Earthquakes in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro!! (Cleburne: natural gas, place, news)

[$DFW8$]

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

I'm not either, but from what you say, things have definitely changed over the years regarding felt quakes. Aftershocks follow the big ones so if what you felt was after a big one, they could have been such. I lived in southern CA. Was that your locale as well?

Texas has no worry about quakes. If it changes to otherwise, I'd call it prophecy.

Lived in South OC, worked in downtown LA. I was new to the area and only lived there for 2 years (I am from NYC), so they were always a shock to me. I remember the first one I experienced....we were eating at California Pizza Kitchen at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa with some friends and right as we were leaving, one hit. Some of the decorations on the walls fell over and some items on the tables fell off, but that was all.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by $DFW8$

Lived in South OC, worked in downtown LA. I was new to the area and only lived there for 2 years (I am from NYC), so they were always a shock to me. I remember the first one I experienced....we were eating at California Pizza Kitchen at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa with some friends and right as we were leaving, one hit. Some of the decorations on the walls fell over and some items on the tables fell off, but that was all.

Yes, they're something else....frightful. The big one I was in was a 6.5 and it scared me to pieces.

[bluescreen73]

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

So if people are feeling them, as you say, daily, I guess the poor state is now ready for the final doom, plummeting into the Pacific. I'm glad I enjoyed you before your demise.

Actually the piece of Cali west of the San Andreas Fault is on the Pacific plate and it is moving North-Northwest. In a few million years San Diego, LA, and San Francisco will be subducted into the Aleutian Trench.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

Actually the piece of Cali west of the San Andreas Fault is on the Pacific plate and it is moving North-Northwest. In a few million years San Diego, LA, and San Francisco will be subducted into the Aleutian Trench.

How interesting. Too bad we won't be here to be part of it.

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

There are some minor faults throughout Texas and earthquakes do happen here. They are NOTHING on the scale of what happens in California or some other places. Awhile back someone posted the link to a website where you can see how many earthquakes happen on a daily basis and where. I'd swear it was probably over 100 a day all of the time just in California alone. A few in Texas as well but mild. The ones that have been happening lately have been west of Dallas.

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

California is ready to plunge then if people are feeling them several times a day. I have a plethora of family and friends out there and they've never indicated that to me. I believe they might occur on a daily basis, but they're not felt daily.

I did not say that people were "feeling" earthquakes every day. I said that I thought I read on some site that there are 100's that happen every day. BIG difference.

It was somewhere on this site:
Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

[paradoxcop]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

Actually the piece of Cali west of the San Andreas Fault is on the Pacific plate and it is moving North-Northwest. In a few million years San Diego, LA, and San Francisco will be subducted into the Aleutian Trench.

Not exactly.

L.A. and San Diego are indeed on the Pacific Plate, but San Francisco itself lies entirely on the North American Plate. The San Andreas enters the Pacific in Daly City, CA, just south of the city. It re-enters California near Pt. Reyes. You can zoom in on it here:
San Andreas Fault Map - Zoom In on the Fault! - GEOLOGY.COM

The subduction zone in North America is the Cascadia subduction zone, which extends from Cape Mendocino northward to Vancouver Island, BC and involves the submergence of the Juan de Fuca Plate beneath the North American Plate. This accounts for the Seattle area's earthquakes and its east/northeastward movement. Some info at:
juan_de_Fuca_advanced

By contrast, the San Andreas is a transform plate boundary; it's a strike-slip fault. While the Pacific Plate is moving northwestward, it is sliding past the North American Plate. Movement is mostly horizontal; the miniscule amount of vertical movement is due to gravity. Being composed of continental crust, the density of the land is too buoyant to sink.
Plate tectonics and people [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]

Instead, California west of the fault will keep traveling northward. At some point, L.A. and S.F. will be neighbors, and eventually it will end up by the Alaskan Coast.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

I did not say that people were "feeling" earthquakes every day. I said that I thought I read on some site that there are 100's that happen every day. BIG difference.

It was somewhere on this site:
Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

I wasn't referring to your post at all momof, but to $DFW8$. I think he was aware of that since he responded to my post. For the life of me though, I can't find his sentence where he mentioned that. Hey, $DFW8$, did you revise your wording or am I losing my mind?

[NCN]

Welcome to the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program

Looks like you had one less than an hour ago, because it is still red. 2.4 is not that big, but it is interesting because you don't get them very often. Look at California, Utah, Alaska, and some of the islands.

[$DFW8$]

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

I wasn't referring to your post at all momof, but to $DFW8$. I think he was aware of that since he responded to my post. For the life of me though, I can't find his sentence where he mentioned that. Hey, $DFW8$, did you revise your wording or am I losing my mind?

Ya I edited the first one as you can see under it where it says I edited it. The second one I posted couldn't be edited. Right when I saw momof2dfw's post, I realized that she was confused and that you were talking to me when you posted that message.

Sorry about the confusion!

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by $DFW8$

Ya I edited the first one as you can see under it where it says I edited it. The second one I posted couldn't be edited. Right when I saw momof2dfw's post, I realized that she was confused and that you were talking to me when you posted that message.

Sorry about the confusion!

Not a problem. I get in trouble on these forums no matter what I do. Hahaha!! Actually, I didn't read the part that said you edited. Duh, don't mind me! Thank you for clearing up for me that I wasn't seeing writing that wasn't there.