Big quake - Shakin' in the Southlans

[Kevy Baby]

You're lying

[Disneyphile]

The USGS should have a sensor wire attached to NA's toilet seat.

[JWBear]

There have been 10 quakes in the 3-4 range there in the last 15 minutes since the 5.7 one.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by JWBear

There have been 10 quakes in the 3-4 range there in the last 15 minutes since the 5.7 one.

Surely Lisa went to the bathroom or was on the phone at some point at that time.

And you know we love you, you're such a sport!

And I agree with you, it was quite fascinating to watch live as the needle would scroll another earthquake (even though I never felt any of them). I didn't even feel the first one, I was walking through the house at the time. I heard the windchimes out side, and looked out and saw the tree moving. I thought it suddenly became windy.

[Not Afraid]

I'm again watching the quakes move up the fault lines. It is completely fascinating! These 2 faults that join up where these larger quakes are happening must be disagreeing with each other.

[Disneyphile]

Woooooooo. Rockin' in Garden Grove just now.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Felt 2 distinct shakings here in Costa Mesa.

[Ghoulish Delight]

5.9, out in the middle of nowhere between here and Palm Springs.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

5.9, out in the middle of nowhere between here and Palm Springs.

Either you aren't in Orange County, or you have a loose interpretation of Borrego Springs being between OC and Palm Springs.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Either you aren't in Orange County, or you have a loose interpretation of Borrego Springs being between OC and Palm Springs.

Or I was just glancing at a map with a huge red square and a couple city names on it.


There must be some weird rock densities between my workplace and Borrego Springs, because there was a huge separation between the so-called p- and s-waves. I felt the initial movement, it lasted for maybe 6-10 seconds. I was looking around to see if anyone else felt it. I saw a few others looking around. After the shaking stopped, there was enough time that myself and another coworker kept looking around for a couple seconds before making eye contact, giving a "yup, that just happened" nod to each other, standing up, acknowledging a few more people who'd felt it, starting in on a conversation...THEN we felt the second wave shake the building.

It could be that the size of the building (~50K sq ft. warehouse style building) meant that we couldn't really feel the smaller shaking between the two peaks, making it feel more spread out than I would have otherwise perceived, but it still felt like quite a long time between peaks*.






that's what she said