Just got a text from my daughter in Los Angeles (Miracle Mile area). She was out running errands while she could. It's been raining and windy. She figured she better finish up errands early today. She parked in a newer underground parking garage by the store and her car started rocking back and forth from an earthquake. She said it lasted about 30 seconds.
I looked up USGS and Ojai, California was hit with a 5.1 and since then they've had 5 more of 3.1 - 3.6 magnitude.
Hide the children!!
SIMPLE MATH …explains why a 5.1 QUAKE hit the SoCal area today (Sunday):
1 Square Mile = 27,878,400 Square Feet
Using a paint calculator, 1 gallon covers 160 sq.ft.(at approx. 1/16 th inches thickness)
1 gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds
Ergo… 27,878,400 Square Feet/ sq.mile divided by 160 sq.ft /gallon = 174,240 gallons PER SQ. MILE per 1/16th inches of rain.
So for EACH SQUARE MILE, if you have 1 inch of rain, that would be 174,240 gallons x 16 (as in 16 1/16ths per inch) x 8.33 POUNDS/gallon = = 232,22,707.2 POUNDS PER SQUARE MILE
OR… a little over ¼ MILLION POUNDS (of pressure)…PER SQ. MILE…PER INCH OF RAIN… slamming down on the earth by the rain….and the GREAT LOS ANGELES AREA just got 3 INCHES thus far since this morning!
In other words, that a SH*T LOAD OF PRESSURE pushing down on all those fault lines (as well as lubricating ‘em so they could “slip”) …and TTTTTHAT is why there was a M 5.1 - 7 km SE of Ojai, CA 2023-08-20 at 21:41:00 (UTC) … 3:38 PM, Aug 20 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) + 4 more 3-pointers …since Hurricane HILLARY hit the SoCal area.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci39645386/executive
FOR THE LATEST ONES , click below:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=30.84565,-126.5625&extent=37.8922,-111.79688&showUSFaults=true&baseLayer=street&distanceUnit=mi
Makes perfect sense
It doesn't. An average weight human with large feet puts around 3psi against the ground when walking. It goes up from there. This rainfall works out to 0.005 psi.
If the earth survives us, it'll survive rainfall.
The people were already there. The record rain fall wasn’t. Plus lubrication and liquefaction. Kinda does make sense
No, it still doesn't, and the water was elsewhere. The atmosphere took 0.005 psi from one part of the crust and moved it to another part of the crust. It's as flicking water from your fingertips onto your face.
Liquefaction is when the ground becomes like a fluid because of vibration from an earth quake..... You're of the mind that the rain also fell in perfect resonance with the earth to make it behave like a liquid? Because it wasn't heavy enough to do so.
Lubrication....you'd need the water to have penetrated the ground deep enough to trigger an earth quake and not be absorbed by that same ground before getting there. You'd need a lot more water and probably different types of rock.
Interdasting. So the earthquake is just bad timing then. Not mocking you, i need to get off the jump-to-conclusions mat kek.
Information fights ignorance, brother.
Lol!
my head hurts kek
Also to be considered the re hydration of all the ground water that has been extracted over the years. Who knows what that would do as well.
So....0.005 psi? If it all fell in unison, whoch it doesnt.
Using bizarre measurement bases to make things sound big is ridiculous.
Making drain cracks for Hilary to wash out the detritus.
Good to hear your daughter is ok. Gotta check on my niece.
Stacey Abrams is visiting California?
OMG....kek
Yeah was about 7 miles from epicenter. Shook the house good and was rolling afterwards. After shocks were 3.3 to 4.0. About 14 of them
Please keep us updated and be safe!
yes, the aftershocks are still going. There are a lot of them and they are shallow, only 1-2 km below the surface. https://earthquaketrack.com/us-ca-ojai/recent
Please let us know what happens out there. Hope your daughter is ok!
Thanks! I will.
That freaking climate change is really kicking in.
LOL
Wow...glad she's ok! Praying they don't have another one! 🙏
It's California. It's known for having a lot of quake activity, even in the 5 range. I lived in Cali back in the Mid-80's for about 4 years and lived thru all sorts of quakes, including the 5.9 Whittier in 1987. Small quakes happen almost every day.
The point: So what?
She's lived there for 8 years, weathered small shakes without worry, but this is the first one that was strong enough to rock her car, and that was unusual.
Also, she is my daughter, I am a member of this board, and I was worried about her. Don't forget, a hurricane was coming.
Have you no children of your own and no ability to empathize?
Got 3 kids. Weathered earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, and unbearable heat with a broke AC with all 3. Got 4 grandkids now and only weathered one of the worst winter storms with them with near 2 weeks power outage. So far.
I dunno, after all sorts of natural disasters and 20 years of Bush/Obama wars (24yrs military from 88 to 12) and still breathing makes a person desensitized to things. Instills a "shit happens" frame of mind and if yer numbers up there ain't a thing you can fo about it.
Long way of saying relax, I reckon. If you taught her well instead of treating her like a princess, she'll be fine because she'll be smart/wise enough to know what to do. Ok?
Was just making the point a 5.3 ain't that bad, in perspective.
And the earth will tremble....
The below links are where I got my data. All say 5.1 in Ojai, CA at around 2:41 pm PST on Sunday.
Was there another one in CA that was 5.5? I couldn't find one. See what you think:
Hey, no problem.