M6.9 earthquake strikes off California coast

Every spot on the planet is susceptible to one form of natural disaster, or another.

Japan predicted a big earthquake for Tokyo and Tokai region. So far, it happened in the least suspected region and caught them unprepared region 3 years ago. Also Kobe in 1995. I would be careful at pin-pointing a region and would get prepared everywhere.

This kind of quake for California is no big deal, as long as it is far away from any major cities.

Whoat! I have been watching all morning news CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, I have not heard anything yet. I am in US.

Ferndale. That's where that Jim Carrey film about the guy in who gets amnesia was made. A kind of time-slip place. Light shaking reported on blogs and feeds.

Anyways, I live in Bay Area and didn't feel a thing.

That quake happened on the Cascadia Fault. The exact date of the last "Big One" was established by monastery records up and down the east coast of Honshu in January of 1700. That "Orphan Tsunami" is featured in Japanese art which I saw before knowing what the story was. This is one of four possible seismic disasters that we "sweat" here in the USA. The others are California (San Andreas, etc.), New Madrid, and the Yellowstone cauldera. That last one would turn the entire northern hemisphere into an ice box.