SoCal Earthquake

[poindexter]

I live maybe 10 miles from the epicenter and it felt pretty damn big. Lots of shaking then a pretty decent boom! Pictures fell, my watch fell from our dresser. I can't remember stuff falling off walls in my house since Northridge '94.

 

[Football_Bat]

We had a 3.3 hit on Saturday here in the Plex.

Of course, I was at my niece's graduation and missed it.

 

[Wenders]

A friend of mine was actually in the shower on the third floor of her dorm when it hit. Her exact words were, "It would just figure that I would be in the SHOWER when the Big One hit." Needless to say, she was relieved that it was only a five-pointer.

 

[poindexter]

I just felt another one. nice jolt.

 

[Hammer Pants]

To quote Lewis Black, "Where I live, the Earth doesn't quaketh."

And as much as I love California, I don't know if I'd ever get used to earthquakes.

 

[buckweaver]

Looks like a 4.1 today, near the same epicenter as Sunday's quake.

 

[buckweaver]

To quote Lewis Black, "Where I live, the Earth doesn't quaketh."

And as much as I love California, I don't know if I'd ever get used to earthquakes.

There are only a couple things we really disagree on. And this is one of them.

99.8 percent of the earthquakes here are like a foot massage. Rumble, rumble, rumble. No worries. Go tell your non-Cali friends so they can freak out about the ground shaking.

Wildfires, now those are some scary mofos.

 

[Hammer Pants]

To quote Lewis Black, "Where I live, the Earth doesn't quaketh."

And as much as I love California, I don't know if I'd ever get used to earthquakes.

There are only a couple things we really disagree on. And this is one of them.

99.8 percent of the earthquakes here are like a foot massage. Rumble, rumble, rumble. No worries. Go tell your non-Cali friends so they can freak out about the ground shaking.

Wildfires, now those are some scary mofos.

I bet Mark DeRosa also hates earthquakes.

 

[Klasky24]

I live in La Mirada, which isn't TOO far away and I'd like to overdramatize this and say it was "the big one!", but...its was nothing, simply a little shake. Lasted about 10 seconds or so. Of course the news pounced on the opportunity and it became quite the ordeal.

Still waiting for the real "big one" to stand up. Hopefully I'm in an opportune place when it finally does happen.

And I've never been through a hurricane or tornado yet I still feel its better to live with an occasional shake rather than the apocalypse-like winds you guys have to deal with.

 

[OTD]

I felt it . . . kind of a long roller. Others where I was had no idea there was a quake happening.

 

[Claws for Concern]

These quakes aren't registering where I am in SoCal. Deep SoCal.

 

[Shaggy]

I've experienced a tornado a few blocks away from my house, and a 5.5 earthquake rumbling under me.

I will take an earthquake every time. Tornadoes are no joke. That scared the **** out of me.

 

[westcoastvol]

Didn't feel today's at all and generously, I was about maybe 10 miles away from the epicenter.

And I agree with Shaggy. A tornado ran through my hometown and came within about 100 yards of my elementary school in 1976. I'll take a quake any day.

 

[MileHigh]

If there's a 6.5-6.8 on the Newport-Inglewood Fault, it will be a freakin' disaster. But I think when the San Andreas breaks -- and it will to the tune of like a 7.3 to 7.7 -- it'll be near the Salton Sea and there will be damage, but not as much as something on Newport-Inglewood.

 

[Birdscribe]

If there's a 6.5-6.8 on the Newport-Inglewood Fault, it will be a freakin' disaster. But I think when the San Andreas breaks -- and it will to the tune of like a 7.3 to 7.7 -- it'll be near the Salton Sea and there will be damage, but not as much as something on Newport-Inglewood.

Ding, Ding, Ding. See my post above. The Newport/Inglewood Fault will wreak havoc when it goes.

Now, it depends where the San Andreas shifts. If the epicenter is under our former hometown, the carnage will be pretty heavy. But out by the Salton Sea, where 15 people live? Only the scorpions, snakes and rodents will be affected.

And I didn't feel today's either.

 

[Football_Bat]

If there's a 6.5-6.8 on the Newport-Inglewood Fault, it will be a freakin' disaster. But I think when the San Andreas breaks -- and it will to the tune of like a 7.3 to 7.7 -- it'll be near the Salton Sea and there will be damage, but not as much as something on Newport-Inglewood.

Maybe they can have 10 more 5.0s, which equals a 6.0 since the Richter scale is, as you may know, logarithmic. A series of moderate shakers might lessen the danger. But a 5.0 is just a drop in the bucket of pent-up energy. And the longer without a jolt, the bigger it'll be when it blows.

 

[MileHigh]

If there's a 6.5-6.8 on the Newport-Inglewood Fault, it will be a freakin' disaster. But I think when the San Andreas breaks -- and it will to the tune of like a 7.3 to 7.7 -- it'll be near the Salton Sea and there will be damage, but not as much as something on Newport-Inglewood.

Ding, Ding, Ding. See my post above. The Newport/Inglewood Fault will wreak havoc when it goes.

Now, it depends where the San Andreas shifts. If the epicenter is under our former hometown, the carnage will be pretty heavy. But out by the Salton Sea, where 15 people live? Only the scorpions, snakes and rodents will be affected.

And I didn't feel today's either.

If the San Andreas cracks out in Mentoe or in the Cajon Pass ... holy ****. And Berdoo sits on a lot of water, so the shaking will go on for a while. The best-case is for a 7.5 by the Salton Sea. It still wouldn't be pretty, though.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Seems like Cali has had a lot of small quakes lately. Is there any concern that these are "preshocks" building up to something bigger?

 

[buckweaver]

Seems like Cali has had a lot of small quakes lately. Is there any concern that these are "preshocks" building up to something bigger?

Yeah, that's exactly the concern. The Inglewood fault is relatively dormant, so all this movement lately makes some people anxious that something bigger is on the way. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's nothing.

Now, if the Caltech people start getting worried ... then I'll start worrying.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Seems like Cali has had a lot of small quakes lately. Is there any concern that these are "preshocks" building up to something bigger?

Yeah, that's exactly the concern. The Inglewood fault is relatively dormant, so all this movement lately makes some people anxious that something bigger is on the way. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's nothing.

Now, if the Caltech people start getting worried ... then I'll start worrying.

The Caltech guys are probably too busy critiquing the new Star Trek movie and figuring out how to **** with the Rose Bowl scoreboard to care about a piddly earthquake.