Earthquake - Check-in if you felt it (2 Viewers)

[phandango]

Nice area. I grew up in PQ (Mt Carmel) when the 56 was the dirt road that we took to get to the beach.

Yeah, we like it a lot. We lived in Mission Valley for six months in 2007, and I've been to San Diego a million times since the '80s, and I'd never heard of Carmel Valley until we moved here 9 years ago.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I'm home sick and I swear no joke I had a fever dream last night about being in an earthquake.

Have you ever been in one? Growing up in SoCal I am very used to them. I forget what its like to experience them for the first time.


I remember being at a diner near a tourist spot in north OC one night when a decent quake hit. Watching all the tourists panic and run for cover was a sight. I sat there and finished my food, watched the light fixtures sway back and forth...

Grew up in NoCal... Yes, many.
Scariest (not biggest) one I've been through was here in NYC, mostly because they were doing work on my building at the time, badly. I thought they had taken out some structural component when the building starting shaking.. I grabbed my kids and ran straight to the street. Looked around and saw many other had done that same... Realized it was a quake.

Ahh. Do you get a lot of quakes in NY? Never really thought about many happening outside CA (and the far east/ring of fire areas).


I was in a building in Long Beach when one hit. The building had the earthquake rollers to protect so it just kept gliding back and forth. Made everyone seasick.

Sounds like the one that damaged the Washington Monument. That had to be a fun ride.

 

[dkp993]

I'm home sick and I swear no joke I had a fever dream last night about being in an earthquake.

Have you ever been in one? Growing up in SoCal I am very used to them. I forget what its like to experience them for the first time.


I remember being at a diner near a tourist spot in north OC one night when a decent quake hit. Watching all the tourists panic and run for cover was a sight. I sat there and finished my food, watched the light fixtures sway back and forth...

lol. Same. Born and raised in SD. Today’s quake (I’m in Temecula so pretty close to the epicenter) we were in a leadership meeting. When it started we had people diving under the conference table and running for door jams. I didn’t move.

 

[TripItUp]

I'm in North County SD...felt bigger than it was. Initial guess was 6.5...proximity to epicenter was a factor for me.

Probably my 10th quake between SoCal and NorCal.

 

[El Floppo]

I'm home sick and I swear no joke I had a fever dream last night about being in an earthquake.

Have you ever been in one? Growing up in SoCal I am very used to them. I forget what its like to experience them for the first time.


I remember being at a diner near a tourist spot in north OC one night when a decent quake hit. Watching all the tourists panic and run for cover was a sight. I sat there and finished my food, watched the light fixtures sway back and forth...

Grew up in NoCal... Yes, many.
Scariest (not biggest) one I've been through was here in NYC, mostly because they were doing work on my building at the time, badly. I thought they had taken out some structural component when the building starting shaking.. I grabbed my kids and ran straight to the street. Looked around and saw many other had done that same... Realized it was a quake.

Ahh. Do you get a lot of quakes in NY? Never really thought about many happening outside CA (and the far east/ring of fire areas).


I was in a building in Long Beach when one hit. The building had the earthquake rollers to protect so it just kept gliding back and forth. Made everyone seasick.

Sounds like the one that damaged the Washington Monument. That had to be a fun ride.

That was the one. And the week earlier, the same construction crew did something that made the corner of the building sag... That was in the front of my mind when the building shook.

We went through a small one last year at my office. I knew the moment it started what was going on and ran to the doorway at the staircase, practically heismaning people out of my way. They're all east coasters and had no idea etf I was doing. Occured to me afterwards I didn't once say "earthquake!!" while barging past people. next time

 

[Harry Frogfish]

The guy in here saying the phone warning is useless is way off. I had friends who actually got a surprising amount of time to flee the building prior. They talked about that more than the quake. Some carriers/networks may be faster than others, who knows, but theirs was great. I'm sure the warning time has improved over the years but whatever, it works. This was at a restaurant and some were outside in seconds. And this took place IN San Diego (Solana Beach).

There is definitely enough time to flee structures for many. In a city as large as SD, that's a chance to save a lot of lives. The "issue" of an alert (not even once a year) being worth it or not is not even debatable, especially with something as unpredictable and destructive as earthquakes can be. And in a state known for it?

There's no good reason to shut that capability off on your phone, while living above fault lines no less. Might as well turn off your smoke detectors while you're at it.

 

[Harry Frogfish]

Something that always fascinates me is the reaction of animals. Their ability to sense the earth's movement before humans is uncanny.

Check out what the elephants did at the San Diego Zoo. So cool. They react quickly and all get together, ending up in a circle, in open space, with their young in the middle, while the adults face outwards. They also remained closer than normal throughout the day, the zoo said. I'm sure animals can sense/feel some of the aftershocks.

Do animals have a closer connection with earth than us bozos?

Video.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Something that always fascinates me is the reaction of animals. Their ability to sense the earth's movement before humans is uncanny.

Check out what the elephants did at the San Diego Zoo. So cool. They react quickly and all get together, ending up in a circle, in open space, with their young in the middle, while the adults face outwards. They also remained closer than normal throughout the day, the zoo said. I'm sure animals can sense/feel some of the aftershocks.

Do animals have a closer connection with earth than us bozos?

Video.

Don't know about other animals, but elephants hear very low frequencies. I'm guessing that's how they are getting some of their info.

 

[Harry Frogfish]

Something that always fascinates me is the reaction of animals. Their ability to sense the earth's movement before humans is uncanny.

Check out what the elephants did at the San Diego Zoo. So cool. They react quickly and all get together, ending up in a circle, in open space, with their young in the middle, while the adults face outwards. They also remained closer than normal throughout the day, the zoo said. I'm sure animals can sense/feel some of the aftershocks.

Do animals have a closer connection with earth than us bozos?

Video.

Don't know about other animals, but elephants hear very low frequencies. I'm guessing that's how they are getting some of their info.

Dogs for sure. Upthread someone talked about how their dog was tripping. Cats as well. There's another video of a lady grabbing her baby in running out the front door. Husband, btw, kind of just strolls out after her (it was short, the quake), lol. But the best was their cat. It loses its mind and is doing burnouts on the wood floor, trying to cut the corner into another room.

I wanna say even birds get flustered but don't know.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Wife and daughter were in the NICU with our granddaughter at Scripps Hospital.

I hope your grandbaby is healthy and happy!

 

[Terpman22]

Felt a little shaking in my garage in Long Beach. Got an aunt on my wife's side who has a house that is an old rickety one built right on one of those mountains in Julian, 79 years old, but she is ok, thankfully. Great apple tree to pick in her front yard.

 

[TripItUp]

Something that always fascinates me is the reaction of animals. Their ability to sense the earth's movement before humans is uncanny.

Check out what the elephants did at the San Diego Zoo. So cool. They react quickly and all get together, ending up in a circle, in open space, with their young in the middle, while the adults face outwards. They also remained closer than normal throughout the day, the zoo said. I'm sure animals can sense/feel some of the aftershocks.

Do animals have a closer connection with earth than us bozos?

Video.

I have seen on social media that the elephants form the circle during earthquakes because when the earth tremors they anticipate a wildabeast/wildlife stampede which means Lions are nearby both of which pose a threat to the young elephants obviously. Seems like more of an instinctual reaction to general uncertainty.

really fascinating...I don't think 99.9% of humans realized elephants react to quakes like that.

When I was in africa I observed the elephants always nudging the young elephants to the middle....seemed like a pretty common behavior....but never a rush to form a circle like this...although I'd seen the behavior in documentaries obvi.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I have seen on social media that the elephants form the circle during earthquakes because when the earth tremors they anticipate a wildabeast/wildlife stampede

I don't think Africa is all that seismically active, at least not where wildebeests live.

 

[acarey50]

I have seen on social media that the elephants form the circle during earthquakes because when the earth tremors they anticipate a wildabeast/wildlife stampede

I don't think Africa is all that seismically active, at least not where wildebeests live.

Pretty sure he's not saying anything about earthquakes in Africa, just saying that the tremors of an earthquake are similar to the tremors of a stampede, which is what triggers the instinctual response in elephants.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I have seen on social media that the elephants form the circle during earthquakes because when the earth tremors they anticipate a wildabeast/wildlife stampede

I don't think Africa is all that seismically active, at least not where wildebeests live.

Pretty sure he's not saying anything about earthquakes in Africa, just saying that the tremors of an earthquake are similar to the tremors of a stampede, which is what triggers the instinctual response in elephants.

Oh. That makes much more sense. Thanks.

 

[Harry Frogfish]

Something that always fascinates me is the reaction of animals. Their ability to sense the earth's movement before humans is uncanny.

Check out what the elephants did at the San Diego Zoo. So cool. They react quickly and all get together, ending up in a circle, in open space, with their young in the middle, while the adults face outwards. They also remained closer than normal throughout the day, the zoo said. I'm sure animals can sense/feel some of the aftershocks.

Do animals have a closer connection with earth than us bozos?

Video.

I have seen on social media that the elephants form the circle during earthquakes because when the earth tremors they anticipate a wildabeast/wildlife stampede which means Lions are nearby both of which pose a threat to the young elephants obviously. Seems like more of an instinctual reaction to general uncertainty.

really fascinating...I don't think 99.9% of humans realized elephants react to quakes like that.

When I was in africa I observed the elephants always nudging the young elephants to the middle....seemed like a pretty common behavior....but never a rush to form a circle like this...although I'd seen the behavior in documentaries obvi.

That sounds like it could make sense but it kind of assumes these elephants have been through this previously and it was a learned behavior, no? I doubt that herd was plucked from the wild, however.

And wildebeest are not on the map compared to the force of an earthquake. Would they show up on a Richter scale? Maybe, but barely. Quakes are compared to atomic bombs in the millions (this is google/AI stuff but whatever the number, it's crazy high).

No matter how many thousands of animals you got running, they aren't shaking the earth's crust like tectonic plates do. Quake measurements go up exponentially. The difference between a 4.0 and a 5.0 is ten times the energy and 32 times the amplitude.

It's not surprising that elephants in the middle of a wildebeest stampede would naturally form this same sort of protection but the ones in captivity doing it in response to an earthquake, and their collective behavior prior to the actual shaking and moving that humans feel, is what's trippy. As is their behavior afterwards.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

No matter how many thousands of animals you got running, they aren't shaking the earth's crust like tectonic plates do.

Don't have to. The rumble is still audible for the pachyderms.

 

[Harry Frogfish]

No matter how many thousands of animals you got running, they aren't shaking the earth's crust like tectonic plates do.

Don't have to. The rumble is still audible for the pachyderms.

Well yeah, I didn't say it wasn't (audible). Heck, humans can hear that kind of surface noise.

I'm just not sold that captive elephants are exhibiting this protective behavior in response to the earth shaking because they're drawing on some previous experience. Basically, this is what I'm not buying (from above):

"I have seen on social media that the elephants form the circle during earthquakes because when the earth tremors they anticipate a wildabeast/wildlife stampede which means Lions are nearby both of which pose a threat to the young elephants obviously." You said that scenario makes much more sense. I simply disagree.

And BTW, TripitUp, who posted that Social take, didn't buy it either, saying, "Seems like more of an instinctual reaction to general uncertainty." The jump from a stampede they've never seen, to the threat of lions nearby, for captive elephants, is a reach.

 

[TripItUp]

Well yeah, I didn't say it wasn't (audible). Heck, humans can hear that kind of surface noise.

I'm just not sold that captive elephants are exhibiting this protective behavior in response to the earth shaking because they're drawing on some previous experience. Basically, this is what I'm not buying (from above):

"I have seen on social media that the elephants form the circle during earthquakes because when the earth tremors they anticipate a wildabeast/wildlife stampede which means Lions are nearby both of which pose a threat to the young elephants obviously." You said that scenario makes much more sense. I simply disagree.

And BTW, TripitUp, who posted that Social take, didn't buy it either, saying, "Seems like more of an instinctual reaction to general uncertainty." The jump from a stampede they've never seen, to the threat of lions nearby, for captive elephants, is a reach.

However, there is a ton of precedent that animals are born with these instincts and they are not necessarily learned. So even if an elephant is born in a zoo, it may have anti-lion/stampede instincts. (not saying they do, just saying it's possible)

 

[Mr. Mojo]

We're in Orange County and my wife felt it more than I did.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

We're in Orange County and my wife felt it more than I did.

What at?

 

[bcat01]

8.7 earthquake in Russia. Tsunami warning for Hawaii and watch for entire west coast.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Didn’t feel anything, but tsunami sirens blaring. Wave to hit around 7pm HST

 

[fatness]

Tsunami evacuation zones: https://dod.hawaii.gov/hiema/public-resources/tsunami-evacuation-zone/

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Didn’t feel anything, but tsunami sirens blaring. Wave to hit around 7pm HST

Best wishes to you TermX and all of you in Hawaii.

 

[FarFromHome]

Didn’t feel anything, but tsunami sirens blaring. Wave to hit around 7pm HST

My Maui folks are chiming that alot are actually moving up to higher ground. Restaurants closing. Hopefully this just passes. Take care buddy

 

[Phil Elliott]

Current estimate is 3-10 ft in Hawaii. Hoping for minimal impact, but Hawaii is in full tsunami warning mode. We are streaming Hawaii News Now.

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[Ministry of Pain]

This Earthquake looks like it's not that far off from the tip of Alaska
West Bering Sea? They say Russia but that's a lot of area

 

[fruity pebbles]

Damn upgraded to 8.8 now. There haven’t been very many larger.

 

[fatness]

Live coverage from Japan: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/

 

[DA RAIDERS]

BIL told to evacuate north west Maui.

 

[FarFromHome]

Maui Emergency Management Agency lifts evac orders. Looks like all is well. I haven't seen any pics but I can assume the typical areas are a little wet this morning. I'll take a huge guess and say Kihei has some bad water areas. That town sits right on ocean and just struggles with heavy water. So thankful for everyone. Must have been a scary night for people. Maui strong. At least it wasn't a missle warning.. ha ha.

 

[zamboni]

Maui Emergency Management Agency lifts evac orders. Looks like all is well. I haven't seen any pics but I can assume the typical areas are a little wet this morning. I'll take a huge guess and say Kihei has some bad water areas. That town sits right on ocean and just struggles with heavy water. So thankful for everyone. Must have been a scary night for people. Maui strong. At least it wasn't a a missle warning.. ha ha.

Good to hear - they suffered enough with the fires a few years ago,

 

[Max Power]

Maui Emergency Management Agency lifts evac orders. Looks like all is well. I haven't seen any pics but I can assume the typical areas are a little wet this morning. I'll take a huge guess and say Kihei has some bad water areas. That town sits right on ocean and just struggles with heavy water. So thankful for everyone. Must have been a scary night for people. Maui strong. At least it wasn't a missle warning.. ha ha.

I was a first responder with the P-3 Orion aircraft in 2004 when Indonesia was hit with a massive tsunami. The power and devastation was like something out of a movie. Military style vessels were lifted up and sent 500 yards inland. Its the inability to predict these that scares me. Earthquakes hits and you may only have minutes to start moving before things get bad.