Brian4Liberty
08-24-2014, 11:46 AM
For those who have not experienced earthquakes, a 6.0 is a pretty big one of you are near the epicenter. You don't just go back to sleep, as most of the San Francisco Bay area did.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Northern California near Napa Valley Sunday, injuring 87 — 3 critically — and causing extensive damage, including fires sparked by burst gas lines, in the largest tremor to rock the Bay Area since the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta quake in 1989.
Leslie Gordon of the U.S. Geological Survey says the tremor struck just before 3:30 a.m. Sunday local time, about 10 miles northwest of American Canyon, which is about 6 miles southwest of Napa.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/24/usgs-60-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-northern-california/
SONOMA, Calif. -- During the 6.0 earthquake that rattled the Napa Valley early Sunday morning, Helio Castroneves became fixated on pictures hanging on his hotel room wall.
"Mirrors breaking in the bathroom, you hear the alarms, pipes (breaking) and not a single picture moved," the Verizon IndyCar Series driver told USA TODAY Sports on Sunday at Sonoma Raceway, where the season's penultimate race still is scheduled to be run.
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Castroneves was asleep in a downtown Napa hotel, about 10 miles north of the earthquake's epicenter. The earthquake, whose epicenter was in American Canyon, about 15 miles east of Sonoma Raceway, is the area's most significant in 25 years.
Castroneves' room started shaking about 3:20 a.m. local time. Disoriented, the Brazilian didn't initially know what was happening since his only earthquake experience occurred years ago in Japan, but that was little more than a tremor.
This time, ground movement forced a hotel evacuation. It was outside where the scope of the situation came to light. Castroneves shared the story exchange he had with Team Penske teammate Will Power and company president Tim Cindric.
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"Will thought it was the end of the world, I thought it was a plane crash," Castroneves said. "It was this rumbling noise, and it completely trashed the bathroom. It was like a movie, and I was in it.
"A very scary moment. I'm still shaking."
Cindric posted photographs on Twitter of hotel damage with debris scattered.
"Not fun," he wrote.
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Track officials said the 12-turn, 2.385-mile circuit was not damaged and the IndyCar Series race will take place at 1:40 p.m. PT as scheduled (4:40 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Network).
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More:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/motor/indycar/2014/08/24/earthquake-in-california-shakes-indycar-drivers-sonoma-raceway/14526093/
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Northern California near Napa Valley Sunday, injuring 87 — 3 critically — and causing extensive damage, including fires sparked by burst gas lines, in the largest tremor to rock the Bay Area since the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta quake in 1989.
Leslie Gordon of the U.S. Geological Survey says the tremor struck just before 3:30 a.m. Sunday local time, about 10 miles northwest of American Canyon, which is about 6 miles southwest of Napa.
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More:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/24/usgs-60-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-northern-california/
SONOMA, Calif. -- During the 6.0 earthquake that rattled the Napa Valley early Sunday morning, Helio Castroneves became fixated on pictures hanging on his hotel room wall.
"Mirrors breaking in the bathroom, you hear the alarms, pipes (breaking) and not a single picture moved," the Verizon IndyCar Series driver told USA TODAY Sports on Sunday at Sonoma Raceway, where the season's penultimate race still is scheduled to be run.
...
Castroneves was asleep in a downtown Napa hotel, about 10 miles north of the earthquake's epicenter. The earthquake, whose epicenter was in American Canyon, about 15 miles east of Sonoma Raceway, is the area's most significant in 25 years.
Castroneves' room started shaking about 3:20 a.m. local time. Disoriented, the Brazilian didn't initially know what was happening since his only earthquake experience occurred years ago in Japan, but that was little more than a tremor.
This time, ground movement forced a hotel evacuation. It was outside where the scope of the situation came to light. Castroneves shared the story exchange he had with Team Penske teammate Will Power and company president Tim Cindric.
...
"Will thought it was the end of the world, I thought it was a plane crash," Castroneves said. "It was this rumbling noise, and it completely trashed the bathroom. It was like a movie, and I was in it.
"A very scary moment. I'm still shaking."
Cindric posted photographs on Twitter of hotel damage with debris scattered.
"Not fun," he wrote.
...
Track officials said the 12-turn, 2.385-mile circuit was not damaged and the IndyCar Series race will take place at 1:40 p.m. PT as scheduled (4:40 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Network).
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More:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/motor/indycar/2014/08/24/earthquake-in-california-shakes-indycar-drivers-sonoma-raceway/14526093/