Thanks for the heads-down Linville. That mayor is funny. I lived in Fresno about thirty years ago when several years saw the occurance of minor quakes. Same time frame as the big one in LA.
Our level on the scale never did much damage, or caused any injuries. They are weird to go through though. If you've not gone through a "tremor", at first you think you are dizzy, things around you are slightly jittery, and it makes you queasy. It's easier for your brain to put a temblor in the context of a moment of dizziness if you've not been in one lately, so that's what you think. Then you learn to look at hanging lamps or other such objects if inside to see if they are moving. I had a pool at my house and a minor event would cause the water to begin to splash over the sides. If you are moving, like driving, and the motion is small, you can't really feel it.
I remember driving past a public basketball court, looking out, and a big group of players standing still as salt pillars, like they were playing freeze tag. They could feel it, trying to make sense of it, and that's how I knew we were having one.
It seems like they would come and go for several years, then nothing for the next twenty years. Scientists are always--to their credit--trying to come up with relatively long term indicators of coming "swarms" (I hadn't heard that use before, why not a "gaggle); but they have come up short. It's, I think, similar to long-term weather predictions.
Great picture of the furrow shift. I'm glad no one was killed. A slight action is interesting, but of course any "big" one is a disaster, a scary and devastating thing.
Spankster
Our level on the scale never did much damage, or caused any injuries. They are weird to go through though. If you've not gone through a "tremor", at first you think you are dizzy, things around you are slightly jittery, and it makes you queasy. It's easier for your brain to put a temblor in the context of a moment of dizziness if you've not been in one lately, so that's what you think. Then you learn to look at hanging lamps or other such objects if inside to see if they are moving. I had a pool at my house and a minor event would cause the water to begin to splash over the sides. If you are moving, like driving, and the motion is small, you can't really feel it.
I remember driving past a public basketball court, looking out, and a big group of players standing still as salt pillars, like they were playing freeze tag. They could feel it, trying to make sense of it, and that's how I knew we were having one.
It seems like they would come and go for several years, then nothing for the next twenty years. Scientists are always--to their credit--trying to come up with relatively long term indicators of coming "swarms" (I hadn't heard that use before, why not a "gaggle); but they have come up short. It's, I think, similar to long-term weather predictions.
Great picture of the furrow shift. I'm glad no one was killed. A slight action is interesting, but of course any "big" one is a disaster, a scary and devastating thing.
Spankster