A more quaky earthquake

[Taomeow]

Well, usually in our parts it's like, yawn, what else is new...  but this one felt, subjectively, like the strongest ever!  Even stronger than the one in 2010 that was 7.2, though reports about the magnitude inconsistently give it anywhere between 5.2 and 6.7, with the average consensus at 6.0.  My local acquaintances and friends reported the same impressions -- have never felt anything like it.  Someone even threw up and a couple more people reported nausea and dizziness.  Maybe it was just "the nerves," maybe some physiological effects, who knows.

 

The interesting part is, I was in the process of reviewing an old video of our taiji camp from the time I was learning pao chui aka cannon fist.  It's a fast and furious martial form, with jumps and stomps and war cries -- and just as me and the teacher and the whole group in the video did one of the most intimidating, thunderous hard-landing jumps, suddenly it was like a bomb exploding under the house, everything rumbled and shook and rattled.  Whoa, didn't expect that! -- for a second it totally seemed as though what we did in the video caused it.  But in the next second or two Emergency Alert on my phone started blaring.  Take cover yada yada.  My cat, who was already taking cover as a matter of fact, sleeping peacefully on my meditation cushion under the bed, jumped out goggle-eyed. 

 

I'm told people who were caught in the process of shopping at supermarkets were instructed to run to the center of the building but everybody rushed to the door anyway.  I also ran outside, where my intrepid pot-smoking neighbor, an old hippie, was already braced and holding on -- to a cup of coffee in her hand, with a glimmer in her eyes (she likes commotion -- any kind).  She seemed disappointed that it was over so quickly.  Me, I wasn't.  I don't like commotion...      

[Nungali]

Like your coincidence with your  video  timing , when that 'bomb' went off , your hippy  neighbor  just finished  pulling a bong  ?  

 

  

 

The earth should not be moving around like that !   

 

It's all very strange and freaky to me ..... living on this big old giant 'slab'   - some of it has been stable for 4 billion years . Once, about 10 years back my skylight started vibrating a bit  and I felt  a subtle , far away, deep 'grinding' feeling .  

[Taomeow]

40 minutes ago, Nungali said:

Like your coincidence with your  video  timing , when that 'bomb' went off , your hippy  neighbor  just finished  pulling a bong  ?  

 

  

 

The earth should not be moving around like that !   

 

It's all very strange and freaky to me ..... living on this big old giant 'slab'   - some of it has been stable for 4 billion years . Once, about 10 years back my skylight started vibrating a bit  and I felt  a subtle , far away, deep 'grinding' feeling .  

 

4 billion years of stability...  That's because you're down under, and stuff under our feet is always more stable than what's above it.  

 

Here, on the out-of-balance edge of everything (you can't go any farther West, e.g., without it turning into East...  and politically, you can't go any farther left without finding yourself on the right), it's different.  I lost track of a local meme but it was a chart explaining earthquakes magnitudes for non- San Diegans.  Beginning with 10 -- "congrats on your new beach, Santa Fe!" (in case you don't know exactly where Santa Fe is, it could realistically get a beach if California fell into the ocean), down to 2 -- "did the dog fart?" with all the in-betweens.  

 

 

 

 

[old3bob]

Wouldn't want to be around or inside some of those big buildings in San Francisco that have bottom to top floor glass windows if the "big one" hits!   

 

Btw here is short  footage aboout the 64 Alaskan quake that got up to a 9.2 magnitude! 

 

I was in a 7.4 quake in Anchorage and it was hairy, can't imagine that 9.2 !

Edited Tuesday at 11:27 AM by old3bob

[Taomeow]

 

Elephants' reaction

 

[Nungali]

18 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

4 billion years of stability...  That's because you're down under, and stuff under our feet is always more stable than what's above it.  

 

Here, on the out-of-balance edge of everything (you can't go any farther West, e.g., without it turning into East...  and politically, you can't go any farther left without finding yourself on the right), it's different.  I lost track of a local meme but it was a chart explaining earthquakes magnitudes for non- San Diegans.  Beginning with 10 -- "congrats on your new beach, Santa Fe!" (in case you don't know exactly where Santa Fe is, it could realistically get a beach if California fell into the ocean), down to 2 -- "did the dog fart?" with all the in-betweens.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Beach ?   Like in NZ   .  

 

 

 

That is where I experienced some 'vulcanism'   ( not for this ^ event - years back )  ;   camping and sleeping on ground and feeling the ground vibrate as a truck goes past ,  nearly stepped in a  mini boiling mud pit , saw a mini boiling mud pit in suburbia as someone's front garden feature , got a steam burn on my ankle when hitch hiking - steam gushed out of a gutter drain . Saw perfect delicate glass spheres in Rotorua museum , the last remaining few found on the lake one morning after the big eruption   ( pure volcanic glass flowed over a gushing gas vent  .... volcanic 'bubble machine '  )  and saw some amazing old pics of the  'Pink and White  Terraces' , destroyed in that eruption ... I think they used to be one of the seven 'world wonders ' ?  

 

 

 

 

 

Going from NZ back to here is like getting back to shore after being on a  boat    

[Nungali]

12 hours ago, old3bob said:

Wouldn't want to be around or inside some of those big buildings in San Francisco that have bottom to top floor glass windows if the "big one" hits!   

 

 

 

 

... with a 'penthouse pool ' 

 

[Nungali]

9 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

Elephants' reaction

 

 

 

They ushered the young one into the  middle  . 

 

Another example of how alien  they are to down  here . There was one in the 60s that shook our house . A woman had reported that an elephant must have escaped from the zoo and was rubbing up against her house .  It was the only reason she could fathom from the strange experience . 

[old3bob]

3 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

... with a 'penthouse pool ' 

 

Right, or going for a swim in that pool when it hit..

[old3bob]

I lived on the north shore of Oahu when they tested the largest of the Amchitka Nuclear bombs on an Alaskan island... 

 

"Three atomic weapons went off at Amchitka in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the largest underground detonation the US has ever set off. No humans lived on the island, but the biggest blast, in 1971, killed at least 900 sea otters."

 

There were warnings for Island people that there might be tsunami from that bomb.  Several of us shore dwellers went up the hillsides to higher ground just in case.  But it never developed while we waited and enjoyed stuffing our faces with wild guava to pass the time on a beautiful sunny day...

[Taomeow]

4 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

 

They ushered the young one into the  middle  . 

 

Another example of how alien  they are to down  here . There was one in the 60s that shook our house . A woman had reported that an elephant must have escaped from the zoo and was rubbing up against her house .  It was the only reason she could fathom from the strange experience . 

 

One woman I know said exactly the same thing -- that it seemed as though a huge animal was trying to rub and scratch itself against the house walls.  Everybody had a different impression and came up with all sorts of metaphors -- in part because the distance, the which floor people were caught on, and who knows what other factors besides imagination contributed to perceptions.  Quite a few reported what I thought it was like -- a bomb exploding, but only because a bomb seemed easier to imagine and describe than a dinosaur falling on the roof, with a demolition ball tied to its tail and rolling about after the initial impact.  Which, on second thought, comes closer to describing the immediate personal impressions.  And to think that this one was still benign and didn't destroy anything.  Can't imagine what a destructive one might feel like.  

[zerostao]

This quaky & down under stuff reminds me of an ACDC song. 

 

And a reminder, as if we needed one, that the world is a dangerous place; invigorating, sublime, mysterious, uncanny & canny, profound.

 

I intentionally moved to a major fault line epicenter, the New Madrid, just below where the Ohio river flows audaciously into the Mighty Mississippi around Cairo, two hours north of Memphis. Yet to be discovered pyramids abound. I don't think that is my imagination at work. My imagination has me on one of those bridges when the big one hits. Either way, coming or going, crossing one bridge you have full view of the other one. "With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound."

Today, I am back in Kentucky, having crossed the two swollen flooded rivers last week. Old Man River's width was triple and when I got to the mouth of the Ohio river, it seemed wider that that. Entering Kentucky at Wickliffe, the road sits on top of a levee. The water on both sides were two feet below the road. 

 

https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Wickliffe.aspx

 

Solace can be found by reading the What's Cool? section. 

 

The follies of man send me to boredom. The Spirit of Nature always makes a lasting impression on me.

 

This quote, I could dissect, offering criticism of some points: however, the essence of the quote strikes a chord. 

 

“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”

 

 

[Nungali]

18 hours ago, old3bob said:

Right, or going for a swim in that pool when it hit..

 

I have done some 'body surfing' in my time  .... but that is too much ! 

[Nungali]

17 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

One woman I know said exactly the same thing -- that it seemed as though a huge animal was trying to rub and scratch itself against the house walls.  Everybody had a different impression and came up with all sorts of metaphors -- in part because the distance, the which floor people were caught on, and who knows what other factors besides imagination contributed to perceptions.  Quite a few reported what I thought it was like -- a bomb exploding, but only because a bomb seemed easier to imagine and describe than a dinosaur falling on the roof, with a demolition ball tied to its tail and rolling about after the initial impact.  Which, on second thought, comes closer to describing the immediate personal impressions.  And to think that this one was still benign and didn't destroy anything.  Can't imagine what a destructive one might feel like.