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RFClark
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Cultist,
What I’m saying that you can’t parse is that the universe has no instruction manual. The best we can do today is often wrong or incomplete and not
the best we can do tomorrow. Anyone who takes the position that “the science is decided stop looking” is corrupting the very process by which we
learn and add to our knowledge.
This post is about Earthquakes! Do you have anything to say about earthquakes?
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RFClark
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The Loreto Earthquake swarm is back!
They started back up a couple of days ago low - mid 5s and high 4s. These are stronger than February's swarm.
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Tioloco
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Have you felt any of them?
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Almost
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The 5.6 on the 18th shook my house. We were outside having coffee and the whole place moved. The light strings were swinging around, our cups moved.
The 4.4 just after, we didn't really notice at all.
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RFClark
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No, we’re way down on the Pacific side south of Todos Santos.
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pauldavidmena
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The Research Vessel Atlantis is somewhat north of Loreto, 27.47083 -111.48121, to be exact - just east of Isla Tortuga. They've been using both the
HOV Alvin and the AUV Sentry to study hydrothermal vents in the Sea of Cortez. I'm not sure if they've noted any seismic activity where they are, but
I can ask.
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pacificobob
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In 30 years living in Alaska i felt my share of seismic action.
I found comfort telling myself that smaller quakes were relieving stress on the plates and made the "big one" less likely.
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AKgringo
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The largest earthquake I experienced in Anchorage was a magnitude 8. It was located in the Talkeetna range, pretty far from where I was so there was
no damage near me.
I was in a trailer I was using while re-constructing my house, and the subtle shaking went on so long that I began to think something was wrong with
me!
I was relieved when I stepped outside to see trees and power lines swaying with no breeze. It was a lot like taking a crap in a motorhome while
someone else was driving down the road!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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RFClark
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The ‘94 Northridge EQ 6.7 was 2-3 miles north of our office. We were using a 45’ refer trailer as a video tape machine room. It hopped around for
about 40 sec or so and a 4’ block wall 40’ long next to it fell over.
Warner Bros had damage to several stages including the floor of a stage with a pit collapse.
The 2010 Mexicali EQ 7.1 lasted about 90 sec and south of San Felipe it was like jumping on a water mattress. Worst I was ever in!
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lencho
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My worst was 1976, Guatemala City, 7.5.
The gods were on my side, I guess; a lot of people died in that one. 
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is, by how stupid he thinks I
am."
"...they were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they
were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand."
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
"Be kind, be patient, help others." -- Isabel Allende
"My gas stove identifies as electric." Anonymous
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surabi
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I was in Guatemala City for that one, too. We were sleeping in my van parked on the side of a little city park, luckily nothing close to us that could
fall on us. The van started rocking side to side like it was going to tip over. We could hear and see high rise buildings collapsing.
Estimated 23,000+ dead, 80,000 injured, 250,000 homes destroyed, 1.5 million left homeless.
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Lencho, I was in Costa Rica when the Guatemala quake happened and sometime later my surf buddy and I met a couple and their best surf buddy from Santa
Cruz, Ca. while we were on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica.
They had many horror stories to tell while they helped others as much as they could at a large hospital and for as long as they could stand.
They were so grateful to be back on the beach and surfing again. Life had taught them quite a lesson about timing being everything.
It just so happened the beautiful blond girlfriend was the daughter of Otis Chandler, the publisher of the LA Times. Even he could not get much help
to them during the disaster. They put their time to good use helping others as much as they could for a month or so of volunteering.
They were great people to hang out with for a month, all the while the surf was pumping the whole time and gave us some of the best waves I have ever
surfed anywhere. A decade or so later, an offshore quake lifted the sea floor and the well-known break by that time was never what it was when we
discovered it on our own.
I had been passing through Guatemala heading south a month prior. Whew!
I may be confusing one trip south with another, but when I stayed in Guatemala City for a day or two, I found a movie theater showing the first Stars
Wars movie with English subtitles. Now that was a trip to the galaxies far, far away and in Espanol no less.
I have long lost touch with these fellow traveling surfers, and dare I say, humanitarians, but the good times and great waves we shared have always
remained as clear as if it happened yesterday.
Now back to the quakes in the Sea of Cortez.
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pacificobob
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My worst was 1976, Guatemala City, 7.5.
The gods were on my side, I guess; a lot of people died in that one.
I left Guatamala city hours before that event on a PanAm flight to LAX. It was several years before I returned. The amount of rumble, destruction and
PTSD is something I'll never forget.
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RFClark
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More Earthquakes off Bay of LA!
This is the current map! Anybody feel anything?
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