Bit of a shake up last night

I was recently watching a TV program on plate tectonics and saw that up in your area one can dig down through thousands of centuries of the geologic record and find fossilized palm leaves. Was it that warm up there back then? No. Those palms are on the plate moving north and were down around the southern California/Mexico area back when they were alive.

You just experienced the most recent "step" in a very long walk. Amazing.

 

A 4... how cute.

 

12/30/2015 -- California Volcanic Earthquakes + Midwest EQ Damage = Major Unrest across US by dutchsinse

 

yep, freaky is the only way to describe it. i've been through two, one in southern new hampshire, thought the boiler blew up or a bulldozer hit the house. only a second. the other here, just some rumbling and vibration for one or two seconds.

 

When we get earthquakes here, and we do every few years, they are more of a BANG than a roll or lurch. A large sonic boom might be similar with our versions of 4.x's. I live very near the busiest rail corridor in the country and some heavy freights will make the house shake and roll just a bit; those situations are more classic earthquake-like. I have learned from some TV shows that if we get a real big one here, it will seem more like the concussive force of a very very large explosion, which could be just as damaging, and deadly from glass panels blowing clean out of buildings downtown and raining death to those below.