In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Looking at the earthquake map, and completely unrelated? to the recent large quakes I see three nearly parallel faults starting where the San Andreas branches off south of Highland. The main part of the San Andreas continues running to the SE, through Thousand Palms and east of the Salton Sea. Another fault set starts just to the west of the San Andreas around Loma Linda and branches off to the S then curving and running SE parallel to the San Andreas. They become a series of braided faults called the San Jacinto fault zone, west of the Salton Sea and down to near Mexicali. And west of those faults is a separate parallel set of braided faults, running SE to the west of Mexicali.
ALL of them have been very active over the last few days.
The more northern part of the San Andreas has been very active from San Fran SE to Simmler. The section SE from Simmler to Loma Linda is quiet. So everything's moving except for the section north of the San Gabriels, from Loma Linda to Simmler.
News here said there has been some quakes up around Haida Gwaii formerly known here as the Queen Charlottes. No damage done but enough to rattle people.
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I'll check it out on the USGS earthquake map!
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There were large to somewhat large undersea quakes in the Queen Charlotte sound - 6.2, 5.6, 4.7, and 4.6. But there were only 2 small quakes - a 2.0 and a 1.0 - near the city of Victoria.
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Anyway, the pattern of quakes is QUITE striking!
Here's the link, hopefully ppl's computers can load it.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B
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Last night I felt the earth move ...
No, seriously.
I've been dying to say that ever since whenever.
So, yes, a large earthquake. Fortunately for us very far away from here. (Not so fortunate for the ppl near Ridgecrest.)
What most people don't realize, and what I keep forgetting, is that earthquakes don't happen like on TV. They don't start with a bang, they usually start with Is something ...? followed byDo you feel that? We had a whole conversation while I figured out that hubby was right and indeed we were having a quake and I went down the hall to check on dear daughter (and noticed that the clothes in her closet were swinging on the rack) and went back to the kitchen. During most of that time the swaying slowly got harder and harder. Since the biggest earthquakes are also the longest, an earthquake could potentially "ramp up" for a long time into something eventually catastrophic. And it's not like it just quits, either. The earth still moves many times after the main shock.
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Just a couple of thoughts: Looking at the WORLD map, there are (of course) dozens of plate boundaries, but the only real active one seems to be the Pacific plate. I know that the motion is different at different parts of the boundary, leading to strike-slip and thrust faults but my brain just kind of cmompresses the whole thing into a general picture that the Pacific plate is, overall, ROTATING counterclockwise.
There was a discussion late last year IIRC about how the "big" earthquakes (>7) tend to occur in 32-year cycles. Last year was the 32nd year. I remember thinking that we might have snuck past "the big one" again! Of course, maybe there's some wobble in that timing.
It's a good reminder that we need to be prepared. I've been telling hubby about my efforts to collect up enough supplies, that the most probable disaster that's going to befall us isn't catastrophic societal collapse but earthquake (well, maybe earthquake followed by societal collapse!)
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Hope you got earthquake insurance and an exit plan, Kiki.
Speaking of which, I may or may not have mentioned before, I don't have homeowner's insurance. I got rid of it around 4 years ago when the price went up over $1k/year. Stupid, right?
My heart kind of sank when all of my issues started revealing themselves knowing that I did this. But then I looked deeper into it......
Just like my teeth situation, insurance would not cover a single issue that I currently have. I already knew that about the water, but the ant issue isn't covered either. That's considered a problem that can be prevented with proper maintenance, and not an act of god like a tornado or a tree falling and destroying your roof. I wouldn't have gotten a single dime out of them for any of my current problems.
Go figure, huh?
Well.... Off to Goodwill. Got a carload of really good stuff to give them and it's half price Saturday so hopefully I find some good shirts and jeans. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:through the state
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Hope you got earthquake insurance ...
Quote:My physical plan is survival. I don't think an earthquake merits THE exit! It's just an earthquake, not the end of the world!
and an exit plan, Kiki.
Quote:Only if you have a fire, tornado or similar because ...
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Speaking of which, I may or may not have mentioned before, I don't have homeowner's insurance. I got rid of it around 4 years ago when the price went up over $1k/year. Stupid, right?
Quote:Yep, that's their plan!
But then I looked deeper into it......
Just like my teeth situation, insurance would not cover a single issue that I currently have. I already knew that about the water, but the ant issue isn't covered either. That's considered a problem that can be prevented with proper maintenance, and not an act of god like a tornado or a tree falling and destroying your roof. I wouldn't have gotten a single dime out of them for any of my current problems.
Go figure, huh?
Quote:Happy hunting!
Well.... Off to Goodwill. Got a carload of really good stuff to give them and it's half price Saturday so hopefully I find some good shirts and jeans.
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https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-huge-earthquake-forecast-sou
thern-california-20190705-story.html
11% chance of another huge earthquake in Southern California, scientists say
By Karen Kaplan
• Earthquake preparedness: What to do before - and during - a big one
The odds that Southern California will experience another earthquake of magnitude 7 or greater in the next week are now nearly 11%, according to preliminary estimates from seismologists.
And the chances that a quake will surpass the 7.1 temblor that struck near Ridgecrest on Friday night are roughly 8% to 9%, said Caltech seismologist Lucy Jones.
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The 7.1 quake on Friday night was about 8 times larger than the 6.4 quake on Thursday morning, said Robert Graves, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena.
Though such quakes would be more likely to occur in the next few days, the shaking could continue for quite some time.
“A magnitude 7 usually has aftershocks that last for years,” Jones said.
Jones said she could not recall a pattern of earthquakes in California where a 6.4 foreshock was followed by a 7.1 event, only to be followed by an even bigger quake.
But that doesn’t mean it can’t happen, she cautioned.
“It is clearly a very energetic sequence, so there’s no reason to think we can’t have more large earthquakes,” she said.
The last time California experienced a quake of this size was in 1999, when the 1999 Hector Mine quake struck the Mojave Desert. There were minor injuries and no deaths.
The years since have been marked by an unusual earthquake drought.
“In California, we expect to have a magnitude 7 once every 10 to 20 years, and the last one was 20 years ago,” Jones said. “Think of this as a return to what California is supposed to be doing.”
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KIKI, the scientists have been talking about "The Big One" for the Lower Mainland of BC since I was a child.
First earthquake I experienced I was a child. It happened at night so I was in bed. It woke me up with my bed moving. All my classmates were talking about it the next day and it was on the news of course.
The other two I was an adult. The next one I was in my 30s and had fallen asleep on the couch. The couch moved out from the wall and then moved back. Woke up again but I guessed what was going on.
The next one I was in a shopping mall with my mom. We were sitting in a MacDonald's having coffee when the floor started shaking. 2 young Asian women sitting near us looked around scared and my mom looked at me and I said, "Earthquake" and we went back to our coffee. It lasted a minute or so. Then nothing.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
There were large to somewhat large undersea quakes in the Queen Charlotte sound - 6.2, 5.6, 4.7, and 4.6. But there were only 2 small quakes - a 2.0 and a 1.0 - near the city of Victoria.
Yeah that's what the news said. People were asking the scientists if the 6 one was big enough to relieve the pressure. The guy said no. That it would take 1,000 earthquakes magnitude 6 or better to do that.
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