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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 rbanffy »

basisword wrote: post #86
idiotsecant wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no thunder in Ireland? Why?

There is. "In 2024, Ireland recorded almost 3,400 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes (lightning strikes), marking a moderately stormy year, but well below the exceptional year of 2023, which set a record with more than 9,000 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes detected."[1] [1] https://www.meteorage.com/thunderstorm-report/ireland-lightn...

That's 10 per day for the whole of Ireland. Ireland isn't small enough people would see them that regularly.

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

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Post by rbanffy »

kstrauser wrote: post #55
xeromal wrote: post #48

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I'm from Georgia where summer thunderstorms are extremely common and we had ones that were so explosive that candles would vibrate off the fireplace mantle. I moved to SoCal and i'm always amused when a small storm comes by once a year and people freak out. I miss those storms man. Nothing like sitting on the porch and watching them roll through

As we called it in Missouri: good sleeping weather. I can nap through a tornado, j tell you.

Now hear this: we have almost no mosquitoes. Sometimes I joke I killed one and drove them back into extinction.

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

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Post by BoorishBears »

dekhn wrote: post #79
xkcd-sucks wrote: post #68

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New England is seismically active :) If you're not aware of it, the tremors can feel like a large passing truck or something like that https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.31872...

I grew up near a town called "Moodus" in Connecticut which constantly made noises and had small quakes. But it didn't prepare me for the few small quakes I experienced in the bay area (typically a bunch of car alarms go off and dogs bark, there's a thud, and then a gentle rocking).

Never thought I'd see that town mentioned on Hacker News (or anywhere outside of Moodus)

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

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Post by prmoustache »

chrsig wrote: post #60
smcleod wrote: post #22

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

From someone that grew up in New England, but experienced a 4.x in california: I assure you it does not feel small. The revelation that the ground does not stay where I left it was quite disturbing.

What previous commenter meant is there are part of the world like in Chiappas,MX where 4.x earthquakes are occuring several times a day and people get along with their lives just fine.

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

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Post by bradgessler »

sedatk wrote: post #2

This was the strongest earthquake I felt since I moved to Bay Area ten years ago. Luckily, it was quite short. Woke me and all my friends in the SF and vicinity up though.

I was 3 miles from the epicenter. By far the strongest I’ve felt since I moved here 15 years ago. Hard to imagine what a 6+ would be like on the Hayward fault.

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

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Post by bamboozled »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #20
bamboozled wrote: post #17

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

Japan is one of the most seismically-active areas in the world. As a result, [modern] Japanese construction is incredibly resilient. I've never been in Tokyo, during a strong quake, but I'm told the skyscrapers wave around like drunken dancers.

I live in Japan...I've never wanted to move to the USA because of seismic activity .

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

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Post by Taniwha »

p1mrx wrote: post #76
Taniwha wrote: post #43

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There's an SF short story (Larry Niven I think) about a seismologist who predicts the big one, but the math is not quite right, the story gets out, panic ensues everyone heads for Nevada, he guy is still working in his lab trying to figure why the sign on his equation is coming out negative when all the rest of the US falls into the sea leaving just his part of CA

"A Slight Miscalculation" by Ben Bova https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83720/so-that-eart...

Thanks - that's it

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

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Post by rbanffy »

bamboozled wrote: post #96
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Japan is one of the most seismically-active areas in the world. As a result, [modern] Japanese construction is incredibly resilient. I've never been in Tokyo, during a strong quake, but I'm told the skyscrapers wave around like drunken dancers.

I live in Japan...I've never wanted to move to the USA because of seismic activity .

I was making a joke, that even though CA is notoriously unstable and "waiting for The Big One", Japan is way more active.

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

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Post by bamboozled »

rbanffy wrote: post #98
bamboozled wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in Japan...I've never wanted to move to the USA because of seismic activity .

I was making a joke, that even though CA is notoriously unstable and "waiting for The Big One", Japan is way more active.

oh right it sounded more like a statement, every time I'm in SF I worry about how unprepared everything seems.
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