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M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by 0manrho »

sidcool wrote: post #6

Seems like a minor earthquake. Does it deserve top of HN?

It is a minor earthquake, especially for a region with generally high standards and tolerances for actual earthquakes. It's enough to certainly notice (if you're awake) and make people look at each other like "Whoa, neat" but that should be the start and end of it.

Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by 0manrho »

bamboozled wrote: post #17
rbanffy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would assume someone new to CA would find it concerning. It's fun to think about it - some Japanese people would move to CA just because of the more stable geology.

Why would Japanese people move to CA for the more stable geology ?

It's a point of comparison to illustrate the differences. CA is seismically active, but not to the degree of Japan. Reading any further into it than that was clearly not the intent and would be foolish.

Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by bombcar »

smcleod wrote: post #22

4.6 is really small, what's the actual news here? Was it strangely shallow or something?

Everyone is secretly (or openly) waiting for Teh Big One we’ve been promised for decades, when Western California will fall into the ocean and Las Vegas become a seaport.

Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by jl6 »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #27
brian-armstrong wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many of us on this website live in the bay area. The earthquake woke us up with a stern jolt and now you're witnessing a shared moment in the community as we try to drift back to sleep.

I was in a hot tub with friends! We wall went to Portola Music Festival and we were having a nice connective low key evening when this big shake surprised us!

Peak California, right here sir.

Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by bombcar »

idiotsecant wrote: post #30
rbanffy wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contrast that with my experience in Ireland - 10 years and I heard thunder only twice, and saw a lightning strike only once. We sometimes get alerts due to some tropical storm that made its way up here, and the most we need to do is to collect our garbage bins and avoid biking because of the gusts.

There's no thunder in Ireland? Why?

Obviously thunder is caused by snakes, and St Patrick removed those.

(Coming from the Midwest where thunderstorms are so common as to just be assumed every rainstorm is one, it must be weird …)

Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by sethammons »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #12
sidcool wrote: post #6

Seems like a minor earthquake. Does it deserve top of HN?

It's notable for people in California where a lot of HN users are based.

The point is it is not notable. It is business as usual. These happen multiple times a year. It is nearly as notable as a rainy day in LA in the summer.

Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by numpad0 »

smcleod wrote: post #22

4.6 is really small, what's the actual news here? Was it strangely shallow or something?

Magnitude scales and felt shocks don't really correlate well. These are like Wh and V, only roughly indicative of each others. You have to look into maximum recorded accelerations.

Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by AlecSchueler »

sethammons wrote: post #36
AlecSchueler wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's notable for people in California where a lot of HN users are based.

The point is it is not notable. It is business as usual. These happen multiple times a year. It is nearly as notable as a rainy day in LA in the summer.

I must have been confused by all of the people in this thread publicly noting it and explaining how they perceived it.

Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by wateralien »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #27
brian-armstrong wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many of us on this website live in the bay area. The earthquake woke us up with a stern jolt and now you're witnessing a shared moment in the community as we try to drift back to sleep.

I was in a hot tub with friends! We wall went to Portola Music Festival and we were having a nice connective low key evening when this big shake surprised us!

I was in a self-driving cab while live-tweeting a founder therapy circle on my way to my rooftop co-living space for a seed round pitch for my biohacking startup!

Re: M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

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Post by sethammons »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #38
sethammons wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is it is not notable. It is business as usual. These happen multiple times a year. It is nearly as notable as a rainy day in LA in the summer.

I must have been confused by all of the people in this thread publicly noting it and explaining how they perceived it.

we are talking about relative notability. Seeing an apple or orange for the first time is notable to that person. But not to the others living in an orchard.

This quake is a tad more notable than rain in LA in the summer. In other words, not very notable. That doesn't make it zero, just very low.

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