Moderate quake hits Southern California (5.0)

[UpInArms]

Source: CBS Marketwatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A moderate earthquake struck Southern California Thursday night, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. No damage or injuries were immediately reported after the magnitude 5.0 quake struck at 7:49 p.m. local time. The Survey said the earthquake's center was 55 miles east of Los Angeles and one mile south of San Bernardino, Calif., 8.6 miles below the surface.

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[bigworld]

1. USGS data...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci10370141.php

[Muttocracy]

2. thread by some folks crazy enough to live out there :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4794156

[benh57]

3. lol..

Today was about 65 degrees, bright and Sunny. Going on a beautiful hike this weekend when itll be in the 70s. Want to revise that assessment of CA? :P

(btw, didn't feel it in west LA)

[Muttocracy]

6. I'm kidding - I'm sure I was in more danger falling on ice today! nt

[Daphne08]

8. Yeah. We don't have weather like those other folks, do we?

My windows were open today. :)

[YvonneCa]

7. Out in Ca...

...??? ;) I'm about 10 miles from the epicenter...and I'm only a little bit crazy! :7

It was a pretty strong one...now downgraded to 4.5 (according to local KCAL9 News). :hi:

[Muttocracy]

12. But if you add them all up, it's over 10!!

:scared:

But seriously, the slippery sidewalks and risk of frostbite here were probably more of a health threat. I'm just more comfortable with day-to-day misery than a risk of total disaster :)

[YvonneCa]

25. Out here in California, we just view earthquakes...

...as the weather...totally out of our control, so why worry about it? :) You couldn't live here and think about it every day. It would be like folks in other states worrying constantly about an asteriod taking out their town all the time.

We do live in a state of denial...but that works for us! :7

[goclark]

13. I lived in Michigan and felt an earthquake there

a few years ago too.

I felt pretty crazy slipping and sliding around on all that ice many times. Spinning out on dark night etc.

:smiles:

[Ecumenist]

26. You know Joe, there's a reason they don't call these occasional

happenings, "California-quakes". As long as you live on earth, ANYWHERE ON EARTH, you can experience an EARTHQUAKE. At least we have building codes that enable infrastructure to survive tremors. How about your particular state, hmmm?

[Muttocracy]

28. I was just teasing, but honestly, I've always lived in dot-free zones on this map

so it's just a scary concept to me. I'm used to my earth giving the illusion of staying put :)

[SidneyCarton]

4. I live within 5 mi. of the epicenter.

Closest one that I've ever felt.

this one was scary.

[Trillo]

5. How thick is the surface plate at that location?

Seems mighty deep.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/structure/crust/index.php

[kestrel91316]

9. Just to put some perspective on this:

Northridge was probably 2-300x stronger than this piddly little thing of 4.5.

[SemperEadem]

16. Northridge definitely was...

That was a trip.

[Juneboarder]

27. Couldn't agree with you more!

I was in Northridge 91326 at the time of the quake; about 3 miles up Tampa from the Northridge Mall where the parking structure collapsed. Now THAT was an earthquake. This... this was a nothin' to worry yourselves over.

[Raksha]

10. I felt it and heard it!!! It scared the crap out of me

because I was walking home from the bus stop and I could feel the shaking and hear kind of a rattling/crashing sound. It sounded almost like an explosion, but not quite. I'm in San Bernardino, and I only now found out where the epicenter was.

Crap! There goes an aftershock, just as I was typing this! Anyway, the quake I felt while I was walking home felt stronger than a 5.0. but I guess that's because I'm so close to the epicenter. What scared me is that I couldn't be sure what it was. I was pretty sure it was an earthquake, but not 100% sure. This is Southern Calfornia, after all--earthquakes are a fact of life here. For someone like me who lived through the Sylmar quake, a 5.0 earthquake in itself isn't scary. The scary factor is the always-unknown "just how bad is this going to get anyway?"

I just hope this last tremor was an aftershock...NOT a foreshock of something bigger and worse to come!!!

[Muttocracy]

14. there's a list of aftershocks here - maybe you felt the 3.3?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_all.php

[SemperEadem]

19. the aftershocks are what used to unnerve me...

it's one thing to go through the initial quake...

Aftershocks are like a sick mindgame.

[Art_from_Ark]

21. I once experienced a late night 5.8 quake

where the epicenter was just a mile or so from my house. My house felt like a boat on the water during the quake, and afterward there was the creepiest atmosphere in the house, like it had just been transported to the middle of a cemetery. And it was preceded by a sort of exploding sound, like many quakes here in Japan are.

[goclark]

23. We have our house retrofitted now and it is real scary

I've only been here for one quake since it was completed.

The house felt like someone was shaking the hell out of it, just grabbing it and shaking it like a rag doll. Better yet, like a freight train was coming through it!

But, nothing was broken that time about 8 years ago.

I was not in town during the quake that hit LA last summer but nothing was broken.

The only thing that came off the wall was a mirror that fell straight down and didn't even crack.

:scared: but LUV LA and would never want to live anywhere else.

[Dem2theMax]

11. Just another normal day in So. Cal. LOL.

Santa Ana winds predicted for the entire weekend. In JANUARY. :crazy:
Dense fog tonight. And now a quake. I'm in San Diego and our house was shaking like crazy.

Yep. Just another day in So. Cal. ;)

[Bigmack]

15. We felt it out here in the desert - Borrego Springs

I thought it was a local quake. It felt in the 3.0 range out here, but obviously we're a ways from the epicenter....which is fine by me! Ms Bigmack

[amborin]

17. we felt it here in LA

[stopbush]

18. My wife & daughter felt it here in Laguna Niguel.

My son was playing Guitar Hero - what's the difference?

I was in the hot tub - hard to feel an earthquake there...

[Mira]

20. I have friends in Costa Rica, and got an email from them about it.

[goclark]

22. It was a wake up call, I got our suitcases on wheels out

and started reinforcing cabinets and pictures with Earthquake glue and putting breakables on the rug and under the sofa.

I got some of those kits with the ability to tie the TV's down but they don't fit my tv's.

My cousin is coming over with another kind that he knows will work for me.

All that said, I have lived in the East and the Mid West and I ain't leaving CA again.

Been rocking and rolling here for most of my life and love every single thing about it -- except earthquakes. : )

[slackmaster]

24. I was on the road at that moment, and didn't notice anything

:hi: