Wednesday, January 12, 2011

A Shaking Fremont Peak

Fremont Peak from Hollister (near the Hollister Airport)

Show of hands. Who was rocking and rolling with the earthquakes early this morning?

I thought it was pretty good ride. It made the books bounce on the shelves and a couple of things fall off it. How did it go with you?

There were at least six movements, the biggest (the first one) measured 4.5. According to the coordinates given by the U.S. Geological Study (USGS), the epicenter of the 4.5 quake was about half-mile north from the tippy-top of Fremont Peak in San Juan Bautista.  You can check it out yourself at Google Earth. The coordinates are: 36.770°N, 121.499°W

For more about the earthquake, visit this page produced by the USGS.

2 comments:

  1. Your earthquake sounds small enough just to be exciting. The type I wouldn't mind experiencing. We had one here on a much smaller scale some weeks ago that I didn't notice but heard about on the news. Before that one about twenty years ago, we had another 'small' one that I could feel & did notice while living in Manhattan. None of the books fell off the shelf. It kind of felt like a big truck drove down our street.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hi, LIly, glad to meet you. There have been more than a handful of earthquakes every day lately. We had two more good rollers Thursday evening, too. It's just as well. Better to have these small movements to relieve the fault than one huge pop like the one in 1989.

    ReplyDelete

Hello, hello. Thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment. I enjoy and appreciate your comments, unless they're spam. Boo, spam.

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

ShareThis

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails