Pretty strong California quake just hit 3:42 pm April 4

[Torie]

I know it is quite strong, because it started slowly, and just kept building, until my house was rocking quite pronouncedly. That motion also means it is probably at least 100 miles away from South Orange County. I am going to guess a 7 as a wild guess.

[phk]

Felt it just now too in La Jolla.

Time      Magnitude      Location 
3 minutes ago     6.9     Baja California, Mexico     
8 minutes ago     3.3     Baja California, Mexico 
23 hours ago     4.3     Baja California, Mexico     

[The Age Wave]

Nothing was falling off the walls though.

[Torie]

I was just about to post the same thing. Am I not pretty good at this sort of thing, or what?  

The map has the epicenter just south of Mexicali, and north of the Gulf of California, so basically at the mouth of the Colorado River. You know if the Big One hits down there, it could slice open a relatively small rise that blocks the Gulf of California from flooding in  all the way up to La Quinta and Indio in the Coachella Valley, putting both of my desert houses under 60 feet of water (they are 60 feet below sea level), never to be seen again. That is why I have quake insurance on both.

[Psychic Octopus]

Haven't felt it...

[phk]

Haven't felt it...

You're too far North, I think.

It's actually from Baja California in Mexico.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Where, roughly, would have been the northernmost point that the earthquake would have been felt?

[Torie]

    Where, roughly, would have been the northernmost point that the earthquake would have been felt?

I would guess LA and Ventura Counties would be the limit of its reach. It was about 140 miles from me as the crow flies.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Where, roughly, would have been the northernmost point that the earthquake would have been felt?

I would guess LA and Ventura Counties would be the limit of its reach. It was about 140 miles from me as the crow flies.

     Explains why I felt nothing. Apparently some people called it the biggest one they had felt since the Northridge earthquake, though.

[Torie]

     Where, roughly, would have been the northernmost point that the earthquake would have been felt?

I would guess LA and Ventura Counties would be the limit of its reach. It was about 140 miles from me as the crow flies.

     Explains why I felt nothing. Apparently some people called it the biggest one they had felt since the Northridge earthquake, though.

I  think it was. Northridge had my pool water sloshing out, and raised a bit one of my cement pads in back by about an inch.

[cinyc]

I was just about to post the same thing. Am I not pretty good at this sort of thing, or what?  

The map has the epicenter just south of Mexicali, and north of the Gulf of California, so basically at the mouth of the Colorado River. You know if the Big One hits down there, it could slice open a relatively small rise that blocks the Gulf of California from flooding in  all the way up to La Quinta and Indio in the Coachella Valley, putting both of my desert houses under 60 feet of water (they are 60 feet below sea level), never to be seen again. That is why I have quake insurance on both.

Is quake insurance enough, or would you need flood insurance?

[Beet]

That also assumes the insurance companies will have priced in a fat tail event. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake not everyone got paid.

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I know it is quite strong, because it started slowly, and just kept building, until my house was rocking quite pronouncedly. That motion also means it is probably at least 100 miles away from South Orange County. I am going to guess a 7 as a wild guess.

OK, you win a gold medal for measuring earthquakes.

Anyways, by coincidence, Northern California had a 4.1 9 minutes later. I didn't feel either of these, though.

[Torie]

That also assumes the insurance companies will have priced in a fat tail event. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake not everyone got paid.

I do quake policies with huge A+15 Best rating companies, who re-insure most of the risk off to others. Your concern is well taken, and one that I share.

[Torie]

I know it is quite strong, because it started slowly, and just kept building, until my house was rocking quite pronouncedly. That motion also means it is probably at least 100 miles away from South Orange County. I am going to guess a 7 as a wild guess.

OK, you win a gold medal for measuring earthquakes.

I have had a lot of practice, having lived in California all my life, except for 8 years in the Midwest, which meant I missed the destructive Whittier and Sylmar quakes.

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5.1 aftershock in Imperial County.

[Torie]

I was just about to post the same thing. Am I not pretty good at this sort of thing, or what?  

The map has the epicenter just south of Mexicali, and north of the Gulf of California, so basically at the mouth of the Colorado River. You know if the Big One hits down there, it could slice open a relatively small rise that blocks the Gulf of California from flooding in  all the way up to La Quinta and Indio in the Coachella Valley, putting both of my desert houses under 60 feet of water (they are 60 feet below sea level), never to be seen again. That is why I have quake insurance on both.

Is quake insurance enough, or would you need flood insurance?

I was thinking the same thing. I am going to ask my poor harassed insurance broker that very question tomorrow (a word of advice: if you become an insurance broker, try by all means to avoid having lawyers as clients). Of course, if the San Andreas quake hits hard in the Coachella Valley, my houses would just sink away due to liquefaction in the soft sandy soil that used to be at the bottom of the sea not so long ago anyway.

[The Mikado]

That also assumes the insurance companies will have priced in a fat tail event. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake not everyone got paid.

The insurance industry has evolved a bit since 1906, but your point is well taken.

[Beet]

That also assumes the insurance companies will have priced in a fat tail event. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake not everyone got paid.

The insurance industry has evolved a bit since 1906, but your point is well taken.

Right, they are now more likely to be bailed out; at least the big players.

[cinyc]

I'm watching my friend's house and he and his family are on vacation in Cabo... I hope they are okay...

Cabo is about as far away from the epicenter as San Francisco.  They should be fine.  I'd be more worried about Mexicali.

[Free Palestine]

I felt it earlier.

[Ronnie]

Ya, I felt it.  It was no more than a rumble, though.

[Bo]

I didn't feel it, but I saw its effects since I was at Albertson's and the signs on the different aisles were moving.

[jimrtex]

I know it is quite strong, because it started slowly, and just kept building, until my house was rocking quite pronouncedly. That motion also means it is probably at least 100 miles away from South Orange County. I am going to guess a 7 as a wild guess.

Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days - from USGS

The Google satellite map is real interesting.  The irrigated portion of the Coachella Valley looks like a mountain ridge with trees until you zoom in.

If you go to a particular quake, there is an estimate of the locations where the quake would be felt, but it doesn't even show the coast San Diego/Tijuana.

[exopolitician]

That website is neat. Interesting to see some earthquakes in Maine and West Virginia?