Well, I sure felt our quake last night in Long Beach! It was LONG! No damage here but the adrenaline surged. Please pray for those closer to the epicenter as they continue to have smaller shakers which I’m sure can be quite unnerving. Labor... Joan Glad to hear you and your family are safe and no damage! :prayer-hands: going up for those who were affected. Just read Yellowstone is stirring as well :wacko: Thinking about Kushner ... he is going to reveal part of the peace plan progress in the next few days ... :popcorn I am glad you and your family are safe Joan. Geri, I love this little guy who is eating popcorn. Lol! I agree Heidi ... this little guy :popcorn is one of favorite smiley’s ... ever so faithful in watching. Perhaps we should give him a honorable status name of “Kernel”? :whistle: Being from Northern Cali I just learned to roll with the punches. Glad you are fine Joan! Years ago we had a sizable quake. Short but strong enough to have the sidewalk ripple before me like a wave's in the ocean. It caused my wife to steeple jump our coffee table and land in my lap on the couch! :unsure: TR My older brother lives in Northern Cali and he was doing apprentice carpentry work on the side back in the 1990’s until he got his Accounting Degree at Berkeley. He said he was forever repairing this one rich man’s home that was built on stilts overlooking the ocean. But that rich homeowner didn’t care that he was dishing out money galore for all the repairs because he wanted that view to die for. :wacko: :prayer-hands: :prayer-hands: OK Geri, let's call that little guy "Kernel" I think he is a better watcher than all the rest of us combined with his little bag of pop corn.... 🙂 The Hector Mine quake was the last one I experienced when I lived in CA. It was a 7.1 and knocked an Amtrak train off the rails. Good shaker! Just got this article today in my e-mail (7/15): Global Earthquakes 3 Times Above Normal - Dozens More Hit The Ring Of Fire Within the last 48 hours we have seen large earthquakes going off like firecrackers all along the Ring of Fire. As you will see below, a magnitude 6.1 quake just hit Japan, a magnitude 6.6 quake just hit Australia and a magnitude 7.3 earthquake just hit Indonesia. And of course all of this comes just about a week after southern California was hit by the two largest earthquakes that it has experienced in more than two decades. So is all of this shaking unusual? Just a few moments ago, I pulled up the most recent data from Earthquake Track, and what I discovered is more than just a little bit alarming. Looking at the entire globe, we have averaged 193 earthquakes of magnitude 1.5 or greater per day so far in 2019. That is very high, but it pales in comparison to what we have witnessed over the last week. Within the last seven days, our planet has experienced an average of more than 677 earthquakes of magnitude 1.5 or greater per day. That means that the number of global earthquakes right now is more than 3 times above normal. And the number of very large earthquakes is at a frighteningly high level as well. According to the USGS, there have been 121 earthquakes of at least magnitude 4.5 around the world within the last seven days, and that includes the magnitude 6.1 earthquake that just hit Japan. Incredibly, that quake in Japan brought the number of global earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater that we have seen so far this year up to a grand total of 84. The following comes from the Big Wobble... Last nights quake brings the total of major quakes (mag 6+) to 84, incredibly all but 7 of them striking the Pacific Ring Of Fire. The last 38 major quakes this year, going back to the 3rd of May have occurred along the Pacific Ring Of Fire. But on Sunday we had to add two more to that total. The first actually tied the record for the largest earthquake that western Australia has ever seen...The equal-largest earthquake recorded in Australia has hit off the Kimberley coast, shaking items off shelves and stunning local residents who had never felt a tremor before. The 6.6 magnitude undersea quake struck at 3.39pm AEST on Sunday between Port Hedland and Broome, GeoScience Australia reported. The second was even larger. When a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Indonesia on Sunday, it sparked tsunami fears and made headlines all over the globe...A terrifying 7.3-magnitude earthquake has sparked panic after it rocked the remote Maluku islands in eastern Indonesia today. Scared residents were seen fleeing through the streets and heading for high ground, though no tsunami warning was issued after the land-based quake struck.
