Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Millions prepare for aftershocks after earthquake rocks Los Angeles" video.

It's because it was so shallow. That being said, even with it being that shallow, it's barely newsworthy. That being said, sometimes smaller quakes like this turn out to be foreshocks rather than the main earthquake and I can't help but notice that the 17th is coming up. Both the North Ridge and Loma Prieta earth quakes happened on the 17th of a month.
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@JAAY2KAAY Yes and from the looks of it probably fairly shallow, but there should be more specific information over the next day.
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It's partially a matter of depth. This one looks to have been relatively shallow, which is why you see any sort of meaningful movement of furniture in those videos. As somebody in Florida, I think the Mississippi River is probably the closest location to you that is known to be seismically active.
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@split_ce Yep 4.4 is pretty tiny. One that size has to be like right on the surface for it to do any meaningful damage. I don't really understand why they even bother to report anything under about 5 unless there's actual damage or injuries.
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@ArizonaSquatch TBH, at a certain point there's not much point in being afraid. Just make sure you've got a water source and food to cover you until FEMA can get setup.
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They'll revise the figures over the next bit as they crunch the data. It happens a lot.
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@707imperial Yep, from the looks of it, this one was kind of shallow, but again, this is an area of the world that regularly gets earthquakes and there's a massive one coming at some point.
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4.4 magnitude is like nothing, presumably this one was relatively shallow if there's any meaningful shaking going on. I've only personally been through one earth quake it was a 5.3 and I mostly just remember watching the water in the fish tank slosh back and forth. I didn't even bother trying to get under anything because it just wasn't any point.
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@harpitap Jesus comes to LA a lot, I think he is a janitor at one of the highrises.
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It wasn't even that big compared with the one that they're expecting. It was a significant quake, don't get me wrong, but compared with the big one it's not so big. Here in WA, we're still waiting on our big one and it's been over 20 years since our last significant quake. And even that one is a tiny fraction of the amount of energy that seismologists think is trapped in the faults here.
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@mattbingen Yep, it does happen, but mostly in areas where there aren't faults and a lot of oil. And when it does happen, it tends to be much smaller earthquakes that don't really do any damage.
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@BabaYaga-yh3yi These barely release any pressure. IIRC, they're expecting an 8.0+ earthquake to hit the region. A 7.0 earthquake is significant, but would barely release any of that. Each increase of 1 magnitude is roughly 10x as much shaking and 32x as much energy released.
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Nope, probably the 17th. Loma Prieta 10/17, Northridge 1/17. So, clearly whatever this one is 8/17. (obviously, I'm kidding, although I would kind of freak out if that did happen)
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4.4 generally isn't, but from the video, it appears to have been relatively shallow and right underneath a neighborhood rather than in the middle of nowhere.
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