Earthquake! Who wants waffles?

[wildmaven]

4.3 rolling quake woke me up. After our 7.1 here a couple of years ago, even the smaller ones raise my heart rate. I finally got one of our dogs calmed down (the other slept right through it), but I’m wondering if I should just go back to bed or make waffles instead. 

[Caajscot (John)]

May 26, 2022 2:24:55 GMT -8 wildmaven said:

4.3 rolling quake woke me up. After our 7.1 here a couple of years ago, even the smaller ones raise my heart rate. I finally got one of our dogs calmed down (the other slept right through it), but I’m wondering if I should just go back to bed or make waffles instead. 

That in bold made me laugh my socks off, if that was me and we had an earthquake then I would hit the...

[wildmaven]

May 26, 2022 3:33:04 GMT -8 Caajscot (John) said:

May 26, 2022 2:24:55 GMT -8 wildmaven said:

4.3 rolling quake woke me up. After our 7.1 here a couple of years ago, even the smaller ones raise my heart rate. I finally got one of our dogs calmed down (the other slept right through it), but I’m wondering if I should just go back to bed or make waffles instead. 

That in bold made me laugh my socks off, if that was me and we had an earthquake then I would hit the...

Hahaha! Yeah, after our 6.4 and 7.1 a couple of years ago, followed by over THIRTY THOUSAND AFTERSHOCKS, a 4.3 is still in waffle territory. Though the smaller ones still make me nervous. The big ones followed a smaller one, so now everyone in town freaks when we have a small one, thinking "what's next?"

"3 minutes before the 7.1 event, a magnitude 5.0 quake shook the Ridgecrest area revealing the previous days 6.4 quake to have been a foreshock; all 3 events have been described by the USGS as occurring via shallow strike-slip mechanisms. By evening time on July 5th, more than 1400 aftershocks occurred ranging from 2-4 in magnitude; no additional damage happened from any of the aftershocks and geologists estimated that the total number of aftershocks were 3,000 by July 7th and 34,000 in the 6 months following the main quakes." Source

So,  yeah...  

We even made Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ridgecrest_earthquakes

Pictures! www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/world/gallery/ridgecrest-california-earthquake/index.html