You guys in San Fancisco ok? Earthquakes again...

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wblanchard

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Just seeing how our rangefinder friends in San Francisco are today? Been hearing all sorts of reports about a giant earthquake.
 
While that shaking always brings up the adrenilen levels, 6.0 usually isn't too bad. It's supposed to be centered NW of Bakersfield, a town called Parksfield, CA, quite a ways south of San Fran.
Hope everyone there is safe and enjoying an expresso to relax :)

In related news a COLLOSAL lava eating fly was spotted on the slopes of Mt. St Helens.
 
I have actually heard that there have been hundreds of tremors around St Helens in the past week or so leading to the speculation that perhaps an eruption will occur soon. This may not be totally unrelated to the earthquake in CA today. You may want to keep an eye on the web cam.
 
Not sure it this is connected but we had three small earthquakes (around 4.0) here last week and this is not supposed to be a n earth moving zone...

Mother Earth is having a bad digestion... Any spare bicarbonate someone ?
 
Seriously, I've been keeping a close eye on Mt. St Helen's as I volunteer with Emergency Services in this area of Washington State.
We have been notified as being on "Volcanic Event Watch". We got dust masks, extra air filters for the vehicles, food/water, and extra communications gear loaded and ready to go.
Also have an RF in my bag for "documentation", ya' know? ;)
 
Now, nwcanonman... what kind of human being are you if you drink expresso to relax? :eek:

I thought only I would do such things... :D

Keep us posted on the Mt. St. Helen's developments. I heard something about it this morning in NPR and, since my wife lived near that area (in Tacoma, by the Puget Sound) and I visited her there a few times, I'm kinda fond of the place.

Unless, of course, all my geography is wrong. Let's hope we don't have much in the news about these things. I'm a native Guatemalan and I know quakes ain't no fun! :(
 
Solares -
Yes, having lived in California and now Washington state for almost half a century, I've "enjoyed" the west coast shuffle a few times.
Espresso is definately a relaxing beverage after 3 or 4 late night 911 calls driving ambulance. Caffene and nicotine used to be a steady diet :eek:
Thankfully, I've mended my ways (somewhat :p )
 
What is going on?? Hurricanes in the east, earthquakes in the west.

I don't envy the people on the west coast with the earthquakes. At least with a hurricane we get advanced warning to get the hell out of Dodge.
 
Joe,
As my late BIL used to say, "There is no bad weather, only poor clothing choices". He lived outside Buffalo, NY - LOL. A friend who lives near you keeps an Canon FTBn, sans battery, in his car for those -20 degree days :p
 
around gere the saying goes ' if you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes and it will change'

right now we are having nicer weather that we did most of the summer. and this after a cold spell that had us thinking -early winter-

joe
 
It lasted for about 15 seconds. I was in an office with two co-workers discussing something and none of us noticed a thing. People were walking around commenting on it though. Lights swaying, windows creaking kinda stuff. Same old.
 
Rich,
Glad to here things were calm up north.

Once, while sitting in recliners watching TV waiting for a 911 call, the footrest started wiggling back-and-forth. I yelled at my partner to "quit kicking my chair", while he looked at me thinking the same thing. We turned to one another and said, "Oh...." (3.8 Richter) and finished watching the show on TV. ;)
 
On my first vacation to Korea, we lived in two large quanset huts with a latrine (bathroom to the uninitiated) between. One morning, while suffering a really bad bout of flu, I drug myself out of bed, and wobbled into the latrine which had one of those old gang urinals.

While standing there I started to weave back and forth. My first thought was that my flu was worse than I thought and I must be about to faint. I turned to a buddy who was shaving to tell him I might need help. I found him looking at me and then we both saw the light fixture swaying back and forth as I had been. Oh. OK, forget all alfter "Hey ..." and back to reality. We laughed at each other and ourselves, especially him as his wife was Japanese and he had spent enought time in Japan to have been through several small earthquakes.

That was only about my second one. Don't need any more either. You folks on the left coast can keep them all for my part, thanks.
 
Well, they've raised our threat level to Volcanic Alert, the highest it can be and not actually be spueing lava, ash or steam. When the fog clears, I'll have to check the St. Helens' web cam again.
 
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