, they just needed a
"last straw"...whether that's lubrication from rain 6
months ago, water weight changes from excessive surface
rain or atmospheric pressure waves and changes, hard to
say. Maybe all of them. Maybe it was just going to go
anyway.
It was interesting timing, and worthy of a definitely
"hmmmmm", however.
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Date: August 20, 2023 at 16:04:29
From: socalshakin, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: holy crap |
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I most definitely felt that one strongly here in Port
Hueneme... Not a fun time.
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