I am really trying to figure out why I have been neglecting this blog for so long. I have only posted 6 updates since Argentina, and most of them have been re-caps. I think part of the reason is Twitter,…
I am really trying to figure out why I have been neglecting this blog for so long. I have only posted 6 updates since Argentina, and most of them have been re-caps. I think part of the reason is Twitter,…
Here we are, almost two full weeks into 2010 and I have totally slacked off updating the blog. Each year, I tell myself that this is the one that I am going to update every day, and each year it…
Tuesday October 17, 1989 dawned as a typical day in my senior year of high school. There was nothing out of the ordinary in my school day, other than excitement at the fact I was going to attend my first…
Tomorrow is the 20th Anniversary of the m6.9 Loma Prieta Earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area at 5:04pm on 10-17-89. This approaching anniversary has made me reflect on that day a lot and spend a lot of time…
It’s been 15 years since the Northridge Earthquake of 1994. I have blogged about it before, but Northridge has always been a fascination of mine. I love big quakes, and ones that occur in places I live or as the…
I was lying in bed this morning at 11:42 when the quake hit. The one thing that stood out was the unusually strong P wave. The P wave is the initial strong shock that proceeds the gentle rolling S Wave…
I had heard about this awhile back, but Paul brought it back into my attention and I read more into it: It’s called the Quake Catcher, and its centered out of Stanford and UC Riverside. Basically they use laptops that…
A nice 4.7 Jolt this morning centered in the Santa Ana Mountains. To me who was lying in bed (yes I sleep in on the weekends) it was a slight roll then a jolt and that was about it, nothing…
Not to be confused with the Great Tsunami of 2004 or the Great Influenza Outbreak of 1914 or even the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. This friends is the big time. Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast on…
California has had 4 moderate to large earthquakes in the last five days, and I have felt a grad total of zero. I feel so left out! Two of which I can understand – Tuesday’s 7.0 and Today’s 6.4 quakes…