Our Seismologist Evaluates Last Night’s Earthquake

So, did you feel last night’s earthquake? I sure did. Heard it too. Good times.

Julian Lozos, Bernalwood’s Senior Seismologist, wasn’t here for the shake, but after it he tweeted up a storm from his high-tech monitoring post. Here’s some of his seismo-punditry:

The Bay Area quake that just happened /really/ is not related to the one in Virginia earlier. It's both too far away and too long after.

— Julian Lozos (@seismogenic) August 24, 2011

Stress change from VA quake only affected area in direct vicinity of fault. Even New Madrid too far for this type of trigger, let alone CA.

— Julian Lozos (@seismogenic) August 24, 2011

Waves from VA quake went past Bay Area hours ago, so the Hayward thing is not a dynamic trigger, either.

— Julian Lozos (@seismogenic) August 24, 2011

Nice clean right-lateral strike-slip mechanism for the Bay Area 3.6. Hello, Hayward Fault! http://t.co/48CTGbp

— Julian Lozos (@seismogenic) August 24, 2011

Dear faults in southern California: Not tonight, please. I need to sleep, and already had much distraction from research today.

— Julian Lozos (@seismogenic) August 24, 2011

For those of you in @Bernalwood who are blissfully sleeping, thank chert for keeping the faults from interrupting your rest!

— Julian Lozos (@seismogenic) August 24, 2011

Yaaaaay, chert!

6 thoughts on “Our Seismologist Evaluates Last Night’s Earthquake”

Slept right through…

But don’t make fun of the devastation visited on the uninitiated in the East, they can handle that themselves:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/08/23/east-coast-earthquake-destruction-and-damage-twitter-photos.html

Good to know I’m not the only one thinking there could have been a connection between the east and west coast quakes.

Is anyone studying the effects that the melting ice caps have on redistribution of weight over the planet and how that could be effecting the movement of earth’s tectonic plates? Anyone know?