Californians are requested not to laugh

[kengr]

One of the top stories on the local news was that we had an earthquake with the epicenter *in Portland* a few miles from where I live this morning around 7 am.

It was all of 2.7...

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[griffen.livejournal.com]

OK, you just scored a keyboard kill...

[mistresscayenne.livejournal.com]

What earthquake? That is rather insignificant. Even for Portland Standards

[philoserf.livejournal.com]

A) how deep.
B) even one that small can be significant in the bigger terrestrial stress picture.
C) there have been a lot of small quakes all around the pacific lately.
D) I'm willing to drop cash money that the Juan de Fuca Plate has a big release within 3 years.^*


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^*I have no conscious reason to believe so. But I don't disregard the subconscious (not do I live my life as thought its proclamations are a forgone fact when they predict the future).

[kengr]

A) no idea

2.7...

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

And people actually felt it? I don't think I remember anything I felt and checked online (i.e. anything I felt in the past 7-9 years) be under a 3, and seldom under a 4.

Oh, well, guess growing up near the San Andreas (and several minor related faults) will do that :-).

Re: 2.7...

[kengr]

Milady, some people felt it quite a few miles away.

Then again I felt the first "real" quake the Portland area had had in living memory back 1993. And it wasn't a lot stronger.

BTW, this one is interesting in that there's no known fault there...