Earthquakes
…or, rather, posted on YouTube. The funny thing is that the young woman above was just getting ready to video herself to post on YouTube when the Mexicali quake hit. Just got a link to this video as well (thanks, Marla!) — this is a swimming pool in Brawley, CA, which is about 50 miles [...]
Yeah, I should have written and posted this yesterday, but I didn’t realize it was the 20th anniversary until today (thanks to this post). Sandra and I, with seven of our nine kids, had moved to Soquel, California in early 1988. Actually, we were five miles outside of Soquel; we bought a home in the [...]
Continue reading about The Loma Prieta quake — 20 years (and a few days) later [updated]
Something to keep an eye on… Seems that there has been a stream of small quakes underneath the lake at Yellowstone. Quakes under Yellowstone are nothing new. Yellowstone is the shell of a super-volcano, a caldera as it is called. It has erupted massively in the past and will do so again at some future [...]
Continue reading about Yellowstone Really Needs To Go Back To Sleep
One of the most powerful earthquakes known of in continental North America since European settlement was the New Madrid earthquake in 1811. Damage occurred over an area of nearly 240,000 mi2, and the quake itself was felt over an area of nearly 2 million mi2. Here’s a partial description of the impact: At the onset [...]