Fairly big LA area earthquake just now...

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Pretty sharp where I was here in OC! Am trying to dig up more info. Worst one I've felt in a while.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Whoa. I'm calling my sister. She lives just south of the Salton Sea.

― You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

5.0-ish

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

5.3 San Bernardino

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/117-34.html

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Initial shaking then a really big shock, very startling. Small 2.0 followup in Mission Viejo. Hopefully that's it for now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

didnt we have another one on Sunday, that i slept thru ?

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

How do you protect yourself from an earthquake? That would scare the pee out of me.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

well there was that 7.0 40 miles off the coast of Crescent City in NoCal. That's pretty far away though. There were many predictions of earthquake activity over the last few weeks tho (the surprise there is that such predictions seem to have been fairly accurate)

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― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Aww, you beat my thread by a minute! Curses, Ned.

― I shift gears when I see tears (deangulberry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Sunday was a 5.2-ish one near Palm Springs. This is the first one I've felt at work in over 10 years.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

How do you protect yourself from an earthquake? That would scare the pee out of me.

You just deal with it. It's all part of growing up in California.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

How do you protect yourself from an earthquake?

First rule: where the earth goes, that's where you go, too.
Second rule: avoid falling things.
Third rule: if the fire comes, move away.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

It's also a good idea to sleep in your underwear.

It didn't seem that strong over here in Highland Park, though it's definitely the strongest one I've felt in a few years.

― Puddin' (Arthur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I've never really understood the fear of earthquakes in America. if I lived in Turkey or Peru or something I might worry more, but building standards being what they are, very very very few people are ever killed or injured in earthquakes here (esp. compared to other parts of the world). Property damage - okay, I can see worrying about that, but being afraid that something horrible is going to happen to you physically in an earthquake seems kinda silly to me. The worst that usually happens is stuff is kinda shaken up, maybe you lose your balance for a minute or two. But again, nothing bad has ever happened to me in an earthquake. Maybe if I was one of those handful of people who were crushed on the Bay Bridge in the Loma Prieta quake I would feel differently.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Wheeeeeeee!

All of the animals looked at me like "what the hell's going on? We want to sleep!" and then went for a mid-day snack and then back to bed.

They're so ... ?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

(Also, if ther IS a really huge earthquake capable of inflicting large property/infrastructure damage (ie, >8.0), then there really isn't much you can do about it anyway, so why worry?)

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― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

My boss was on the top level of the Bay Bridge during Loma Prieta.

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Ms. Laura!!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Hi Sam!!!

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I would like to include my usual reminder to always know where a pair of slip on shoes are.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

And a flashlight.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

re: earthquakes being not so scary

I used to think so too, but hearing about that highway patrolman who was on that stretch of highway that collapsed during northridge was fucking frightening.

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Ms. Laura, yay! Join us tomorrow for FAP!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

The Northridge quake was scary as f*ck.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I spilled coffee on my laptop. I might have damaged it :(

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Let's hope it's like the accidents in comic books, Remy, and it makes your computer super fast and milky smooth.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

i spilled mere water on mine before & broke it. i hope yours is okay....im guessing you dont have the super-rare EARTHQUAKE INSURANCE do u

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

wussies! here in tokyo earthquakes are a monthly if not weekly occurance. tokyo rocks!

― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

you get weekly 5.0-7.0 earthquakes?

― I shift gears when I see tears (deangulberry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

North Sumatra does (if not bigger ones).

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

"you get weekly 5.0-7.0 earthquakes?"

i'm not really sure, because Japan uses a different scale than the U.S. But we probably get monthly 4+ ones. Japan is more seismacally active than California, I believe. But anyways, I was joking. We're brothers.

― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

If we're brothers then I'm telling mom on you.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

i was joking too

we are brothers =DDDDDDDDDDDDD

― I shift gears when I see tears (deangulberry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

mom's buried under a mountain of rubble. it's really very sad.

― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Barney!!

http://www.themathlab.com/images/cartoons/bettyrubblelarge.gif

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

my computer works. It smells really good. The girl at the coffee shop helped me clean it up, and I flirted with her a little bit.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Why does this sound familiar?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

We've secretly switched Remy with Mark P....

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Remember that other guy who spilled coffee on this laptop? Jean-Pierre?

― donut e-goo (donut), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

It's true! But I think she dislikes me because I always pay with spare change, and never tip more than 50c for a cup of coffee. Once I told her I was poor, and I think she thought I was making fun of her.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

I was on the 23rd floor of an office building in downtown LA and the girl in the next office screamed "OHMIGOD It's my 1st earthquake!!" like she was losing her virginity, with fear and glee. (She's from NYC)

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

three in less than a week! insane!

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

I still remember the Hector Mine quake in 1999. I think it was the last major earthquake in so cal I ever experience.. it was an odd coincidence, because I was driving Ned home from some late night dance party shindig that was KUCI related, and all of a sudden all these flashes come from nowhere, yet there were no clouds in the sky.. I thought maybe some freak thunderstorm just came in out of nowhere, but then all the lights stopped..... and they were mostly green and blue in nature.. we get home.. Ned goes to bed, and i tune in to the radio just to make sure aliens didn't land, because the neighbors weren't out of their houses or anything.. and sure enough we had just gotten some really rare (for its fault line) 7.1 earthquake out in the middle of the Mojave... somehow I didn't feel it while driving.

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

Dumb question then: what were the flashes? Electric cables snapping or something?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

IN a big one, the electric transformers on the phone poles spark.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Ah I see. Never been thru anything more than tremors - I grew up on a very minor faultline but never had any proper quakes.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Whats scary is, sometimes quakes can come out of nowhere totally OFF a faultline too. Just a random wobbling up of the earth crust. That the earth is such a bitch like this scares the crap out of me sometimes. We're really so fragile on it!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

The Hector Mine quake occurred on a fault no one thought existed!

Hector Mine earthquake

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

Landers Quake, 1992 -- biggest earthquake I ever felt, second scariest.

Nisqually quake -- scariest one to me since I was in an old building that was literally crumbling as it happened.

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

I was in ground zero of the worst of the downtown Seattle damage. Starbucks HQ is just a few blocks south of where my building was.

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Yeah thats the kind of thing that worries me. Melbourne just Does Not have earthquakes. I imagine as a result our buildings arent built for it. So if something did happen.. uhhhh. I live on the 1s floor of an apartment block, and work on the 27th floor of a big river-edge building on a dodgy wet clay base. I just dont want to think about it...

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I haven't felt any of these recent earthquakes (although I'm living in LA these days). I feel cheated!

(I've never experienced a major earthquake, thankfully, but I've definitely been aware of a couple of smaller ones -- including one in the Bay Area, circa 2000, that woke us both up.)

― Paul outta Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 17 June 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Damn, another Eureka earthquake.

― I shift gears when I see tears (deangulberry), Friday, 17 June 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

I would like to include my usual reminder to always know where a pair of slip on shoes are.

Dandy.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

i'm not really sure, because Japan uses a different scale than the U.S. But we probably get monthly 4+ ones. Japan is more seismacally active than California, I believe. But anyways, I was joking. We're brothers.

I used to worry all the time because my parents would email me on a weekly basis about earthquakes (in Japan). Now I worry less, partly because they prefer not to tell me (they know I worry) and I know there's nothing much I (nor they) can do about it. Like someone said, it's part of life there (in Japan and California). My mom's so used to it, she usually just continues doing her business.

I think the difference in Japan is that they mention two different numbers, one of which is the strength you feel or something.

It confuses the shit out of me. I remember the last time we were in Japan, there was one. I was sleeping. I woke up in a haze thinking "Why the fuck is Thom shaking the couch? Very funny." and fell back asleep.

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Saturday, 18 June 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

surprised no one's mentioned this...

Aftershocks Persist in Wake of Bigger Quakes
By Jia-Rui Chong, Times Staff Writer

Aftershocks from strong earthquakes last week continued to ripple throughout California over the weekend.

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck 129 miles off the coast of Eureka at 2:27 a.m. Sunday, just south of the epicenter of a 7.2 magnitude quake Tuesday night that prompted a tsunami warning for coastal areas from British Columbia to the Mexican border.

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A magnitude 3.9 quake rumbled nearby about five hours later. The Humboldt County Sheriff's Department received no immediate reports of damage.

Following a 5.2 quake near Anza in Riverside County and a 4.9 temblor near Yucaipa in San Bernardino County, several so-called micro-earthquakes between 2.6 and 1.0 shook the area Saturday night, experts said.

"It's typical that we'll have aftershocks and they will continue for some time," said Caltech seismologist Anthony Guarino.

Major earthquakes can often cause smaller aftershocks for years, he said. "We just stopped having aftershocks last year sometime" related to the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.7.

Since the 7.2 quake rocked the Juan de Fuca plate off the coast of Eureka, there have been 15 temblors above 3.0 in the area, including a 6.7 quake Thursday night, Guarino said.

It is an active area, where the Juan de Fuca, North American and Pacific Plates all come together, the seismologist said.

The quake Sunday morning was too small to generate a tsunami warning, Guarino said.

Officials at the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, had issued a warning Tuesday night within minutes of the earthquake because it was above 7.0. They canceled the warning about an hour later, when scientists determined that the horizontal movement of the fault did not change the level of the ocean floor.

"There have been instances in the past where a magnitude 6.2 or 6.5 have created a tsunami," Guarino said, but only because they created landslides under water. "With a magnitude 5, we wouldn't expect that to happen."

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 June 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

Monday, June 20, 2005 at 07:21 JST
TOKYO — An earthquake registering 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted Tokyo and Chiba at 1:15 a.m. Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

There were no reports of casualties or damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The quake was centered in Chiba Prefecture east of Tokyo

I slept right through it.

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 20 June 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

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