Magnitude 5.4 Earthquake Strikes Near California's Rio Dell Region - USGS

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck 15 km (9.3 miles) southeast of California's Rio Dell region, United States Geological Survey said on Sunday.

The earthquake was at a depth of 27.8 km, USGS said.


Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-01-01/magnitude-5-4-earthquake-strikes-near-californias-rio-dell-region-usgs

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Nothing much about this yet.

I'll have to check the radio and see what they have on it.

I'm sure its a hell of a mess in southern Humboldt!

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1. Can't pick up KMUD in Garberville

My god ...

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7. Online it doesn't look like any of their shows got queued up today.

Should be a news update from them at 6pm?

As of a few hours ago on their FB:
"POWER OUTAGE: following the 5.4M earthquake 1,074 are without power in Rio Dell."

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8. I am able to pick it up now

Not sure how much damage there is.

It looks like I have some here damn-it!

Crack in the concrete in the garage floor.
I wonder what it will cost to have it fixed and filled in?
Any ideas about this anyone?

Is this something to be really worried about?

*drat* !!!

Just what I cannot afford after all of the expenses from 2022!

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2. cal tec info.

https://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Quakes/nc73827571.html

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3. thanks

Got a feeling the housing shortage is over here.

See how they run after a batch o'quakes!

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4. youre welcome .

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5. Approx. same area just got hit 10 DAYS ago ! n/t

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6. yep

Its a triple fault down there.

You'd have to be to live there IMO.

It looks nice though! Real nice!

Good luck!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Cape_Mendocino_earthquakes

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9. Update from the Times-Standard at 1PM

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck this morning around 10:35 a.m., shaking a county that is quite exhausted from nearly two weeks of intermitent shaking following the Dec. 20, 2022, 6.4-magnitude quake.

“Unfortunately, Mother Nature has other plans,” local earthquake expert Lori Denger told the Times-Standard a few minutes after the quake. “It’s typical to have an aftershock that is about one magnitude unit less than the main shock,” she said. “So this is very typical of most aftershock sequences. Today’s earthquake (was) clearly on a different but related fault".

The quake was too small to create a tsunami threat, Dengler said. The USGS reported the quake was a 5.4 magnitude, it was briefly downgraded to a 4.9 and then updated again back to a 5.4. The quake was about 9.3 miles southeast of Rio Dell. The city is still working to recover from the main shock which left dozens of homes red-tagged and uninhabitable. Since the main shock on Dec. 20, there have been nearly 300 aftershocks. Just before noon, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office posted a new release on the quake noting that Fernbridge is closed again.

“As a precaution, Caltrans has closed State Route 211 at Fernbridge Road to conduct safety inspections,” the release stated. There is no estimated time when the roadway will be reopened. For the latest Caltrans road conditions updates, go to quickmap.dot.ca.gov or the CalTrans Quickmap app.”


https://www.times-standard.com/2023/01/01/yes-mother-nature-is-at-it-again-5-4-shakes-humboldt-county/

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10. And more info on the quake(s) for the curious (also from the T-S)

https://www.times-standard.com/2022/12/31/lori-dengler-data-explains-duration-of-6-4-quake-hundreds-of-aftershocks/

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11. Talk about your existential dread

Truly...at any given moment..earthquakes. damn.

I don't think I could do it. At least here we can see hurricanes or cold blasts coming. Usually.

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12. We had frequent quakes in the late 80's to mid 90's in the SF Bay Area

The best analogy I can come up with is that it's like tornadoes in the Midwest. You can live in a fairly large area that's prone to them but when they happen the destruction is narrow and seemingly random. Except out here, updated building codes mean we've seen a lot less destruction since Loma Prieta in 1989. I'd still not want to be within ten blocks North-northwest of the Millennium Tower in SF when a 5.5 or bigger hits, though. No reason to tempt fate.

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13. Truth

I was living in S.F. during this time.

Sizable quakes hit rather often it seems (meaning over 6+).

I remember my mother was working in the Tishman building downtown (at 1st and Market). She was on the 33rd floor when a big one hit.

Scared the crap out of both of us as I was living there and she was commuting to S.F. to work there.

The Loma Prieta was a nightmare.

I'll never forget those black helicopters flying overhead that night as I watched the Marina District burn.

The next day I was on the clean-up crew where I worked which was across the street from an old brick building I had lived in during the mid-70's. That building was a pile of rubble with nothing to be salvaged.

As for the Millennium Tower(s), anyone living there is a fool. It all built on landfill and it is leaning now. They cannot really repair something like this. Seems they slipped around a lot of the building codes to put those up.

I know that the Carpenter's Union Local 22 in San Francisco wasn't thrilled with the outcome!

That hell drove me north. There are no high rise buildings here.

Otherwise, there are actually more faults but a lot less people, hence the reason you never hear about the frequent, often very large quakes in the northern part of the state.

Video right here re: The Loma Prieta Earthquake on Oct. 17, 1989.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/full-episode-loma-prieta-earthquake-30-years-later_bay-area/1914020/