I spent some time living along California's Humboldt coast. Had a 7.0 quake a couple of days ago. The attached news story has two short vids from the quake. Vote on the video. One is a runaway Roomba that escaped captivity. The second of a woman taking a 7.0 pretty casually. I don't know the largest quake I personally experenced. I guess I could figure it out, but as I recall, I took all pretty casually kris POLL! Earthquake Girl vs. Runaway Roomba? Who Won the 7.0? | POLLZ | Lost Coast Outpost | Humboldt County News
couldn't view them because i refuse to turn off ad blocker, but in my mind, i'm seeing earthquake woman as being more entertaining. best quake videos i can remember were during the 89' world series see 2:10watch
Could not make up my mind. I lived through a couple of large quakes during my time in California. Couple of 6.xx, ?? OK, if I have to, Roomba...
This was near shore so a preemptive tsunami alert was called. Quake did not cause vertical motion on seafloor for tsunami. There was consternation afterwards about being told to evacuate without a disaster actually happening. This is problem with near-shore quakes. Meanwhile is San Francisco, there are sirens (alerting people to do something, dun no what) and they did not 'sound'. There was consternation about that also. The Cascadia fracture is seen as quite high risk.
Maybe we will have the world’s finest geologist at the podium if a 1700 type earthquake hits Cascadia within 4 years and about six weeks. And counting down. All the geologists will be asking how does he know so much. 1700 Cascadia earthquake - Wikipedia
What can one say? Wharton is a very good school. Anyway Cascadia has a lot of stored energy and I suppose that middling quakes there will continue to generate 'just in case' tsunami alerts.
