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LONE PINE, Calif. – A series of earthquakes — the largest a magnitude-5.1 — have rattled the Lone Pine area of the eastern Sierra in Central California.

The largest struck about 18 miles southeast of the town of Lone Pine along the east shore of the Owens River at 3:01 a.m.

It was followed within three hours by about a half-dozen smaller quakes between magnitude-3.0 and magnitude-3.5 in the same rural area near Sequoia National Park, about 180 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Inyo County sheriff's dispatcher Faith Felton says she felt a slight tremor during the strongest quake. No damages or injuries have been reported.

U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Randy Baldwin says a couple of quakes with magnitudes of about 5.4 have occurred in the area in recent years.

Sure seems to be a Whole Lot O' Shakin' going on.

I'll see your earthquakes in Cali and raise you one closer to home

Small Earthquake Near Shelton Reported
Posted: 7:08 am PDT October 1, 2009

SHELTON, Wash. -- The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network said a minor earthquake with a magnitude of 3.4 was reported Wednesday night about six miles west-southwest of Shelton, Wash.

The quake was recorded at 8:10 p.m. at a depth of 27 miles.

The Seismic Network is based at the University of Washington.

UW seismology lab coordinator Bill Steele said Western Washington experiences frequent quakes of about magnitude 3.0 -- about 10 a year.

A woman who called KIRO 7 said her family and neighbors felt their homes shake

Will you two stop jumping on the beds so that things stop shaking so much!

The Lost Manatee wrote:Will you two stop jumping on the beds so that things stop shaking so much!

The sad thing is I really want to feel an earthquake - but we live on a huge rock so I can't

Is anyone getting worried about this, we've just had 3 major earthquakes or some trembling in the past week (when has that happened last?)

BTW the movie 2012 is likely misnamed at this point (maybe they should have called it 2010...)

Glorfindel7 wrote:Is anyone getting worried about this, we've just had 3 major earthquakes or some trembling in the past week (when has that happened last?)

BTW the movie 2012 is likely misnamed at this point (maybe they should have called it 2010...)

When I was in School .. (in California) they always taught that
all the lil ones meant that the pressure was not building up for the
BIG one..

We had an earthquake in the northeast about 15 years ago. Didn't feel a thing.

ragtopW wrote:

Glorfindel7 wrote:Is anyone getting worried about this, we've just had 3 major earthquakes or some trembling in the past week (when has that happened last?)

BTW the movie 2012 is likely misnamed at this point (maybe they should have called it 2010...)

When I was in School .. (in California) they always taught that
all the lil ones meant that the pressure was not building up for the
BIG one..

I also hope that the earthquakes happening over near Samoa, etc. and the ones in California don't mean that the New Madrid fault is gonna go, too.

citcat wrote:

ragtopW wrote:

Glorfindel7 wrote:Is anyone getting worried about this, we've just had 3 major earthquakes or some trembling in the past week (when has that happened last?)

BTW the movie 2012 is likely misnamed at this point (maybe they should have called it 2010...)

When I was in School .. (in California) they always taught that
all the lil ones meant that the pressure was not building up for the
BIG one..

I also hope that the earthquakes happening over near Samoa, etc. and the ones in California don't mean that the New Madrid fault is gonna go, too.

You know, that thought occurred to me as well

ph4ever wrote:

The Lost Manatee wrote:Will you two stop jumping on the beds so that things stop shaking so much!

The sad thing is I really want to feel an earthquake - but we live on a huge rock so I can't

We thought that in Pittsburgh, we were wrong. It was very small, but felt!