HOLY Earthquake Swarm in Brawley, CA.

[General of Darkness]

Check out this link.

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

Also I took a screen shot of my Earthquake 3D.

WOW.

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9518/brawleyeqswarm.jpg

[BrewTech]

Not too far from me, and I haven't felt a thing. But then, I'm not that aware of the obvious.

[Gaillo]

When are you guys going to get out of that shithole? ???

[BrewTech]

When are you guys going to get out of that shithole? ???

SoCal? I just landed a brewing gig. I ain't going anywhere except closer to the job, dooooom be damned.

[Gaillo]

SoCal? I just landed a brewing gig. I ain't going anywhere except closer to the job, dooooom be damned.

Living in California, you ain't going anywhere but straight to hell... just saying! :o

[BrewTech]

Living in California, you ain't going anywhere but straight to hell... just saying! :o

Maybe, but at least I'll be doing what I love all the way there.

If it makes you happy, I will consider changing gigs and getting out of here after I have acquired what I feel to be sufficient experience. We will hope I have the time.

[Gaillo]

Maybe, but at least I'll be doing what I love all the way there.

If it makes you happy, I will consider changing gigs and getting out of here after I have acquired what I feel to be sufficient experience. We will hope I have the time.

That's a healthy way to look at it! No sense in living a life you don't want, just because of fear and doooom! ;)

Still... hoping you can get out while its still possible... both of you.

[Skirnir_]

Maybe, but at least I'll be doing what I love all the way there.

False dichotomy - it is generally possible to do what one likes at/from more than one location.

[Horn]

When are you guys going to get out of that shithole? ???

Speaking from a Geo-centric P.O.V.

What if the Pacific Ring was the only place that stays in tact, and the rest of the world falls away?

[BrewTech]

False dichotomy - it is generally possible to do what one likes at/from more than one location.

Understood. Once I have sufficient experience to take with me, I will move on.

Most on this forum know exactly what a noob I am in my new career. I'm lucky to have had the opportunities I have had, considering where I am.

(sorry for the derail)

[gunDriller]

SoCal? I just landed a brewing gig. I ain't going anywhere except closer to the job, dooooom be damned.


congrats !

only brewery i can think of in SoCal is Stone. there must be others.

[BrewTech]

congrats !

only brewery i can think of in SoCal is Stone. there must be others.

I'm not at Stone, but those guys are my good friends and professional colleagues.

[MNeagle]

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99 earthquakes so far today in southern California, incl. a 5.3 and 5.5 earlier this afternoon and seven others mag 4+. No injuries.Story metadata:

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[Serpo]

Still you guys should try and visit Christchurch and get a feel for it......hehe

Still swarms are better than big ones.......

[zap]

Nice to have a bunch of medium ones, it releases some of the pressure, so we don't have the big one.

[General of Darkness]

Nice to have a bunch of medium ones, it releases some of the pressure, so we don't have the big one.

It releases pressure on that fault, and pushes pressure towards other faults, so this isn't good news.

[zap]

Well it still releases pressure.:)

[Mouse]

Maybe if all the wankers in Kalifornia had a circle jerk it would also release pressure. That's a hell of a lot of wankers. You might just prevent the big one.

[Horn]

Earthquake swarm near Brawley overwhelms USGS seismographs

SALTON SEA — Earthquakes continue to shake the south end of the Salton Sea late Sunday in a seismic swarm that experts say is seen only twice a decade.The tremblers began after sunrise about three miles northwest of the small Imperial County farming town of Brawley. The largest quake of the day, a magnitude 5.5, struck at 1:57 p.m.
More than 300 quakes and aftershocks have been recorded so far at the same approximate epicenter, about 16 miles north of El Centro, according to preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey.
That includes three tremblers at 9:41 p.m. today that were centered in Brawley and felt in the Coachella Valley — 4.9, 3.4 and 3.2-magnitude respectively.

“What we’re seeing is a classic Brawley seismic swarm,” USGS seismologist Lucy Jones said.
“Our system is choking on so many earthquakes,” she continued. “This area of California is deep soils, and we do not get as precise data as we do over the rest of the state, and that makes our data a little less precise.”
The swarm will “definitely last for days,” and it is possible but unlikely that it could continue for weeks, California Institute of Technology seismologist Egill Hauksson said.
During the most recent swarm, more than 300 earthquakes struck the southern Salton Sea area — one of California’s most active seismic zones of the 1970s — in September 2005.
“That area is what we call an extension (between fault lines), so you get these rapid fire sequences that have lots of earthquakes and several earthquakes of similar magnitudes,” Hauksson said.
On Sunday, the ground began to spasm about 5 miles north-northwest of Brawley at sunrise, and the town was rocked by a magnitude 3.9 quake at 10:02 a.m.
It was followed by a 3.4-magnitude quake about 90 seconds later in the same area near the southern end of the Salton Sea. Smaller quakes followed within six minutes of the first shock.
No injuries or significant damage were reported.
Power went out at the Pioneers Medical Hospital in Brawley, but has been restored, the Imperial County Emergency Medical Services Agency said. Several patients were transferred to a different hospital.

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20120826/NEWS0805/120826002/Earthquake-swarm-near-Brawley-overwhelms-USGS-seismographs?nclick_check=1

[Gaillo]

she continued. “This area of California is deep soils, and we do not get as precise data as we do over the rest of the state, and that makes our data a little less precise.”

Gee... ya think? ::)

She wins the "Moronic use of the language award" for 2012.

[Serpo]

on shaky ground ........have a beer...some of the names are something like 'aftershock' beer


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More New Zealand Notes

As I flip through my notebook post-New Zealand, a few things stand out, such as:
Best Beer Name: Pernicious Weed by Garage Project (http://garageproject.co.nz/)
Best Beer Story: Red Zone Enigma by Twisted Hop (http://thetwistedhop.co.nz/latest-news/) — The Twisted Hop brewery was located within what is now the infamous “Red Zone” in Christchurch, which meant that a conditioning batch of their Enigma barley wine was necessarily left to mature from February, when the earthquake struck, to August, when the owners were finally allowed in to extract it and bottle it up! I didn’t have a chance to try it, but it is by all accounts very good indeed. (And I heard good news from Twisted Hop, too! Seems they’ll be reopening in not just one, but as many as three locations in Christchurch.)
Most Ridiculous Idea (That Actually Worked): The madmen behind Yeastie Boys (http://www.yeastieboys.co.nz/) thought it would be a wise idea to brew a beer with 100% peated malt, thus producing Rex Attitude, which strikes me as what Ardbeg might make if it were a brewery rather than a distillery. If that wasn’t foolishness enough, they then decided to up the alcohol content to 10% in an even bigger, peatier beer, Rex, which oddly enough seems more balanced and approachable than the 7% original.
Best Use of Non-Hop Local Ingredients: The Captain Cooker Manuka Beer from the Mussel Inn (http://www.musselinn.co.nz/) is flavoured with tips plucked from the manuka tree. The result is one of the most intriguing spice characters I have ever encountered in a beer.
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Arrow Brewing’s (http://www.arrowbrewing.co.nz/) Hop in a Bottle, which, yes, actually contains a whole hop cone. One which flakes apart when the bottle is even slightly agitated, leaving significant flotsam floating in your glass.
Best Marketing Slogan: Moa Brewing’s (http://www.moabeer.com/) “Dark and acceptable to all palates. The Will Smith of beers.”

http://worldofbeer.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/more-new-zealand-notes/

[Serpo]

massive swarm really and another earthquake down Mexico way