Easrthquake rocks southern California ....Long Beach area....

self ^ | May 17, 2009 | Ernest at the Beach

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hard quake shakes

[dragnet2]

Epicenter was Lenox area

[DTogo]

Wonder if the junction of the 110 and 105 (all those concrete pillars) is OK...

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Fifteen seconds too long. 4.7, according to Caltec

[A_perfect_lady]

Didn’t get aftershock in Weho.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

3.1 2009/05/17 20:45:10 33.938N 118.356W 11.5 2 km ( 1 mi) NNW of Hawthorne, CA 2.5 2009/05/17 20:44:00 33.921N 118.383W 16.8 1 km ( 1 mi) ENE of El Segundo, CA 5.0 2009/05/17 20:39:36 33.940N 118.338W 13.5 3 km ( 2 mi) NNE of Hawthorne, CA

[rintense]

LOL!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

4.7

[South40]

Felt it down here in San Diego.

[Jolla]

Revised down to 3.1 - its the economy

[antiunion person]

I wonder when California will break away from the rest of the country and become it's own third world nation??

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It was long here too...

[Windflier]

We even had a quake here in Tarrant County the other day. I kid you not -- a 3.3.

I live in Collin County. My wife and I saw that report on the news yesterday and laughed out loud when we saw the magnitude.

We're from LA, so a 3.3 being reported on the news is something of a hoot to us. Even a magnitude 5 is something of a yawn when you've grown up next to the San Andreas fault.

[calcowgirl]

Aftershocks were 3.1

MAP 3.1  2009/05/18 03:45:10 33.938 -118.356 11.5 0 km ( 0 mi) SSE of Lennox, CA 
MAP 2.5  2009/05/18 03:44:00 33.921 -118.383 16.8 2 km ( 1 mi) E of El Segundo, CA 
MAP 5.0  2009/05/18 03:39:36 33.940 -118.338 13.5 2 km ( 1 mi) E of Lennox, CA 

[Brad’s Gramma]

Stupid dogs ....They’re supposed to act weird prior to. Their lives now hang in the balance ....

;)

[Kartographer]

It wasn’t San Andreas fault it was Bush’s fault! ;-)

[karnage]

An active shake out here in Calabasas - no damage, no fright, but noticeable shimmy.

[rbosque]

My house just got lifted up!!! Wow! I live in Bellflower and have an old home.

[superfluousdude]

Felt it here in downtown San Diego... figured it would be at least a 7 to feel it down here. Quick jolt.

[rintense]

HAHAHAA! Well I’ve only ever been in one quake in MI years ago, and not even the nutty cats woke up.

[ArmstedFragg]

“Worthless dogs..”

No warning at all, huh?

Went to a street fair today, one of the vendors had stuffed animals shaped like dogs. Watched some guy with a German Shepherd try to stop his dog from attacking one of them. Pretty funny stuff.