Eureka Earthquake, 01/09/2010 (San Jose, San Francisco, Monterey: crime, home, cost of)

[TheDragonslayer]

Originally Posted by nmnita

I remember a similar one in 1975 I believe. It was about 3am, registered above 6 and luckily like yours, was off the coast in Eureka.

Nita

Hi Nita, I believe the quake that you felt in 1975 was a 5.3 that was on land about 12 miles south of Eureka on June 7th of that year. It did a fair amount of damage because it was on land opposed to at sea. I looked this up on Google Earth, we have had many earthquakes in the 7.0 range over the years. In the less than 20 years that I have been here, I think I can remember 4 that were from 6.9 to 7.2. The 7.2 in April of 1992 was on land in Southern Humboldt county and we were almost under it, that one raised the Kings range and the coast at Shelter Cove up by more than 3 feet.

[Fiddlehead]

Thanks for the report Dragonslayer,

I did not feel it over here in Ashland, OR. I will keep an ear to the news.

Glad you are ok.

[tyler5]

i wonder how many cannabis growers were tripping out when the electricity went out and they had their plants flowering (in 12/12 period). that mustve been scary.

[Fiddlehead]

Originally Posted by tyler5

i wonder how many cannabis growers were tripping out when the electricity went out and they had their plants flowering (in 12/12 period). that mustve been scary.

LOL! Perhaps Arnold should declare it a federal disaster area...

Not to hijack this thread, but I wonder how the old down home Humboldt Co. growers are doing with all the new competition from the Mexican mafia. The mafia is really bad news.

[abalone_girl]

I am here in Arcata and my husband is from Petrolia, the most seismically active area anywhere. He was living there when the big one struck in 1992. They were cut off completely for 2 weeks, people were driving off road, through pastures and private land to get out. This one was offshore and increases our risk tsunami if its a quality quake. We were fortunate that it rated only 'fair' in quality. The biggest losses were at the Winco (big box store) and Rays markets, mostly wine and liquor and the mess they created. I think they get complacent after a quiet time and everybody goes back to being lazy about how stuff is stowed and shelved. Being born and raised in California I have been in quite a few very large quakes. You expect to get shook-up once in while. Generators are good idea as is putting up water and extra batteries. Its just common sense.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

The "joys" of living next to a tectonic triple junction! (San Andreas Fault System meeting the Gorda Ridge meeting the Cascadia Subduction Zone).

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by TheDragonslayer

Hi Nita, I believe the quake that you felt in 1975 was a 5.3 that was on land about 12 miles south of Eureka on June 7th of that year. It did a fair amount of damage because it was on land opposed to at sea. I looked this up on Google Earth, we have had many earthquakes in the 7.0 range over the years. In the less than 20 years that I have been here, I think I can remember 4 that were from 6.9 to 7.2. The 7.2 in April of 1992 was on land in Southern Humboldt county and we were almost under it, that one raised the Kings range and the coast at Shelter Cove up by more than 3 feet.

DAmn, it is hell getting old, I think you may be right..Hubby said something similar, he said it was in Fortuna..I was talking to him about this today and that is what he said..Again, I am just not remembering but I do remember one, that I would love to forget: Los Angeles, 1971...

Nita

[Jeremy Pritchard]

I heard the news about it. Though it's a slight trembling of the ground. I was shocked and try to remember when was the last I feel the ground shake.

[TheDragonslayer]

So far we have had at least 24 aftershocks related to the quake. Eureka has put out an estimate for damage in their town at 12.5 million dollars. Several older building nearly collapsed and 3 house in our area fell off their foundations. It shook for 30 seconds, that is twice as long as the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989. If first shook north to south then got much stronger going east to west.

[Fiddlehead]

Received an e-mail from colleagues at Redwood National Park in Orick. Apparently, the hard drives and servers that were spinning during the quake were damaged, so part of their IT backup system was hammered. Interesting to think your hard drive would be damaged by a quake.