Major earthquake in the High Desert

Up north, down south, riiight?

 

I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that dangerous super volcano . Long Valley caldera has been estimated to be holding 240 cubic miles depth of magma

 

Yep, and if it pops, North America isn't gonna be safe...

 

It's not safe now....

 

Life isn't safe...

 

What about the Garlock fault that is seeing alot of activity and this fault connects with the San Andreas ?????

 

I hope it was clear that I was kidding in both posts. Lassen dumped 6' of ash on Reno.

 

Well, that's tragic. I'll count my blessings that the quake was virtually undetectable here, and pray for those who fared worse.

I pulled my security camera footage. Only the outdoor cameras were recording, but I couldn't find any evidence of shaking on any of them. But I was definitely under the truck at the moment it hit (based on USGS waveform data for my area). Yikes.

 

Tripod jack stands are all well and good but there's no keyways on the frame to keep them in place. Is this something anyone has done something about? I remember VW's had peg holes at each jack point. This has always seemed a sketchy area of home mechanics. The high lift could have slipped or the cinder blocks disintegrated but I bet he felt safe enough at the time, probably been doing it that way for years no problem.

 

Ok, wife is banned from this thread
Yellowstone dumped 4 feet of ash in long valley back when...
I am 69 yo, I was hoping to die from a gunshot wound from a jealous 22 yo for banging his 18 yo wife but I'll take a Rock n Roll arena fireworks show.....


You guys are toooooo much.

 

Sheesh, more than 70 aftershocks of 4+ since the 4th of July according to the LA Times. That's gotta get on your nerves.

 

I read an interesting blog post back in April about the Walker Lane hypothesis, which suggests that the region stretching the entire length of the Eastern Sierra will become the new continental edge in the distant future (and not the San Andreas Fault). Ridgecrest happens to be located right along the Walker Lane. The author of the blog post went on to write a full article for Wired around that same time.

http://www.bldgblog.com/2019/04/walker-lane/

http://www.bldgblog.com/2019/07/walker-lane-redux/

https://www.wired.com/story/walker-lane-move-over-san-andreas-fault/

 

Interesting theory.

 

Also some uncanny timing . .

 

This has been discussed for years with no consensus. Maybe with this new data they will be able to better understand what is happening.

 

According to USGS the most recent was at 0138hrs this morning and was a 4.2 near Coso Junction . Have been seeing alot of high 2 to mid 3 since

 

just waiting for the big one so the west coast is half a state closer.

 

You should be more worried about Long Valley caldera or Yellowstone erupting

 

Finally got around to reading these links plus watching a YouTube video on the Walker Lane fault

Very informative and making sense of the aftershocks working there way North up the Owen's Valley

 

Shits going to hit the fan one day. Good luck to all.