Whoa. Big earthquake near my parents’ house. They live right above the bay, north of Eureka, where you see all those little maroon fault lines running parallel to each other.
When I was a little kid, I went through an earthquake the exact same size—6.5—and despite the fact that I was in the hunting/fishing aisle of the Long’s Drugs (imagine fishing poles and hatchets coming down around me), I came out unscathed.
Earthquakes scared the crap out of me when I was a kid, and for good reason: we were living on a “Triple Junction”, a unique tectonic zone where three plates come together. We were living at the active part of where the Pacific, North American, and Gorda plates meet within the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which also happened to produce Crater Lake and Mt. St. Helens, and the possibility of “The Big One” hitting was larger than my young brain could deal with.
Oh, and I found out from my little cousin tweeting about it. Go, Social Media.
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[…] 6.5 Earthquake Off Northern California. Written by LogisticsMonster Breaking Jan 9, 2010. Magnitude 6.5 – OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Earthquake Details. Magnitude, 6.5. Date-Time. Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 00:27:39 UTC; Saturday,… 6.5 Earthquake – Northern California […]