Sourthern Cal Just got a good earthshaker. Northern Cal too..

[shybastid]

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm....
Family in Southen Cal said it was a good rocker... Location is about 2-3 hours south of Palm Springs.
Just saw the new posting for Northern Cal. Looks like Northen Cal got 2 about 4.o each...About 2 hours north of San Fran....

[sjkted]

We sure did. I'm in LA by the beach and it rocked quite a bit twice for about 4-5 seconds long.

--sjkted

[sjkted]

It appears to have originated from Baja (originally with 6.9 magnitude).

--sjkted

[shybastid]

No worries...... But there are 2 more little ones that show up between the 6.9 and the 4.0...Kinda like a connect the dots.
Interesting................All within an hour..

[avid]

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30.html
oh deary me - the astrowhatevers were right....

[TheRebel]

Earth quake footage at hemet CA

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-428501

[Northern Boy]

oh deary me - the astrowhatevers were right....


right about what ?

[Micjer]

@the rebel

That is wild watching the water splash out of the swimming pool!

[Humble Janitor]

Crazy! Hard to keep up with all of these earth changes.

[MorningSong]

This is from the RSOE Alert Map : http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=EQ-20100405-25579-MEX&cat=dis&lang=eng

"A powerful earthquake swayed buildings from Los Angeles to Tijuana, killing two people in Mexico, blacking out cities, forcing the evacuation of hospitals and nursing homes, and prompting an Arizona border town to shut down its downtown area. The 7.2-magnitude quake centered just south of the U.S. border near Mexicali was one of the strongest earthquakes to hit region in decades. "It sounds like it's felt by at least 20 million people at this point," USGS seismologist Lucy Jones said. "Most of Southern California felt this earthquake." Sunday afternoon's earthquake was felt the hardest in Mexicali, a bustling commerce center along Mexico's border with California, where authorities said the quake was followed by at least 20 smaller aftershocks, including three of magnitudes 5.1, 4.5 and 4.3. The initial quake had a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). "It has not stopped trembling in Mexicali," said Baja California state Civil Protection Director Alfredo Escobedo. Escobedo said a man was killed when his home collapsed just outside of Mexicali. He said a second man died when he panicked as the ground shook, ran into the street and was struck by a car. At least 100 people were injured, most of them struck by falling objects. Power was out in virtually the entire city and the blackout was expected to last at least 14 hours, Escobedo said.

All 300 patients had to be evacuated from the Mexicali General Hospital to private clinics because the building had no electricity or water. But the emergency generators powering the private clinics might not last long and authorities might have to move patients to hospitals outside the city, he said. The parking garage at Mexicali's city hall also collapsed, Escobedo said, but no one there was hurt. There were growing reports of damage just across the border from Mexicali in Calexico, California, a city of about 27,000. The Calexico City Council met and declared a state of emergency. There were no reports of injuries. Law enforcement vehicles guarded downtown streets in Calexico, where windows were shattered and bricks and plaster had fallen from some buildings. Calexico police Lt. Gonzalo Gerardo said most of the damage occurred in the city's downtown where buildings that were constructed in the 1930s and '40s and not retrofitted for an earthquake of this magnitude. "Downtown is going to remain closed until further notice. I honestly doubt that it will reopen soon," he said. "You've got a lot of cracks. You've got a lot of broken glass. It's unsafe for people to go there." The southeast portion of the city lost electricity for about four hours. Rosendo Garcia, 44, said he was driving his daughter home from work when the quake struck. "It felt like I was in a canoe in the middle of the ocean," he said.

He said homes in his trailer park were seriously damaged, including one that was knocked off its foundation The Fire Department responded to several calls to transport sick and elderly people to hospitals because of power outages and gas problems. A senior living center built in the early 1900s was evacuated and the people were moved to a shelter by the American Red Cross. Lights shattered, ceiling tiles fell and shelves collapsed at a Subway sandwich restaurant in Calexico, said manager Rosie Arellano. "Everything is shut down, the whole town," Arellano said. "All the stop lights and the street lights are out. We have no power." Strong shaking was reported across much of Southern California. The earthquake rattled buildings on the west side of Los Angeles and in the San Fernando Valley, interrupting Easter dinners. Some stalled elevators were reported, water sloshed out of swimming pools and wine jiggled in glasses. More than 100 miles (160 kms) west of the epicenter, San Diego's Sheraton Hotel and Marina was briefly evacuated after minor cracks were discovered in the floors, said Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Maurice Luque. All guests were allowed to return.

Situation Update No. 2
On 05.04.2010 at 04:01 GMT+2

A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked the U.S.-Mexico border region Sunday, causing power outages in both countries as it sent out seismic waves felt from Los Angeles to Arizona and Tijuana. The quake happened at 3:40 p.m. PT in the Mexican state of Baja California, about 60 kilometres southeast of Mexicali, the state's capital city, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The area has been hit by 3.0-magnitude quakes all week. More than 900,000 people live in the greater Mexicali area. It was the largest earthquake in the region in nearly 18 years and was followed by aftershocks or distant "triggered" earthquakes on both sides of the border, U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones said. A multi-storey parking structure collapsed at Mexicali's city hall but no one was injured, said Alfredo Escobedo, the state's civil protection director. The tremor's epicentre was 10 kilometres below ground, Mexico's National Seismological Service reported. Hundreds of people in Tijuana fled the border city's beaches fearing a tsunami, said Capt. Juan Manuel Hernandez of the Tijuana fire department.

Tsunami experts quickly reported that no tsunami was expected along the West Coast, and Hernandez said the beach filled back up with people within an hour. Tijuana Fire Chief Rafael Carillo said firefighters were rescuing people trapped in an elevator at the Ticuan Hotel in downtown Tijuana, but were mostly responding to reports of fallen cables and minor damage to buildings. Power and phone service were out in Mexicali, and Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission said it was evaluating the damage. The tremor also forced the closure of gas stations in northern Baja and ruptured a segment of highway. In Los Angeles, the city fire department went on "earthquake status," and some stalled elevators were reported. No damage was reported in Los Angeles or San Diego. More than 5,000 people across southern California experienced brief electricity outages, mostly with about 30 seconds of flickering lights. Several hundred dealt with longer outages.

In Arizona, more than 3,000 customers in the Yuma area had a "relatively momentary outage" from the quake, Arizona Public Service Company spokesperson Don Wool said. The 7.2-magnitude quake was felt as far north as Santa Barbara, Calif., seismologist Susan Potter said. It was one of the strongest to hit the state in recent history. Only one has been stronger — a 7.3-magnitude quake that hit Landers, about 70 kilometres north of Palm Springs, and left three dead in 1992. Seismologists also said smaller quakes were triggered in a geothermal area in northern California. A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.0 was recorded at 3:49 p.m. PT about 40 kilometres north of Santa Rosa. A dispatcher with the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department said the agency had not received any emergency calls after the quake.

Situation Update No. 1
On 05.04.2010 at 03:05 GMT+2

A strong 7.2-magnitude earthquake has hit Baja California, Mexico, rocking buildings and panicking residents as far away as Tijuana, Los Angeles and Palm Springs in the USA. The earthquake hit at 3:40pm local time, 26 kilometres south south-west of Guadalupe Victoria and 173km east south-east of Tijuana at a depth of 32km. The US Geological Survey originally measured the quake as 6.9 but later raised it to 7.2, a magnitude that can cause serious damage to urban areas. The relatively shallow quake was centred in a lightly populated area in north-eastern Baja California near the US border. Some people were reported trapped in elevators, retaining walls had collapsed in some places and electricity was out in several parts of the Mexican state, according to director of emergency services Alfredo Escobedo. Multiple aftershocks were reported immediately after the quake, including a 5.1 shock centred near the US-Mexico border in Imperial, California."

[rosie]

As I was reading this news on the web this morning, I saw a video that some family was taking during this earthquake.

Now, what bothers about this, is the fact that the parents and their children were more concerned about getting it all on video, then they were about their own safety. They even sounded disappointed that it did not do more damage.
:confused:
Please everyone, if you know anyone living around earthquake zones, remind them that mother nature is awesome, but she can turn in an instant, and if you are not were you should be during one of these events, you may just loose your life, or limbs.

It is not worth it getting pictures or video's, but is is worth it saving your family and friends.

I have a feeling that people are too desensitized by their video games, and have lost the reflex of their adrenaline push, the one that just may save them in the end.

love & light

[Gita]

oh deary me - the astrowhatevers were right....

Who are the ‘astrowhatevers’?? Please don’t tell us there’s a bunch of delinquent teenage Ets on the scene as well?!!:rolleyes: That’s all we need hey?:eek:

[Gita]

I have a feeling that people are too desensitized by their video games, and have lost the reflex of their adrenaline push, the one that just may save them in the end.
I fear there’s much truth to this rosie. Yet I also feel the true purpose of these video games is all by design anyway. :nono:

[stardustaquarion]

The electromagnetic conditions, CME may indicate further quakes in the are as indicated below

from George Ure's blog

"A B7.4 flare peaking at 09:54 UT was detected today in the Catania sunspot group 56 (NOAA AR 1059) located around S25W05. It was accompanied by a post-eruption arcade, coronal dimmings, possibly an EIT wave and a partial halo CME (angular width around 210 degrees). The CME was first detected at 10:33 UT (by LASCO) and at 09:54 UT (by SECCHI/COR2 on STEREO A). The CME was moving at a projected plane-of-the-sky speed of around 250 km/s (according to the LASCO data). Using some reasonable assumptions on the CME geometry, the true radial CME speed can be estimated to be around 600 km/s. The arrival of the corresponding ICME (possibly an interplanetary flux rope) at the Earth is thus expected in the morning of April 6.

When the Earth's magnetosphere starts being slapped by this, or that, I get concerned about 'as above, so below" kinds of effects - and whether there is a relationship between gamma ray bursts (GRB's) and earthquakes or the arrival of what's called an "interplanetary flux rope" in this PRESTO alert.

The "flux rope" sure sounds like the "h-field" part of Jim McCanney's 'electric solar system model', where he postulates actual 'arcing' from the Sun to the planets (or does it go the other way...don't recall at this hour). But regardless, when CME energy shows up, really BIG effects start to happen on Earth.

http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm

also

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If you have any relatives in the area, better be prepared even if nothing happen

Love

[MorningSong]

Just take a look at this from Spaceweather.com....Solar Wind...

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ace/Mag_swe_24h.gif

Ain't that something???

at 13:35 it was at speed: 785.7 km/sec density: 0.9 protons/cm3
at 15:43 it was at speed: 750.7 km/sec 0.4 protons/cm3

so it is coming back down, but I will say that in all of 2010, I have never seen it up so high!

[stardustaquarion]

Hello Morningsong, yes those graphs look scary!

My son is living in your lovely country, he is living outside Rome :)

Love

[Rocky_Shorz]

During the coming months and years, CERN scientists expect the project to lift the veil on some of the mysteries of the cosmos...


Electro-Magnetic Earthquake Bursts and Critical Rupture of Peroxy Bond Networks in Rocks

We propose a mechanism for the low frequency electromagnetic emissions and other electromagnetic phenomena which have been associated with earthquakes. The mechanism combines the critical earthquake concept and the concept of crust acting as a charging electric battery under increasing stress. The electric charges are released by activation of dormant charge carriers in the oxygen anion sublattice, called peroxy bonds or positive hole pairs (PHP), where a PHP represents an O3XOOYO3 with XY=Si4+Al3+, i.e. an O− in a matrix of O2− of silicates. We propose that PHP are activated by plastic deformations during the slow cooperative build-up of stress and the increasingly correlated damage culminating in a large ``critical'' earthquake. Recent laboratory experiments indeed show that stressed rocks form electric batteries which can release their charge when a conducting path closes the equivalent electric circuit. We conjecture that the intermittent and erratic occurrences of EM signals are a consequence of the progressive build-up of the battery charges in the Earth crust and their erratic release when crack networks are percolating throughout the stressed rock volumes, providing a conductive pathway for the battery currents to discharge. EM signals are thus expected close to the rupture, either slightly before or after, that is, when percolation is most favored.

CERN Docs (http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/938258)

Tomorrow morning?

I'll turn a video camera on the sky to see if any Auras are seen before another quake...

1 Week after the Big Bang experiment on the opposite side of the earth San Diego region had 600+ Earthquake/tremors in a day...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/32.34.-117.-115.gif

[Myra]

We sure did. I'm in LA by the beach and it rocked quite a bit twice for about 4-5 seconds long.

--sjkted

North OC Beachside was intense more like 35 to 45 seconds.

[pyrangello]

Well I have been watching the USGS geological site for the past 4 years, everyday I watch the total amounts of earthquakes for a 7 day period in the United States. I have no scientific background only as an observation. Last week the total count ran average 750 for a 7 day period, It usually runs 500-750. On monday it was escalating at 1144 at 2 p.m. EST. At 6:38 a.m. today 6 Mar 10 it was at 1506 total. I have never witnessed an escalation like this and have never saw the amount over 1400. Keep watching today as this total increased over 300 quakes just during the nighttime.

[pyrangello]

Well were now at 2014 quakes in the last 7 days and counting for the U.S., the real question now is when is she gonna start busting apart.

[5thElement]

"Well were now at 2014 quakes in the last 7 days and counting for the U.S., the real question now is when is she gonna start busting apart." pyrangello

Hi pyrangello - do you have link? The one I have shows 918 US quakes in 2010.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

That seems kind of low to me since AK & CA have multiples per day.

Thanks,
5th