Might’ve spoken too soon, Santa Rosa where I work apparently had its highest daily rain total in 120 years yesterday (just over 9 inches), and we’ve still got a few more inches expected through tomorrow, and then a smaller storm coming in a couple days later. Flood warning issued through tomorrow afternoon, and creeks out in the countryside are already starting to flood. But fortunately we didn’t get hammered by winds like they did further north. Another storm of the century!
Yeah, atmospheric rivers are really weird like that. Even where I live in Petaluma 20 miles south of SR we only got like half the amount of rainfall.
I was worried about @Knave, but apparently the feet of snow didn't go much further South and East than Mt. Shasta?
Big earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County. So big my phone gave me an earthquake warning notification, even though I'm well over 200 miles from the epicenter. Didn't feel it, but apparently it could be felt in the Bay Area. Now, there's apparently a tsunami warning, but that won't affect me in the mountains. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75095651/executive
Wow. Magnitude 7.0. Hopefully there isn't a tsunami, that would be pretty devastating for the bay area.
Didn’t feel it in SJ either, but we got the warning too. Maybe 7.2 way off shore, potential impact zone extends from Eureka to Davenport, apparently. And we were heading to Santa Cruz today!
Yeah, revised up to a 7.0 and followed by a 5.8 down in Sonoma County. For comparison, Loma Prieta was a 6.9. Active seismic day today.
I did not feel the earthquake, but there is a tsunami warning for the whole coast from just north of Santa Cruz up to somewhere in Oregon. This includes the San Francisco Bay. The estimated tsunami arrival time for SF is 12:10 PM - about an hour from now. I'm on a hillside facing the bay a hundred or so feet up, so it's unlikely that my house will be affected. But all the low lying land on the bayside could be affected. The ocean coast tends to be cliffier - is that a word? - so it may not be affected as much, but it will be interesting to see what happens when the tsunami comes through the Golden Gate and how much of those sweet, sweet flatlands on the bay shore will get flooded.
Even though I didn't feel anything, I've now read reports that this could be felt lightly in Reno, which is even further away from the epicenter than I am.
I've read some opinions that, though a tsunami is likely, the specific nature of the fault and ocean depth at the epicenter mean it likely won't be a very big one.
Yeah.. Looks like there was a pretty good slide along that fault line. 2 slips that far apart is pretty big.
There are going to be a lot of geology dissertations written about this event, because I gather a large quake apparently triggering another substantial quake hundreds of miles away lies somewhere between uncommon and unprecedented.
This is the USGS "Did You Feel It?" map. I didn't fill out the "Did You Feel It?" form because I didn't feel it, although I guess "I didn't feel it" is a valid response to the "Did You Feel It?" survey. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75095651/dyfi/intensity
LOL. Just thought I would share this... I had no idea you could have an earthquake over an ocean. https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ea...rnia-coast-12-05-24#cm4boid6f004s2cp7btq78lls
We got the warning in Santa Rosa, that would be quite the tsunami. And we barely felt the quake where I am, me and a couple coworkers independently thought we were feeling dizziness or vertigo, and then the notification came through on our phones. Apparently there were other quakes almost simultaneous with that one at a couple other places inland, the closest to me in Lake County. Don’t recall that ever happening before.
I wonder if the other quakes could’ve messed with their initial calculation. I was a little skeptical we wouldn’t feel a 5.8 more than we did given our proximity.
It gets more interesting: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75095671/executive USGS just put it back up to a 4.1.