Rumbling at night

[backpackpack]

I went out to the second grove at borrego palm canyon this weekend, it was pleasant. The moon was so bright I could make out words on my kindle. Water was flowing in the river, not to hot, not too windy.

As I was laying in my tent around 11pm I would guess, I heard and felt a loud boom that seemed to come from the earth. It lasted about 1 second, the ground rumbled and I heard a boom. I was thinking it could have been a little earthquake or a sonic boom. Pretty interesting!

[Pitownpi]

http://beforeitsnews.com/strange/2013/10/oarfish-fish-with-large-scale-earthquake-detector-believed-to-herald-earthquakes-2452196.html

http://laist.com/2013/10/20/why_are_rare_sea_creatures_washing.php

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2013/10/discovery-of-second-sea-serpent-oarfish-confirms-ca-earthquake-2455420.html

[drndr]

Yep, I hear and feel the same thing after eating a bunch of those freeze dried camping meals. If I'm sharing my tent I like to blame it on earthquakes too.

[zippetydude]

Might have been this:

http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Quak ... 81058.html

I have occasionally felt very small earthquakes when it was quiet and I was very near the epicenter. If you had been in a car or a noisy room you probably wouldn't have noticed it. As it was, you might easily have been the only one to notice that earthquake. Perhaps they should name it the backpackpackquake.

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[halhiker]

That's not too surprising. The area near Font's Point, which is east of the Borrego Palm Canyon area is the one of the most seismologically active areas in California. It is in the San Jacinto Fault Zone which has had more good sized earthquakes (over Mag. 6) in the last 100 years than any fault in Southern California.

There was this on Saturday at 11:31, 4 miles from your location.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 38#summary

[Perry]

I've been thinking about the same thing lately about the oarfish. A scientific hypothesis would be that hydrogen sulfide released from underwater vents kills oarfish, then a big quake happens in the near future. But I wouldn't get too excited about just 2 oarfish. Japan had a lot more of them washing up before the big one in 2011.

Here's an article in 2010:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... Japan.html

[backpackpack]

Haha! Oh my!

I did not think to check the USGS earthquake page until now, yeah I see there were 3 earthquakes Friday night right around that time. I bet that is what I felt!

I need to print shirts: I survived the great backpackpack quake of 2013

The oarfish thing is interesting. I wonder if that rose canyon fault is going to erupt and turn san onofre into our own version of fukushima.

[Perry]

I need to print shirts: I survived the great backpackpack quake of 2013

Be careful....somebody might just make you a t-shirt and hand it to you on the trail one of these days... 2.5 with a 1.3 after-shock.

[RichMcG]

I was in Fish Creek/Split Mountain area that weekend doing some Navigation skills with adult scout leaders and something woke me up that night too. Did you see the killer full moon rise on Saturday? The sun set 1/2 hour before and it was awesome!

[Robert Hunt]

In 2011, a buddy & I were about a quarter mile below Toro on the South side when it felt like someone hit the rock we were resting on with a sledge hammer. Just one loud, sharp "Crack". Never experienced an earthquake like that before.