A 6.1 EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED I NAPA
NAPA, Calif. (AP) - A large earthquake caused significant damage and
left three critically injured in California's northern Bay Area
early Sunday, igniting fires, sending at least 87 people to a
hospital, knocking out power to tens of thousands and sending
residents running out of their homes in the darkness.
Two adults and one child have critical injuries and Queen of the
Valley hospital has treated 87 people, the city of Napa in
California wine country said in a statement Sunday. Most patients
have cuts, bumps, bruises, said Vanessa DeGier, spokeswoman for the
hospital in Napa. She says the facility has treated a hip fracture
and heart attack, but it's unclear if it was related to the
6.0-magnitude earthquake. The hospital has set up a triage tent and
many people are still coming in, DeGier said.
The quake caused six significant fires, including at a mobile home
part, Napa Division Fire Chief Darren Drake said. Four mobile homes
have been destroyed and two others damaged, the city 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, said
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.
Three historic buildings in Napa have been damaged, including the
county courthouse, and at least two downtown commercial buildings
have been severely damaged. A Red Cross evacuation center has been
set up at a high school and crews are assessing damage to homes.
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
locations, one of which left at least one street flooded. Gas breaks
have also been reported in several areas. Power outages left
streetlights dark.Numerous emergency vehicles were on the roads in Napa and Sonoma
counties.
I had a dream that the San
Francisco/Sacramento area was going to have a quake
19-14. I was given the names MARY JANE'S ADVENTURE and MARY RUPP
while I was remembering this dream. I went to visit a female friend. She was a chubby woman with long dark
hair, and she showed me her new baby.
The baby was beautiful to behold, and she looked a lot like her Mom, dark hair,
beautiful face, a little chubby.
The baby was sleeping, and my friend had some things to do while I was there,
and she gave me the baby to hold, which was a big thrill for me. My
motherly instincts arise instantly around little babies.
My friend said she had something to do that couldn't wait so she left the room,
and no sooner was she out of the room, the whole building started to shake -
not terribly hard, but it was vibrating so much that particles were falling off
the ceiling, which must have been one of those popcorn ceilings that are bumpy
to look at.
Everything was getting covered with this popcorn bits of the ceiling, so I ran
to a closet, hoping to find some sheets to cover things with, and when I did
that, I discovered two old men laying on beds in the bedrooms, and they weren't
covered, just laying on the beds napping or resting.
So, I had to cover the men first because they weren't even aware something was
going on.
Instead of finding sheets, I found lacy table cloths, so I grabbed those.
There was no time to look for sheets - the men had to be covered so they didn't
wake up to find all this particle stuff falling on them and nobody helping them.
So, I covered the baby and the men with lacy table cloths, and down further in
the stack were some other white sheets - a little late to cover everything else
that already had white ceiling particles all over it, but I did the best I
could.
Once the particles stopped falling, I sat down to write down some notes about
what happened, and I numbered them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and each of those numbers
were descriptions of what I had done and with what, and that's when I was given
the names.
THIS MARY RUPP IS THE CLOSEST I COULD FIND THAT MADE ANY SENSE
http://www.erench.com/RESTAUR/CALIF/SCRM/BRKCLUB/OPH/index.htm
5 MILLION PEOPLE CAME TO MIND in a VOICE LATER
THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA HAS ABOUT 7 MILLION PEOPLE
SAN FRANCISCO WHERE ANOTHER MARY RUPP LIVES AND WORKS AS AN ATTORNEY HAS ABOUT 9
MILLION PEOPLE.
25, 2014 at 14:22:53
From: Polydactyl
in N. Ba
Subject: Bay Area
quake? It's probably nothing..
Bay Area: Deformation, Seismos, and
Spector's
SF
POINT PINOLE CREEP dropped (sudden but small)
CHABOT shows tiny compression trend
Most of the strainmeters are blank (Marin Headlands, Ohlone, Ox
Mountain)RUSSEL Dilatometer shows sudden DROP
*not sure if any of these are equipment problems)
PARKFIELD CREEP UP! (not much compression on graphs)
TAYLOR RANCH
VARIAN
PARKFIELD 1
SLACK CANYON
MIDDLE_MT
MIDDLE_RIDGE
GOLD HILL
HIGHWAY 46(C461
VINEYARD SEISMO showed some disturbing blobs - what type quakes
are these?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/helicorders/nca/153/20140725/
Some quakes on Portugese Canyon, Stone Canyon (parkfield), Hope
Ranch, Middle Mt, and Point Pinole. A different signature shows
up on a number of seismos between 11-12: KHMB Horse Mt, KRMB Red
Mt., KSXB Camp Six, etc.:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/helicorders/nca/20140725/
Also Casa Benchmark and Devil's Postpile, Mammoth Lakes, Deadman
Creek (latter two, smaller signatures).
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA graph showing big compression (west of
Hollister) unless it's one of those that can be 'stomped on' by
hikers, lol.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/deformation/data/plots/?region=SJ&days=30&instrument=gtsm
Grey Butte and Mammoth look like 'gas' on spectrograms but not
much on spectros, at all. SAFOD Main Hole Parkfield is the only
spectro showing some 2Hz activity. Given the Russell creep
'stop' and Fremont creep 'up' and Pinole, St. Vincent 'tiny
compression,' maybe there will be another small East Bay Quake,
otherwise my money is on SJB.
Recent CA NV maps shows a big v-shape of micros from Big Bend to
Isabella, and lots of micros along the Parkfield. My take is
that we might have another Hollister type quake but further WEST
at SJB, or further south around Hearst Castle latitude.
After all that, my reason for posting is what is going on with
the big wedge shape of micros above Big Bend?
Will Kellis-Borik ever get their day in the sun?
Just for the record, and maybe it's heat, the N. Bay is a little
too pensive QUIET today, for a Friday!
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