CA - Earthquake - 6.4 foreshock; 7.1 main shock, 4 July, 2019 - Largest since 1999

[MsFacetious]

So, this aftershock is stronger than the first quake?

Yes. This is the main quake. The last was just a foreshock.

 

[MsFacetious]

That's not bad. They must be stabilizing them better since the time one crashed down.

That's in VEGAS.

 

[SandyQLS]

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[Deleted member 39678]

Ridgecrest is over 300 miles from where I am in Sacramento so it had be pretty strong for me to feel it here.

It wasn't very strong here and only lasted for maybe 10 seconds.

 

[charminglane]

Pasadena area very strong!

 

[SandyQLS]

So, this aftershock is stronger than the first quake?

Yes. This 6.9 quake is now the Main, and the prior 6.4 is downgraded to a foreshock.

 

[TristanP]

Friend just said the same - didn't feel first one, but got a good rattle at 8:20PM Pacific just a while ago. Had to get up and stabilize a tall piece of furniture, house creaking, lots of rattling noises like dishes.

KTLA: Prelim same area in Searles Valley near Ridgecrest, 7.1. I cannot even open the USGS website.

I hope those poor people didn't just get wiped out. 7.1 is destructive.

I may be wrong, but I think you’re supposed to *avoid* tall pieces of furniture during an earthquake, rather than stabilize them?!?!

 

[Gardenista]

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UPDATE: USGS officials have revised the magnitude of tonight's earthquake near Ridgecrest back up to 7.1.

 

[Gardenista]

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There have been some initial reports of damage to docks at the CI Harbor and the failure of a few electrical transformers throughout the region. It is important to note, there is NO tsunami threat along our coast.

 

[Eleven_11]

I’m a little over 100 miles away and the one tonight actually freaked me out a little. It just kept going and going...

 

[Dawookie]

I'm the AV and feeling a few aftershocks now

 

[Gardenista]

Dr. Lucy Jones‏Verified account @DrLucyJones
So the M6.4 was a foreshock. This was a M7.1 on the same fault as has been producing the Searles Valley sequence. This is part of the same sequence -

Dr. Lucy Jones‏Verified account @DrLucyJones
This is the same sequence. You know we say we 1 in 20 chance that an earthquake will be followed by something bigger? This is that 1 in 20 time

Dr. Lucy Jones‏Verified account @DrLucyJones
Like any quake, today's M7.1 has a 1 in 20 of being followed by something even bigger. Smaller quakes - M5s are likely and a M6 is quite possible.

 

[SandyQLS]

I may be wrong, but I think you’re supposed to *avoid* tall pieces of furniture during an earthquake, rather than stabilize them?!?!

LOL it was maybe going to fall on her dog, so she held onto it. She never got bad shaking, just the rattling, epicenter too far away.

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KTLA has updates:
- this quake was much more shallow, about 1/2 mile depth (that's more destructive than deep quakes)
- shaking felt across southern CA to Las Vegas
- NW San Bernardino Co. Fire receiving multiple calls for homes shifted and cracked foundations (Ridgecrest is in Kern Co. so I expect lots of damage there)
-significant shaking reported in Big Bear Valley
- LAFD in emergency mode...

 

[Eleven_11]

I'm the AV and feeling a few aftershocks now

There’s been some good sized aftershocks! I haven’t felt any of them so far, but then again, I’m still trembling a bit myself.

 

[gitana1]

A few weeks ago I was thinking about how I haven't felt an earthquake in so many years!

I was just running my hyena in Irvine Park next to the river. There are these large water main/hydrant looking things. There were three of them. I don't know what they are but they're taller than me and curve at the top ad have huge bolt things. I was running past and heard a super loud whooshing sound. I said, "What the hell was that?" I thought it could be a massive bird in the brush. Then I said, "sounds like those things are going to burst!"

A second later I passed another, smaller one and heard the wishing again, but different. My running partner didn't hear it and neither of us felt anything. Two seconds later my mom called to say we just had a big earthquake.

So strange. I think I heard it but didn't feel it!

 

[SandyQLS]

I'm the AV and feeling a few aftershocks now

Antelope Valley or Apple Valley?

 

[Eleven_11]

There’s been some good sized aftershocks! I haven’t felt any of them so far, but then again, I’m still trembling a bit myself.

Spoke too soon, just felt one.

 

[Dawookie]

Antelope Valley or Apple Valley?

Antelope Valley

 

[Gardenista]

Spoke too soon, just felt one.

Hearing it was 5.1

 

[Dawookie]

LOL it was maybe going to fall on her dog, so she held onto it. She never got bad shaking, just the rattling, epicenter too far away.

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KTLA has updates:
- this quake was much more shallow, about 1/2 mile depth (that's more destructive than deep quakes)
- shaking felt across southern CA to Las Vegas
- NW San Bernardino Co. Fire receiving multiple calls for homes shifted and cracked foundations (Ridgecrest is in Kern Co. so I expect lots of damage there)
-significant shaking reported in Big Bear Valley
- LAFD in emergency mode...

Kern County FD is saying multiple structure fires and I've seen reports of landslides again