About 9:56 pm, there was a sound like either a very small earthquake or someone driving by, but the house didn't shake enough for the latter. So after a bit I checked the  USGS "Did You Feel It?" site to see if someone had reported one and they had*. Rated about 2.7 on the Richter Scale; won't be surprised if that goes down in a bit - it was teeny. ( Read more... )

Given that there have been hundreds of quakes of late associated with a volcanic eruption or maybe crust building event might be a better description and Norway is complaining of being gassed... Oh, go follow Rei's blog - she's been covering this from the get go (living in Iceland and all...)  Yes, it's in the Daily Kos.  I assure everybody this is ( Read more... )

And one more small earthquake, this one a 3.0 located a few blocks west of the last two and about a km deeper. Reported in Did You Feel It?, and also  found the UGS earthquake/fault map and have been playing with it - here's what they show for those three quakes.  (Including that the two announced at the same spot weren't, quite, but after all this ( Read more... )

And now we've had another earthquake, this one 2.6 so much smaller (remember, it's a logarithmic scale), in exactly the same place - 33.96N 118.42W 12 km down.  Again pretty much vertical slip. (there's also one listed in the LA area on the 22nd at 1am, but it's 115 kilometers east of this one, and  at 2.1 small wonder I didn't notice it.) Long as ( Read more... )

So we're sitting here watching tv and suddenly we get this short Wham! that rattles the windows.  We look at each other.  "Earthquake."  We resume watching tv.   My computer was in the process of charging up so I waited awhile, then after I got it up again went over to Did You Feel It? and sure enough, there was a 3.2 earthquake in the general area ( Read more... )