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Post by the illustrious potentate on Jul 6, 2019 7:21:28 GMT -6
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Post by the illustrious potentate on Jul 6, 2019 7:23:45 GMT -6
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Post by okie on Jul 6, 2019 7:26:54 GMT -6
They had two a couple of hours apart. It's not uncommon bit these were big ones and there haven't been any for a while so there was more damage than usual. The plates in California are much deeper than, say, the plates under Oklahoma so while the jolt is not as violent, it lasts longer and you really feel the rolling sensation.
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Post by the illustrious potentate on Jul 6, 2019 7:27:27 GMT -6
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Post by the illustrious potentate on Jul 6, 2019 7:28:34 GMT -6
They had two a couple of hours apart. It's not uncommon bit these were big ones and there haven't been any for a while so there was more damage than usual. The plates in California are much deeper than, say, the plates under Oklahoma so while the jolt is not as violent, it lasts longer and you really feel the rolling sensation. Read where some people with motion sickness were really getting nauseous |
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Post by jehosofat on Jul 6, 2019 8:49:44 GMT -6
Instead of the San Andreas Fault, it'll now be known as Trumps Fault. 😁
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Post by randy on Jul 6, 2019 10:29:20 GMT -6
Some one will blame Trump for sure.
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Post by greybeard on Jul 6, 2019 13:58:29 GMT -6
For those that may be curious...
The Richter Scale is logarithmic and it's in amplitude...the up and down rocking and rolling you can feel. For every full point upwards, it's not a 1x increase..it's 10x in amplitude.
That means a 6 on the scale is 10x more powerful in amplitude than a 5, which also means last night's quake at 7.1 was 7x more powerful than the 6.4 the day before.
One of the other scales that seismologists use is the moment magnitude scale, which measures total energy released by the plate movements.
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Post by hook on Jul 7, 2019 6:52:51 GMT -6
One step closer to getting rid of california for good
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