6.8 Quake off the coast of Eureka, CA

[2FUNKY]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...182046#summary

Some scientist are saying this could be the precursor to a mega quake on the Cascadia Subduction Fault which, by records, is due for a big one.
Anybody on here feel this one?

[stfu&gbtw]

[LightRanger]

Some scientists are saying this could be the precursor to a mega quake on the Cascadia Subduction Fault which, by records, is due for a big one.

Didn't feel it here (East Bay), but that's a serious fault line. Like Fukushima-style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake

Edit: You got a link to where the seismologists are saying that?

[JimmyCarter]

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.

[RockChalk]

If my memory from Structural Geology class is correct, I think the JDF plate is one of the deepest subduction zones on the planet in terms of its interaction with the N. American plate but also has transform and divergent relations with other plates on different boundaries. It almost serves as a "keystone" amongst surrounding plates.

If and when that thing pops the results will be catastrophic...fer sure.

[jamal]

USGS page:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...182046#summary

And some really nice mspaint work from them of the plate stuff going on in the area:



Oooh here's one of earthquakes. A lot happen there:

[idiot]

Ya I felt that last night. It was the biggest I've felt since I've been in arcata, but I would have thought 6.9 would have been worse. No damage, but shook the glasses in the kitchen pretty good. Came from the same zone that most do around here. About 50 miles offshore from ferndale, ca.

[hutash]

Interesting you where that close with so little shaking. I have been through a few over the in southern California, and it all depends on where the energy is focused. The Northridge quake shook is moderately, but kicked ass in the next town. Even in Fillmore the edges did fine but a line through the center had a lot of damage.

[idiot]

Yeah, I was surprised too. I heard that people in Eureka had some door trim separated and other minor things, so what you're saying is probably spot on. We are a little north of Ferndale, CA. I follow a link on twitter that updates all earthquakes in the world over a certain magnitude, and I've been waiting for this to happen. The earthquake twitter thingy was spot on and even told me there was no tsunami danger for out area. That was cool because I live way into the tsunami danger zone.

[spook]

bring it, bitchez. bring the lava and the earth gaping and the dinosaurs. the big ones. so people will jump into boiling lava just to avoid being ripped apart alive.

[idiot]

i don't think the dinosaurs are coming back from extinction.

[Tippster]

It was probably just some wacky experiment...

[spook]

i don't think the dinosaurs are coming back from extinction.

FUCKKKKKKKKK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[userA]

dude the dinosaurs are history, forget about them.
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[hutash]

What are you talking about. Jesus will come riding back on a dinosaur at the end of days. This is just the start. Repent!!!

[spook]

shut up. they are inside the earth waiting for the volcanoes to erupt.

[DasBlunt]

Or Mt. Shasta will blow its top because it is such a low tide year……how is that for causation><correlation global warbling argument?

[spook]

shasta is for aliens

[abraham]

Shasta is for Lemurians

[DasBlunt]

shasta is for aliens

even better, tie this event to the Malaysian flight……..win….lose.

[Mazderati]

[spook]

Shasta is for Lemurians

that's what i meant.

[joetron]

The Lemurians will be riding dinosaurs

[spook]

and you fucking christians think your hippie homosexual will come back from the dead. hahaha.

[DasBlunt]

and you fucking christians think your hippie homosexual will come back from the dead. hahaha.

You forgot Jewish…... gippe homo.