The Live July 5th 2019 Earthquake edition. It occurs at the end of the show.
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The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 223
The Live July 5th 2019 Earthquake edition. It occurs at the end of the show.

The Live July 5th 2019 Earthquake edition. It occurs at the end of the show.
The Live July 5th 2019 Earthquake edition. It occurs at the end of the show.
26 replies on “The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 223”
The discussion about Sysiphus (sp?) was excellent…!
It brought a lot of things into perspective, especially the propensity for people to be lazy.
Wow, can I count this as my first earthquake encounter?
Now I am expecting an invasion by Huns.
Started the show with a fake earthquake, ended it with a real one? Classic.
You are the only person I “know” in S. California, and when I heard about the earthquake, I thought immediately of you. Glad you and Natasha are okay.
Bill: I loved your show until you hit the Y2K “conspiracy.” I was one of thousands of individuals that worked our tails off to ensure that Y2K would NOT be the disaster that the experts were predicting. If we hadn’t spent thousands of hours cleaning up old computer codes in all kinds of endeavors (mine was in the military as an Air Force staff sergeant), Y2K would have caused a lot of serious problems. So please don’t think Y2K was a frivolous concern.
And yes, I do remember Comet Kohoutek. Talk about disappointing…
Please keep up the great work!
I also worked on Y2K. And unless the computer did year calculations it did not matter. Most of the programs I worked on did not do not do those calculation.
I, also, spent much of my time in the late 90s working on the impending doom of y2k. While I agree it was over-hyped to a degree by the media, it was a real problem and required a lot of work to end with the non-event result that it did.
What is the time stamp when it hits?
The only thing I lost in the Northridge Quake was a nautilus that fell off the mantle.
Saw a BBC doc years ago. They went to that chamber, depressurized it, and dropped a bowling ball and a feather from the top. By god, they both fell at the same rate.
When I first moved to LA in 87. I was living right next to the train tracks on Exposition. Just about every morning at about 7a a freight train would roll through. Really annoying. Then one morning, the Whittier Quake hit. I just laid there in bed half asleep thinking “that’s a big train”.
Fortunately my roommate was losing his mind so I quickly learned that’s what an earthquake is.
Just when you thought the worst-produced show on the internet could not get produced any worse…. Bill just had to shatter the glass floor with live earthquakes. He must be getting desperate to keep up his reputation.
I was in 3 earthquakes back in the ’60s and ’70s. That was enough for me. I left California in 1975 and never looked back.
Western Washington has about the tamest environment in the world. We NEVER have natural disasters, with the exception of the very rare volcanic eruption or earthquake. We don’t have man-eating bugs, droughts, alligators, tornadoes, blizzards, or really anything. The only downside is the weather sucks: lots of rain.
Yep, that’s why I moved from Bellingham to eastern Washington and my Asthma and allergies are minimal on this side. But there are vipers here however, I got used to them in Texas many years ago.
There’s many reasons to leave California, earthquakes may or may not be one of them…
Here is a response to “Why aren’t you dead? ” The powers that be know I was not there, and they can dispense with me by saying I am a conspiracy theorist kook. People the cannot find have heard me. “. They best argument I have is “Get, build or find a telescope powerful enough and look. Or would you not believe your own lying eyes. Also, find someone who has looked already. Could ‘ ‘they’ kill all of them?”
I wasn’t watching this last night, when the ‘big one’ hit, I was watching something else (FYI: your friend Klavan, Bill). But I live in Ridgecrest (the vastly unpopulated area called the ‘desert’), and the 7.1 quake last night was much stronger than the original 6.4.
We’ve had hundreds of aftershocks, foreshocks, phantom shocks (where you imagine you’re feeling one, whether or not it’s actually happening). After the 7.1 last night, there were almost continuous aftershocks lasting several hours. I didn’t get to bed until 1:30 in the morning (I am a night person! I was watching LA news live on youtube, CalTech assessment, etc), and only woke up for 2 major aftershocks during the night. The night before, I only got 4 hrs sleep because the major 5.4 aftershock woke me at 4am.
It’s definitely an experience! I’d rather have these than a tornado or a hurricane, for comparison.
If you’re really close to the epicenter (5-10 mi away from my house), you sometimes hear it before you feel it, as sound travels faster than ground movement. There is an initial jolt, and the shaking was quite jerky, something like being on a ship on the sea in a violent storm, in that you can’t predict nor control the movement, you just have to hang on and wait it out. I was hanging onto my computer, heh, heh, to keep it steady. Lost power momentarily, on/off couple times.
This close, you feel things more, and in greater detail. It’s not a gentle swaying, it’s a violent shaking, back and forth. It sometimes starts with a bang, literally. You can feel/hear it coming a couple seconds before. A low rumble…
I spent most of yesterday morning saying ‘enough already’! After being woken up with the 5.4, hanging onto my bed for dear life, I begged God to not have any more strong aftershocks like that. I was strung out, my adrenaline riding high, blood pressure soaring (I’m sure, didn’t measure it). The afternoon was pretty calm, shocks measuring in the magnitude 3 range mostly, you can feel them, but it’s nothing to get excited about. Then, in the early evening (still light outside) we had the BIG one, 7.1. And following that, the constant aftershock after aftershock.
I have to say this for California, (despite my feeling about it much like Bill does), that at least they know how to prepare for earthquakes, the building codes, etc. It remains to be seen how much damage was done to buildings, but in Ridgecrest most buildings are single story, there are few that are more than 2 stories. Mobile homes suffered the most (but that’s always the case, whatever the disaster).
I used to work for China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center (Navy’s big laboratory for airborne weapons), and this fault has traversed (on the Little Lake fault?) a great portion of it, so CalTech has (presumably) gotten access on base to assess the ground effects. Working and living here, we’ve gotten used to booms and bangs, so when a mild quake happens, you immediately ask yourself, is it a quake or a bomb/missile test, or maybe even a sonic boom. We did have a swarm of quakes at about the magnitude 4 range about 25 years ago – I called my Mom and told her ‘it’s earthquake season!’.
Ridgecrest, like every other American town, is resilient. We pull together, as a small town (25-30K), we make sure each other is OK, both in our immediate neighborhoods and friends across town. We worry about each other, and we survive, and pick up the pieces.
I thank God for safety, for electricity (that I still have), for swamp coolers (evaporative cooling, only possible in the desert where it’s dry enough to be effective), for the Internet and phone, to communicate with the outside world, including all my relatives near and far.
And I thank God for you, one of my online communities!
sorry, want to go back and edit, I didn’t mean for everything to be italicized…
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Well, it was supposed to be a picture!
I was at my church yesterday, after the 6.4 and 5.4, but before last night’s 7.1
My pastor was pointing out the damages, and noted that our Good Shepherd Jesus had ‘caught’ His staff as it was dislodged in the earthquake. He caught it on His outstretched hand! He took a picture and posted it to Facebook, I did the same… my comment was ‘…hang onto me, too’!
Unfortunately, today the damages are worse, don’t know if I can at this point get inside (I’m the church pianist). They’ve cancelled church for tomorrow. (Not terribly depressed about that!)
I don’t miss the old Ustream interface.
Obviously, mentioning earthquakes can make them happen.
Sorry to have missed the livestream, but reading the MadGab subtitles is pretty fun. Right, de big bootie?
I remember watching the very first strat lounge….my internet connection sucks too bad to watch it live anymore, which was always the most fun, but I try to watch it on replay whenever I can. Great stream of consciousness!