Thanks for the good wishes all. The final calculation by the USGS was 4.8 which is a moderate quake. The Mayacamus fault runs North South and we are just a few miles from it. This event was about midway between the Mayacamus and the Bartlett Springs fault. It was felt as far south as Cloverdale, west to Ft. Bragg and east to Willows. North to a wilderness area called the Yolla Bolly. The little village of Covello was just a few miles from it but I haven't heard any reports of damage from there. Quakes are weird. The Geysers is only a dozen miles from here and there are sometimes 4.0 events there (it is one of the most seismically active regions in the state) and we never feel them. The energy travels in a different direction most of the time.


I have experienced several large events such as the Loma Prieta which stopped the Bay to Bay World Series in '89 I believe it was. We felt it only slightly here. I was in Victorville (George AFB) during the Newhall event that leveled the VA hospital and that one shook the heck out of us at 6 o'clock in the AM. I was about 40 miles from the Coalinga quake and I thought it was going to slosh the water out of the canal of which bank I was standing. WOW! I've been fortunate to have never been in the middle of one. You never know though.

But I will say this. I'd much rather take my chances with an earthquake than with a midwest twister. The thought of those scare the daylights out of me!