6.5 at 4 AM

[teledork]

38.159°N 117.875°W (between Tonopah and Hawthorne) not far from the recent Bodie quakes but several mountain ranges to the East in a named seismic zone

"This earthquake occurred within the Walker Lane, an active zone of seismicity roughly aligned with the California-Nevada border. Tectonically, the Walker Lane accommodates up to 25% of the North Americaacific Plate motion, with the remainder mostly accommodated on the San Andreas fault system."

I felt a combination of shaking and dipping/swaying that (in my foggy half dream state) seemed to go on for longer than any single quake I have felt in my lifetime. I did not feel any of the numerous aftershocks but I was already dealing with the motion sickness kind of continued sense of movement. I think I am more than 100 miles from the epicenter. That was one hell of a wake-up call.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Not the wake up call you wanted. I hope there was no damage.

 

[DesertDave]

I looked at my atomic watch when it stopped and it said 4:05. It did seemed to last about 20 seconds. Wasn't too bad in Dayton.

 

[ski3pin]

The Great Basin continues to stretch. A 6.5 is a good reminder we live on a dynamic planet. That sounds like quite a early morning wake up for our western Great Basin friends.

We slept through it here and are curious what we'll hear from friends and neighbors.

 

[geologyjohn]

I was notified of the EQ earlier this morning. I’m glad it was not epicentered beneath Tonopah. The 3rd floor in the Mizpah Hotel is already out of level enough for this fair weather sailor.

 

[teledork]

Not the wake up call you wanted. I hope there was no damage.

I have not noticed any damage here even though the house was making some dreadful sounds. My housemate said the first thing she thought of was the two cords of wood we just stacked a couple of days ago. It had partially fallen once already but it is intact this morning.

I looked at my atomic watch when it stopped and it said 4:05. It did seemed to last about 20 seconds. Wasn't too bad in Dayton.

The official "local" time was 4:03. My housemate rode out the Loma Prieta quake (17 seconds I believe?) and thought this one was about the same length.

I was notified of the EQ earlier this morning. I’m glad it was not epicentered beneath Tonopah. The 3rd floor in the Mizpah Hotel is already out of level enough for this fair weather sailor.

Hah! I used to spend up to 5 days at a time on a sailboat. Tilted floors don't bother me but the "land sick" sense of my bed rocking and rolling when it wasn't made the first night back home difficult.

 

[AWG_Pics]

The basin and range province continues to pull apart, wiggle, shift, stretch and undulate. In many millions of years it could be a very different landscape. But console your self, someone (McPhee ??) said "the most interesting people live in tectonicly active areas".

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Wait long enough and you will have ocean front property.
Then you can sell it for a fortune.

I live less than 10 miles from the San Andreas fault.
We get a lot of little shakers but most are small and not felt.

Frank

 

[teledork]

Wait long enough and you will have ocean front property.
Then you can sell it for a fortune.

I live less than 10 miles from the San Andreas fault.
We get a lot of little shakers but most are small and not felt.

Frank

I lived 17 years in the San Jose area, only one significant earthquake (a 6.0, Earth Day 1984, I was in a building at SJSU)

Who remembers the song; "better get ready to tie up the boats in Idaho"?

and then there is this: (from a Wired article)

The idea of California as an island existed in myth even before the region had been explored and mapped. "Around the year 1500 California made its appearance as a fictional island, blessed with an abundance of gold and populated by black, Amazon-like women, whose trained griffins dined on surplus males," Philip Hoehn, then-map librarian at UC Berkley wrote in the foreword to a catalog of the maps that McLaughlin wrote.