6.3 Earthquake in Arizona.... (But he means NE Nevada)

[BarTopDancer]

Traci?

Geeze, E, you move you UT and your area is getting unheard of snow and now feeling earthquakes. I think it's a sign

[blueerica]

Way too far north for those guys... We do have someone here from Idaho, though, right? Any Oregonians feel it?

ETA: It's like I moved back to Cali... Smog... Now earthquakes. What did I do???

[blueerica]

Seriously, on my local station's website, they say it was felt in some areas of SoCal. I'm assuming Inland Empire.

Wow, huge.

Store here.

[Alex]

From that story, what is a "home earthquake alarm"? I'd say that if you need a machine to tell you the earth is shaking that it isn't a level of shaking you really need be concerned about.

[blueerica]

Haha, I noticed that! I think people have too much money to blow on random crap out here. Cost of living is relatively low, and while on an average people make less money out here, there are a lot of people that make a TON of money out here. I agree, and beyond that, until I just looked it up, I didn't really consider Utah as being a place that gets earthquakes. Apparently, they do, but in my Californian experience, these are rather tiny, and there's not enough in the way of damage that can be done, unless it landed smack dab in SLC.

Anyhow, I'm relating it to "bought a home, had too much money and spent it on random alarms and buzzers because then we feel somehow safer, even if it's entirely unnecessary."

[Alex]

Thinking about it, it occurs to me that such might be useful if you're somehow at high risk of avalanche since otherwise imperceptible tremblers could trigger one and it might be a good idea to look up the hill. But I'm guessing not many houses are built at such high risk locations.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

Thinking about it, it occurs to me that such might be useful if you're somehow at high risk of avalanche since otherwise imperceptible tremblers could trigger one and it might be a good idea to look up the hill.

That is a problem they fight all the time in Kansas.

[cirquelover]

I didn't feel it here in the middle of Oregon but I should call Gary and see if he felt it, as he is down in Southern Oregon.

I didn't realize that Utah had earthquakes either.

[Kevy Baby]

I am no geologist, but wouldn't any place with mountains have the capacity for earthquakes?

And when you get right down to it, wouldn't ANY place in the world have the capacity for earthquakes?

[blueerica]

Yes and no, I think. I'm no expert on seismology, but it seems to be more dependent upon it being an active faultline. Anywhere could have an earthquake, but the likelihood of one happening is what's at qquestion. The mountains were created bajillionties of years ago, and have probably shifted along the plates as a part of it - that's part of a guess on my part. While there are small earthquakes here and there from what I can tell, most are really minuscule compared to what we are used to in SoCal.