Strong quake shakes Cali.

Strong quake shakes Cali.

news.yahoo.com

CALEXICO, Calif. - A powerful earthquake centered in northern Baja California shook the U.S.-Mexico border region about 100 miles east of San Diego on Tuesday.

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I have never really paid much attention to earthquakes as they don't affect me directly where I live, but hasn't their been an unusually large amount of them worldwide lately? Maybe I am just more aware of them because I am watching the news more due to the satellite shoot down. Any earthquake specialists here?

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very strange, I had a dream I was visiting in calif and there was a huge earthquake

wow, although I was in sacramento, I was still in calif

pretty crazy

reply to post by macgyver


This is the first site I go to to check on earthquakes. They have world and US maps. Earthquakes happen every day and can happen where you wouldn't expect them to. It's no biggie. Just the way the Earth moves.
The Earthquakes you mentioned - MAG 5

US Geological Survey - earthquake links

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Definetly not an earthquake specialist!:-) But i have the same feeling, i hear somehow about earhtquake or two a day, in different sources,for a week or so. Not only in my area,worldwide. And someone told me that moon eclipse magnifies chances for major earthquake so maybe that's why mass media,and as a result me and you as consumers of it, are more sensitive to earthquakes. At
earthquake.usgs.gov...
there are and were several earthquakes/day,so i really think that mass media is pushing these stories more, awaiting something.


edit:
My link became obsolete while i was typing. Need faster fingers.

[edit on 20-2-2008 by ZeroKnowledge]

[edit on 20-2-2008 by ZeroKnowledge]

185 earthquakes in a week? Wow, I had no idea there were that many. Most of them are classified as weak though. I bet people in Cali. or Alaska wouldn't even notice a 5.0 quake

[edit on 20-2-2008 by macgyver]

I was born and raised in Southern California,and yes unless it's a big quake pretty much go unnoticed