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EARTHQUAKE in San Diego? [UPDATE: Fox reporting 5.6 mag 20 miles south of Palm Springs]
Vanity | June 12th, 2005

Posted on 06/12/2005 8:43:45 AM PDT by missyme

Loud shake and rumbling this morning...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: earthquake; sandiego
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To: Parley Baer

It appears to be on the San Jacinto Fault and at 5.6 would not be expected to affect the San Andreas. But, then again . . .


141 posted on 06/12/2005 9:21:48 AM PDT by Misterioso
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To: Squantos
Incominggggggggggggggg !

Actually, just a little over an hour ago, there was that "THUNK-BOOOM!" sound I know so well..not too far off...

Wonder if we were timed with the quake? LOL

For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction?

....or somethng like that.

142 posted on 06/12/2005 9:22:07 AM PDT by Allegra (But It's A Dry Heat...)
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To: Dallas59
Never been in an earthquake.

I was reared in California (San Jose) and went through a couple of minor ones. What really got me is that there's nowhere to run. You don't realize how much you rely on the firmness of the ground under your feet until suddenly it's moving. You can flee from anything else.

143 posted on 06/12/2005 9:22:15 AM PDT by American Quilter
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To: All

Ok, finally, from the Foxnews website:

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A mild earthquake shook the desert early Sunday and could be felt in Los Angeles (search) and San Diego. There were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage, authorities said.

The magnitude-5.6 quake struck about 8:40 a.m. and was centered 20 miles south of Palm Springs (search), according to a preliminary report by the U.S. Geological Survey.

A dispatcher with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department (search) said she received dozens of calls about the quake but hadn't received any word about injuries or damage.

The quake was felt as far west as Los Angeles, where it rolled for several seconds, and as far south as San Diego, 75 miles southwest of Palm Springs.

No other details were immediately available.


144 posted on 06/12/2005 9:22:35 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: bd476

Yup. Moderate shaker. Too far south to be part of the Juan De Fuca subduction complex.
So...
I'm goin back to sleep. (djf yawns)


145 posted on 06/12/2005 9:22:36 AM PDT by djf ("Stop quoting the law. We have swords!" - Roman general Sulla)
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To: kingu

I'm in Glendora, too. Felt it real good. Of course it was my morning to sleep in, but now the kids all riled up and running up and down the hall hoping for another one and playing "earthquake". Now the real shaking has begun...


146 posted on 06/12/2005 9:23:06 AM PDT by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: Toidylop
heard rumbling noise like a HUGE train going through the area

I've heard that often from people but haven't experienced it myself. But the sounds during Northridge sounded like Hell had opened up! We also had a wild lightning show during the quake -- and it wasn't from exploding transformers since our electrical utilities are all underground.

147 posted on 06/12/2005 9:23:52 AM PDT by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: kstewskis
Sometimes earthquakes feel like you're in car on a bumpy road that being getting tossed about, but often, as today, there is a different sensation that is harder to describe. The thing with the car or boat analogy is that in those cases, you are in a vessel that is moving around violently in its environment. In an earthquake, the environment itself is moving. You can feel the shockwave traveling through the ground. It is very odd and unsettling. I am about 100 miles from the epicenter. My wife has two employees who are from back east and she doesn't think they've been through one yet. They will likely be freaked out!

At the California Science Center in Exposition Park, they have, or at least had, an exhibit about earthquakes. There was a small room you could go into that simulated an earthquake complete with shaking and sound effects. Basically it was a platform that shook sideways as well bouncing up and down, with another unit to shake the walls. If you can imagine that you are closer to experiencing an earthquake.
148 posted on 06/12/2005 9:23:52 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: expatguy

Coming here from Kansas I AM AT the Beach!


149 posted on 06/12/2005 9:24:29 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: No Blue States

not so many people in the closet here in San Francisco--not like before


150 posted on 06/12/2005 9:24:46 AM PDT by privatedick
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Once when one hit, I was upstairs and the rest of the family was downstairs, I felt it, but they didn't. I probably would have felt this one if I had been on the upper level. One time I heard my husband's hospital bed shaking and thought he was having a seizure, then it reached me on the couch and I realized it was an earthquake.


151 posted on 06/12/2005 9:25:15 AM PDT by pies
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To: djf

Right before hard shake I thought someone was walkng on roof. Nice you didn't feel a thing, lol.


152 posted on 06/12/2005 9:25:54 AM PDT by bd476
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To: privatedick

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Takes about 40 minutes to show up on this map...but it's finally there.

Jolt and roll! lol


153 posted on 06/12/2005 9:26:08 AM PDT by Chani (If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't need it.)
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To: missyme

We sure felt it in Santee. Woke us right up! Not a bit of damage though.


154 posted on 06/12/2005 9:26:39 AM PDT by KylaStarr
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To: truthkeeper
Now the '71 Sylmar quake and '87 Whittier Narrows...THEY were something else. Northridge ('94?) was a pretty good one too.

The Hector Mines quake was bigger than all of those quakes but it was so far out in the desert that it did no damage. I recall a news cast about that quake. A film crew had been sent out to tape the damage but they couldn't find any. All they could come up with was a jar of pickles that had smashed on the floor of a super market. It was hilarious as they tried to make a story out of close up picture of the pickles.
155 posted on 06/12/2005 9:27:25 AM PDT by redheadtoo
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To: bd476

Actually, I'm in central Calif right now, still didn't feel anything.


156 posted on 06/12/2005 9:27:59 AM PDT by djf ("Stop quoting the law. We have swords!" - Roman general Sulla)
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To: Bernard Marx

I have lived in southern California all my life-almost fifty years. I have experienced all the major earthquakes in that time, however, never near the epicenter. I was checking in for a plane at LAX a few months after the Northridge quake and a guy who lived right there said he too had experienced many, but it was completely different when a big one hits right where you are- way worse. Now THAT scared me, and I'm blase about quakes!


157 posted on 06/12/2005 9:28:14 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: fatnotlazy; bd476
A mild earthquake shook the desert

Mild my ass! I'm a veteran of many earthquakes, including the Northridge big-fella, and this felt like it was at least a six. (we're in the Coachella Valley).

Wifey and I were coffeeing in the back patio and heard what we thought was glass breaking (and turned out not to be)...I wouldn't have been surprised to have had some windows break, it was that significant.

Just a few fallen things and pictures to straighten, along with a few new stucco cracks. Whew...

158 posted on 06/12/2005 9:30:02 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Like a fool, I looked up from 'neath the tree as the bird chirped...)
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To: RightWhale
If you haven't had a 5 or more recently, you might be coming up soon.

Funny you should bring that up. I was in SF for the '89 quake and here in Seattle for the 6.8 in 2001. Don't know why...but earthquakes have been on my mind about the past 3 days. Where are you seeing evidence? Is there some website I can look at?

159 posted on 06/12/2005 9:30:33 AM PDT by paulat
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To: bd476

To drive to Palm Springs from here is something around 120 miles. If I felt as much as I did, they must have been rocking & rolling!


160 posted on 06/12/2005 9:31:02 AM PDT by lainie
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