Idaho Earthquake Swarm

[Yvonne Smith]

Have you read Deep Midwinter? I think it is available on Amazon. It has been out for years and is a story of a midwinter eruption of Rainier.

I can’t find that book, @Don Alaska . Who wrote it ?

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Yep, that's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on.

Monitoring Stations Detect Small Magnitude Earthquakes At Mt. Rainier in July 2025

This swarm consists of hundreds of very small earthquakes with the largest so far being a magnitude 2.4 at 12:23 p.m. PDT (19:23 UTC) on July 11, 2025.

After 27 years of living 50 miles from the most seismically active place in California, I find it difficult to worry about quakes below 5.0, unless they are so close to the surface of the ground that you could dig a hole and hit the epicenter. The quake listed about was in fact very shallow, only 1.6 mi down. But no damage was reported. My bed probably shakes that hard just from me getting up.

My point is, yes that is a lot of quakes, but since the largest one this year was 4.5 with no reported damage, I think they're nothing to worry about.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Here is a chart showing what they think would happen if Yellowstone did have a bad eruption. This would certainly qualify for that worldwide catastrophe that @Jacob Petersheim posted the video about !

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I doubt many people are taking such information as a signal to begin digging holes to hide in or stocking up on dry beans and ammunition. Anyone with such an inclination is probably already doing just that.

The scale of such a disaster is probably beyond any conventional preparation. Even "safe" areas might end up looking like the grim 2009 movie "The Road."

 

[Don Alaska]

I can’t find that book, @Don Alaska . Who wrote it ?

I will have to look for it. It used to be on Amazon, and I may have a copy on my Kindle. I thought I had it on my old computer as a PDF, but I may have the title slightly off. It has been years since I read it.

 

[Don Alaska]

I can’t find that book, @Don Alaska . Who wrote it ?

I got the title slightly wrong. It is Deep Winter (not Deep Midwinter) and is by Thomas Sherry. There are 4 books in the series, but only the first and maybe the second are worth reading IMHO. Here is the link.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I got the title slightly wrong. It is Deep Winter (not Deep Midwinter) and is by Thomas Sherry. There are 4 books in the series, but only the first and maybe the second are worth reading IMHO. Here is the link.

Okay, I found it and 3 of the series are on Kindle Unlimited, so I just borrowed the first book, and will see how I like it.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I got the title slightly wrong. It is Deep Winter (not Deep Midwinter) and is by Thomas Sherry. There are 4 books in the series, but only the first and maybe the second are worth reading IMHO. Here is the link.

I really have been enjoying these books, @Don Alaska ! Since i lived in and around Spokane for many years, most of the places he talks about are familiar to me. I am on the second book, and just skimming though some of the parts that are too technical for me, but enjoying the story a lot. Will probably read the third one, too !

 

[Don Alaska]

I really have been enjoying these books, @Don Alaska ! Since i lived in and around Spokane for many years, most of the places he talks about are familiar to me. I am on the second book, and just skimming though some of the parts that are too technical for me, but enjoying the story a lot. Will probably read the third one, too !

Glad you enjoyed them @Yvonne Smith. Just like the "One Second After" series, I found the books got a little weird as they went along. I got the first three as PDF files. I think they came from a friend whose son knows the author. I think we got the 4th book from somewhere else.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

There was an earthquake measuring 8.7 just off the coast of Russia today. This is a very large quake, and follows after a string of smaller quakes along the string of islands between Alaska and Russia.
There are now tsunami warnings all along the West Coast of the United States.
Did you feel this quake, @Don Alaska , and are you okay ?

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We have not seen @Don Alaska yet today. As far as I have been able to read, there was not a lot of damage in Alaska from the quake, and I do not remember what part Don and his family live in, but it is somewhere inland on not along the ocean, so any tsunami should not be an issue for them.
Hoping that he is okay and just busy !

Edit to add:
I remember he said that he and his wife were traveling to Washington State around now, so they might be on the road, is why we have not heard from Don Alaska.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Like I always say... Don't live in places where flooding is common. That was one of the first things I thought of when we were house hunting in Eureka. A minimum of 150 feet above sea level...

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Adam Carolla Reacts to the Tsunami Warnings in California