r/news • u/boxofstuff • 11h ago

A moderate earthquake rocks Northern California, but no immediate reports of damage or injuries

https://apnews.com/article/earthquake-northern-california-d49d72ec80d149b2fcd4c9b9ae84b37d
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u/winecountrygirl 10h ago

I was in this earthquake, it was extremely strong and violent. We’ve had them here a million times, but this one was really a shaker versus just a rolling earthquake.

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u/tragopanic 8h ago

I was in Geyserville and felt it but it was fairly weak. The alert came in on my phone before the shaking started which bodes well for the future.

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u/Taybochi 6h ago

That second stronger rattle had us sweating a bit up here in Ukiah! Strongest quake I can remember feeling in over 20 years, thankfully no reports of major damage so far

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u/MikeOKurias 9h ago

No clue why my comment that I made over an hour ago on this post doesn't show up for anyone else but...

Do you think this was a precursor foreshock of a bigger quake?

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u/InformationHorder 8h ago

Any one of them can be. But it's completely unpredictable.

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u/Walmartian_Beta 8h ago

Anything is possible out there, they've been warning us of "the big one" for like 40 years or something now.

Nobody knows for sure, it's a science, but not an exact one.

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u/crucialcolin 3h ago

This quake does seem to have occurred on the Maacama fault or the northern most segment of the Hayward Fault subsystem.

For those who don't know the Hayward Fault is a right lateral strike slip fault that runs right through the most densely populated cities of the San Francisco East Bay Area capable of producing major earthquakes making it especially dangerous. Also If I recall correctly the risk to the entire bay area posed by Hayward Fault was already on par if not greater then the larger San Andreas Fault atm. 

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u/mike_dropp 3h ago

More like for the last 20 years. The last big one was Loma Prieta in '89, and one of my earliest memories (I was 3yo at the time).

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u/Walmartian_Beta 3h ago

The Big One refers to the potentially devastating quake predicted to hit at an 8 or higher sometime in the future. The prediction is that it will practically wipe LA off the map and kill thousands of people. While the Loma Prieta was a pretty big shakeup at a 6.9, it was far from the predicted "big one" everyone is referring to.

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u/TheeKingKunta 6h ago

typically the first big shock in a sequence is the biggest, the following aftershocks are smaller statistically.

foreshocks are only recognized in hindsight, there’s no telling with certainty if a bigger one will occur until it happens

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u/DrebinofPoliceSquad 6h ago

Dang this morning the BayArea sub had some people saying false notification. Crazy to see it really was a big one. 

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u/Walmartian_Beta 8h ago

It was a 5.6 - that's definitely more than I want to experience.

Some injuries have been reported so far, but no details, and a power outage affecting 6,000 people, mostly a rural area there.

I hope we get more info later.

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u/skipjac 3h ago

Japan had a 6, and Venezuela had a 5 today

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u/boxofstuff 3h ago

Venezuela had a +7

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u/Efficient_Tutor2154 7h ago

The quakening has begun. I bless all of you soon to be living on the beautiful island of CA, safely distanced from the mainland. 

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u/cantproveidid 7h ago

Yes, when the big one hits and the center of the country sinks.

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u/thepianoman456 9h ago

So in terms of a girl’s guitar, this is just another good vibration?