Lots of shaking going on near Keeler tonight. - Anthony Citrano from Bookmarklet

A few of buttes in that area, wouldn't be surprised if one forms into a Volcano! - Brandon

Luckily they are in a very sparsely populated area. - Jeff P. Henderson

@jeff: Brandon already said there were only a few butts in that area. ;) - Anthony Citrano

heh ;) - Brandon

As long as they are Big Butts, 'cause I like big butts and i cannot lie... - Jeff P. Henderson

I hope the wad has been blown. I don't want another quake of '89 - Rodfather

And Jeff, a 5.2 won't impact anybody all that much anyway. That's a thunderstorm in a world of hurricanes. - Louis Gray

I'd rather see lots of small quakes than one big one any day. - Jeff P. Henderson

Yep Louis, 5.2 is not a real big quake. Mostly just rattles things a bit, probably not much if any damage even in a densely populated area. - Jeff P. Henderson

@Louis: I suppose that depends on how close you are. A 5.2 is about equivalent to 100,000 *tons* of TNT - or several dozen nuclear bombs. Not exactly the kind of energy release I'd want happening under *my* neighborhood. So, it's all relative, my friend. :) - Anthony Citrano

Anthony, true, but the energy from an EQ is released many miles below the ground so it is disbursed widely and you don't get the full brunt of the energy release on the surface at any one point like you would if you were standing next to a bomb going off on the surface. 5.2 is approximately equivalent to the energy released by the Nagasaki bomb. - Jeff P. Henderson

Yeah Jeff but still, that's a lot of energy and it depends on how deep, etc. I'm just sayin' it ain't nuthin. And I think Nagasaki was 30kt or so, and my quick math has a 5.2 at about twice that, or even a bit more, but I suck at log(x) and all that.... - Anthony Citrano

Also, when we had the *very mild* 3.4 here in Venice last year - centered a few hundred meters from my house - it really felt as if a large bomb went off and someone had picked the house up off the foundation and slammed it back onto the ground. Very, very small but not nuthin’. The guys over at Canal Club had lots of poo in their pants and a lot of broken glasses to clean up. And a 5.2 is nearly 100 times stronger ... but of course - back to Louis’ point - this all *pales* in comparison to a real one... - Anthony Citrano

Yep, I have lived in the SF Bay area all of my life and have experienced many quakes including the Loma Prieta quake. Even a 3.x can rattle you if you are close to the epicenter. I was in the grocery store for a 4.x in San Jose once and watched all of the wine bottles come crashing to the floor. It felt like a truck hit the building! - Jeff P. Henderson

I lived in North San Jose at the time of the 89 quake and was driving on 101 in Sunnyvale. I'm really glad I was not in a building at the time! Would have needed an underwear change after that one. When I got home, all of my furniture was about 6-8 inches from where I left it that morning. No damage to the building or my belongings, except for a couple of broken bottles that fell in the kitchen. Quite a bit of cracking of the sidewalks around the condo complex though. The swimming pool at the condo complex I lived in had lost about 3 feet of water, my neighbor had just got done filling it back up by the time I got home. - Jeff P. Henderson