Quake just now in SOCAL

[nadinbrzezinski]

damn they are getting to be a regular feature.... no wonder the Sun Conure was oh so loving this morning

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. On a personal note I am amazed i felt it

4.7 per USGS... and it is an aftershock of the Eastern quake, most likely

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci10629477.php

[CreekDog]

2. Looks like 4.7 in Seely (Imperial Valley)

maybe aftershock from the Mexicali quake?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Most likely

[IScreamSundays]

6. There was a 4.6 this morning around 7 also

There has been many quakes in the last month in this area

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/

[Angry Dragon]

4. So many quakes .........

The end of days is near

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. My calendar does not read 2012 yet

:-)

[Angry Dragon]

10. Just getting started and primed

edit: started

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. RLOL!!!!!!

[Urban Prairie]

7. Do you ever get those "rainbow-colored" clouds in SOCAL

prior to a higher-magnitude quake?

I have never experienced any with the exception of just a mild earthquake in the early 80s here in SE Michigan, and I have never visited a state or country where they occur frequently.

I have seen images of the clouds online that were photographed prior to the quake in the Sichuan province in China less than a year ago, like the image below:

[Cleita]

8. No I've never seen one here in California that I've noticed.

But since I live in earthquake country I will be on the lookout for them. I do see a lot of strange type clouds over the ocean.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. That makes two of us

what I get are two parrots that go absolutely bat shit crazy...

(the do that when we don't have quakes too, why they are not really good gauges, but we realize their behavior is more strange after the fact. Miss clingy did not want to leave me all morning... quake passes, she is in cage eating)

[Retrograde]

19. the ones that look like they're from a Maxfield Parrish painting?

We get them in the Bay Area frequently, most notably in October at sunset, but there were some spectacular pink and blue skies when it finally stopped raining yesterday evening.

No correlation with earthquakes, though.

All the cats I've had here have been lousy earthquake predictors: I watched two of them ride out a smallish one once - all they did was raise their heads, glare at me, and go back to sleep.

[Cleita]

9. Be safe.

Maybe it's time to get your earthquake survival stuff together. These might be pre-quakes for a bigger event.

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. They could just as likely be releasing pressure slowly rather than in one fell swoop. n/t

[Cleita]

16. Let's hope that is the case. n/t

[HereSince1628]

17. Or, the fault could be acting like like an old sheet.

While some of the energy released by one slip is truly lost, what if some of it is just applied further along?

Only the seismologists with a lot of understanding of SCal seismicity have a sense of whether this is working like the Anatolian fault in western Turkey.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. We have the stuff, though it is time for me to cycle it

been debating MREs this time... but gluten intolerance makes that one not a doable thing

[slackmaster]

15. I was driving and missed it

:argh:

[Kat45]

18. How does your bird react to the quakes?

Does s/he get scared, or perhaps sense them coming?

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Clingy, connie gets VERY CLINGY

to the point of impossible (well almost) to get her out of my shirt. She likes to do that... and she is rather Talented, as in sharp talons.

She needs a pedicure.