Reports Report 1270e (Event 1270-2012)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Greg M |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | I drive from Fresno, CA to Stratford, CA to my workplace. Upon arriving at my workplace, a person who works for me said that he had experienced a couple of earthquakes that morning. Without letting him know what I saw, I asked him the approximate time of the earthquakes and he said the first was at about 6:15 that morning. I asked him to describe what he felt and he said that there was a small earthquake at first that made him lift his arms off his desk and look around. Then there was a dramatically larger earthquake, so large that someone came running out of an adjacent building yelling "earthquake." The duration was quite short of the earthquakes. I arrived 45 minutes later when I was told of the earthquakes, no one here having seen the flash. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Fresno, CA |
| Latitude | 36° 51' 18.21'' N (36.855057°) |
| Longitude | 119° 47' 22.97'' W (-119.789713°) |
| Elevation | - |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2012-09-07 06:15 PDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2012-09-07 13:15 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up to down |
| Descent Angle | 180° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 135.42332° |
| First azimuth | 133.5249° |
| First elevation | 40° |
| Last azimuth | 132.05765° |
| Last elevation | 30° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -9 |
| Color | blue |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 2.5s |
| Length | 8° |
| Remarks | There were two parts to the train, an inner hour-glass shape that had the coloring and an outer football-shape that looked like a jet's contrail. The flash of the neon-blue color was brilliant and is what drew my attention, while drawing my attention the color was visible when I trained my eye. The contrail persisted for a longer period. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The flash was bright and drew my eye ( I was looking in the general direction entering the freeway, but it was higher than my visual plane so drew my eye up). |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |