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Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
« on: July 29, 2024, 05:12:36 pm »
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An earthquake shook the Los Angeles region Monday afternoon.

The US Geological Survey reported a 4.9 magnitude quake with an epicenter near Barstow, California – about 103 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The quake was at a depth of nearly five miles, according to the USGS.

The magnitude was downgraded from an initial report of 5.1.

The USGS also reported quakes of 3.5 and 2.7 magnitude in the minutes following the first earthquake.

At the Warner Bros. Discovery – CNN’s parent company – offices in Burbank, about 115 miles southwest of the epicenter, the quake began as a slow roll and gained in intensity, lasting about 20 seconds.

Most of Southern California felt the earthquake, and the USGS detected shaking as far east as Las Vegas, Nevada.



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Re: Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2024, 05:14:01 pm »
5.1? Meh.  *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2024, 05:20:11 pm »
5.1? Meh.  *****rollingeyes*****


Unless it happens in NY or NJ! LOL.
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Re: Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2024, 05:21:54 pm »
5.1? Meh.  *****rollingeyes*****

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Re: Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2024, 06:57:09 pm »
There are two major faults in SoCal. There is the well-known San Andreas, which runs roughly north-south east of LA. It goes through/near Indio, Palm Springs, and Palmdale, to give an idea of where it is. Then there is the Garlock Fault, which runs roughly east-west, basically from the San Andreas Fault, on its west end and along the southern end of the Tehachapi mountains.

This quake appears to have been on a smaller fault that is like a branch off the Garlock fault. I doubt this quake was felt very strongly in the Land of LA, because there are several faults between Barstow and the LA area, and even fault dissipates shaking going from Barstow to the Land of LA. It was probably unpleasant in Barstow, with stuff in homes and stores toppled over. Buildings more than a century old might have suffered significant damage.
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Re: Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2024, 09:44:02 pm »
I'm really not sure how a 5.1 in Barstow caused much shaking in Los Angeles, since the the quake was only rated as fair so far as it was felt. Hell even a strong 5.1 isn't worth getting out of bed for.

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Re: Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2024, 09:53:06 pm »
According the USGS it was only a 4.9 out in the middle of nowhere.

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Re: Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2024, 10:52:23 pm »
I think in 2003 (April) we had a earthquake about the same strength right here in Bama... I remember the thread at TOS was "Atlanta shaking"... It broke my brick chimney... Pretty scary for us... the whole town had all the alarms going off and all the neighbors went outside in their PJs... The wife was changing the baby and started screaming, I yelled at her to hush (and that I thought a tree fell on the house).
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Re: Earthquake shakes Los Angeles, with epicenter near Barstow
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2024, 03:45:58 am »
Didn't feel a thing, here. :laugh:

(Tied with Florida for the least seismic activity--and we have fraccing and injection wells.)
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