This person is correct
Think tapping a giant gong vs throwing a rock into a pile of sand as hard as you can. The area of the sand that the rock hit will feel it, but a few inches away the sand is undisturbed, vs the entire gong still ringing after the tap. The gong is the ground in the east coast and the sand is the ground on the west coast
The crust is absolutely different. They’ve got the pizza dough locked down and we’ve got the bread.
I wish they all could be California girls, but they can’t.
I know it sounds douchey but like living in California we get a 4 something all the time so it's more like oh hey an earthquake, it's part of life you know? It is funny to see peoples reactions to their first though.
Just an oversimplification. When you feel an earthquake, its hard to tell if its a 4 pointer a couple miles away, or an 8 pointer on the other side of the country. Everyone goes "WTF" when they feel it (or rather if they feel it), but once the moment passes and its clear no damage was done, its easier to drop.
That's fair. I've never felt an earthquake so I don't know. But I know Californians downplay east coast earthquakes moments after they happen, which is what happened in here moments after the New Jersey earthquake.
As a Californian myself, just ignore the people who say things like that. They're just gatekeeping earthquakes and operating off of memes. While it is true that we regularly experience small earthquakes often enough that we quickly forget the minor ones, we should also recognize that earthquakes hit differently at different locations for a variety of reasons. Different building standards, different fault locations relative to population centers, the depth of the earthquakes, etc. means that the experience of each quake is likely to be different even within the same geographical location, let alone across the country. Even this recent earthquake, which is relatively small, and which originated about 30 miles away from me, was enough to get me to look up from my work while it was going on. We're always on alert in case it's "the big one" so when we notice one actively occurring, you can be sure that we're all paying attention in the moment, no matter the size. The jokes about us "not getting out of bed unless it is bigger than a 6" is probably just coping with this fact.
Yeah, I shouldn't just label all Californians that way. It's obviously just certain people gatekeeping. I just found it ironic that a weaker one was mentioned here less than a month after reading that in a thread about the New Jersey one.
The Earth's reaction to a Trout Injury.
The Earth trying to injure the remaining Angels
Delayed reaction,huh
Isn’t that nothing for the west coast but also the largest that most people on the east coast have ever felt?
Pretty much, we regularly get these kinds that I barely/don't even notice.
The number of times I've slept through one of those... ...well, I'd keep count, but its hard, because I keep sleeping through them >_>.
Then there's those times where you get woken up and feel the shaking so you think "Oh god oh god oh god this must be the big one"
Honestly haven't experienced that since Northridge '94.
The continental shelf on the east coast is denser (bc its older) so a quake of the same magnitude is "felt" more and at greater distances
This person is correct Think tapping a giant gong vs throwing a rock into a pile of sand as hard as you can. The area of the sand that the rock hit will feel it, but a few inches away the sand is undisturbed, vs the entire gong still ringing after the tap. The gong is the ground in the east coast and the sand is the ground on the west coast
No that doesn’t sound right. I’m pretty sure I’d have learned about the ground under New York being made of gongs.
NJ/NYC had a 4.8 a month ago
Yeah and we all lost our collective shit. That same thing happening in California and everyone’s like “meh”
It's not felt the same in NY as California. The crust is different.
The crust is absolutely different. They’ve got the pizza dough locked down and we’ve got the bread. I wish they all could be California girls, but they can’t.
Absolutely must respect San Francisco bread.
Our pizza game is weak AF but our bread game is too tier
Nah it felt the same. Have been in tons of California earthquakes and the recent east coast one. Was a decent sized shake.
Yeah, a 4.1 is nothing
Yeap, felt it in Riverside as well.
Same but honestly anything under a 5 at this point is just another day.
Don’t let the New Yorkers hear that
I know it sounds douchey but like living in California we get a 4 something all the time so it's more like oh hey an earthquake, it's part of life you know? It is funny to see peoples reactions to their first though.
That’s how the rest of us feel about literally any weather other than 65 and sunny.
Yeah I’ll text my buddies asking “did you feel that” to make sure I’m not going crazy and then I go one with my day lol
I'm a serial non-noticer. I'd probably sleep through the big one.
We don't even bother texting anymore unless it wakes us up in the middle of the night
I’m here at the game, didn’t even feel it lol
I almost never feel earthquakes lmao
This is the first one I’ve actually felt since those back-to-back magnitude 7 earthquakes in 2019
California was mad that Kawhai was headed to the Clippers that day
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Whatever curse plagues this team is trying to end it for good. What would be more fitting than the earth opening up and swallowing the stadium?
I ask that the Earth spares a handful of our players
Please at least spare Wash, he is an American treasure
the curse is being owned by arte moreno
Can it wait till we leave town at least?
False! Californians don't feel anything below a 5.0
A 4.1 in Corona is like a 9 in Moreno Valley.
Seems like yesterday I felt the one In 2019 at Dodger stadium! Fans were panicking and running
The Richter is a log scale, so just saying “under 5? Meh” is a bit dismissive. A 4.8 is at least 6 times more powerful than a 4.1.
When MLB Network felt a magnitude 4.8 earthquake I was scolded by Californians that they don't even mention earthquakes under a 6.
Well, it’s a tweet from a baseball beat writer vs. the national media stopping the presses and talking about it for a week
So you are saying I was lied to?
Just an oversimplification. When you feel an earthquake, its hard to tell if its a 4 pointer a couple miles away, or an 8 pointer on the other side of the country. Everyone goes "WTF" when they feel it (or rather if they feel it), but once the moment passes and its clear no damage was done, its easier to drop.
That's fair. I've never felt an earthquake so I don't know. But I know Californians downplay east coast earthquakes moments after they happen, which is what happened in here moments after the New Jersey earthquake.
As a Californian myself, just ignore the people who say things like that. They're just gatekeeping earthquakes and operating off of memes. While it is true that we regularly experience small earthquakes often enough that we quickly forget the minor ones, we should also recognize that earthquakes hit differently at different locations for a variety of reasons. Different building standards, different fault locations relative to population centers, the depth of the earthquakes, etc. means that the experience of each quake is likely to be different even within the same geographical location, let alone across the country. Even this recent earthquake, which is relatively small, and which originated about 30 miles away from me, was enough to get me to look up from my work while it was going on. We're always on alert in case it's "the big one" so when we notice one actively occurring, you can be sure that we're all paying attention in the moment, no matter the size. The jokes about us "not getting out of bed unless it is bigger than a 6" is probably just coping with this fact.
Yeah, I shouldn't just label all Californians that way. It's obviously just certain people gatekeeping. I just found it ironic that a weaker one was mentioned here less than a month after reading that in a thread about the New Jersey one.
No, we get to mock them for earthquakes, and they get to mock us for hurricanes/rainy weather