***Earthquake***

[CaliforniaPeggy]

A big One...

I'll have to check the USGS site...

Just now...

REALLY shook the house!

Wow.

Here's a link:

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/118-34.html

[KitchenWitch]

1. 4.7 near Inglewood.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. No wonder it felt so strong...

That's only a few miles away!

[av8rdave]

41. Hope all is OK with you and yours!

[denbot]

2. After shock

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Felt that too...

Being up on the second story really makes a difference!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. USGS says 5.0

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci10410337.php

Glad you're ok! :hug::hug::hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Thanks, sweetie!

We're fine!

I've been wanting a bigger one to test the house...and this one did!

The house rode it out very well...

Lots of tilted pictures, but no damage!

:hug:

[BeachBaby]

7. Dang, Peggy.....

hope all is okay on your end. :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. We're OK!

Thanks, sweetie!

It kinda gets your blood moving, though!

Little bit like a roller coaster!

:hug:

[av8rdave]

40. Glad you're OK!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. My dear av8rdave!

Me too!

Thanks, sweetie...

:hug:

[peacefreak]

8. Stay safe.

We need you around here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Not to worry!

I'm fine!

And more importantly, so is my house!

Thanks, sweetie...:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

9. I can haz Xanax plz?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. If I had some, I'd be shoving them through the tubes to you!

You felt it?

:hug:

[Initech]

10. Whole lotta shakin'!

I definitely felt that shit! :yoiks:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. This is the first one I've felt this strongly!

Short and sharp!

[Iggo]

12. Missed the aftershock.

I was outside checking for damage, and engaging in the scintillating conversations with the neghbors that one has after events like this: "Didja feel that?" (It's akin to "Hot enuff for ya?" LOL.)

EDIT: Oh by the way, no damage as far as I can tell.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. The aftershock was very brief...

One little bump, and that was that...

No damage here either...

[Arugula Latte]

14. Hope everyone is okay in SoCal!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. We're good!

Thanks, sweetie!

:hug:

[Zoigal]

17. Glad all is well with you, Cal Peg

Big jolt down here south of you, but no aftershocks so far.
Can't get a phone call through to son in Santa Monica though.
Down graded to a 3.1, but it felt stronger at the time...
Keep safe, everyone....z

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. It did feel stronger than a 3.1!

But of course, we were practically on top of it!

We're fine, and so is the house...

:hug:

[Whoa_Nelly]

21. Oh my, Peggy!

That's a shaker! :hug:

3.1 and 2.5 immediate aftershocks, too!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. And believe me....

We seriously shook!

It shook the pictures on the walls; they're all crooked now! But I've been wanting to check out how well built our house is...

It did well!

No damage...

Thanks, sweetie... :hug:

[denbot]

23. The U.S.G.S. is still calling it a 5.0 with a 3.1 aftershock

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html

If it was a 3.1 it was the strongest 3.1 I've ever been in.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. I'm thinking that too...

But remember, we're awfully close to it.

That always increases the perceived magnitude.

[denbot]

25. The U.S.G.S. Downgraded the quake from a 5.0 to a 4.7

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html

[marzipanni]

26. Were you sitting at your computer? On a chair with wheels?

My husband's grandmother was 13 years old when the 1906 San Francisco quake happened. Her family lived just south of Healdsburg, California, about 65 miles north of S.F., and the big family was in one bed because her father had just died and they were really freaked out trying to figure how they were going to run the tavern and store. The bed rolled across the floor!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. My dear marzipanni!

I was indeed right here, and my chair has five wheels...

It didn't roll, though...I'm too heavy to allow that!

That must have been freaky, having the bed roll across the floor...

That was a lot bigger quake, too...

:hi:

[cwydro]

28. Glad you're OK Peg.

That would scare me to death.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. My dear cwydro...

Aw, sweetie...

I grew up with the damn things! It was a pretty good jolt, but I've felt worse, much worse...

You just learn to ride 'em out after a while!

Thanks...

:hug:

[cwydro]

30. That's the way I am about hurricanes...

but they still scare the crap out of me!:hi:

[Strong Atheist]

31. Glad you are ok!

:wow:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. My dear Strong Atheist!

Yeah, we are...

Thanks sweetie!

Injuries are uncommon with these, actually...

:hug:

[Deja Q]

32. You know, the big one is going to sink that state. Why not sell and move inland?

Okay, I'll admit that tornadoes and snowstorms have their off days, but you'll never have land removed underfoot...

[Tikki]

34. Floods can move land out from under your feet...

and sink holes..So can avalanches...
Believe me 4.7 is not so much unless your sitting on top of it..
and even then....


Tikki

[CaliforniaPeggy]

37. Nah, the state's not going anywhere...

not at least in MY lifetime, lol!

The ground shakes, and then settles right back down...

:hi:

[Gonzo Gardener]

33. Good to hear the house held since YOU were in it!

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

38. My dear Gonzo Gardener!

I was happy too!

Thanks, sweetie...:loveya:

[XNASA]

35. Best poem ever.

You're really nailing the genre.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

39. My dear XNASA!

Poem? What poem?

Heh...I wasn't trying to be poetic! But maybe it's really part of me these days...

Or are you kidding me?

Anyway, thanks for coming by today!

:hi:

[Parche]

43. My Dear CaliforniaPeggy

Be safe...:hi: :hug::loveya:



"But man was too busy, too busy going to the moon, too busy clubbing his brothers over the head with its new found toy, the atom, to anticipate and resist the parasite that was to suck out his right to immortality."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. My dear Parche!

No worries, sweetie!

I am perfectly safe...

:hug: :loveya: