Woo hoo! EARTHQUAKE!

[ColbertWatcher]

More details to follow, please stand by ...

(UPDATE #1)
Here's the link for the USGS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/240_35.php

(UPDATE #2)
Link to possible culprit: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/ci10370141.php

[snowbear]

1. Where?

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[Bluebear]

2. CW is in LA

[ColbertWatcher]

3. SoCal, still waiting for USGS update. n/t

[snowbear]

5. Hope everyone is ok!

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[ColbertWatcher]

19. Thank you!

It seems it was only a 5.0 and it happened near the desert.

[mitchtv]

32. I am in Cathedral City

I felt nothing

[ColbertWatcher]

35. You're about the same distance away from it as I am.

Meh, who knows how these things work?

[Muttocracy]

8. It's showing on their map:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/27.37.-120.-110.php

[ColbertWatcher]

9. I just posted the links in the OP! n/t

[Muttocracy]

10. here's some info:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/dyfi/events/ci/10370141/us/index.html

[Bobbieo]

36. Take care - CW!!!!

[ColbertWatcher]

39. Thank you, it wasn't that big, but you never know ...

... when it will end, or if there will be another one!

[Bobbieo]

53. We are starting to get them again near Mexicali, B.C.

Just baby ones, but quien sabe?

[Kaleko]

4. Yeah. Scared me and the cats. Whole house was shaking briefly in two spurts. n/t

[Beaverhausen]

6. felt it in Burbank

I'm guessing it's in the low 3s

edit- whoa it was a 4.9???

[Muttocracy]

16. this USGS says 5.0

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

[Muttocracy]

17. Hey, you should report it here:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/dyfi/

[tishaLA]

7. It wasn't bad but it WAS really noticeable and pretty jarring

[ColbertWatcher]

18. Yeah, sharp start and lasting wiggle. n/t

[Zoigal]

55. Felt a bit of a shake in Pedro...z

[Bluebear]

11. Magnitude 5.0! - - 2 km (1 miles) S (183°) from San Bernardino, CA

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

[TahitiNut]

12. 5.0? That's just a fun wiggle.

:shrug:

[ColbertWatcher]

14. LOL!

Hey, I start posting when the shaking starts, not after it's done!

[TahitiNut]

24. Riding out Loma Prieta in 1989 near the epicenter was a wild ride, though.

I was at IBM's Santa Teresa programming labs on the 4th floor of one of the towers. Seeing that expanse of concrete on the patio area undulate and wave was a total trip. The drive home along 101 & 280 to Cupertino was an obstacle course ... and cleaning up the busted bottles of sticky liqueur was a pain.

[ColbertWatcher]

30. I hate when I hear about the suffering of liquor. n/t

[Cleita]

13. Hang in there.

Scary for sure, but you will probably get through it all right.

:grouphug:

[ColbertWatcher]

33. It was a little thing; only a 5.0.

I don't wake up for anything less than a 6.0 any more.

[jimlup]

88. Yeah, a 4.5 is a total baby

I lived in the bay area during the time of 1989 quake.

4.5's don't make much of an impression on me. They're like a minor: "Oh, that was an earthquake!" moment nothing more :)

[Mojambo]

15. I love earthquakes. I wish we got more of them up here.

Exhilarating!

[Bobbieo]

47. Move to Yellowtsone, Mojambo - Hear there is a real house shaker

on the move up there. If it moves, it may create a super volcano. Yep. every 650,000 years this baby breaks loose and the time is right!!!

[CreekDog]

58. Anybody who loves earthquakes

should have the energy from one discharged up their ass.

[KitchenWitch]

72. +100

[Mojambo]

83. LOL - I can't help it.

They give me a buzz.

[EFerrari]

89. You can have mine!

[roamer65]

20. Looks damn close to the San Andreas fault.

I wonder if its getting ready to move even more. :hide:

[ColbertWatcher]

How long do you think it will be before we getting posts from ...

... Yellowstone Earthquake truthers?

[roamer65]

26. Who knows...LOL.

Hope all are well out there and stock up on supplies just in case. I remember studying the San Andreas fault in a college geology class. The southern section needs to move the most to get back "into line".

[Bobbieo]

60. CW - When the bison start to leave I think it is time to get to hell out

the area.

[FiveGoodMen]

92. You know, I like using 'truth' in an insulting epithet about as much as using 'liberal' that way

[Muttocracy]

25. right on it according the USGS map and this one

http://geology.com/articles/san-andreas-fault.shtml

[jberryhill]

77. Now is hardly the time for assigning fault and playing the blame game

Before blaming Sam Andreas, I'd like to hear his side of the story.

[KitchenWitch]

21. I FELT that...

x(

God I hate earthquakes.

[Divine Discontent]

98. you're freaking me out

stop! LOL... I'm up the road 400 miles. I'm coming down there in a few weeks - I don't wanna think a bigger one will hit - so stopppppppp KitchenWitch - I'm skeeered! HOLD ME! (seriously, no big quakes while I'm out here, puh-leaseee) LOL


http://www.geocities.com/vandelay_industries007/worst.mp3

[Donnachaidh]

22. Have you guys been shaking a lot lately?

Still have folks in N. Hollywood and Chatsworth -- I still get nervous when people post about new quakes.

[ColbertWatcher]

28. No, not really.

Not more than normal.

[vanlassie]

23. Sitting here in Fresno- Didn't feel a thing....

[ColbertWatcher]

37. You're a ways away! You didn't miss anything, sorry. n/t

[vanlassie]

41. But- I'm gonna feel it when you guys finally drop off!! HAHA

[roamer65]

49. "We all have our faults...

...mine's in California."

-Lex Luthor

[ColbertWatcher]

64. Like this?

[roamer65]

69. Fuck Fox.

They're just flying monkey right wing sore losers.;-)

[ColbertWatcher]

70. Yes they are, I just thought the pic was funny. n/t

[roamer65]

73. It is...lol

I remember being in Cali circa 1997. Was staying in a hotel in the Bay Area and a truck outside made the building shudder. I just about went through the roof.

"Elizabeth...this is the big one."

-Redd Foxx

[Daphne08]

27. Costa Mesa felt it.

[shance]

29. Little shaking going on in Studio - unusual to happen during the 'winter'

earthquakes here in California typically happen during the summer and in the middle of the night.

[robinlynne]

67. I've never noticed that pattern...

[alfredo]

31. Did you feel any aftershocks? Seems like something hit at 3:50.28 GMT

I picked up a nice bump from the Edwards AF Bse station.

[ColbertWatcher]

34. This is the first one I've felt in weeks. n/t

[alfredo]

38. Back east here, quakes are infrequent. We're waiting to see New Madrid

make her move.

[ColbertWatcher]

43. Oh no you don't!

Damn, that last one was big enough!

[alfredo]

51. We know it will let go, we don't know when, so we wait. I lived near

the Great Rift Valley, on top a volcano. I'm used to moving experiences. I wouldn't want to be west of Louisville Ky when she lets go. There's a hard limestone plate east of the Mississippi, and it will act like a drumhead.

[jemsan]

44. San Marcos, North County San Diego.....felt quite a jolt...brief but

you knew it was rockin and rollin somewhere not too far away.

[rufus dog]

65. that is crazy

I am in foothill ranch and it just felt like a truck idling outside. Crazy, Saddleback Mountain must have absorbed the shock and waves went right down the 15 and got to you.

[Juneboarder]

94. Vista, North County San Diego...

and felt nothin'... it's truly got to be minimum 6.0 and a lot closer to home to feel it for me.

[Muttocracy]

50. The USGS map shows a 1.7 aftershock. nt

[alfredo]

78. Just saw another at 4:48 GMT.

[Muttocracy]

82. almost identical location to the first one

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

[alfredo]

86. It was interesting watching this one.

[Berry Cool]

40. Only a 5?

Big deal. Northeast Ohio got one that big in '86. Scared the crap out of people and did some damage, but no serious harm done.

(sorry, gotta have some fun with the LA people; they laugh at how we react to earthquakes)

[ColbertWatcher]

45. Here's a picture that the LA Times used for an earthquake last year ...

Unidentified diiners have lunch in a plaza after a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck, downtown Los Angeles, California, 29 July, 2008 at 11:42 am local time (1842 GMT).

[Booster]

42. Felt it here in Pasadena, but it was a baby one.

[ColbertWatcher]

48. Yeah, but I start posting when it starts.

I don't know how long it will last by the time I click "Post message".

[Iwillnevergiveup]

46. Well, in northeast L.A.

I was just bending over at the waist to mop up some hummingbird food I dripped on the floor and didn't feel a thing. But I heard stuff rattling, and my son yelled out, "Did you feel that?" Nope - guess nearly standing on your head works.:crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

52. downgraded to a 4.5

[SidneyCarton]

54. Riverside checking in.

According to reports I live within 5 miles of the epicenter. Felt like a truck hit my apartment building.

[Muttocracy]

56. USGS site shows an aftershock in Riverside too:

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

[SidneyCarton]

59. You can't even feel a magnitude 1.0 (fortunately)

They happen all the time out here.

You don't really feel them until they hit magnitude 4.

[Muttocracy]

61. I figured not. But I've only lived in no-earthquake parts of the U.S.! nt

[kestrel91316]

68. Not so. I have felt 2-somethings in Encino when the epicenter was

practically under the house and been unnerved by them. But those are only felt VERY close up. Takes bigger ones to send the waves farther out.

[Muttocracy]

74. a 2 is 10x as powerful as a 1, right? log scale? nt

[Raksha]

85. I'm in San Bernardino...I think I'm even closer to the epicenter than you are.

I felt it while I was walking home from the bus stop, and it scared the crap out of me because I couldn't be sure what it was. I posted on LBN that there was a kind of rattling/crashing sound. If I'd been indoors I would have just figured the windows were rattling, but outside I couldn't be sure what was making that noise. Then I felt an aftershock while I was in the middle of writing my post for LBN. I didn't know I was practically on top of the epicenter until I logged onto DU.

[devilgrrl]

57. Missed it.

:crazy:

[nadinbrzezinski]

62. Didn't even feel a thing!!!!!!

[kestrel91316]

63. I'm cracking up. I felt this when I was at the laundromat washing a large

comforter. The big front-loading washer it was in had just started its final spin and the comforter was all wadded up, slightly unbalancing the thing, or so I thought.

The floor did this moderate shimmy thing that went on for 30 seconds or so, until the spin got going enough for the comforter to flatten out. So I thought I was imagining things and it really was JUST THE WASHER. I made note of the time, just in case.

And lo and behold, I get home and a quake is all over the local news, at exactly the time I noted.

[renegade000]

71. damnit kestrel

flatten your comforter out ahead of time. you know how much trouble your lazy loading just caused the USGS?
:P

[jberryhill]

79. Ah, so it was Kestrel's fault

Somebody upthread is blaming it on some guy named Sam Andreas.

[SoCalDem]

87. Woke up all my kitties... Bubby headed for his cupboard

( he figured out how to open the bottom section of the linen closet..and that's where he goes to get away from company or scary things)
The others just walked around kabuki-style with ears flat, and then got back to the serious business of snoozing & crowding me off the couch

[robinlynne]

66. I felt it here in LA, but not serious.

[tinrobot]

81. Me neither. Felt like a 3.0 here in Silverlake.

[robinlynne]

90. hi Silverlake Duer!

[Dem2theMax]

75. House shook like crazy in San Diego.

It's called 'building surfing,' for those unlucky enough to not get to experience these fun events. ;)

[Tiggeroshii]

76. I was driving! =(

Balls!

[roamer65]

80. Oooo boy...what fun.

Whenever I have to travel to Cali, I hate getting stuck in traffic underneath freeway overpasses for obvious reasons.

[ColbertWatcher]

84. You were driving when the earthquake hit?

Did it feel like you had a flat tire?

[malaise]

91. There was a 6.1 in Costa Rica yesterday

I have a feeling a shake up is coming my way soon. Damn I'll take ten hurricanes over one earthquake.

[ColbertWatcher]

101. The only place I would never go ...

... because they have worse earthquakes than Calif!

[cherokeeprogressive]

93. It cracked the ice covering Big Bear Lake. n/t

[MzNov]

95. Naaah, just a ground hiccup

:rofl:

[proud patriot]

96. Bay Area here , I'm glad everyone is okay

[Divine Discontent]

100. well, we really wouldn't know if someone wasn't ok, ya know? hoping all is well.

wondering when the big one will hit - having that 5.0 hit near the san andreas fault line is a bit nerve racking to say the least.


here's a pic I found of the fault line - wow... hope the big one doesn't happen for 100,000 years!

[Divine Discontent]

97. I see 4.5 and 3.3 hit in LA area - hope all is well, CW! some decent shaking I'm sure.

I'm going there in about 3 weeks, hope not to feel anything worse than I did near Bay Area a few months ago, a 2.8 or so, it felt like a big jolt and nothing else happened. I'm sure a 4.5 would freak me out, don't wanna even think about a 7 or higher...

[Divine Discontent]

99. a level 3 quake just hit Western Montana! wonder how many offshoots the 5.0 will cause on the coast