4.6 Quake Hits About 70 Miles off San Diego Coast (Faux News)

[Lori Price CLG]

Link provided by DUer highplainsdem
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/12919642.htm

Lori Price
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

[Roland99]

1. USGS link >>>

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/at00000430.htm

[Timmy5835]

4. I live just east of San Diego city

Didn't EVEN feel it. No biggie.

[Lori Price CLG]

7. Thanks, and nice stickers!! n/t

[praxiz]

2. I thought you east coast dudes didn't even get out of bed for anything

smaller than 5.0.

I might be mistaken, though.

[SoCalDem]

3. yawn! We had thunder here today bigger than that

:)

[highplainsdem]

5. Link:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/12919642.htm

[Pithy Cherub]

6. It was over quickly and just rattled a bit.

6.0 or higher, then you get my serious unfettered attention. I was worried I might have been the only one that felt it - it was short though. The epicenter seems to be off shore a bit though.

[kestrel91316]

15. When it's directly under your feet, a 4.0 plus can be quite an eye opener,

but the shaking rapidly decreases with distance.

[longship]

8. Shoot. That wouldn't even wake up anybody here in SoCal

Shit! I nearly slept through the 7.1 Hector Mines quake. If my wife hadn't woke me up I wouldn't have even felt anything. And things shook for the better part of half a minute on that one.

No, it's gotta be a real big one around here before we even flinch. And offshore? It might as well be in Timbuktu.

[kestrel91316]

16. I don't know about that.............ever since Northridge, I seem to be

a whole lot "flinchier" with earthquakes. It's like my body expects a Northridge-sized quake whenever things start to shake even a tiny bit. But, then, the greatest ground motion ever recorded happened that day, directly under my home.

I don't want any more earthquakes like that, thank you. That one was quite enough.

[Rose Siding]

9. Was anything said about ocean swells?

Is that possible?

[brentspeak]

10. Is a "Big One" inevitable along the San Andreas fault?

I mean, does it have to happen?

[LeftyMom]

11. On a gelogical time scale? Yes, it will happen many times.

In the shorter term it's anybody's guess when, where and how big the next quake will be, but supposedly smaller quakes keep stress from building up.

[DanCa]

18. Superman stopped it last time in the movie

Of course sadly he's not around anymore. Sorry if the levitivity is inappropriate this global warming stuff is making me nervous.

[leesa]

12. Couldn't have been as annoying as the Blue Angels tearing up the sky and

wasting thousands of gallons of precious fuel today.

[Trajan]

13. As a former californian ....

who 'enjoyed' the 71 Sylmar quake and the 94 Northridge quake : I can tell you this: Anything less than a 5.5 barely registers on the 'gee; I think there is an earthquake' scale ....

Now: The 71 and 94 quakes were certainly eye openers .... You could feel those, for about a minute each ..... The Landers quake was pretty strong too ...

The Loma Prieta quake up north was also pretty strong ....

4.6 ? .... nah .... a bus driving by .....

[haele]

14. USGS says it's a 4.9 - and yet again

Our animals didn't even react to it. At at 70 miles away - just a few miles east of Lindburgh Field, we didn't feel a thing.

The brief thunderstorm boom an hour later was more evident.

Haele

[DanCa]

17. Dang Sox start winning and the universe starts balancing itself out.

Just kidding.