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So An Earthquake Just To Keep Us On Our Toes?

I know this is a huge word of mouth thing and maybe a bit out there but.. My friends mom knows a seismologist at the UofU and I guess he text her just to warn her family and get ready. He thinks there is going to be a 9.0 before lunch. Its 10:19 right now.
 
reignman40 said:
I know this is a huge word of mouth thing and maybe a bit out there but.. My friends mom knows a seismologist at the UofU and I guess he text her just to warn her family and get ready. He thinks there is going to be a 9.0 before lunch. Its 10:19 right now.
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He is incorrect

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@tfivas

do whatever you want but I wouldn’t be going anywhere near any health facility unless I’m at deaths door.

Ice your head. Keep tabs on it in the coming days and weeks but I'd be hesitant to be around people. FWIW, my dad had a major cycling accident a couple summers ago. No hematoma showed up at the hospital. Memory loss doe. A month later he had major headaches...he went to his doctor. There was a hematoma that must’ve been very slow to develop. Had to be admitted to a hospital in Philly and stay overnight for four days. They almost drilled a hole in his skull to allow swelling to go down but did not. I forget why. At its worst, his brain had moved 18mm which I didn’t even know was possible.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
@tfivas

do whatever you want but I wouldn’t be going anywhere near any health facility unless I’m at deaths door.

Ice your head. Keep tabs on it in the coming days and weeks but I'd be hesitant to be around people. FWIW, my dad had a major cycling accident a couple summers ago. No hematoma showed up at the hospital. Memory loss doe. A month later he had major headaches...he went to his doctor. There was a hematoma that must’ve been very slow to develop. Had to be admitted to a hospital in Philly and stay overnight for four days. They almost drilled a hole in his skull to allow swelling to go down but did not. I forget why. At its worst, his brain had moved 18mm which I didn’t even know was possible.
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Are you kidding? Some people's brains rattle around in there like a marble in a hot tub.
 
reignman40 said:
I know this is a huge word of mouth thing and maybe a bit out there but.. My friends mom knows a seismologist at the UofU and I guess he text her just to warn her family and get ready. He thinks there is going to be a 9.0 before lunch. Its 10:19 right now.
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This is going around as a Mormon myth. A few emails have come from Ward leaders and stake leaders. I have heard this from 3 different people already (this would be #4) all with different info and different authority figures. It's a classic Urban legend in situations like this. Some of them are talking about the end days, one from a local Bishop even referenced the second coming. It's all Mormon myth hogwash.
 
reignman40 said:
I know this is a huge word of mouth thing and maybe a bit out there but.. My friends mom knows a seismologist at the UofU and I guess he text her just to warn her family and get ready. He thinks there is going to be a 9.0 before lunch. Its 10:19 right now.
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That’s seismologically impossible on a Normal Fault in the Basin and Range province. So, lol at that ********.
 
NAOS said:
That’s seismologically impossible on a Normal Fault in the Basin and Range province. So, lol at that ********.
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I've always heard we could have something around an 8. That such a thing is a >1000 year event, but also that we are more than 500 years overdue.
 
What's it called when an earthquake happens in a place that used to be an ancient lakebed? It happened to Mexico City. Well anyway, The Salt Lake Valley is an ancient lakebed. I think I felt a little bit of that effect after the main shaking was over, there was a bit of "my girlfriend is getting out of the waterbed" feeling where there were some waves that lasted for several seconds. In a major earthquake that reverberation can cause a lot of additional damage.
 
Gameface said:
What's it called when an earthquake happens in a place that used to be an ancient lakebed? It happened to Mexico City. Well anyway, The Salt Lake Valley is an ancient lakebed. I think I felt a little bit of that effect after the main shaking was over, there was a bit of "my girlfriend is getting out of the waterbed" feeling where there were some waves that lasted for several seconds. In a major earthquake that reverberation can cause a lot of additional damage.
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That effect is sometimes called liquifaction.

But you don’t need to be on an ancient lake bed to have that kind of feeling. Different soil and sediment environments can result in magnifying the amplitude of a wave... sorta by allowing it to roll with a more steady rhythm.
 
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