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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Some more info about the quake from MSN News.
Nothing serious reported yet, but there are some injuries, power outages and damage. To quote the article:
Two major injuries have been reported, and hospitals have been very busy with moderate injuries, Napa Division Fire Chief John Callanan said earlier. The quake caused six significant fires, including at four mobile homes, Napa Division Fire Chief Darren Drake said. The damage from the fires is not yet clear but it appears significant, he said. Several other smaller fires have been reported and firefighting efforts have been complicated by broken water mains.
The earthquake struck just before 3:30 a.m. about 4 miles northwest of American Canyon, which is about 6 miles southwest of Napa, in California wine country, Leslie Gordon of the U.S. Geological Survey said. It's the largest earthquake to shake the Bay Area since the 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta quake in 1989, the USGS said. That earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989 during a World Series game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, collapsing part of the Bay Bridge roadway and killing more than 60 people, most when an Oakland freeway fell.
"There's collapses, fires," said Napa Fire Capt. Doug Bridewell, standing in front of large pieces of masonry that broke loose from a turn of the century office building where a fire had just been extinguished. "That's the worst shaking I've ever been in."
Bridewell, who said he had to climb over fallen furniture in his own home to check on his family before reporting to duty, said he was starting to see more reports of injuries.
The shaking emptied cabinets in homes and store shelves, set off car alarms and had residents of neighboring Sonoma County running out of their houses and talking about damage inside their homes. Officials say widespread power outages have been reported in the area.
"It was a rolling quake, said Oakland resident Rich Lieberman. "It started very much like a rolling sensation and just got progressively worse in terms of length. Not so much in terms of shaking, but it did shake. It felt like a side-to-side kind of rolling sensation. Nothing violent but extremely lengthy and extremely active."
The USGS says the depth of the earthquake was just less than seven miles, and numerous small aftershocks have occurred in the Napa wine country.
"A quake of that size in a populated area is of course widely felt throughout that region," said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado. "The 6.0 is a sizeable quake for this area. It's a shallow quake. It's about 6 miles deep. We received hundreds of reports on our website from people that felt it in the surrounding area."
California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Bartlett said cracks and damage to pavement closed the westbound Interstate 80 connector to westbound State Route 37 in Vallejo and westbound State Route 37 at the Sonoma off ramp. He says there haven't been reports of injuries or people stranded in their cars, but there are numerous flat tires from motorists driving over damaged roads.
Highway Patrol and the California Department of Transportation was checking roadways for damage, Bartlett said.
California Highway Patrol Officer Daniel Hill told KTVU-TV that road damage appears confined to the Napa and Sonoma areas. He said there appears to be no damage to major bridges in the Bay Area.
In Napa, city spokesman Barry Martin there has been significant damage. Store windows were broken and water mains broke in several location, one of which left at least one street flooded. Power outages left streetlights dark.
Numerous emergency vehicles were on the roads in Napa and Sonoma counties.
No word yet on the potential for aftershocks, but given how random some quakes are it's always a possibility. So to any tropers living in the Californian Bay area, stay stafe.
@Potatoes Rock's article: Ooh, Corbett's ass is in trouble. Paging Fighteer to throw the bum out.
I don't think Rick Scott expanded Medicare either.
I will vote his ass out.
Goodluck!
Science proves how having more money makes you a worse person. Neuroscience, bitches!
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - SilaswSo science says it's ok to hate rich people?
Oh really when?In a purely Darwinian outlook, perhaps, but shouldn't we hold ourselves to a higher standard?
I'm baaaaaaackI think a good way to put it is that in a purely individualist society, compassion is a weakness, but in a society where one depends on others, compassion is a strength. The idea is that if you can only depend on yourself, you have to hoard everything, but if you have to depend on others, helping them will make you collectively stronger and safer.
Not Three Laws compliant.Corbett did try to expand Medicaid (i'm not sure if it went through?) but he was attaching all kinds of conditions to it, like if you're on medicaid and employed, you have to be actively looking for better work in order to stay on. No matter that you have a job, you're a bum who's on medicaid so you need to be trying for a better job or we'll throw your ass off medicaid.
I'm not sure if the feds went in for that...
I heard something about that, yeah. It's a moot point with me though. His record on education alone is enough for me to vote his ass out of office. Tom Wolf can't be worse.
"We're wasting all kinds of wood out there..." - Walt BayesWolf strikes me as "Clintonesque" in that he's likely a third-wayer, but enough progressive circles in PA seemed to think he was good enough to back even in the primaries, so he'll likely do well enough.
Funny how i'm living in the state with the weakest incumbent governor.
That'd be Hawaii or Illinois wouldn't it?
The main thing I keep hearing besides refunding the schools, Wolf keeps flouting that he'll get taxes on the Drilling and Fracking companies in the state which the Republicans didn't do because FREEDOM.
Also as of like July, PA has a "pending waiver", but yeah, Corbett keeps trying to attach crazy bullshit to Medicaid for the state that the Feds will refuse but the Republican base loves.
Though right now he's trying to implement "Healthy PA", a private plan relying on subsidies that fund themselves using the money earmarked for the Medicaid expansion.
Basically his supporters will metaphorically rip him to shreds if he expands, but a lot of people in PA want expansion.
edited 25th Aug '14 12:32:07 AM by PotatoesRock
@Zendervai: Tragedy Of The Commons. I am better off if I am an infinitely selfish asshole, everyone else is infinitely compassionate and there are no effective safeguards to enforce compassionate behavior from me.
Thus, a functional society has a generally-compassionate populace and strong safeguards against assholes who want to abuse the system's weaknesses.
One wonders if we might see the South become more blue by sheer population movement. I doubt it will be a big enough migration, but would be funny.
Obama orders review of military equipment supplied to police.
Nearly $400,000 raised online for Ferguson cop who fatally shot teen.
Karl Rove: Eric Holder ‘Did Something of a Good Job’ in Ferguson.
edited 25th Aug '14 5:46:25 PM by deviantbraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Now that is just gold
Oh really when?And I think the general response this side of the pond is "What war?"
"You can reply to this Message!"The not Napoleonic/irreverent one.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
6.0 earthquake just hit the San Francisco Bay Area. No injuries reported.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."