Tim Fogarty’s Blog

So I feel I have writers block. Now that the programming is complete for this latino website, I need to create content. I am typing in articles from old magazines, trying to find ones that don’t sound too dated and are in the public domain. But I need to write new articles as well. Many of these can be things I’ve written to forums and my bodybuilding blog. But I’m having a hard time at it. Sometimes I can crank out hundreds of words rather quickly, but not recently.

There is a lot I’d like to write about in this blog, mostly about politics and what’s going on on the world. But to write out a well thought out argument, I’d also have to do a lot of research to support my arguments with facts. And that would take up time that I should be spending on other things.

Also, there are so many people out there in the blogsphere already expressing things better than I ever could. For example, here. There is also the new Huffington Post, a must read.

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More earthquakes today (well yesterday). I did not feel the one this evening at 11:30 pm up near Eureaka, but did feel the ones at 1:53 here in so Cal. There were three, but I’m not sure which ones I felt. The usgs website lists the following:

4.9 2005/06/16 13:53:26 34.058N 117.011W 11.8 5 km ( 3 mi) NE of Yucaipa, CA
3.7 2005/06/16 13:54:19 34.053N 117.023W 16.8 3 km ( 2 mi) NE of Yucaipa, CA
3.5 2005/06/16 13:54:49 34.054N 117.005W 15.1 5 km ( 3 mi) ENE of Yucaipa, CA

If you’ve ever lived in California, you know you feel two types of motion: back and forth, and up and down. All earthquakes have both (P and S waves) but they travel at different speeds away from the earthquake. The farther away you are from the epicenter, the more time between the arrival of the P and the S wave. If you’re too far away, you’ll only feel the P wave. If you’re very close, the P wave won’t be noticable within the S.

Today I felt the rocking and thought it might be an earthquake. I listened, thinking it may be a firetruck or 18 wheeler going up the street, but there was no noise, just some swaying back and forth. This lasted 6-9 seconds. Then just as it started to die down, the house started shaking violently up and down for about 4 seconds. There was plenty of noise from this, including the timbers in the house creaking, and windows rattling. Then it was all over. The USGS site had the preliminary results withing minutes.