The U.S. Geological Survey has revised the magnitude for an earthquake felt in the Isleton area on Monday morning to 2.9.
The quake was recorded about 7:42 a.m. It was initially reported to be 4.0, but later revised to 2.9.
A 4.2 quake rattled the area on Oct. 18 and was centered southwest of Isleton, according to the USGS.
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No tsunami warning?
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“Out of an abundance of caution.”
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As long as Bethel Island is still there.
https://tinyurl.com/4yxems6t
Original G: I immediately thought someone was trying to prove The Bethel Island Descension Theory.
Looked at 7 day all magnitudes and they’re heading toward Bethel Island.
https://tinyurl.com/yvebay62
If my phone doesn’t alert, is it really an earthquake?
Neither of my phones got an alert. They’re probably still figuring out UTC vs local time. 🤣
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They’ll form a committee, initiate a costly study, hold several stakeholder meetings and public workshops for input, synthesize the comments, , produce a report, make recommendations, demand funding, and accomplish nothing meaningful.
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CA government departments at their finest!!
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You described it perfectly.
If things go wrong, no one is ever blamed.
An of course there’s the catered meals.
How much will the consultants be paid to figure it out again after November 5th or do you think they will just leave the “Mission Accomplished” banner up?
Just passing gas can sometimes shake things up a bit
IF the Doc. has some free time he might make up a few
‘tsunami zone’ warning signs for the island.
I was actually on that humble little island having a killer breakfast at Isla Bonita at that hour of the morning…. didn’t feel a thing.
Besides they have a pretty decent seawall on the east side of the island.
BTW – I have no such thing as “free time”….. paint project gots to get done ASAP (but after breakfast).
This was not an earthquake, it was a tremor.
https://www.thedailyeco.com/what-is-the-difference-between-earthquake-and-tremor-353.html
There were two similarly small earthquakes (tremors) in Berkeley this morning.
No coverage?
If you look at a bigger and longer picture such as this one you can see there constant tremors as the Pacific Plate drives into California and slides under the USA. There have been 2990 tremors in the region in the last 30 days plus three that were large enough that they likely were called earthquakes as the Pacific Plate continues to slide under us.
A while back I read an article about the eastern edge of the Pacific Plate which is now near the eastern edge of what we call the midwest in the USA and is deep enough that it’s being driven into the magma and is melting. The Earth’s crust that we live on is an astonishingly thin layer that floats on the magma which is much denser and heavier than the rocks, water, etc. that we live on. In the 1970s the USSR (Russia) tried to drill through the crust and into the magma. They discovered they can’t. The pressures get so high that that as you hit about 40,000 feet down it’s constantly pressing on and oozing into the borehole which traps the drill bit. The Russians were also running into rock like materials that can’t exist on the surface. The peak of Mt. Diablo is about nine miles from me here in WC. We can easily walk nine miles. However, we humans don’t have the technology to be able to drill down nine miles. For the Russian effort see Kola Superdeep Borehole.