Andy, as I shared with folks, including you, on Facebook, I personally was walking down near the Arcata Marsh at the Humboldt Bay's north edge and did not feel the earthquake although I did hear a load racket thinking it came from the huge truck racing past me as it crossed the railroad tracks. When I got to my destination of my storage, the owner was driving away and warned me that we had just had a major earthquake and he had just received a tsunami warning. There were several employees from Wings Inflatables standing outside their building and as the tsunami warning came on to everyone's phone (including my flip phone), they started driving out of their parking lot. I hitched a ride with a woman who works there and we drove up to a point in Arcata where one has a view of the bay and did see the water levels lower and then rise and lower again in the exposed mudflat area near the Arcata Marsh and Sewage Treatment facility. Nothing overflowed on to the streets, thank goodness. We have some incredible experts on the Mendocino Triple Junction and the Great Shakeout here in Humboldt if you are interested in talking to them about earthquakes and human response. Professor of Geology Emeritus Lori Dengler and USGS expert Jason Patton. Meanwhile, I have a friend's car who is away and it is facing out to get me uphill if a huge aftershock happens and I happen to be home. And I have decided to take my bright orange "go bag" backpack with me more often in my pedestrian travels through town.
Andy, as I shared with folks, including you, on Facebook, I personally was walking down near the Arcata Marsh at the Humboldt Bay's north edge and did not feel the earthquake although I did hear a load racket thinking it came from the huge truck racing past me as it crossed the railroad tracks. When I got to my destination of my storage, the owner was driving away and warned me that we had just had a major earthquake and he had just received a tsunami warning. There were several employees from Wings Inflatables standing outside their building and as the tsunami warning came on to everyone's phone (including my flip phone), they started driving out of their parking lot. I hitched a ride with a woman who works there and we drove up to a point in Arcata where one has a view of the bay and did see the water levels lower and then rise and lower again in the exposed mudflat area near the Arcata Marsh and Sewage Treatment facility. Nothing overflowed on to the streets, thank goodness. We have some incredible experts on the Mendocino Triple Junction and the Great Shakeout here in Humboldt if you are interested in talking to them about earthquakes and human response. Professor of Geology Emeritus Lori Dengler and USGS expert Jason Patton. Meanwhile, I have a friend's car who is away and it is facing out to get me uphill if a huge aftershock happens and I happen to be home. And I have decided to take my bright orange "go bag" backpack with me more often in my pedestrian travels through town.
Fascinating details. Hopefully people won’t see this as reason to relax.