However if your local media is anything like ours you can expect that they'll find a tiny podunk market where some cans were knocked off a shelf and they'll use footage of the canned beaned bean disaster for a week.

LA and Eureka; this was a single jolt and haven't felt any after-jolts. Unlike California, this area is not prone to quakes so lots of folks are justifiably startled, scared, very concerned. And we cannot ignore that we're at 21 thousand fracking wells in the county, several hundred in the city.

I was watching 9 news and their incredible cluelessness. That it could be related to fracking has clearly not even remotely occurred to them.

sigh....

I can't help hoping that it scared the crap out of our mayor and city council. We're kind of tired of being told that our concerns are irrelevant.

Are you alright?

Still a bit startled, but other than that, just hoping that this isn't the start of a seismic trend like those seen in Texas and Oklahoma and Ohio and Pennsylvania and other places that are being over-drilled.

I've never been in an earthquake, but hurricanes, I know about. Glad everyone is okay!

I wish I had. I felt one in Memphis long time ago and thought it was interesting.

KinderMorgan is building a CO2 pipeline from St Johns Helium fields in Arizona (getting the CO2 from very deep wells) crossing middle NM to bring the CO2 to the oil fields in west Texas. After they can no longer frack with water, they use the CO2 to get a lot more oil out of the shale. Our little rural town, with the help of the Sierra Club, is protesting this pipeline coming through our land.

where money is more important than anything else.