Magnitude 6.5 - CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
2003 December 22 19:15:56 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
U.C. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, California

A strong earthquake occurred at 19:15:56 (UTC) on Monday, December 22, 2003. The magnitude 6.5 event has been located in CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 8 km ( 5 miles). (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)





Magnitude 6.5
Date-Time Monday, December 22, 2003 at 19:15:56 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Monday, December 22, 2003 at 11:15:56 AM
= local time at epicenter

Location 35.706°N, 121.102°W
Depth 7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Region CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Distances 11 km (6 miles) NE (49°) from San Simeon, CA
17 km (10 miles) N (356°) from Cambria, CA
20 km (13 miles) W (260°) from Lake Nacimiento, CA
39 km (24 miles) WNW (283°) from Paso Robles, CA
195 km (121 miles) SSE (158°) from San Jose City Hall, CA

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.8 km (0.5 miles)
Parameters Nst= 46, Nph= 46, Dmin=5.4 km, Rmss=0.05 sec, Gp= 83°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=3
Source U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
U.C. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Event ID nc40148755

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LOL

You're right, it's horrible.
Whole sections of several states go under water for days at a time. High winds and seas force thousands to evacuate their homes. Dozens of people die. . . . oh, wait, that's a hurricane. Southeast US. . . my bad.
OK, ok, the sky turns black, then the hail starts, and the high winds. Entire trailer parks are scrubbed off their foundations and deposited several counties away. Dozens of families die, and hundreds more are left homeless. . . DAMN IT ! !! that's a tornado. Midwest U.S. Crap. . . . Sorry.
All right. several feet of the crap falls over several states for days. Several states are paralyzed. business shuts down. Schools close, people die. . . . wait a minute, thats a blizzard. Northern US. . . . SH#T !!!! Why can't I get this right ? ? ?!!!!
OK, the earth shakes for maybe thirty seconds, people like Nort and myself go "whoa". We are so shook up, we go boating.

Right along that red fault line......

I should buy some land in parkfield. In a couple of years I'll make a killing selling oceanfront property.

lol rouxsterre, unfortunatly i'm in tornado alley and get play with winds and hail.

Ouch, my cousins live over there, hope everything was alright.

That'll be the day I go back to Annandale

===Those two bodies of water you see in the area are Lake Naciemiento and San Antonio...Great camping and water sking/boating areas.

It's more central Cali than SO Cal.. I went thru the 6.4 Northridge quake when I lived in Norts territory, Woodland Hills.. It completely trashed my apartment at Oakwood Apts..

CNN is overstressing the area and the concern of the atomic energy plant..