EARTH QUAKE! So-CAL

[Popol Vuh]

Right Now!

[Sequoia]

1. Rockin' & rollin'???

[ColbertWatcher]

27. Felt like 2 jolts to me. n/t

[Sequoia]

30. Not even on the websites yet...just looked at the NBC web site from there.

Who needs 'em when we have DU reporters!

[bdamomma]

2. oh my you guys are really getting hit hard, fires and earthquakes

be careful.

[YOY]

26. Plus all those drive by eggings, plaguing LA...

Keep safe LA Duers!

[stevil]

31. Earthquakes can be scary

But I got a chuckle from that. Felt it here in Palm Springs for 15 seconds. Hope everyone is O.K.

[YOY]

33. Here I thought nobody would get it. B-Boys make everything better.

It was a 5.6 I heard. Pretty good chances nobody hurt but you never know.

[devilgrrl]

3. Scary shit!

:scared:

[kestrel91316]

4. HUGE!!! Reporting in from Woodland Hills, San Fernando Valley.

Lasted 20-30 seconds, major shaker.

No damage here, but some places nearby could have had stuff off shelves. Biggest by far since Northridge, on par with our big aftershocks from it.

[ColbertWatcher]

29. Cat bowls are now half full! (Also from, like, the Valley, okay?) n/t

[Popol Vuh]

43. Poor Kitties

How are your cats doing?

[trashcanistanista]

5. How big are you feeling it?

[JI7]

35. it seemed to be a sway at first then shake , i was sleeping

and woke up to the sway then felt the shaking and knew it was an earthquake.

[cascadiance]

6. Just felt it here in North County in San Diego...

[slackmaster]

7. Felt in San Diego - P-wave about 11:41, still rolling at 11:44

:hi:

[SteelPenguin]

8. 5.6

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/33.35.-119.-117.php

[MindPilot]

9. I was standing at the urinal...

I know...TMI, but it made me miss! Actually I lost my footing and bounced into the partition.

[carlyhippy]

20. sorry, but LOL, what a terrible place to be during a quake

hope you are o.k.
Carly

[begin_within]

37. I was also urinating at that moment

but I'm in San Diego and it was much milder here. The windows rattled for about 15 seconds and I felt a horizontal motion of the floor, but not enough to make me lose my footing.

[SoCalDem]

49. BREAKING NEWS... Urination Causes Earthquakes..film at 11

:)

[MindPilot]

51. Whole lotta shakin' goin' on!

:spray:

God gets mad when too many men touch their tingly parts at the same time. Now can you begin to see the problem with gay marriage?:silly:

[malaise]

10. Stay safe DUers

Downtown LA - Large earthquake 5.6 WOW!

[Mike Niendorff]

11. preliminary magnitude 5.6 (USGS)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci14383980.php

MDN

[cascadiance]

17. Here's the map...

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

[hatrack]

12. USGS Reporting 5.6 Near Chino Hills

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/33.35.-119.-117.php

[Mike Niendorff]

16. Upgraded to 5.8

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci14383980.php

MDN

[hatrack]

18. That's reasonably punchy!

Be careful, y'all!!

[trashcanistanista]

13. CNN breakin it now.

Big one in downtown LA. 5.6.

[LeftyMom]

14. How long until a prominent televangelist blames equal marriage?

I have 45 minutes in the pool.

[EFerrari]

22. I heard on a show about the 1906 quake that a preacher in SoCal

started some kind of major evangelism by blaming the quake on sin. So, there is a tradition.

[LeftyMom]

28. A lot of people in the city thought it was the end of the world.

They assumed the devastation must be global- and because all the lines of communication were effectively cut off, it was weeks before many of them heard otherwise.

[ColbertWatcher]

39. Oh yeah, and that earthquake gave us Pentacostalism.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0424/p01s01-lire.html

[trashcanistanista]

24. I say within 5-10 minutes. Maybe sooner because

it was felt in Las Vegas, too.

[RB TexLa]

15. Hope the rest of us aren't going to fall off into the Atlantic.

[kestrel91316]

19. Chino Hills. 5.8

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci14383980.php

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/33.35.-119.-117.php

My assistant clocked the shaking here at 30-40 seconds. She's out having a cigarette now, lol.

[Popol Vuh]

21. I am here in San Pedro

And it felt like maybe mid 4's here. Shook pretty good for about 15 seconds.

That was a pretty good one, make you skip a couple heart beats.

[Kaleko]

23. Wow, you guys are fast.

I'm still shaking here (physically as an after-effect). I'm living right on the edge of Hollywood and Silverlake.

Scared my cats too!! Nothing broken in my house, though.

[Greyhound]

34. Nice area, I used to live in Bronson Canyon. Hope you are all OK, I found the quakes to be

rougher, for want of a better term, in the hills than down at the beach.

[begin_within]

36. Did you live here:

[Greyhound]

40. LOL! That sure looks like the place.

Although we did manage to convince the Space Ape to move to Huntington Park.
:hi:

[begin_within]

45. Many films were filmed in that area, including Robot Monster

I think you can still go into the Bronson Caves, where scenes from that were filmed

[Popol Vuh]

44. One of my favorite rock houses is

Spaceland. I enjoy that place.

:)

[carlyhippy]

25. only took cnn 6 minutes to get it on the air

Carly

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. yep

[Irishonly]

38. Whole lotta shaking going on

Only one candle fell in the living room. Long one, as far as I am concerned.

[MaryEllen71]

41. I hope to god this is not preluce to the big one

stay safe out there.

[Renew Deal]

46. Why?

Don't you want to get it over with already?

[Thothmes]

42. The dance of tectonic plates continues.

[underseasurveyor]

47. I discovered

that there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with my 'fight or flight' response. heh... My 'flight' works very well:-)

[SoCalDem]

48. A few miles from my husband's office..no damage where he is..

It scared the beegeeebus out of my kitties...and we had no dial tone for about 20 minutes..

It was a different kind for us.. Usually we get the Boom, clink-clink-clink-shudder-shake styles.. this one was a rock & rolling side-to-side slider :)

[Zomby Woof]

50. It got our attention at work, lol

Our building is on rollers, so it was shake, rattle, and a California ROLL. :D

Afterwards, I swapped stories of the 6.8 Nisqually quake in WA I went through back in February 2001, with the 1994 Northridge veterans from here. :-)