Earthquake swarm in California this morning. 30 tiny quakes

No damage reported in latest California earthquake swarm
October 1, 2009 | 7:54 am


A swarm of more than 30 earthquakes hit Inyo County this morning, including a 5.1 temblor, but caused no damage or injuries.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there have been more than 30 temblors centered about seven miles from the tiny town of Keeler, 11 miles from Lone Pine and 148 miles from Las Vegas. While most temblors in the quake swarm were tiny, there were several 3.5 aftershocks to the 5.1 main quake.

If other quake swarms offer a clue, there could be many more quakes in the area before this swarm is over.

Quake swarms have occurred before around California, notably in the Mammoth Lakes area and around the Salton Sea.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/california-earthquake-swarm-keep-going-no-damage-reported.html

and how small we truly are, isn't she?

those of us who worked EMS, rescue and all that, we knew. But now I hope the rest learns this.

We are here just for the ride. Try not to fuck her up too badly.

:hi:

Last night I was thinking of my brothers in rescue, in Indonesia. It is damn scary to go into a confined space to get somebody ass out. To do it in an active quake zone after a major quake takes even more stones.

Thankfully the civies doing it because it has to be done don't realize fully the risks...

So if you believe in a god (I don't) time to pray.

That here we are, a minor, and relatively new, species riding on a very small and insignificant planet, part of an equally insignificant and unremarkable galaxy, in what could very well be a universe among trillions of other universes thinking we're really something and in charge. Kind of like a flea on an elephant's eyebrow thinking it's driving.

We only think so because we, and most religions, tell us we are.

We are all, "just along for the ride".

I truly admire the rescue workers who do it because it has to be done.

Too bad more of humanity doesn't think that way and "do what has to be done" for the sake of the other riders.

As I posted the other day - I really hope that these huge quakes going off do not set off the San Andreas fault! Hang on ... :scared: :nuke:


Link showing above quake here: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

:dem: :kick:

The recession cancels all natural disasters

(Red means it happened today. Orange-ish means it happened yesterday, and yellow means w/in the last 2 weeks).

:scared:

seems to circle the pacific rim.....does this map match up with other daily occurences? is this normal?

If you watch it on a daily basis there are always at least two major quakes a day.

I often wondered about earthquakes triggering other earthquakes across the distance. Maybe it's time for San Andreas to give a big belch and I'm sitting on top of it. Lucky me!

Take a vacation. Go visit your relatives back East(past the New Madrid Fault, though)

house. My biggest worry is the nuke plant that is situated fifteen miles from here. They say it's built to withstand an eight magnitude but we shall see about that when it happens. There is no if here, but when.

better check the ropes today too.

Ah apartment dwelling...

(meaning the whole world coming to an end via volcano, asteroid, etc., a la all the doomsday countdown shows on the History Channel)

History Channel blurb: On August 27th, 1883 a series of blasts on the island of Krakatoa culminated in a colossal explosion that blew the island apart in one of the largest eruptions in recorded history. ... But this is not just history because Anak Krakatoa (the Son of Krakatoa) is growing bigger and bigger and will blow again.

Anak Krakatau:

But the fault there is linked not only to the volcanic system in the Sierras and lower Cascades, but to some of the San Andreas tributaries. Depending on the type of quake and direction of the slip, this could either have taken stress off or put stress on to the San Andreas.

I'm not feeling very comfortable about any breakables being high up...and will probably start taking the more valuable delicates off shelves or set them down lower.
Just in case.

Haele

our volcanic sites. Mammoth is most common, but this morning's stuff was near that cinder cone east of the highway going up to Lone Pine.

Quakes are bad enough. Quakes associated with volcanos really give me pause.

about 3 minor quakes a day. Hard for us here in the Northeast to imagine what this must be like. Forwarded this list to her, thanks for posting.

I cannot imagine what it must be like to feel all the time like you're living on shifting sand.

Why did God put the most beautiful weather over the shakiest ground?