Sunday, March 8, 2020

Magnitude 5.9 - 6.0 Earthquake Off the California Coast; Some Futures Halted Limit Down

And my throat feels kind of scratchy.

The U.S. Geological Survey has the quake at 5.9 moment magnitude, occurring at 02:59:06 (UTC)
M 5.9 - 86km W of Petrolia, CA
Time
Location
40.402°N 125.295°W
Depth
2.2 km
The Tsunami Warning Center makes it a 6.0 and uses Pacific Daylight time
EarthquakeLocation: 70 miles SW of Eureka, California
Magnitude: 6
Event Depth : 1 Mi.
Lat : 40.3 ° N
Lon : 125.3 ° W
Origin Time 3/8/2020, 7:59:06 PM

No Tsunami warning has been issued and I am going to listen to the soothing tones of the Shipping Forecast.


I'm not sure if this recording has Peter Jefferson (it's nine hours long) before he got fired for dropping an f-bomb live on air but if not here's the teaser of him reading the GDPR from a couple years ago.