Needles & Grooves

Looks like they have issued Tsunami warnings, yikes.

It was way up near Eureka, so about 350 miles from San Jose (almost 400 miles from me). I got the alert, but did not feel anything.

Hopefully everyone up there is ok! Fortunately, it is not a very heavily populated area, and it is one used to and built for earthquakes, so the damage will hopefully not be too bad.

He recently relocated with his family there. Moved from Daytona Beach, FL. I told him he was trading hurricanes for earthquakes. His response: "I never even thought about that."

Statistics-wise, I'll take earthquakes over hurricanes, easy. About twice as many people died just from hurricanes in the US this year than the last 100 years of California earthquakes combined.

My cousin in the Bay Area says things are kinda chaotic there right now, they're trying to figure out if they have to prepare for a tsunami

@LeSamourai yeah, but The Big One is gonna swing that scale the other direction when it happens.

Yeah, looking at the USGS models, a worst-case would be as deadly as a Katrina-level hurricane. I definitely take it seriously, living here, I just think I would find hurricanes and tornadoes more threatening, statistically.

Agree.

That said, having been through a couple of earthquakes, they leave you feeling MUCH more helpless. It's one thing to weather a storm when you can board windows and hunker down in a basement. It's another when the ground turns to jelly.

I've heard about the Big One for California Earthquakes. But I believe the Cascadia fault is the one to be looking at. Something about anything west of I-5 will be hit between Eugene OR and Seattle WA. I hate fear mongering, but earthquake science isn't really precise.

The tsunami warning has been cancelled.