The Los Angeles Earthquake Containment Thread (Orange, Simi Valley: refrigerator, driveway, driving)

[Sam Hobbs]

Originally Posted by Daffodil_fields

Just an old saying here in L.A., guys...

Just a joke.

Things like that get exaggerated. Such as the song It Never Rains in Southern California. The song is not about weather and the complete quote is:

It never rains in California, but girl don't they warn ya. It pours, man, it pours.

I have been a legal resident of California for 65 years. I remember the day that started the earthquake weather saying. The seismologists say there is no way that there is such a thing. They often say that something is not true when in fact they just do not have sufficient evidence. I would really enjoy someone providing evidence showing the seismologists are wrong about earthquake weather.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Daffodil_fields

5.5 after shock.

It's an aftershock to the one that occurred last July, according to seismologist Lucy Jones.

https://laist.com/latest/post/202006...ern-california

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Sam Hobbs

I remember the day that started the earthquake weather saying. The seismologists say there is no way that there is such a thing. They often say that something is not true when in fact they just do not have sufficient evidence. I would really enjoy someone providing evidence showing the seismologists are wrong about earthquake weather.

Earthquake weather (aka "shake and bake") is fiction; as the other poster mentioned, just an L.A. joke.

There is no such thing as "earthquake weather". Statistically, there is approximately an equal distribution of earthquakes in cold weather, hot weather, rainy weather, etc. Very large low-pressure changes associated with major storm systems (typhoons, hurricanes, etc) are known to trigger episodes of fault slip (slow earthquakes) in the Earth’s crust and may also play a role in triggering some damaging earthquakes. However, the numbers are small and are not statistically significant.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/there-eart...ience_products

"In actuality, earthquakes are caused by the accumulation of strain in the crust due to the motion of tectonic plates. Most hypocenters (the place where the quake starts, directly below the epicenter) occur at least five miles below the surface, for large quakes. What is going on in the atmosphere simply does not affect conditions at that depth."

-Kate Hutton, Cal Tech

[Daffodil_fields]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Earthquake weather (aka "shake and bake") is fiction; as the other poster mentioned, just an L.A. joke.

Yeah, I am the other poster.

Does seem odd that when Riverside was 100 degrees yesterday, suddenly a 5.5 aftershock from last year's July quake. Kind of a large one for 11 months later.

I have been through most of the major quakes here. Don't recall one happening when it was raining (as your post said).

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Daffodil_fields

Does seem odd that when Riverside was 100 degrees yesterday, suddenly a 5.5 aftershock from last year's July quake. Kind of a large one for 11 months later.

Listen to the interview with Dr. Lucy Jones on the posted link (#552). Or read up on Cal Tech's research on earthquakes.

[CA4Now]

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake was reported at 9:15 p.m. Sunday (6/7/20) 11 miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake occurred 27 miles from California City, 54 miles from Barstow, 64 miles from Rosamond and 65 miles from Tehachapi.

According to the USGS, the earthquake produced light to moderate shaking near its epicenter, and weak shaking was reported as far as the San Fernando Valley and the Riverside area.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...dgecrest-calif

[SandyCo]

Well, this was a fun way to wake up! 4.2 in the City of San Fernando, north San Fernando Valley at 4:29 a.m.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by SandyCo

Well, this was a fun way to wake up! 4.2 in the City of San Fernando, north San Fernando Valley at 4:29 a.m.

Note the way the headline below says "light magnitude earthquake"....certainly not to the people who live near the epicenter.

Light mag. 4.2 earthquake - 2km N of Pacoima, CA (USA) on Thursday, 30 July 2020 -
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/ear...ma-CA-USA.html

[Texamichiforniasota]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Note the way the headline below says "light magnitude earthquake"....certainly not to the people who live near the epicenter.

Light mag. 4.2 earthquake - 2km N of Pacoima, CA (USA) on Thursday, 30 July 2020 -
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/ear...ma-CA-USA.html

It woke me up in Central LA. Shaking was pretty light here.

[Kevroqs]

Wondering if anyone in the metro LA area felt that earthquake this morning.


Please take caution that a stronger earthquake could happen again in the next few days. Like the one last year in Ridgecrest when a stronger earthquake was triggered just a day after a moderate one happened.