6.5 earthquake near San Luis Obispo, CA

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Three dead in California earthquake

Shit.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

No more earthquakes, please.

Thank you.

― luna hates earthquakes (luna.c), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My building near LAX was swaying for quite a while - maybe even thirty seconds.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't even make a "dammit ned" joke now that i've read the actual thread :-(

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine did too, Spencer - it seemed like about 5 minutes.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a SLO town, BABY. I'll help you all dig out tomorrow.

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

We didn't feel it at all down here. First I heard about it was via a mailing list I'm on.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't feel a thing (in Oakland)... I love earthquakes. We don't have tornados in California, so we have to live with earthquakes.

(How come I've never heard of a tornado anywhere but the US? Not Japan, not Siberia, not Persia, only Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, et al. I've heard of waterspouts around the world, but only the midwest gets the ass-kicking "Twister" type things {A film which, incidentally, has the worst dialogue ever.}.)

― andy, Monday, 22 December 2003 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

cnn.com top stories:

Three dead in California quake

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Worshipers attack Egyptian official in mosque

Baghdad blast kills 2 U.S. soldiers

Lawyer: Limbaugh was blackmailed

Pakistan quizzes 'father of bomb'

*****Armada of spacecraft approaching Mars *****

Martha Stewart: 'The saddest holiday ever'

Earthquakes, war, Martha, spacecraft and Mars? Holy shit! IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD. RUN FOR COVER.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I felt it. Totally enjoyable, considering.

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

We don't have tornados in California

But California has the highest twister counts than any other U.S. state! They happen pretty regularly in southern California, but usually as a one-off thunderstorm twister thing in some suburb.. most often in Irvine!

Granted, they are usually never as big as the ones in, say, Utah, much less in the midwest and western ranks of the south.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i felt it in SF for about 30 seconds.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how San Simeon is suddenly Southern California -- acccording to the news anyway...

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Mostly I've read 'central'

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Local news (on the WC) keeps saying it's southern, and 250 miles from LA... rather than a more reasonable 150 miles from SF... I dunno. Just one of those things...

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Clearly they're pinheads.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

it's more in the southern half of CA than anything else I guess (SF is only a little bit past the half-way mark itself). I felt it for about four seconds in SF, it's surprising that we felt anything at all here considering how far away it was.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq1/san_andreas.gif

Into the sea, you and meeee...

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://205.156.54.206/nwr/states/california.gif

King City seemed halfway to me, but sure.

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

San Simeon is in the California DMZ between the SF vs. LA WARZ.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, looks like California has conquered Arizona and took Yuma recently.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

That's right. Southwest bitches better watch out.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

and Nevada has stolen Bullhead City from Arizona too! FOOKIN SO CAL WARZ AHOY!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

and SF has recently moved over closer to Half Moon Bay, apparently.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks like Arizona made off with Lake Havasu, though.

Fuckers.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Sur is NorCal; Bakersfield is SoCal. The rest is a no man's land.

― andy, Monday, 22 December 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope you guys in L.A. are enjoying life in your new digs in Lancaster...

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a life raft handy - bring it on, bitches.

(I'm sorry, I'm in the 'bitches' mood today).

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

here this'll fix it

http://205.156.54.206/nwr/states/california.gif

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"raft"

― Leee Marvin (Leee), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

30 seconds of feeling like I was in a boat on the ocean no doubt augmented by being on the top floor of an old apartment building that sits on sand. MMMMMMm soil liquefaction.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Liquifascism Shmiquifascism. Can't wait to see what happens to the Newport Beach peninsula and islands once global warming brings those Baja hurricanes up to the SoCal coast.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I would've never thought there could've been so many 'jokes' about a map.

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I know it's scary and dangerous and stuff, but I long to feel an earthquake. I didn't even feel the little ones we had in Britain recently-ish.

Seriously, though, nuclear power stations on the San Andreas fault? Has anyone told Al-Qaida?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmap/upsidedownmap.jpg

OMG!! TEH MAP IS UPSIED DOWN!! CRAZZZZY

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Earthquakes are great fun if...

1) It does not wake you up.
2) It does not destroy you or your belongings.
3) You do not care about the people whom it has destroyed.

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not on the fault. But on the water. It is on a cliff, however.

x-post

― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't feel a thing.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you in a highrise?

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

*****Armada of spacecraft approaching Mars *****
And one of the Mars landing spacecraft will be approaching singing a Blur song!! :-)

I was a little curious about what earthquakes were like, too, until I rode one out 9 floors up in a 1920s brick building. The front walls peeled off the upper floors & the bricks crashed down, the pipes inside burst (mmm, evacuation down flooded stairs!), all the florescent flights hanging from the ceiling shattered, 21" moniters slammed into chairs & floors- it was rather terrifying. I'll be perfectly happy to never see another one again.

So I hope all the Californians are in one piece!

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I am in a little bungalow actually, TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

just reading that makes my head hurt

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, makes sense. Down here in LA, I felt it on the 9th floor of a huge rise but people on the ground didn't feel it or felt it severly dampened. Probably has to do with having a deep foundation and being more susceptible to vibrations.

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Still..blackouts, fires, celebrity senators, earthquakes, burritos...I've really enjoyed my first six months in California!! :)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

And we've enjoyed having you.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

that's "celebrity governors" man, get with the PROGRAM!

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Awwww shucks!

I meant celebrity governors, obv.

(x-post yeah whatever, Kyle)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

in Long Beach, in a one-story wooden bungalow, 100 years old . i didn't feel a thing. i had no clue until i saw the thread.

i would like it very much if arnold stood upon a crack in the earth and then the plates moved, though.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

EARTHQUAKE

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

you're only an hour and a half late.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I love my earthquake rss feed.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/eqs7day-M5.xml

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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