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WOW! 1042 AM PST!!
Like a long series of rollingwaves, no shock
zowie!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rec ... 0.-110.php
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Sorry wrong forum
man!!! .. a bucket load of aftershocks!
WHOAH!! and now look at all the tiny quakes up and down CALIFORNIA!
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The USGS site says the biggest one was 5.8 magnitude at 11:42:15 AM, 3 km SW of Chino Hills. I was talking on the phone to someone in San Diego when it happened, and she described it to me -- seemed to go on more than a minute.
I didn't feel it here in Sacramento, but I could tell you stories of the Loma Prieta quake in 1985 -- I was riding my motorcycle near the center when it happened.
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Felt it pretty good here in Pasadena. It first felt like someone was shaking my chair, then there was a big jolt and heavy shaking for about a second or two (at which point i went under my desk), then mild shaking for another 5.
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...like birth pangs....
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Eight miles is my house from the center of the shaking in Buena Park. And to boot at the end of a fault line and spur of another. Some one should tell my clay pots that they can't fly. Flying is for birds flying away from the shaking!!!!!
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I really do.
They fill me with glee.
Why? There a few reasons. Other parts of the country have natural disasters you can set your calendars by - floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards all happen EVERY year.
We get a good soul-cleansing earthquake every few years - I think we are ahead of the curve, and some people think we're nuts for living here. In my opinion, that makes California the real gambler's state, since I may be pushing up the posies before The Big One hits, or it could be next week.
The other main reason I love earthquakes so much? According to a statistic a professor quoted during a design class in architectural school, every time California has an earthquake of magnitude 4.0 or greater, somewhere between 500,000 to 750,000 people reconsider their plans to move to my fine state,
THAT really cheers me - like I said, it's a gambler's state.
I intend to let it ride...
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Not a bad philosophy Hib...I'm thankful however that my area in the Great Lakes is pretty calm in terms of natural disasters, though in the last 5-8 years the number of tornados per year has gone up quite a bit thanks to more heat energy in the skies.
And at least you're not living near vesuvius. An eruption would be worse I think...
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And at least you're not living near vesuvius. An eruption would be worse I think...
Ahh! but for a number of our guys there're La Brea Tar pits.. I saw that movie!
And I can see an extinct volcano across the border in Baja, and that that east facing hunk of Hawaii that's about to slip into the Pacific and create a TSUNAMI
But seriously.... give me an earthquake... no warning, no waiting in TERROR for days, hours, or fractions of an hour or the hurricane to arrive or the tornado to waft through... or ice storms!!! Give me a brush fire anyday!
But tremblors?
10 sec's its done, maybe 30 - 40 if you're close...
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Wow. that's a lot of aftershocks
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