6.5 Quake in Idaho

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

Wild stuff -- I was on a chat with a coworker in Idaho who had to drop off suddenly.  Now I know why.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

[BBQ2Bayou 807]

Video chat? Did they fall off their chair before it cut out? 

[EuroHorn 3265]

[washparkhorn 9939]

That fault was only discovered about 10 years ago. Looks like it goes off about once every 3,000 years. It has been 4,100 years since the last one. 

https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/isu-researchers-study-newly-discovered-idaho-fault-line/article_156cd7a0-cb27-11df-aa82-001cc4c03286.html

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by washparkhorn

[Neonmoon 38129]

Just now, washparkhorn said:

That fault was only discovered about 10 years ago. Looks like it goes off about once every 3,000 years. It has been 4,100 years since the last one. 

That’s what the government wants you to think 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Shit, so have all the potatoes liquified into mashed potatoes now ?

[washparkhorn 9939]

Just now, Neonmoon said:

That’s what the government wants you to think 

When the SHTF, I expect every type of military aircraft to be zooming away from San Diego - my own early warning system.

[washparkhorn 9939]

Epicenter is under "Shake Creek."  

Creek name checks out. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

3 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

Epicenter is under "Shake Creek."  

Creek name checks out. 

Which is already liquified...

[The University 851]

damn. i thought this was going to be a 'yo momma' thread. 

[John Lawrence 244]

That’s what we need now. The super volcano around Yellowstone to get active.  

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

1 minute ago, John Lawrence said:

That’s what we need now. The super volcano around Yellowstone to get active.  

It'll probably take our minds off this Coronavirus thingy.

[Braff Zacklin 13616]

Honestly, didn't feel a thing.

There was one to the south, near SLC, about a week or two and didn't feel that, either.

Guess we're just not very observant.

[Glorified Garbageman 11]

Live in Boise. Felt it here, seemed like a longer quake than I'd felt before. Shake creek may not be liquid this time of year, might still be frozen solid there. It will be cool to go explore there this summer, if we live that long.

[Parliament 14260]

 

 

 

It has been 4,100 years 90 minutes since the last one. 

 

1234

 

 

 

[mulletpelini 5211]

3 hours ago, John Lawrence said:

That’s what we need now. The super volcano around Yellowstone to get active.  

throw in a terrorist attack and you've hit the trifecta

[Js1 85372]

4 hours ago, BBQ2Bayou said:

Video chat? Did they fall off their chair before it cut out? 

[Pato del Muerto 52509]

I have friends that moved to Hamilton Montana and they felt it. One took a video of her hanging kitchen table lights barely swinging. 

[Fuck Tim Beck 3834]

I like my potatoes like I like my martinis. Shaken, not stirred. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

12 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Honestly, didn't feel a thing.

There was one to the south, near SLC, about a week or two and didn't feel that, either.

Guess we're just not very observant.

You didn't feel a 6.5 ?  How far from the epicenter were you ?

[Braff Zacklin 13616]

By road, it's about 215 miles to Stanley, but as the magpie flies, it's probably less than 150 miles.

[jeevsie 3734]

15 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

That fault was only discovered about 10 years ago. Looks like it goes off about once every 3,000 years. It has been 4,100 years since the last one. 

https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/isu-researchers-study-newly-discovered-idaho-fault-line/article_156cd7a0-cb27-11df-aa82-001cc4c03286.html

 

Well, then, it seems like it's their fault.

[Beau Vine 54246]

Willy Braun apparently caused it:

 

[The Original CaliHorn 68]

56 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

By road, it's about 215 miles to Stanley, but as the magpie flies, it's probably less than 150 miles.

Have spent a significant amount of time in Stanley, Redfish Lake and the Sawtooth’s as a fellow Longhorn brother of mine from Longview has resided in Boise since 1997. His wedding was in the lodge at Redfish Lake. Beautiful area

 

[stone oak 639]

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70008jr5/executive

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Tectonic Summary

The March 31, 2020, M 6.5 earthquake west of Challis, Idaho (about 120 km northeast of Boise), occurred as the result of complex strike slip faulting within the shallow crust of the North America plate. Preliminary focal mechanism solutions for the event, which describe the style of faulting in an earthquake, indicate slip likely occurred on a steeply dipping fault striking either east-west (right-lateral) or north-south (left-lateral). This earthquake occurred within the Intermountain Seismic Belt, a prominent zone of recorded seismicity in the Intermountain West, and is within the western part of the Centennial Tectonic Belt, an area of southwest-northeast extension north of the Snake River Plain. The quake is about 16 km north-northeast of the Sawtooth fault, a 60-km-long normal fault that extends along the eastern base of the Sawtooth Range.

 

Historic seismicity in the immediate vicinity of the March 31 earthquake is sparse; no earthquakes of M5+ have occurred within 50 km of this event over the past 50 years, and the most notable historic seismicity in the region occurred about 100 km to the east on the Lost River fault zone. This was the site of the 1983 M6.9 Borah Peak earthquake (October 28, 1983), which was followed by five other M 5+ events over the following year, and most recently a M5.0 earthquake in January 2015, about 60 km to the east of today’s event. The March 31, 2020 event is the largest in Idaho since the Borah Peak earthquake. That event killed 2 in Challis, and resulted in over $12M in damage in the Challis-Mackay area. As of 1 hour after this earthquake, two aftershocks (M 4.6, M 3.6) have been located by the USGS, both to the south of the M 6.5 event.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

15 hours ago, Fuck Tim Beck said:

I like my potatoes like I like my martinis. Shaken, not stirred. 

They make some fine vodka out of taters..... Just sayin'

[Guadaloopy 10973]