Posted on 06/12/2005 8:43:45 AM PDT by missyme
ROFL! I didn't consider it mild down here either.....
Yeah, most of my wife's family lived in Whittier at the time. Their house wasn't badly damaged, but a number of wonderful old downtown buildings were. Whittier lost a number of businesses and residents after that, as people learned that insurance didn't cover the damage and they decided to pack up and move. Very sad.
It woke me up at least in Orange County. I was sleeping in late.
Not having been in an earthquake, you would know about the magnitude far better than I (or Fox for that matter).
We don't usually have quakes around here (closer to the Atlantic). I do remember one mild tremor that hit my area, but only certain towns -- mine wasn't one of them. I still remember the interview with a football fan right after the quake who was watching the game on his portable set, when he saw the set and the rollaway stand move across his living room floor. The guy said he knew he had had a couple of beers, but he didn't think he was that drunk. :)
" The sound is the best surround sound THX you have ever heard."
Very True. We are in flight path for 29 Palms, and sometimes you can't tell if it is an earthquake or a jet flying through the house until the shaking starts.
BTW, I'm spending the week at my ranch outside palm springs (right next to the san andreas), and this was a nice roller with some rattling. The quake was on the San Jacinto fault that runs through idyllwild and anza, but the worst reports are coming from La Quinta in the Coachella Valley. They closed the new Wal-Mart due to damage and there was some pretty bad damage to a trailer park down there.
We were living in Victor Valley when that happening, master bdrm on second floor a nd it shook us real good, and then we continued to have very good shakes for several months after that. The Film crew didn't look in the right places, I checked out a Highway bridge over the 40 out near there , east of Barstow and it had been damaged and twisted pretty good, ,,,,
Are you okay then? Was a hard shaker here.
There are really 2 types of quakes .. the shakers and the rollers.
The shakers - what we had today - are the worst (personal opinion). They always seem to be the roughest and usually the deepest - this one was 8 miles deep. In this type of quake - the ground shakes back and forth. If you put an open top box on the gound - place some items in it - and then move it across the ground in short back and forth motions (like you were moving the pan for popping corn on top of the stove) - you'll find out everything within the box will tip over. The amount of damage will depend on the strength of the jolt.
The rollers - if you put a baseball under a blanket and move the ball around, you will see how the earth would move up and down - the size of the ball will indicate what the damage might be. However, in my experience of living a lot of years in CA - the rollers are usually smaller in size and cause the least amount of damage.
Quakes can startle you .. and when the room doesn't stop moving .. your adrenalin kicks in and it can seem freightning. The only thing to do is get in the safest place you know - under a table or desk with strong legs, etc., stay away from bookcases which can tip over, stay away from windows, stay away from TV's which can explode it there is an electrical surge. A plain, common sense plan on what you should do - can keep you calmer and help you to survive serious injury.
My mom is 92 - and we already have a plan on what we're going to do. I guess that's why it doesn't worry me.
There was a show on PBS in Seattle about a month ago talking about the Cascadia subduction zone. It was fascinating, some really good detective work.
Turns out the zone (which stretches from north Vancouver Island almost all the way to Sacramento) is capable of great quakes, we're talking Indonesia size tsunami events.
The last GREAT quake was a 9.0+, and it was recorded in 1698? or thereabouts in the records in Japan (tsunami).
The biggest question has been whether it is the "minute of terror" or the "decade of terror" scenario, in other words, does it give a little here, the a while later give a little there, etc. Or does it just simply give a whole lot all at once.
Studies of core samples of the sediments on the sea floor off of BC, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California have answered that question.
When it goes, it does it all at once. A 9.0+ that stretches from North of Vancouver all the way to Redding or so...
And we're overdue.
CNN on their morning show, just broke in and reported the Earthquake as a MODerate quake near Palm Springs.
LOL! Yes, conflict resolution's a "must" for that job! I hope she goes for it.
Driving during a quake is very scary - worse than being at home.
I was the EQ relief coordinator for our church for the northridge quake and saw many trailer parks. Those coachs are just set on those jacks and tip over with a big shaker. It is sad because that amplifies the experience just that much more for those that can not handle it.... the seniors of our communities.
LOL.
Everyone always says it's mild when they are 50 or 100 miles from the epicenter. When your close to a 5.5 or 6.0, it's totally magnified.
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