This is probably my last mention of our big earthquake. Thanks to Polly and Bill for making me aware of these videos. If you’re interested, please follow the excellent continuing coverage and conversations on the Humboldt Herald.
Humboldt Eureka 6.5 Earthquake Video Montage 1/9/2010 WOW! Ferndale HQ
Earthquake in northern California
There are noble lies and then there are straight up lies. This may be one of the latter.
This video is supposed to have been taken during yesterday’s 6.5 Eureka earthquake. It’s not, as many of the video’s commenters point out. It’s not a matter of debating how realistic it looks and sounds. The girl states she is in “Hollister, CA” which is out by Santa Cruz. The earthquake was reported by a few people in Santa Cruz… as a magnitude 3. A magnitude 3 earthquake could not shake a house that roughly.
It might be a case of mistaken identity, real footage from a different earthquake some previous time. The YouTube poster appears to be from France.
“Power is out at the Times-Standard, and reports Saturday evening were filed from the parking lot on a single laptop, illiminated by headlamps from employee vehicles.”
Ryan Hurley at Eureka Now! gets this video scoop of some damage at Henderson Center, Eureka.
North Coast Journal Blogthing has a good list of all the local bloggers buzzing about this. Except for my site, but I forgive them, as I am part of the World Weird Web.
If anybody out there is reading this, and knows of more video footage, please link or embed it my way.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/QuakeAddons/NC71338066.html
Published on January 10, 2010 @ 01:13:57 GMT
Version 0: This report supersedes any earlier probability reports about this event.
STRONG AFTERSHOCKS (Magnitude 5 and larger) -
At this time (immediately after the mainshock) the probability of a strong and possibly damaging aftershock IN THE NEXT 7 DAYS is approximately 78 PERCENT
EARTHQUAKES LARGER THAN THE MAINSHOCK -
Most likely, the recent mainshock will be the largest in the sequence. However, there is a small chance (APPROXIMATELY 5 TO 10 PERCENT) of an earthquake equal to or larger than this mainshock in the next 7 days.
WEAK AFTERSHOCKS (Magnitude 3 to 5) -
In addition, approximately 70 to 20 SMALL AFTERSHOCKS are expected in the same 7-DAY PERIOD and may be felt locally.
This probability report is based on the statistics of aftershocks typical for California. This is not an exact prediction, but only a rough guide to expected aftershock activity. This probability report may be revised as more information becomes available.
We’re the top story on Google News (at least on mine):
According to Associated Press: USGS geophysicist Richard Buckmaster says the quake was felt as far south as Capitola, and as far north as Tiller, Ore.
The quake was a long, rolling bastard that seemed to get stronger as it went. The Herald thread I linked earlier has many comments coming in (though most people’s power is still out), and I’m sure Twitter is hopping, too. Bill @ HighBoldtage has summarized some of the damage this quake has caused.
There have apparently been numerous 4.X aftershocks, but we haven’t felt any… Until just now (6:22pm Pacific).
I tip my hat to the HAM radio operators and the emergency response folks working hard tonight.
We just experienced a gnarly quake here in Humboldt County, CA. It made the house shake and knocked a few things over.
I think this is it. I look forward to the full scoop on Humboldt’s premier earthquake blogger (among other topics), HighBoldtage. We’re listening on our scanners, you can listen along on Radio Reference (thanks for the link Bill). A conversation thread has started on Humboldt’s most popular blog, the Humboldt Herald. It looks like Ferndale got hit the hardest, just like in 1992. Poor Ferndale. Polly is watching the reports roll in on the USGS website: this quake was felt in Petaluma, Stockton, San Francisco…
I truly hope everybody is okay. This is the kind of quake that does damage and can kill. All circuits are busy.
| Magnitude | 6.5 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 40.674°N, 124.655°W |
| Depth | 16.4 km (10.2 miles) |
| Region | OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
| Distances |
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| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 0.7 km (0.4 miles); depth +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Parameters | Nph= 99, Dmin=35 km, Rmss=0.36 sec, Gp=212°, M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=2 |
| Source | |
| Event ID | nc71338066 |
The Christian Science Monitor and others report that Sarah Palin will headline the first “Tea Party Convention,” apparently the first attempt to canonize the “platform” of the teabaggers. With this, the first stage of the Tea Party cycle has completed and it will, with any luck, now begin to devour itself. The GOP will be excommunicating the last tea-heretics in time for the 2012 elections.
If there was anything genuine behind this pro-liberty movement, it was sold out long before Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin dug their well-manicured fingers into it. Either that, or the bastards have done a good job of creating a phony tea party movement that, via marketing, eclipsed and absorbed the real thing.
I watched the embryonic tea party protests with interest and curiosity — and a healthy dose of what turned out to be well-merited skepticism. Unfortunately, “movements” usually don’t move the marker very far, for just these reasons.
`Have some wine,’ the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. `I don’t see any wine,’ she remarked.
`There isn’t any,’ said the March Hare.
`Then it wasn’t very civil of you to offer it,’ said Alice angrily.
`It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited,’ said the March Hare.
- Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Here’s something fun for a change. This is a clip from “Trailer Park Boys”, a hilarious mockumentary TV show from Canada. In this clip, Julian is propositioned by his best friend’s on-again, off-again girlfriend, and goes to his friend Bubbles for advice on how to defuse the situation. Bubbles schools him in the ways of the Noble Lie. Parental discretion advised.
Cocksucker called it the Noble Lie
I’m down with Plato and Socrates
This show ran for seven wonderful seasons, a feature-length movie, and live comedy shows. Here are some of the best Trailer Park Boys clips I found on the web.
on Mothballed
on Reverend Bud Green lights up
on Mothballed
on Mothballed
on Mothballed
on Mothballed
on Psychopathy – new spirit of the age on Carl Sagan – Democritus, Pythagoras, and Plato
on Margaret Sanger – Hitler in a Skirt? on Carl Sagan – Democritus, Pythagoras, and Plato