Did you feel it?
 

4.4 at 4:05. Bounced around a little, got up and stood in the doorway. The dog, who barks and growls and generally acts as if I regularly beat him, didn't make a peep.

Pff, I started a thread. Hey, what's with my roommate's dog hating on me all the time? I even cooked him some chicken gizzards the other day.

Must be the cheese, man.

I must be the cheeseman.

Who knew I could be witty at 4:30 am?

Witty, and pretty, and bright!

I could fart a 4.4... must be a slow news day.

Felt it. One strong jolt and it was over (that's what she said)

Nope, thankfully. And the media needs to STFU. 4.4 is not 5.4 or 6.4 blah blah blah.

Oh, and for E - yup, we were talking about them this weekend. Saturday night to be precise. I'm just going to STFU too.

Where was it centered?

Pico Rivera, 11.7 miles deep

Yesterday, as my parents are getting ready to go out of town for a few days, my Mom sends me this email that since there have been earthquakes recently, she thinks we're about to have one and that my Aunt in Utah will be the contact point if there's an earthquake in Ca. that knocks out the phones locally. Otherwise, if it's out of state, everyone will call her.

I quickly dismissed it as yeah yeah - whatever Mom.

And then I woke up this morning and am pretty sure my Mom's psychic! ;)

That reminds me, we need a new out of state contact. My parents refuse to do any sort of emergency kit or disaster planning and it drives me batty. Their earthquake kit is at least 5 years old and I'm sure the food and water has gone bad.

I actually thought Mufasa jumped on the bed. 19 pounds of kitty feels like a 5.0 on a mattress. ;)

However, Merlynn (the cockatiel) alerted us because it shook her off her perch.

I was too lazy to get out of bed (call me when we have a real earthquake), but I wonder if our chameleons fell off their branches. They are clutzy and fall off regularly without the earth moving.

It seems that there have been an unusual number of tremors lately. We even had one (4.6 I believe) up here in the PNW last week. What I'm curious to know is if the tally really is rising, or if the media is so hungry for more Haiti-like coverage that they're inflating it all to make headlines, which wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Slept right trough it!

My local AM news today: "Earthquake in Los Angeles area this morning"

Huh? My ears perked up.

Continuing: "A magnitude 4.2 quake briefly shook the LA area this morning..."

Wha?? 4.2? Geeze. Next story please. I don't need to know each time Kevy passes gas.

They are making it sound like the strength and energy is rivaling Chile or Haiti. I guess there is some earthquake envy by the media outlets.

It seems we are having more strong quakes and the plates are really shifting. I'm interested in seeing a map of the plates before the Bali quake a few years ago and now. Or even before the Haiti quake and now.

Who says it was me?

It may seem that way, but we're not. None of the recent activity indicates any statistically significant deviation from historically recorded patterns of earthquakes. What has increased is the amount of development along active fault lines, so it magnifies the impact of quakes that in the past would not have affected major cities.

That's not a denial.

Nor is it an admission

If I see one more idiotic internet comment that this is "proof" of the 2012 predictions, I'm going to barf.

You're going to barf. :(

Pics, please?

Annoying, yes. But I do kind of like woo with a built in expiration date.

Emission?

That's what he said!


Satan made me say it!

I can haz Rapture?

Duh, silly. Earthquakes aren't proof of the 2012 predictions. They're proof of the global warming climate change predictions! Duh!!! :D

At risk of dragging this down a frustrating path...I think you'll find that the same people who tell climate change deniers to shove it when claim a snow storm in winter disproves global warming, will equally tell anyone that says these earthquakes prove global warming to shove it. I dare you to find any voice that anyone in the scientific community takes seriously saying that 2 big earthquakes=proof of climate change. Go ahead, count them up. Then go and count up the number of people who are considered legitimate voices from the deniers side that were tripping over themselves to claim climate change is over based on a snow storm in D.C. Let me take a wild guess as to which number will be bigger.

Well I say that life is an illusion and that reality is simply a figment of the imagination.

Truth, dare or double dare?

It was a joke, man. Seriously. Earthquake as climate change evidence? Come on... How more obvious could I have made it.

Sorry.

I've already actually seen some shrieking from the denier crowd, and they weren't joking. "How long until the quakes are tied to climate change?!?!" Reality beat you to the punchline.

Seriously? Wow... I don't know what to say. Really? An earthquake, actually tied to the climate? Kinda sucks the humor right out of the joke, doesn't it.

Well no, no (reputable) person has tied any individual quake to the climate.

Some have theorized that climate change could in the long run have an effect on techtonics. But none of them are pointing to these quakes as proof, which was my point.

What I saw was people spewing the straw man, "I bet those stupid people who believe in climate change are going to claim these quakes are proof of climate change. Can you believe how stupid they are?!"

slept through it, but got to work and found my office blocked by caution tape as the ceiling had buckled over my desk, more cosmetic than anything, the repairs were done in a couple hours. Meanwhile my drawers were shook open and my cocktail shaker was toppled. But my office is fault-line adjacent for this one.

Heh, your coworkers must love you. Is that Julia Cameron's fault? ;)

She said "fault"... In an earthquake thread... Hee.

I think it predates her and comes from a time when my office was moved to an annoying location. I figured if I was going to stay there I'd swank it up. Sadly I've been more nomadic in my work location so I haven't been able to properly decorate to make my cube into a Greg Brady super-cool bachelor pad like I want to. The Lava lamp remains packed.

7.4 is a biggie, but 28.782N 64.048E is one desolate patch of earth. I'm guessing there was not too much damage from this one.

I didn't feel it.

Which can only mean that the people in the area have done nothing to anger god.

Well, when it was a 7.4, I was going to say that the people of Dalbandin surely felt it as they were only 34 miles away. But since it was downgraded to a 7.2, I'm guessing that it probably went unnoticed.

Seriously CNN?

A CNN Breaking News tweet for a 5.9 quake in the gulf of California?

What no tsunami warming for the pacific rim?

No. But, this is a bit far South for us to feel it. We did have a 3.something after midnight the other night. I felt that one, but it was located in the city just North of us (Carson). It was the quickest earthquake I have ever experienced and was odd because I heard it approaching. We shook once then it was over.

yeah, when you can hear them coming, those are the freaky ones. those are also the ones that tend to be one hard jolt vs swaying or general shaking.

I didnt feel any of the latest ones. part of me likes it that way, part of me fears it sneaking up on me though

We didn't feel (or hear) it, but we were both asleep.

We felt that one. Well, I felt it. I was too sleepy to figure out what it was and woke the Rat up to ask. He said it was the cats. Sputnik is big enough now that the explanation seemed completely plausible at the time.

* Warning *

According to an Internet website (and you know they are never wrong) you SoCal'ers are at imminent risk of a 6.0 to 7.0 quake.

The time to prepare is now! I suggest you all take turns keeping an eye on NA to insure she does not do anything that would trigger this event.

I love the hand drawn and colored maps.

The website is an interesting business model. Using the "Someone is wrong on the Internet" meme you post a controversial add supported website that brings in the hits as people flock to it just to prove you wrong.

I think the trick is finding just the right type of wrong. For example, ExplodingPuppies.com would probably get a lot of hits but you would be hard pressed to find an advertiser willing to support it.

He's predicting earthquakes and selling earthquake survival kits. Sounds like a marketing scheme more than anything else.

Brilliant!

Now from a marketing standpoint, what would people visiting www.ExplodingPuppies.com need? Hummm...

kevlar puppy vests, of course.

Here's the first video to put on your site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Goddamnit. I was all excited that DPR was posting.

Get used to disappointment





:)

That has to be the most awesomely obscure Princess Bride quote I've ever seen used. Bravo good sir!

Apparently there was a 3.2 today practically right under our house. Bill felt it.

Oh, the little know Long Beach Bear fault in action!

Moonie?? Please check in...

Second that

About 80 miles from DC.

My favorite tweet of the day (so far), from a friend who doesn't post on the LoT - -


:D

I think I'd wake up and freak out over a 5.8. But I'd do the typical CA internal monologue of "wtf. oh, and earthquake. I wonder how bad it will get. Maybe I should get in the doorway. But I'm all warm and cozy in bed. I could just put the pillow over my head. No, I should get in the doorway *sits up* oh, it stopped".

We felt it here in Schenectady. Building swayed for a while.

USGS page.

Epicenter was about 12 miles from where I was living while in VA. Reports in that vicinity are lots of building swaying and shaking.

Pru & Moonie please phone home.

What? No concern for me?! :P I know it's because you know that as a former southern California resident I knew what to do. Indeed, I was under my desk even as my co-workers were milling about the reception area, watching the building facade crumble across the street. Reports from coworkers that family members from Atlanta to NYC felt it.

Seriously, though, if we have a serious earthquake my coworkers are screwed. No duck and cover, and when we were ordered to evacuate? They took the elevator. And then stood right next to the buildings when outside. They get a big F on earthquake response.

It seriously swayed for a long time, though. Reminded me of the Nisqually quake in that respect. Went on long enough for me to start wondering if I should get more concerned.

See my post above....

You're an ol pro. :p

Checking in. i'm in Cleveland. Didn't feel a thing.

I blame Pru for brining it with her.

See, that's what I figured.

And Moonie: blame has already been laid on an Important Person who used to work here and apparently came in just as it started. So I'm off the hook!

Reports are there was damage at the National Cathedral. :(

Pru - you are smart to think of all those things.

They don't have the same building codes there that we have in California - wonder what sort of damage will be found.

Glad you guys are all okay.

I never duck and cover. I want to watch stuff fall down. Sadly, so far in 13 years we haven't yet had one that knocked anything over.

5.8... it's like Dick Cheney farted.

I do like how all the California people are likek "pshaw!" and then whenever there's a 3.9 my twitter stream lights up like a Johnny Knoxville fart and I get hours of local news showing me pictures of salons with shampoo bottles on the ground.

Well, it's either that or keep reporting on the Kardashians, which would you rather report on?

Kid who goes to college in Ohio felt it. Kid who goes to college in North Carolina felt it.

Coworkers in Wilmington had to end a conference call because they were being evacuated for some reason. Feel bad for them, they had to end a call early a few weeks ago because the tornado sirens were going off.

Our NJ office felt it.

Ha! I only called out Moonie since he's posted in here so many times and, yet, has been so far away.

Jason was never able to figure out the whole earthquake thing.

Well, that's relative. Moonie may have escaped injury from the quake, but he is far from "OK"

I wouldn't worry about duck and cover. Anything large enough to require safety measures will bring all those brick buildings a tumbling down in heavy piles and kill everyone anyway. ;)

True. I'm in OH which is quite far from OK.

This is pretty cool: How the animals at the DC National Zoo reacted to the quake

I wonder if the LA Zoo ever bothers with such a press release. It was kind of interesting.

I love that the giant pandas were totally cool during the event. Their genes probably carry seismic memory, so they were like "What? What? Wheres our bamboo?"

Based on careful observation I'd say it is simply a sign that pandas are barely conscious.

Honey panda don't give a sht

The fact the most of the animals were startled by the quake is hardly earth shaking (yes, pun intended). And the horses and Pandas didn't notice (were the horses eating the eucalyptus as well?), but what I always find interesting are the ones that react ahead of time. The lemurs gave a 15 minute warning! I think all of the zoos in southern Cal should get some of those, and have a warning system there that a zoo keeper can initiate!

Lol, GD! I wonder how the honey badgers would have reacted?

Your Lemur warning alert today is Orange.

I assume that lemurs give alarms every hour or so

So with a hurricane now heading its way up the east coast, ya think eastcoasters will finally realize, with basis for comparison nicely under their belts, why we westcoasters would rather have earthquakes than hurricanes?

I want hurricanes too!

Frankly, I just want the earth to reach out and threaten my life in a completely random uncaring way.

24 hours from now my house will be effected by hurricane Irene. I have water, non pershiable food and a backup power source. Try that with your precious earthquakes.

I have water, non-perishable food, and a backup power source too*. Then I spend 16 hours a day 40 miles away from them.

I wanna wear a tie as a bandanna and kill Piggy on Mission Streeet!


*and actually I lied**, I don't have any of that stuff. Partly because I'm lazy, partly because I'm confident that my life will continue to be extremely boring, and partly because if there is a giant civilization disrupting disaster it sounds more fun to greet it underprepared.


** actually, I lied about lying. We do have an earthquake kit in the closet and the trunk of the car***. However, they were bought in 2002 so I suspect they aren't as useful as they once might have been.

*** actually, I kind of lied about that too. Lani thinks we have one in the car, but earlier this year I was cleaning the car and got annoyed at that thing always being in the way so I tossed it****. So if she is driving alone and drives off an embankment in the middle of nowhere, breaking both legs and unable to walk but dies of thirst after dragging herself to the trunk, don't tell her.

**** yeah, a bit of a fib. I just moved it to the closet with the other one. But the point is, it's not in the car.

The point is, I get the chance to prepare when I know it's coming rather than for something I have no idea when it's coming.

Oh, and thanks for not raking me over the coals for my use of "effected"

And the point is that knowing takes all the fun out of it.

Oh, we KNOW it's coming!

I'm a little confused because wapo doesn't seem to think it will be any big deal, but everyone else seems to think it's Certain Doom. Do we stock up on spaghetti-os? Just make sure we get the books out of the garage?

Apparently not until I move away, though. Because god hates me. So much that she's keeping the big ones away from even the parts of California that I'm not in.

Here's the drill....

A good percentage of the locals will panic and there will be a run on the grocery stores. Milk, bread,TP, and strangely ice cream will get cleared from shelves or already have been.

The wind and the rain will come.

Ask your neighbors about the reliability of power reliability in your neighborhood. Chances are they will laugh at you. Pepco rates last in the nation for a reason.

Remember that rain we had earlier today? Yeah, we lost power for two hours from just that. Last time a hurricane came close we lost power for a week. So be prepared for that. If you have a gas stove kudos. If you have Fios phone service don't forget it will die after a few hours without power.

Water: that's what the toilet tank is for, and our obsession with bottled water :)
Non-perishable food: Believe it or not, we have canned food on the West Coast too, and since fresh food is so vastly much better and widely available, it usually remains uneaten in our pantries, ready for the next quake
Backup power source: Okay, ya got us there, we just have phenomenal weather.

And knowing is half the battle!

I'm going to put some water in pitchers ahead of time just in case there's any flooding that affects the water supply. I'm hoping we don't lose power, but if we do I'm probably set with PB and jelly sandwiches for the duration. I also have a propane stove I could use outside. Other than that, I'm not really too worried. Hopefully nothing will fall on the house. If my car is damaged, I need a new one anyway!

I hope that all the east coasters stay safe and out of harms way. Of course these storms are always unpredictable and can change course at any time, maybe it will just veer the other way.

3.5 south of Irvine, just before 3AM.

We felt it, woke us up but that's about it. For some reason my reaction was to say, "There it is," as if I'd been anticipating an earthquake. Then I rolled over and fell back asleep.

I sleep through that one. Though you are a little closer to Irvine that I am.

Wolfette said it was "huge".....let's just say she hasn't felt very many quakes in her life yet.

I didn't feel yesterday's or today's. I suspect our dogs might have though, because they kept both of us up 2 nights ago, and kept Alex up last night.

Didn't even hear about yesterday's and definitely didn't feel it. Of course looking at the data, I would have been just rolling in on my bike, so even if it was noticeable way down here I would have been unlikely to feel it, or would have assumed I hit a bad patch of asphalt.

I'm in Irvine and didn't feel it, or feel the one a couple days ago. It's for the best since I hate them.

Ooh, just had a real nice quake in downtown SF. Our building moved UP and then side to side. It was a roller coaster, CM woulda loved it and screamed!

I was just thinking of you Snowflake, my Aunt is also in the city and just said it was a pretty good jolt.

Katie, it was, small but packed a nice wallop!

From Facebook/Twitter everybody within blocks of me apparently felt it. But I did not.

Felt that one. 4.2, right in the same spot as the 4.0 earlier today.

Second one was better.

You guys are having all the fun! <pout>

Teeny tiny little earthquake that had my apartment vibrating in Sherman Oaks. Weird.

Didn't feel it.

I never feel it.

1.2 - and you felt it? I'm pretty sure a garbage truck passing by is stronger than a 1.2....

If so, this was a reallllllllllllllly long garbage truck. But, that is, in fact, what it felt like.

I could probably recreate that in my living room. Without even turning on the sound system.

Especially if you've been to the Burrito Factory

Less than a minute ago. Didn't feel very big, even here on a 2nd story.

3.9 near San Juan Capistrano.

The Swallows have returned, and they're PISSED!!

Sounds like a voice-over for a movie trailer.

The Birds

Perhaps someone will make The Birds III using this.

Yes, I felt it in Fountain Valley.

Did you feel it??

Of course not, and if you did you thought it was a truck or some such.

So why is this on the front page of CNN?

DISLIKE :(

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...ci15164105.php

Keith's first.

That was a 4? Thought it was smaller.

In other news, my computer did something really weird just before the quake, and I'm wondering if it's related.

From my FB post:

Considering you're pretty far south from it...

Call me when you get a real earthquake

I was playing some Bassnectar around that time.

Did you feel it? 5.2 in Victoria

Who's Victoria?

The better half of Victor/Victoria.

So, she couldn't handle John Holmes?

4.4 near Yorba Linda

4.4 in Yorba Linda. We felt it pretty good as we are pretty close.

Out of curiosity (never used the Google Maps measuring tool before), I checked and we are actually ~6.75 miles away from the epicenter.

GD/CP/DM were a little over 10 miles away. Keith would have been about 6 miles had he been home.

Yeah... I need a hobby.

Right up the street from a friend's house, second one of that size since they moved in several months ago. Fun for them!

Nope - still waiting

I felt it here in Garden Grove. I was standing (we are in a raised floor house) and felt a slight rolling, then a bang, then some more rolling. No damage or toppled items.

Sorry: you are about 25 miles away. Don't think it's gonna hit you. Although you may get the tsunami.

Didn't feel a thing down here.

I didn't know you are in Austrailia!

Ooh how far am I from your epicenter?

Didn't feel a thing in Arlington.

I felt something, but it was probably just Bill rolling over in his sleep.

Aaaaand another.

If someone could please fix this problem I would be really grateful.

Whoa!

Still nothing

I've seen no reports of damage from last night, and presumably not this one either. But still can't help being a little freaked out that our friends who live literally a couple blocks from the epicenter and have a 5 day old newborn at home haven't responded to texts. Though I'm guessing it's more the fault (get it?) of the newborn than the quakes that I haven't heard back.

Bill felt this one in Long Beach. And we sure felt it in Garden Grove!

Lisa isn't in the potty

Let's hope she can hold if for all your sakes.

In case anyone is interested, the Red Cross is holding an Earthquake and Disaster Preparedness Presentation in Santa Ana on Saturday the 11th. It's open to the public, and free of charge. 10:00am to noon.

American Red Cross
600 Parkcenter Dr.
Santa Ana CA 92705
Room PC208

I don't have a website. Sorry.

Check your "Walk to Disneyland" stats - though should give you a pretty close estimation.

If I lived in eastern San Diego County right now, I'd be rather concerned.

Is the Salton Sea leaking yet?

I've only felt one of them so far and it wasn't much. Hoping they're not foreshocks.

Felt that one. Good gap between the first slight wiggle and the S-wave jolt, so I'm guessing some distance from here, possibly up in Yorba Linda again. If so, I'd guess not that big. 4 or so maybe?

The ground keeps moving.

Someone make it stop!

Nothing on USGS yet.

a case of Turtle Wax and a one year supply of Rice-A-Roni—the San Francisco treat!

Yeah. This one took a couple minutes to show up. Weird, because they are usually so quick.

They updated while I was posting.

I only mentioned it because while I didn't feel it here in HB, the person I was with mentioned it then Susan sent me a text. I checked a couple of their maps and it took a while for it to show.

My parents in HB felt it, then called me immediately. Mainly because I gave them crap for not calling after the last one, when they were out of the country, because they didn't hear about it until later that night. My grandparents used to call for every 2.5 in the middle of the ocean at 3am. Before the internet.

Still felt nothing. I need a real shaker.

here ya go €uro

I will be in town Friday evening until Sunday morning. If you could please alert NA to abstain from using the can during that period it would be greatly appreciated.

And tell her Hi! as well. She don't see to come around here all that often no more.

Sherman Oaks, about 12:05 am

Nope - nothing again

Anything under a 4 doesn't count.

I still love small earthquakes to prove Californians are full of **** about not giving a ****.

Local SF news radio this morning ran a clip of some woman saying "I was sitting in a rocking chair, but I wasn't rocking. Then I started rocking!"

I had no idea that was a thing. I'd better start not giving a sh!t.

Weeeee. 5.1 or 5.2 near Anza Borrego (or there were two a minute apart). Apparently the info is subject to refinement - the overview site shows that it has been reclassified as a 4.7 although the hard link still shows it as a 5.2. Mainly amusing because it was a fellow co-worker's first California earthquake (he just moved here from New York).

I haven't had enough coffee today to feel anything under 5.7

I was busy not giving a sh!t.

The Kings are 3-0 on days when there has been an earthquake magnitude 5 or greater.

The Sacramento Kings?

I'm 5' 6 3/4".

Just sayin'.

1.65 inches to spare.

Remember all this fun way back in 2011? A bone rattling 5.8?

Yeah, $20,000,000 in damage to the National Cathedral with repairs expected to take ten years. Also they are just now covering the Washington Monument in scaffolding so repair work can start on it.

*sigh* I miss California.

Why do they need to fix the National Cathedral? Seems like a good opportunity to put in something more useful. If I want to visit churches while touristing, that is why god created Europe.

Good Morning LA!

Hey I actually felt this one, but if I wasn't already out of bed I think it would have gently rocked me back to sleep.

At about the right time I was woken up by some sort of quake-like noise/creaking. It was very brief and I didn't feel any shaking at all, so I quickly concluded it must have been the neighbors turning on the shower or something, though it was definitely not a familiar sort of noise from the neighbors. Must have been the quake.

Seen in a tweet:
An earthquake on St. Patricks day... Is that considered a shamrock shake?

Shook us back and forth pretty good, apparently we were nearly on top of it. A few things fell down in the apartment, no damage. It looks like the water heater for the bldg got shut off or disconnected, as I just had to take a cold shower. Do not like.

Ok, I'm sure those in So Cal felt that one! It was 5.3 in La Habra about 15 minutes ago.

Felt it

We were about a mile from the epicenter: we definitely felt it. And all the aftershocks since including a couple this evening.

Only felt last night's, and possibly the one immediately after it, which we thought was a continuation of the main quake. But haven't felt the others.

How about the fifteen second thunder clap right above my house? Anybody?

I may have felt that one. Some good thunder in the city too.

No, but I've seen blue skies, through the tears in my eyes.

Remember this from back in 2011? The 5.8 quake that "devastated" DC? The National Cathedral is still re-building but the Washington Monument just re-opened this week!

Nope.