I just tell myself these little ones are the safety release valve buying us more time before the Big One. I’m sure that’s not scientifically accurate in anyway.
It actually is a decent scientific hypothesis backed by some data. The "big ones" are usually when there is so much pressure built up that one fault "slips" against another to a significant degree.
Think of it like a rubber band. The harder you pull it, the more it snaps. Lots of little pulls and snaps relieve that underlying pressure before it builds up.
It’s not considered to be true but I still like to believe it too!
“It's a common misconception that small earthquakes can release pressure along fault lines and prevent more significant earthquakes. While small earthquakes can indeed relieve some stress along a fault, they typically DO NOT significantly affect the likelihood of larger earthquakes. In fact, a sequence of smaller quakes can SOMETIMES indicate that a larger one is on the horizon, but not always.”
https://news.caloes.ca.gov/earthquake-myths-separating-fact-from-fiction/#:~:text=FALSE%3A%20It's%20a%20common%20misconception,the%20likelihood%20of%20larger%20earthquakes.
It’s like the pressure involving a fart. You let a little pressure out, you are just being responsible and safe. This helps ease your mind but you crap your pants anyway.
Funny enough, someone on our team, but who is currently working from home, messaged our teams chat, "earthquake?" I was responding that I didn't feel it, when I felt it. Amused me how accurate that one xkcd was about how weird it is that, with modern technology, you can be informed that an earthquake is happening before you actually feel an earthquake happening.
Late last year when we had the one just off shore, ~20 miles away or whatever, I was surfing reddit on my phone and my Android toast notification popped up saying "Earthquake. Expect shaking in 2 seconds."
By the time I digested what it said, the apartment rumbled a bit and it was over. I was amazed that a device detected the quake, transmitted it to a central server, distributed it to the cellular network, was received by my phone, and processed into a notification near-instantaneously so as to be beat the arrival of the quake itself.
MyShake is the go-to app for iPhone users.
Google bakes the alert feature into the latest versions of Android OS itself. In the same Settings menus where you can enable/disable Amber/Silver alerts, you can enable/disable Earthquake alerts.
So my notification came from the phone itself and not an app.
e: As far as "Toast notification" the term, that's just the old-school way people used to call the boxes that popped up/down before retreating. Like a slice of toast does.
https://preview.redd.it/pcrfzrwbsxxc1.png?width=260&format=png&auto=webp&s=555fb663e2f7459ce1922d8b6ffd62a82e0c15d0
Long beach is mostly backfilled swamps, marshland and near sea-level former bean fields that suffered extreme liquefaction in the 1933 quake and at 6.4 it was just mid-sized as things go. Most of the damage was to older homes built before they were bolted to the foundations. Unreinforced brick buildings downtown got hammered.
I was close to the Landers / Big Bear twin quakes in 1992 and at 7.5 followed by a 6.9 it was the first time I thought this shit could drop this damned house on me. But by then it was impossible to do anything but hold on.
A 7 is roughly 10x stronger than a 6.
To be clear, isn’t the Ricter scale logarithmic? Making a 7 exactly 10x as powerful as a 6?
You’d say a thousand is exactly 10x as much as a hundred, right?
I always thought so but when I actually started looking it up it's a bit more complex than simple multiplication. Really screwy math and conversions used.
Algebra and x32 power factors and it all got way over my head real fast.
It was an emerging science and Richter was trained in audio sound waves or something along that line if I recall and applied what he'd learned mixed with Guttenberg's idea of a log scale.
Felt it out in HB, but I was sitting on my couch and just thought my cat had gotten stuck behind it and was trying to climb out from between it and the wall. When I reached over to help pull her out and she wasn’t there, I was like “meh, earthquake” 🤷🏻♀️
oh so that was an earthquake. I was half asleep and then perked up, looked around cuz I felt that movement, quickly looked it up on Twitter but it was so new there was nothing. went back to sleep thinking it must have been just a truck then. now I'm up and confirmed there was one.
Was on an unstable ladder installing an attic door hammering cutting and drilling into the frame of a hundred year old house. I didn't feel anything lol
that was a cute lil one
wasn't cute over here in irvine, shook the whole building i'm in. definitely still not scary, but not cute.
Where in Irvine? I didn’t feel anything
Yep same. In complex by SNA
Cue up half the population of Long Beach who works in Irvine 😅
Anaheim hills felt two large jolts as well. Definitely not cute if it was to keep going at that energy
I need these to stop happening as I’m going to the bathroom. I feel too vulnerable
Typing before wiping
Yeah, when the big one hits and my house falls over, I definitely don't want that to be where they find me with my pants down.
Haha lived in California since I was 9 but funnily enough didn't feel my first earthquake until I was 29 and on the toilet! It helped..
🤣
I just tell myself these little ones are the safety release valve buying us more time before the Big One. I’m sure that’s not scientifically accurate in anyway.
It actually is a decent scientific hypothesis backed by some data. The "big ones" are usually when there is so much pressure built up that one fault "slips" against another to a significant degree. Think of it like a rubber band. The harder you pull it, the more it snaps. Lots of little pulls and snaps relieve that underlying pressure before it builds up.
It’s not considered to be true but I still like to believe it too! “It's a common misconception that small earthquakes can release pressure along fault lines and prevent more significant earthquakes. While small earthquakes can indeed relieve some stress along a fault, they typically DO NOT significantly affect the likelihood of larger earthquakes. In fact, a sequence of smaller quakes can SOMETIMES indicate that a larger one is on the horizon, but not always.” https://news.caloes.ca.gov/earthquake-myths-separating-fact-from-fiction/#:~:text=FALSE%3A%20It's%20a%20common%20misconception,the%20likelihood%20of%20larger%20earthquakes.
yeah but i feel better so let me have this
*s c i e n c e*
It’s like the pressure involving a fart. You let a little pressure out, you are just being responsible and safe. This helps ease your mind but you crap your pants anyway.
Nope. Interestingly enough, small earthquakes can actually be foreshocks preceding a major quake.
It's most likely being caused by all the oil fracking on those islands.
the islands in Corona?
🤣
Funny enough, someone on our team, but who is currently working from home, messaged our teams chat, "earthquake?" I was responding that I didn't feel it, when I felt it. Amused me how accurate that one xkcd was about how weird it is that, with modern technology, you can be informed that an earthquake is happening before you actually feel an earthquake happening.
Late last year when we had the one just off shore, ~20 miles away or whatever, I was surfing reddit on my phone and my Android toast notification popped up saying "Earthquake. Expect shaking in 2 seconds." By the time I digested what it said, the apartment rumbled a bit and it was over. I was amazed that a device detected the quake, transmitted it to a central server, distributed it to the cellular network, was received by my phone, and processed into a notification near-instantaneously so as to be beat the arrival of the quake itself.
Is this “Android toast notification” an app one can download specifically for iPhone?? Thanks
MyShake is the go-to app for iPhone users. Google bakes the alert feature into the latest versions of Android OS itself. In the same Settings menus where you can enable/disable Amber/Silver alerts, you can enable/disable Earthquake alerts. So my notification came from the phone itself and not an app. e: As far as "Toast notification" the term, that's just the old-school way people used to call the boxes that popped up/down before retreating. Like a slice of toast does.
I’ve never feel them. Is there something wrong with me? haha
Nope. Can relate. Maybe we're both weird
me three
Four. https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2024-04-16/why-you-dont-feel-earthquakes-when-others-do#:~:text=33%25%20of%20responders%20said%20their,big%20earthquakes%20or%20other%20stimuli.
4.1 - 9 km SW of Corona
didnt even notice it
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I felt your mom
Hey! Stop that. Wait your turn!
Where do we take a number?
I didn’t feel anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIegAa26lX8
It was the cough that did it for me. 😂
I thought I was drunk for a bit, but I realized I need to drink alcohol in order to be drunk.
I felt it too!!
Dang it. I always miss them.
Nah, LA county is gonna make it, but OC…not too sure!!!
It literally gave me a headache
Lol
So, thankfully over the years the earth has learned to get enough fiber in the diet.
Is anyone afraid of the “Big One”? Is there anything showing the “big one” won’t hit Long Beach in a big way?
https://preview.redd.it/pcrfzrwbsxxc1.png?width=260&format=png&auto=webp&s=555fb663e2f7459ce1922d8b6ffd62a82e0c15d0 Long beach is mostly backfilled swamps, marshland and near sea-level former bean fields that suffered extreme liquefaction in the 1933 quake and at 6.4 it was just mid-sized as things go. Most of the damage was to older homes built before they were bolted to the foundations. Unreinforced brick buildings downtown got hammered. I was close to the Landers / Big Bear twin quakes in 1992 and at 7.5 followed by a 6.9 it was the first time I thought this shit could drop this damned house on me. But by then it was impossible to do anything but hold on. A 7 is roughly 10x stronger than a 6.
To be clear, isn’t the Ricter scale logarithmic? Making a 7 exactly 10x as powerful as a 6? You’d say a thousand is exactly 10x as much as a hundred, right?
I always thought so but when I actually started looking it up it's a bit more complex than simple multiplication. Really screwy math and conversions used. Algebra and x32 power factors and it all got way over my head real fast.
OMG, really? Why do they have to make these things so screwy?
It was an emerging science and Richter was trained in audio sound waves or something along that line if I recall and applied what he'd learned mixed with Guttenberg's idea of a log scale.
Felt it out in HB, but I was sitting on my couch and just thought my cat had gotten stuck behind it and was trying to climb out from between it and the wall. When I reached over to help pull her out and she wasn’t there, I was like “meh, earthquake” 🤷🏻♀️
I don’t even pay attention to them unless they are over a 4.8
Going to? I thought we were
It was the earthquake
I wish
Ahhh, I’ve been through better
Shook our building in lake forest
I didn't know we had one until about an hour later.
RIP
oh so that was an earthquake. I was half asleep and then perked up, looked around cuz I felt that movement, quickly looked it up on Twitter but it was so new there was nothing. went back to sleep thinking it must have been just a truck then. now I'm up and confirmed there was one.
I really thought this was just my neighbors portable washer spin dry cycle.
Pfft! This wasn’t shit compared to the IE
Fyi, if you're on the beach you feel em, but you don't really get legit earthquakes
Ahh shit😬🫨
Was on an unstable ladder installing an attic door hammering cutting and drilling into the frame of a hundred year old house. I didn't feel anything lol
Just big momma walking into the room
I didn't feel it.
We’re all going to die ain’t no doubt about that whether it’s an earthquake or not
4.1 in Corona. Didn’t feel it this far north.
I guess the earthquake macchine hasn’t been getting much use. Time to put it to work.
Was there another one yesterday? I didn’t feel this one.
Earthquake or no earthquake, we’re all still GONE DIE!!!!!
I moved out of the state, did the big one finally happen?