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Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia
- barbarr 2mo agoI read the title as 5 km S of San Jose (as in bay area) at first
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- ballsac 2mo agoDid you? Fascinating.
- shadow28 2mo agoThere's dozens of cities and towns named San José globally.
- sophacles 2mo agoSome amusing data about this in the US: There's at least one[a] town/city called San Jose in at least[b] 4 US states. Not to mention other things named such (e.g. 2 different San Jose creeks in California, neither of which is in the San Jose metro - one in LA and one in Monterey) [a] there appears to be 2 towns in new mexico called San Jose [a.2] Illinois amuses me because there's a San Jose and St Joseph both, and both are small. [b] There appears to be a tiny (pop 15) town called San Jose in Texas, but it's unclear if that's officially incorporated, etc.
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- Izikiel43 2mo agoIs this related to the one in Venezuela earlier this year?
- c6400sc 2mo agoThe national paper has a bunch of articles above the fold: https://www.eltiempo.com https://www.eltiempo.com . 20+ confirmed dead in Pereira, a third-tier city with population of ~500,000. Many wounded.
- Gualdrapo 2mo agoDidn't feel it but apparently it lasted several minutes and there was a lot of panic here in Bogota. Could see lots of people going out of their apartments in pijamas. Also TIL that in 2023, while in a smaller earthquake webcam streamers (adult entretainers) went out of their apartments in lingerie.
- LollipopYakuza 2mo agoSame here in Medellin. I can't imagine how it felt at San José
- tonyhart7 2mo agoseems there is a lot of activity in south america
- mito88 2mo agoVenezuela and now this.... .
- thataccount 2mo agoColombia has been doing some rocking and rolling lately.
- BenzeneDream 2mo agoColombia*
- BenzeneDream 2mo agoWas pretty intense. Buildings and windows shaking.
- jofer 2mo agoThankfully, it's a fairly deep (>100km) subduction zone earthquake. That means less immediate damage from ground acceleration than it could be from an earthquake of that size. However, a very large area may have seen significant liquefaction of soils in valleys and landslides on steep slopes. I'd wager we won't hear about most of the damage initially in the press.
- cineticdaffodil 2mo agoIs there something like a domino theory for earth quakes? Like first some stress releases in Venezuella, then the same stress travells further up the boundary, triggering a earth quake in a different region? Working its way up the plate boundary towards a big one like a fuse?
- selectodude 2mo agoYes, the seismic waves that are from one earthquake can absolutely give an extra oomph to a fault line that's somewhere else.
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- tshaddox 2mo agoI have family in this area in Valle del Cauca. We've heard from my immediate family and they're okay, but communication is spotty and we don't have a great sense of how bad things are yet. We fly into Matecaña International Airport in Pereira and it looks like the terminal had major damage and at least a few deaths. Shocking and horrifying stuff.
- yassa9 2mo agoA few days ago, Egypt experienced its most violent earthquake in a long time. It occurred near the Suez Canal and lasted for about 30 seconds. It was absolutely terrifying.
- YesBox 2mo agoStatistical anomaly detected: this morning I woke up from an earth quake in my dream. It was powerful enough to really sway the buildings and room I was in. Im in Texas though, but >= 7.0 earthquakes only happen a handful of times a year. e: first time I dreamed of an earthquake
- jandrewrogers 2mo agoMagnitude 7.x earthquakes happen 1-2 times per month.
- dylan604 2mo agowhen was this? USGS shows no earthquake in Texas. Are you trying to say that Texas as >= 7.0 earthquakes a handful of times a year? According to wiki[0], Texas has never had anything close to a 7.0 [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Texas
- spogbiper 2mo agoonce while visiting Peru, I had a vivid memorable dream that my cat was jumping on the bed. woke up to learn that I'd slept through an earthquake.
- Taek 2mo agoWas on the 6th floor of a tower. Shaking lasted almost 2 minutes. There was no damage as far as I could tell (Medellín) but they still evacuated everyone to inspect the building. City is in a bit of chaos, people are fine but unsettled, and the comms lines are clogged with people presumably calling their families. Was a bit tense to see my phone alerts going off over and over, continually increasing the estimate of the earthquake strength, followed by the shaking getting worse. For people who don't know, those phone alerts give you literally like 5 seconds of heads up. By the time I finished reading the first message, the shaking had already started. And I got the message while I was holding my phone and using it.
- xenadu02 2mo agoThat's unavoidable. We now have shake alerts in CA but if the quake happens on the Hayward fault across the bay San Francisco isn't going to get much warning no matter what anyone does. By best estimates we may get 15s of warning.
- Hobadee 2mo ago15s is enough to book it to a close stairwell in some cases. I used to work in a dodgy building in the city. Any time one of those shake alerts hit, I would sprint to the stairwell and everyone would look at me funny. Jokes on them when the big one hits!
- fragmede 2mo agoDepends. Surving means you have to deal with the aftermath. That's not going to be pretty.
- xenadu02 2mo agoI agree and I'm glad we have the alerts. I'm just saying we may not get any warning and that's nobody's fault. I'm also thankful that we have at least some seismic standards and have continued to increase them. Look at how a country like Chile fares where they don't just have standards they enforce them. You can't bribe your way out of proper seismic engineering for the most part. Then look at Columbia which technically has NSR-10 but enforcement is... not exactly stringent. The results are obvious. Where standards are lax or just as importantly enforcement is lax structures collapse and people die. Where the standards are good and taken seriously damage is much less severe. Even here in San Francisco things are not all perfect. Sometimes things slip through the cracks like the Millennium Tower. Others are known: the city has a special seismic hardened firefighting pipe network with big metal rods that clamp the pipes together to prevent joints from coming apart. With special seawater pumps and even ship-based seawater hookups so if all else fails they can pump vast volumes of seawater into that network... yet that network has absolutely massive gaps that have been known about for decades and still exist but there are no plans to expand it whatsoever. You'd think the city would continuously invest in this system to slowly expand it over time even if just a bit. But nope.
- 0xbeebs 2mo agoIn Bogotá I was asleep and a bunch of random alarms from other buildings woke me up. Didn't notice any shaking but the ceiling was making noises.
- WhiteDawn 2mo agoI hope in my lifetime we discover a way to predict earthquakes better, the danger to life from them would be significantly less if there was sufficient notification. We can alert for storms, tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, and even somewhat extraterrestrial disasters like asteroids. The earth itself must move in predictable patterns similar to the weather, and I'm sure there is decades of research around this I'll never even approach to understanding. Just surprising to have such a big knowledge gap that affects humanity year round
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo agoEven if it's predictable the opaqueness of the earth crust makes predictive models hard
- gpm 2mo agoReally I suspect that's the only hard part. If we had accurate 3d models of the structure (well 4d, 3d models over time) it would probably be reasonably easy to estimate how much strain it can take, and how much strain there is... Maybe not predict-to-the-second levels of detail but at least to predict that a quake we see is likely to be a precursor to a much larger one or is likely that peak. But getting that data seems... practically impossible at our current tech level.
- mhurron 2mo ago> at least to predict that a quake we see is likely to be a precursor to a much larger one or is likely that peak. That we can basically do. "Observations show that the chance of an earthquake being followed by a larger one nearby and within a week is about 5%." https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-probability-earthquake-a-foreshock-a-larger-earthquake https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-probability-earthquake-a-fore... It is an incredibly safe bet that any earthquake is not the sign of a larger one.
- gpm 2mo ago5% within a week is a very high set of odds for such rare events. Or to look at it from the other more relevant direction 70% of magnitude 7 or larger quakes have detected foreshocks... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshock
- raybb 2mo agoWhenever I want to follow what's happening with a natural disaster like this, where many friends and family are potentially affected, I always use the Wikipedia page, which tends to have the most up-to-date information very quickly. It helps me avoid zooming in on the news and seeing rehashed articles posted on multiple websites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Colombia_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Colombia_earthquake
- mito88 2mo agovenezuela and now this...
- mutagen 2mo agoSome technical background on the underlying siesmicity and causes can be found on the excellent Earthquake Insights blog https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/deadly-m74-earthquake-strikes-beneath https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/deadly-m74-earthqu...
- TheAlchemist 2mo agoReally curious if it's related somehow to the Venezuela one. Interestingly, New Zealand also experienced a well above average frequency of shakes recently, although the scientist don't see any relation yet. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/successive-m5-plus-earthquakes-are-unusual-but-not-signs-of-major-rupture-earth-sciences-nz-says/BONRPHPKIBB6XJI3HTLYVH5ZD4/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/successive-m5-plus-earthquakes...
- Beijinger 2mo agoMy bed was shaking. I thought the guy in the other room had rough sex. Just realized when I got up, based on the warning message on my phone, that it was an earthquake.
- Beijinger 2mo agoI mean, it happens when you are half asleep. Later I realized that this would have been impossible with a prestressed concrete ceiling/floor.
- baristaGeek 2mo agoLived it from my 20th floor apartment in Medellin. It was scary af, my wife started crying, but friends and family are OK. Interesting tech fact: A friend of mine who lives in SF couldn't communicate with his parents who were in the countryside near Pereira (one of the 2 or 3 most devastated cities) because comms were pretty bad, but luckily they had Starlink to be able communicate.
- salsa_catsup 2mo agoTwitter has videos of people getting crushed (probably dead) by falling facade as they try to exit the building. I guess it's still considered smart to try to exit your building in a quake? Maybe it depends on the building.