I have been trying to figure out why the pains range from acute to dull. I first thought it had to do with my distance from the earthquake as well as the magnitude and depth. I figured it mostly has to do with the length of the fault and perhaps the level of strain energy. When it involves a large fault, the pain tends to be dull and deep. Along a smaller fault, the pain is more acute and brief. The one I experienced during my first trip to California in 2009 was 80 or more miles(considering that I was in Hesperia at the time I started to experience the pain). It was a deep, dull pain, but it wasn't particularly agonizing. The magnitude 4.6 quake occurred along the Garlock Fault which is 155 miles long.
I felt a dull, deep pain before a 3-pointer along the San Jacinto Fault in 2017, but it was more painful. It was much closer than the 2009 event. I was first confused because I felt a sharp pain before an earthquake of that very magnitude in that same area in 2013. Then I realized that they each occurred along different faults. The more recent one happened on a 130-mile fault zone. The one that happened in 2013 occurred along a fault that was 12.4 miles long. The mag. 4.6 in which I felt sharp pains beforehand happened on a fault that was 7.4 miles in length. I recall the magnitude 5.2 La Habra earthquake in which I was living up in Crestline at the time of the event that night.
Earlier that day, I was down in Rancho Cucamonga working. I recall feeling some acute pains in my left side and at one point, a shooting pain running up into the side of my hip. Those pains were short lived. I still felt some of those pains after I got home, but they were mild. That quake occurred square between the Elsinore Fault and a set of very small unnamed faults. The earthquake was not located on a fault. It may have been a little closer to those small unnamed faults. I am thrilled to have finally figured this out. However, it is still very complicated. These pains can also be a result of numerous recent quakes that have happened in which I have surplus energy trapped in my body.
It can range from numerous quakes within a hundred-mile radius or multiple large earthquakes from all over the world. Now, I'm working to figure out how to separate sensations I get from big quakes from thousands of miles away and smaller ones closer to home. Another thing to note is that there isn't always an earthquake every time I feel pain in my side. It seems that energy would well up and be on the verge of releasing, but then it would decline again. I have experienced some severe side pains before. It made me wonder if a large earthquake may have almost happen at a certain point on several occasions. The ones that happened near Ridgecrest were a little too far away for me to feel that acutely. I did experience pain the day before the first event and after that leading up to the mainshock.
I still have yet to find out how much different it would be if it were right next to me. The fact is that I don't know yet. It makes me nervous. However, I just have to be present and continue to do more research.
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