Buncha lightweights. We had a 5.2 quake in SW Indiana a couple months ago and it didn’t even make us flinch. Knocked my hot water main loose and flooded my kitchen. I just shut the water off, mopped up and went about my business. We had 2 or 3 aftershocks a day for a month after.
Rocking and rolling here in Simi Valley, too. Cats were freaking out.
Felt it pretty good out here in Palmdale. I predicted it to be 5.9 when it happened...I got pretty close!
I NEVER got use to earthquakes when living in LA. I’m glad to be back in tornado alley because I never want to go through anything like the quake in 1994. Hope you and all the other SoCal Freepers are doing OK.
Checking in from Hollywood, around Hollywood and Western. Felt a pretty good jolt and shake, thankful to work in a well built 80 year old building.
All clear.
Didn’t feel a thing here in Fresno.
The Richter magnitude scale, or more correctly local magnitude ML scale, assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating the logarithm of the combined horizontal amplitude of the largest displacement from zero on a Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer output. So, for example, an earthquake that measures 5.0 on the Richter scale has a shaking amplitude 10 times larger than one that measures 4.0. The effective limit of measurement for local magnitude is about ML = 6.8.
The energy release of an earthquake, which equates to its destructive power, scales with the 3⁄2 power [exponent = 3/2] of the shaking amplitude. Thus, a difference in magnitude of 1.0 is equivalent to a factor of 31.6 ((101.0)^(3 / 2)) in the energy released; a difference of magnitude of 2.0 is equivalent to a factor of 1000 ((102.0)^(3 / 2) ) in the energy released. [1]
Reporting from Yorba Linda, about 5 miles west of the epicenter, it was one Hell of a shake! Some bricks on our house’s external facade peeled off and lamps and vases and other things were knocked off their shelves. I’ve never been this close to an earthquake’s epicenter and it the most violent shaking I’ve ever experienced in a Southern California earthquake.
The big one is coming.
Mayor Villagrossa will not have to worry about fast foods juke joints in LA Ghettos and trans fats.
What’s going on with you guys? Did you feel the tremor?
I have never felt an earthquake, does it make your stomach feel kind of queasy?
Of course you all know this is caused by global warming.
bttt
It was rocking pretty good down in Costa Mesa at work.....
It’s Obama reacting to the news that McCain is up by +4.
Yippie!! Another OBAMA photo-op!
I was in an elevator on the 9th floor when it started...had no idea it was an earthquake but the elevator was making very strange sounds as if it was going to break.
Not good.
Los Angeles
Fox11 streaming coverage (MS Player)
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Los Angeles
Knbc4 streaming feed (MS Player)
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