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We had a decent shaker last Monday with many aftershocks.
It freaked out all the snowbirds. Running out of their houses, crying, etc. etc.
I was driving so I missed it. Got a big warning on the phone and wondered what all the excitement was about.
Debbie called me and asked "Did you fell that?" Nope missed it. Dog gone it.
It turned out it was only a 4.9, and it was centered almost under my son's house on the other side of the valley. Anything under a 6.0 is meh.
He lives on the North American Plate. We're on the Pacific Plate.
Anything under a 6.0 is meh.
We did lose a small ceramic pumpkin off a shelf.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Jan 22, 2026 - 4:27pm
We had a decent shaker last Monday with many aftershocks.
It freaked out all the snowbirds. Running out of their houses, crying, etc. etc.
I was driving so I missed it. Got a big warning on the phone and wondered what all the excitement was about.
Debbie called me and asked "Did you fell that?" Nope missed it. Dog gone it.
It turned out it was only a 4.9, and it was centered almost under my son's house on the other side of the valley. Anything under a 6.0 is meh.
He lives on the North American Plate. We're on the Pacific Plate.
Anything under a 6.0 is meh.
We did lose a small ceramic pumpkin off a shelf.
Took a look at the USGS site. If you are interested, it is a subduction zone earthquake indicated by the Moment Tensor (blue and white "beachball") where to Cocos Plate (oceanic) is moving northeastward beneath the North America plate (Mexico in this case). The PAGER information (automated first estimates of damage and loss for early responders suggests this is a relatively low impact event as far as damage but fatalities could be some fatalities, around 10 or so. This info will be updated as more information comes in.
The "Did You Feel It" responses are pretty low (<500) so that is sometimes an indicator of how much shaking happened. Also, the hypocenter (initiation of shaking at depth) was about 35 km so it's deep enough that an earthquake of that magnitude would have limited strong motion at the surface. Probably too deep and small to produce a tsunami.
We have a friend in Oaxaca (the city) - she felt nothing.
Took a look at the USGS site. If you are interested, it is a subduction zone earthquake indicated by the Moment Tensor (blue and white "beachball") where to Cocos Plate (oceanic) is moving northeastward beneath the North America plate (Mexico in this case). The PAGER information (automated first estimates of damage and loss for early responders suggests this is a relatively low impact event as far as damage but fatalities could be some fatalities, around 10 or so. This info will be updated as more information comes in.
The "Did You Feel It" responses are pretty low (<500) so that is sometimes an indicator of how much shaking happened. Also, the hypocenter (initiation of shaking at depth) was about 35 km so it's deep enough that an earthquake of that magnitude would have limited strong motion at the surface. Probably too deep and small to produce a tsunami.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Jan 2, 2026 - 1:48pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I took a scorpion to show and tell once. My dad worked in the oil field in the badlands and they would come into the shop. He caught one and put it in a box so I could make a terrarium for it. But instead I took it to school for show and tell and on the way I stopped by my friend Troy's house. He didn't believe it was a real scorpion so he took the lid off and it scuttled across the bottom of the box and Troy flipped the whole thing across the room and it landed on the shag carpet and disappeared immediately under the magazine rack. By that time we were late for school so Troy yelled downstairs to his mom "going to school now, there's a scorpion under the couch, bye!" Troy's mom called my mom (accurately guessing that I was involved) and for some reason *I* was sent from school to their house to capture the scorpion. Which was easy because it was sort of tangled up in the fuzzy carpet. For some reason the school was not interested in my show and tell so I took it home and put it in a gallon jar terrarium until it died. Probably of starvation or boredom but I had put a little miniature cactus in there to make it feel at home.
I took a scorpion to show and tell once. My dad worked in the oil field in the badlands and they would come into the shop. He caught one and put it in a box so I could make a terrarium for it. But instead I took it to school for show and tell and on the way I stopped by my friend Troy's house. He didn't believe it was a real scorpion so he took the lid off and it scuttled across the bottom of the box and Troy flipped the whole thing across the room and it landed on the shag carpet and disappeared immediately under the magazine rack. By that time we were late for school so Troy yelled downstairs to his mom "going to school now, there's a scorpion under the couch, bye!" Troy's mom called my mom (accurately guessing that I was involved) and for some reason *I* was sent from school to their house to capture the scorpion. Which was easy because it was sort of tangled up in the fuzzy carpet. For some reason the school was not interested in my show and tell so I took it home and put it in a gallon jar terrarium until it died. Probably of starvation or boredom but I had put a little miniature cactus in there to make it feel at home.
I took a scorpion to show and tell once. My dad worked in the oil field in the badlands and they would come into the shop. He caught one and put it in a box so I could make a terrarium for it. But instead I took it to school for show and tell and on the way I stopped by my friend Troy's house. He didn't believe it was a real scorpion so he took the lid off and it scuttled across the bottom of the box and Troy flipped the whole thing across the room and it landed on the shag carpet and disappeared immediately under the magazine rack. By that time we were late for school so Troy yelled downstairs to his mom "going to school now, there's a scorpion under the couch, bye!" Troy's mom called my mom (accurately guessing that I was involved) and for some reason *I* was sent from school to their house to capture the scorpion. Which was easy because it was sort of tangled up in the fuzzy carpet. For some reason the school was not interested in my show and tell so I took it home and put it in a gallon jar terrarium until it died. Probably of starvation or boredom but I had put a little miniature cactus in there to make it feel at home.
