EARTHQUAKE in San Diego? [UPDATE: Fox reporting 5.6 mag 20 miles south of Palm Springs]

Vanity | June 12th, 2005

[Misterioso]

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 . . .

[Allegra]

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.

[American Quilter]

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.

[fatnotlazy]

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.

[djf]

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)

[itsamelman]

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...

[Bernard Marx]

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.

[SoCal Pubbie]

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.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Coming here from Kansas I AM AT the Beach!

[privatedick]

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

[pies]

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.

[bd476]

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

[Chani]

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

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

Jolt and roll! lol

[KylaStarr]

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

[redheadtoo]

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.

[djf]

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

[SoCal Pubbie]

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!

[ErnBatavia]

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...

[paulat]

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?

[lainie]

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!