Another Earthquake !
 

Just felt another one. They're saying 5.3, epicenter 17 mi south of Big Bear.

my daughter just e-mailed me about it from Rancho Bernardo- this is her 1st year in Ca and several shakes up already - the one on Sun was her birthday.

She says she wants her mommy !!

5.3 must be scary and really FELT!

Any damages?

Yup, a real shaker! I'm in Orange County and it jolted us here.

No damages that I know of, but there might be nearer to the epicenter.

No damage here at my office in Santa Monica. Got my attention, but I continued with the conference call.

My SigO is running home to our house in Long Beach to check on our animals. But it was not big enough to have done anything this far away, so....

It's been a while since we've had a bigger one. I can take these little ones, no prob.

she said it shook the building and sounded like a loud truck going by the office - no damage though-
she is now instructing the office on
emergency earthquake info -
maybe I will get her to move to Portland Or yet if this keeps up

You know you have lived in Calif. too long when the building shakes and you can just about predict the size (we had it ranged from 4.5 - 5.5!).

At the range of sounding cynical, anything under a 6.0 is nothing to get too worked up about.

But there has been a few of these baby shakers lately...hmmmmmm, Mother Earth trying to tell us something?

I agree, ssm. My mom, who lives in RI, was very unimpressed with her first quake. She was sitting out on the patio, and thought it was just the dog rubbing up against her chair. :) The pool water didn't even ripple, but the bird feeder swayed a bit.

Hi lvk,

Well tell your mom I am sorry we could not deliver a bigger one. But hey, it's still early!!

Don't you just love the media after these things, especially when someone calls in to tell them what they felt?

Media: So what did you feel?

Caller: Well, I felt a jolt, then a slow rolling.

Media: Thank you, Next caller. What
did you feel?

Caller # 2: Caller: Well, I felt a shake, then a slow rolling.

Media: Thank you. Next caller.

Caller # 3: Caller: Well, I felt a sudden bump, then a slow rolling.

And it goes on and on!!!

:)

LOL, smm, too funny.

I'm now waiting on the inevitable call from Mom (I'm her baby at 40). And ssm: You're so right. Since I was in one of those newfangled-code office buildings, we got gentle rolling for at least a minute after the actual tremblor, until the counterweights finished rolling around. Then the window frames stopped creaking...!

I'll STILL take this over a tornado or hurricane. Any time. Or shoveling snow.

I think it is so funny when the news crews set up a camera facing where the earthquake took place. It is just a hillside, I keep thinking they are going to move the camera around to get some action!

Now there is a helicopter showing scenes over Yucaipa, it is a little town going about its business. So funny.

I heard the creaking of my wood house first, then the rolling motion after that and it was over. Back to typing my email. Not too much to get excited about here in the South Bay.

USGS and the National Earthquake Center just downgraded its magnitude to 4.9, BTW. An attention-getter for sure, but now it's a "light earthquake". Don't you feel better now...? ;)

Yeah, we don't get up for anything under 6.0 ;)

Hurricane - Earthquake
Earthquake - Hurricane

I think I will take the Earthquake too :D
Although the Yankee is still out on this one..he says at least they tell you when the hurricane is coming.

My first grown-up earthquake was when I lived in LA. Lying by the pool, I thought there was a strong gust of wind, looked over at the pool, the water was all over to one side..
that was it.
I moved to NYC and LA had their last big one.
Stay safe ((hugs))

We just moved to Southern California last week. I was talking to my wife on the phone when we both felt the earth move! How romantic!
JoeG

SSM, I used to be able to accurately call the meagnitute within a few points. This is my "gift." lol DD, on the other hand, never even feels them! She slept through Northridge and was out playing during Upland. Swears she never even noticed them!

here today, my son emailed us from a high rise building in Tokyo when he felt his First big one LOL
now they are no big deal and he only mentions them when they are so big he has to tell us he is OK. He said he kind of likes them 8|
JoeG ((L)) tres romantic~ :)

Yea, you know you are a jaded local when you don't look up from your computer then you and your co-workers start an office bet going for who can guess the actual size: 4.9 vs 5.2 (I said 5.8 and lost!)But I did guess Redlands and got closest..:).
When I was growing up, Dad said these little ones burn off tension and that the more "earthquake" lights you have the less likely you are to have a "big one". I know the jury is still out on that, but I choose to believe it.

I grew up in Long Beach (hate to date myself, but this was in the 60's..)and I remember how much fun earthquakes were for us as kids, never scarey! (But this was around the same time we were doing air-raid drills in the auditorium, little huddles of kids with our heads tucked against the seats in front of us!) I remember one time sitting in the car in the parking lot of a market while our mom shopped inside. We felt the tremor in the car, and when she came out, Mom said some cans had fallen off the shelves. We thought it was great!

We had a decent tremor in upstate NY about 10 or 12 years ago; it rattled all the china and scared me to death because it had been such a long time in-between earthquakes!

Ahhh earthquake stories....I grew up in L.A. and remember my grandma was visiting from Detroit during the Sylmar quake back in '71. She just glared at us after it was over as if we arranged it just to ruin her visit :-) Our cat, who would hide behind the couch if she heard a rat up in the attic, just sat there wondering what all the fuss was about. No damage to our house except for a few broken knick-knacks and we got a brief vacation from school (yipee!) while they checked the buildings for damage.

The one up here in SF back in '89 was a whole different ballgame. I was on Hwy 101 at the time and thought I had hit a patch of oil or something b/c my car was sliding around a bit. I started to pull over to the side and saw everyone else doing the same thing. Then I turned on the radio and found out it was an earthquake. I managed to get to a phone to see if my roommate was OK and she said don't bother coming home b/c our apartment was trashed. She was home at the time fixing dinner when everything started flying out of the cupboards, cabinets falling etc. We spent the night with friends and went home the next day to clean up and take souvenir pictures of the mess. I found out that I should've listened to Mom when she said to bolt bookcases and such to the wall -- I always do now, even though DH sometimes thinks I'm being overly paranoid and anal about it. Then I show him the earthquake photos of my apartment and he comes around :-)

But even after all that I would still rather have earthquakes any day over hurricanes and tornadoes. The bad ones seem to come less frequently. Plus, better the devil I know...

This one barely rattled us. On the news tonight they are talking about these perhaps being the precursors of a big one. The part of the San Andreas fault which has been affected recently has not moved for over two hundred years. Have to remember to buy more batteries tomorrow.

And don't forget the furniture bolts and quake wax!

Okay people...all I can say is that I'm glad this happened AFTER I left California. I never did well on rides, if you know what I mean :D

Stay safe!

Joe - that was cute!