Did anyone feel it??? it was a 5.3 in Yucaipa. I was on the phone with my wife, who was in Anahiem. She told me before I even felt it…that was pretty cool. I am by the Long Beach Area.
<< Did anyone feel it?
apparently you did.
Yup…just sitting down to eat my post Masters swim lunch…window and TV cabinet shook a bit. I am in Solana Beach (North County San Diego)
Mark
Yup. In Rancho Santa Margarita. Was on the phone to the wife, too… uh, my wife. She’s in Laguna Niguel, almost Dana Point and, same thing, I felt it and said, “We’re having an earthquake.” It took about ten seconds before she felt it. I heard my son in the background yell, “AWESOME!” It’s his first earthquake experience.
I am up in Anaheim and felt it pretty good. It is fun to see the reaction and panic on teh adults relocated from teh east who have never been through one. Ohhhh myyyyyyy.
Felt it in El Segundo (near LAX). Pretty strong.
Lots of shaking on the second floor of our building in Irvine. Surprisingly, my Grandfather who lives in Palm Desert said this one wasn’t as strong as the one over the weekend. Anybody else concerned? Huge quake in Chile, another big one in Alaska, the one off the coast of NorCal, the two here in SoCal…lots of action on the Pacific Rim.
I think that when one part moves, all the rest of the pieces have to move with it, until everything settles.
Lots of shaking on the second floor of our building in Irvine. Surprisingly, my Grandfather who lives in Palm Desert said this one wasn’t as strong as the one over the weekend. Anybody else concerned? Huge quake in Chile, another big one in Alaska, the one off the coast of NorCal, the two here in SoCal…lots of action on the Pacific Rim.
San Francsico is next!!!
As I posted in another thread, I’m 45 floors up in a building on rollers – we were rocking, rolling and swaying for about 10-15 minutes. I was getting seasick.
As I posted in another thread, I’m 45 floors up in a building on rollers – we were rocking, rolling and swaying for about 10-15 minutes. I was getting seasick.
10-15 mins? Come on. Just because it’s on rollers doesn’t mean it slips and skates all over the place. The swaying is over pretty quickly after a quake, otherwise even ordinary winds would be blowing the thing around! With that much surface area, the winds are as great or greater of a shear force.
USGS.gov is a great site for this stuff. Try this http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
I gotta ask only because I don’t understand…how can you guys live somewhere, where any day could be the big way and you could be utterly devastated. I know people will say that could happen anywhere…I COULD get hit by a bus, or I COULD get shot or whatever, but I mean, it is going to happen 100%.
I hope all of you are ok.
"I gotta ask only because I don’t understand…how can you guys live somewhere, where any day could be the big way and you could be utterly devastated. "
- I am getting a Hummer H3 so I can escape the rubble to Arizona
and if really bad …
- I keep Churchill fins anda wetsuit in the car so when California cracks off into the Pacific, I can swim to Phoenix
California will be fine.
I think the rest of the country is going to fall off into the Atlantic!
Funny you should mention that - the building sways a ton in the wind. Not every day, but when the Santa Ana’s kick in, you can hear the steel creaking and watch the doors move back and forth. No joke. On my first day of work a long time ago, I was given earthquake orientation and told that the building was designed to sway up to 16 feet in each direction (so 32’ from one end to the other). When you get a big mass moving like that, it takes a long time (at least 10-15 minutes) for the momentum to stop it. It’s a giant upside down pendulum.
The way I figure it, on average earthquakes probably do less damage and loss of life than do hurricanes in florida/east coast, tornados in the midwest, ice storms in the north east, forest fires in the midwest (and california). every place on earth probably has some natural disaster that can cause property damage and loss of life.
Plus I can ride year round in northern CA, that’s got to count for something, right?
J
Just felt one here in Santa Cruz!
I lived on the border of the Canejo and San Fernando valleys for the Northridge quake. South Florida hurricanes last year… In Michigan for the "Blizzard of '78. Earthquakes are great because basically if nothing falls on you in the first 60-120 seconds, you are probably going to be ok. Hurricanes are nice because you can leave before it happens. Winter sucks because it goes on and on, and you can’t take a week off work and just leave and come back.
Every place has it’s natural disaster. Earthquakes, hurricanes, winter ice storms, tornadoes (that is the one that scares me).
I lived on the border of the Canejo and San Fernando valleys for the Northridge quake. South Florida hurricanes last year… In Michigan for the "Blizzard of '78. Earthquakes are great because basically if nothing falls on you in the first 60-120 seconds, you are probably going to be ok. Hurricanes are nice because you can leave before it happens. Winter sucks because it goes on and on, and you can’t take a week off work and just leave and come back.
Every place has it’s natural disaster. Earthquakes, hurricanes, winter ice storms, tornadoes (that is the one that scares me).
While the 120 second and you’re ok rule holds for the minor quakes in the last hundred years large ones are a different story. When every electric line and gas main for miles is broken and you are trapped in the middle of a city wide fire with all bridges and overpasses demolished a falling object might start to look good.
The alarming thing about the latest series to me is that Chile has had quakes on the other end of the butt crack and mexican volcanoes have been active in the middle. Research has shown quakes even across the globe are related in a non-random fashion and these are clearly closely related by being along the same plate. If quake prediction were that simple it would have been figured out years ago but it is food for thought.