aeneas
2004
So theres a few poor sods here in NZ that have had to tsunami evacuate twice in the same morning!
Menzo
2005
Meanwhile Iceland is getting rocked with thousands of smaller quakes - everyone is assuming a volcanic eruption is imminent.
So is 2021 going to be the year of the Earthquake / Volcano Eruption, or is this the shark attack phenomenon?
CraigM
2007
Meanwhile, in my neck of the woods, earthquake swarms have been the news du jour
And a few large enough to feel
And a few weeks ago a bigger hit in the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/usgs-51-magnitude-earthquake-recorded-off-southern-oregon-coast/283-a204b675-e0cd-4b2a-b020-14321f260ee2
None of these are particularly alarming, but definitely a bit more active than I recall since I moved here.
Fortunately, earthquake swarms don’t necessarily presage anything. Every now and then, we get dozens of little ones, basically right under the main street that my street connects to. Usually doesn’t lead to anything.
Of course, it could mean that an 8.1 is right around the corner. The joys of living right on top of an urban fault.
CraigM
2012
Mother Nature has decided this is your penance for escaping Covid.
‘Have a well run state that saves its people misery and death, will ya?’
How many of these have been above a level to be felt though? I know a few have produced some tsunami warnings.
aeneas
2013
Anything that is not green will have been felt somewhere.
Also girls can do anything.
RichVR
2014
I hate to bring this up. I am not religious at all. Are we really in the End Times now? Asking for a friend.
We are carrying out the Sixth Great Extinction, and few scattered major earthquakes won’t slow us down. Go Team Humans!
Living as I do in a place with almost no natural disasters, I don’t really understand this:
Is this about landslides? Otherwise I don’t really understand why the advice to move to higher ground is (in the area under assessment) dependent on whether you felt the earthquake. Surely tsunami risk is more dependent on the shape of the coastline and (on a large scale) the proximity to the epicentre.
I see that the Stellar Empire’s orbital bombardment of the Free Systems Rebellion bases in and around New Zealand is proceeding apace. You gambled hard in supporting the rebels, and the Eternal Emperor, His Reign Unending, has now shown you the folly of your choices.
(be safe, @aeneas !!)
They emphasize that the advice is not dependent on if you felt the earthquake.
Only in the black marked areas. In the cross hatched areas, it is dependent.
aeneas
2020
The government’s generic advice in NZ following an off shore quake is ‘long and strong get gone’. Which is a twee way of saying that post a quake there may not be enough time to warn you to evacuate from an incoming tsunami. So while they assess potential waves be cautious.
Nice, subtle shaker here a few minutes ago. Turns out it was a 6.2 on the California/Nevada border.
Scuzz
2023
I felt one here at 3:50 PST. It appears there were several around us in a 10-15 period with one kinda NE of us being the one I felt. I am near Fresno.
