San Fran Earthquake

[Phr0z3n]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...56.php#details

This happened within the last couple hours in San Franciso. Foxnews.com has a ticker saying it was a 4.1 magnitude. I hope that any fellow forum members who live in that area made it through ok.

[THE eXchanger]

in the past 7 days - there have been 185 earthquakes on earth

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

[THE eXchanger]

119 of them, in north america

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak.../N_America.php

earth is always shaking

[THE eXchanger]

and, those are just the ones, over 4.5

the list of all of them, would likely shock most people

[THE eXchanger]

here's all the quakes from 2.5 to 4.5

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_all.php

[THE eXchanger]

here are the big ones

Magnitude 6.8 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 05, 2010
Magnitude 7.2 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 03, 2010
Magnitude 6.6 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 03, 2010
Magnitude 5.8 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO December 30, 2009
Magnitude 6.4 TAIWAN December 19, 2009
Magnitude 6.8 TONGA November 24, 2009

[Shaynard]

After the Seals ''disappeared" from San Fran all kinds of people started predicting earthquakes in the area..

Thank you for this update.

In light, of love
Shaynard

[UncleJohn]

I live about ten miles from the center of the 4.1 quake.

My wife and I felt nothing.

[THE eXchanger]

MOTHER EARTH iS ALIVE ~ shaking goes on, all the time

[lindabaker]

A 4.1 is not very strong, one can feel it, but 'tis no worry, usually. That quake, however, may or may not be a precursor. A friend who is a Calif. native says that seals do leave for a while, always come back. A seasonal cycle. Let us think that the 4.1 was just a little nothing. Also, we can still imagine stability on the West Coast anyway just in case.

[Shaynard]

Originally Posted by lindabaker

A 4.1 is not very strong, one can feel it, but 'tis no worry, usually. That quake, however, may or may not be a precursor. A friend who is a Calif. native says that seals do leave for a while, always come back. A seasonal cycle. Let us think that the 4.1 was just a little nothing. Also, we can still imagine stability on the West Coast anyway just in case.

I have questioned that regarding the seals, thank you for sharing your friends insight. It is consistent with what friends of mine there have said as well. (one being a marine biologist as well) In my heart I felt it was more of a food supply issue.

Your last sentence is pure beauty.

[waitinginthewings]

another 6.5 earthquake in Northern California

Update time = Sun Jan 10 0:46:17 UTC 2010

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 2.7 2010/01/10 00:44:02 39.639 -120.830 21.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.7 2010/01/10 00:42:35 40.440 -125.048 4.9 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 6.5 2010/01/10 00:27:39 40.674 -124.655 16.4 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

[waitinginthewings]

they are continuing to have more smaller quakes in the Northern California
area. California is rocking atm

[Northern Boy]

Shaynard wondered

I have questioned that regarding the seals, thank you for sharing your friends insight. It is consistent with what friends of mine there have said as well. (one being a marine biologist as well) In my heart I felt it was more of a food supply issue.

Courtesy of Dantheman



By JEFF BARNARD, AP Environmental Writer Jeff Barnard, Ap Environmental Writer – 1 hr 56 mins ago

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Hundreds of sea lions that abruptly blew out of San Francisco Bay's Pier 39 last Thanksgiving have apparently found a new home at another tourist attraction — 500 miles north on the Oregon coast.

Thousands of California sea lions started showing up in December at Sea Lion Caves, a popular tourist draw because of the Stellar sea lions living in the caves.

The California sea lions appear to have made the trip because of an abundance of anchovies at the Oregon site, 11 miles north of the town of Florence.

Scientists say there is no way to say how many of the newcomers came from Pier 39, where the numbers fell from a peak of 1,701 in October to just 20 by the end of November. But it is likely some did, since they easily swim 100 miles a day searching for food between Mexico and Alaska.

Some of the California newcomers came into the cave, but most seem to prefer a nearby rocky beach.

Kim Raum-Suryan, a biologist at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, noticed the number of California sea lions at Heceta Head had doubled to some 5,000 in December and, like other scientists, figures the simple answer is food.

"My gut feeling is it has something to do with the (ocean warming) El Nino conditions off California, which is driving prey and sea lions up north," she said.

There are fewer herrings in San Francisco Bay, and a general decline in sea lion food off California last summer triggered a die-off of young sea lions making the transition from mother's milk to fish.

Meanwhile, anchovies have been plentiful in Oregon waters — so plentiful that brown pelicans that normally winter in California are also hanging around, said Bob Emmett, a fisheries biologist for NOAA Fisheries Service in Newport.

Picking out which of the newcomer sea lions at Oregon Sea Caves are visitors from Pier 39 would be difficult.

Many sea lions are branded, and Raum-Suryan has been recording the brands she sees on sea lions at Heceta Head. But she hasn't found anyone who did the same at Pier 39.

Back at Pier 39, a marketplace and arcade with a view of Alcatraz, public relations director Sue Muzzin was happy to hear a couple dozen sea lions barking Thursday, and hopes any that are in Oregon left their hearts in San Francisco.

"People are taking photos of the dock because it is so atypical," she said. "You don't realize how much you miss them 'til they're gone."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100108/...lion_newcomers