looks like a large quake offshore from SF.. 6.8 probably felt in the Bay area?

EDIT: No, probably not

Strong earthquake hits off Sumatra, Indonesia

THE death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia Wednesday has nearly doubled to 97, the military said, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of scores of shattered buildings.

and a pretty cool simulation of the ground shaking caused by it:

 

kind of scary what is happening to the north and south of the locked bit of the plate interface around Wellington



and this is what just moved to the south:


 and this is what happens when it unlocks: 

 haresfur wrote: 
Wellington is a bad place to be in a biggie. I used to think the harbour and soft soils in the Hutt valley are a recipe for disaster but this Kaikoura quake made me wonder if not the entire Wellington basin would be uplifted, reducing the tsunami risk. It still wouldn't be pretty though.

 miamizsun wrote: 
Wow, that is a huge quake!  Must have been scary. Biggest I have been in is a (distant) M6 and I remember watching the walls to the classroom bend over and back several times as I hid under my desk.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
yeah it is - unless you're there while it is taking place

once upon a time i had a severe tequila hangover and was caught in this

it was like an awful dream...

fortunately we were in puerto vallarta everyone in my group survived to drink again

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
I was planning a trip for this spring but got busy and scheduling was a problem so it didn't happen. I might have been in Wellington for the quake.

 haresfur wrote: 
do you ever get across to the shaky isles?
 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
serious? Awesome!  It was a really complicated quake.  I stood here in Kaikoura a couple of years ago, knowing this terrace was just the last of many in a series and that many more would form in the future (note the fault offset lower left):
 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Geomorph should be reporting in from there in a day or so.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Wow. Thanks.

This is really cool:

 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Just what keeps the land young. That was a nasty quake, though. Glad it wasn't directly under Christchurch or Wellington.

always find it kind of cool how the earth ruptures... 

does that sound a bit sick?  hmm.. guess it does... but imagine you're a bird for a moment. 
 

 haresfur wrote: 
Very cool.

Sandstone shapes 'forged by gravity'

Subduction License

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Well, you know, seen one volcano...seen 'em all