Oh My Heck—Another Earthquake!

[Rockskipper]

https://www.postindependent.com/new...ke-of-2018-strikes-nw-of-parachute-on-friday/

Last summer, I had the privilege of being in Phillipsburg, MT for the 5.8 that hit nearby (Lincoln). That was a real shaker and I felt the P wave (body wave) before the jolt of the surface wave, as well as a number of aftershocks. It was an eerie feeling, as everything oscillated, including the big old three-story brick house I was in (the Caledonia B&B).

Last night, around 4 a.m., my good bad dogs woke me, whining (we're in Glenwood Springs, CO). I thought they wanted outside, so I got up and was letting them out when a 4.3 quake wave hit. This wasn't nearly as bad as the one in Phillipsburg though I was about the same distance from the epicenter (north of Parachute). We're not in the Intermountain Seismic Zone here in Colorado and earthquakes are rare. I think the dogs felt the P wave and wanted out, the body wave arrived shortly afterwards and I felt only that one. There was an aftershock an hour or so later, but I was asleep.

Anyway, always believe your dogs when they try to tell you something.

 

[IntrepidXJ]

I slept through it....wish I was awake to have noticed it.

 

[Rockskipper]

According to the weather service FB page, it was felt from Moab to Ouray and in Sunnyside, Ut and Vernal, among other places. People in Clifton and Junction said it shook pretty good.

https://www.facebook.com/NWSGrandJu...GzXNIPqEKU-Y4pE1eaJ4vHBKKKsJw5bjHVU-I&fref=nf

 

[Yvonne]

I grin about that. A 4.3 magnitude would not get my attention anymore after having hundreds of earthquakes between 4.0 and 6.9 for weeks. The thing is you get used to it after a week or two when everything is continuously shaking day and night. You then only look up when it’s bigger than 5.0


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[Yvonne]

One of these days I will tell my Hawaiian earthquake experience in full detail. It was annoying, exhausting, fun and scary all at the same time


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[Outdoor_Fool]

I grin about that. A 4.3 magnitude would not get my attention anymore

Agreed. I sleep through almost all of them now, which is unfortunate, I love experiencing earthquakes.

 

[Yvonne]

Agreed. I sleep through almost all of them now, which is unfortunate, I love experiencing earthquakes.

I used to wake up each time, even when it was only a little 3.3 shaker or something. When it was that small and no noise from the kitchen of moving dishes, I would just went to sleep again until the next one came twenty or thirty minutes later.
When I worked out in the field and was at the lava flow during an earthquake, we guides would always bet who had the closest guess of the magnitude. Out in the field earthquakes felt exciting. All the lava rocks where moving.


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[Brendan S]

Man I was just up in Stewart Gulch earlier in the day. Didn’t wake up for it unfortunately. Thought it might be near some produced water injection wells but the epicenter location turns out to be even more interesting than that...

For some background this was one of a couple sites that the government tried fracking well sites with nuclear bombs in the 70s. The gas ended up being (surprise!) radioactive so it couldn’t be used.

 

[Rockskipper]

I found that interesting, also. And the ground water in those parts is now radioactive, too, ruining many of the wells the ranchers and homeowners in the region used.

 

[Rockskipper]

@Outdoor_Fool did you feel the 6.0 in Unalaska Saturday or is that too far?

 

[Outdoor_Fool]

@Rockskipper Nope, too far.

 

[gnwatts]

We had an earthquake?

 

[Rockskipper]

We had an earthquake?

Too funny.