Transterrestrial Musings




Defend Free Speech!


Amazon Honor System Click Here to Pay




Site designed by


Powered by
Movable Type 4.0
Biting Commentary about Infinity, and Beyond!

« Whither ISS? | Main | The People Of Berlin »

LA Quake

A 5.8 in the Chino Hills. Hope our house in Redondo Beach is all right. I suspect it is--it's about forty miles away. I just hope it's not a foreshock of something bigger.

[Update a few minutes later]

Let me be the first to say that it's Bush's fault. Or some fault out there...

And I expect Al Gore to blame global warming any minute.

[Update at 3:35 PM EDT]

Now I'm hearing that it's been downgraded to a 5.4.

 
 

0 TrackBacks

Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: LA Quake.

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.transterrestrial.com/admin/mt-tb.cgi/10011

9 Comments

Paul Breed` wrote:

I felt the quake 100 miles away in San Diego.
My Father, much closer in Long Beach said it shook pretty hard, but no damage there.

Paul

mpthompson wrote:

And I expect Al Gore to blame global warming any minute.

Too late, it has already been done.

Aleta wrote:

We felt the quake and a few aftershocks in Mojave. No damage but we did evacuate the hangar for about ten minutes.
And a few minutes later the Rocket Racer flew at AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI. Interesting day!

Robin Goodfellow wrote:

Earthquake magnitudes are logarithmic so the difference between a 5.8 and a 5.4 is actually very substantial (about a factor of 4 difference in energy release).

ken anthony wrote:

global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago. ...increasing very fast since 1990

The beginning of the 'pangs of distress' or is Yellowstone about to belch?

Earth as a whole absorbs at least 0.85 Megawatt per square kilometer more energy from the Sun than it is able to radiate back to space

This doesn't seem right. Is it even possible for a body not to radiate an equal amount to what it receives?

Dick Eagleson wrote:
Steve (with tongue in cheek...) wrote:

My wife's uncle, a native Californian, used to swear that hot, calm weather was "Earthquake Weather". If that's the case, Bush is to blame.

GWB is, after all is said and done, the sole cause of global warming. Not to mention, high gas prices, mortgage defaults, unemployment and gum disease.

Paul F. Dietz wrote:

This doesn't seem right. Is it even possible for a body not to radiate an equal amount to what it receives?
Transiently, yes. For example, the material near the Earth's surface (specifically, the water in the oceans) has nonzero thermal inertia. It takes time for it to warm to a new equilibrium, and during that time there is net flow of energy into the material. Conservation of energy tells us that during that time, energy received will exceed energy radiated.

Bruce Lagasse wrote:

"My wife's uncle, a native Californian, used to swear that hot, calm weather was "Earthquake Weather". If that's the case, Bush is to blame.

FWIW, the last two major earthquakes in Southern California occurred in winter: Sylmar (February, 1970), Northridge (January, 1994).

Leave a comment

Note: The comment system is functional, but timing out when returning a response page. If you have submitted a comment, DON'T RESUBMIT IT IF/WHEN IT HANGS UP AND GIVES YOU A "500" PAGE. Simply click your browser "Back" button to the post page, and then refresh to see your comment.
 

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by Rand Simberg published on July 29, 2008 12:05 PM.

Whither ISS? was the previous entry in this blog.

The People Of Berlin is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Powered by Movable Type 4.1