Ah that was a heck of a quake, and just an aftershock

[nadinbrzezinski]

we are fine, just a couple parrots alerting.

[Kind of Blue]

1. Indeed! You beat me to it.

Sure lasted longer than I've felt in a while.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Well we have had a lot of fun

over here, and the cell phones are not quite working.

[pnwmom]

6. That must have felt like it lasted a long time. We had a 6.8 a few years ago

and that 45 seconds felt more like 5 minutes.

[Kind of Blue]

17. It sure must have been around 6.8. I usually

don't panic because they end so quickly but this felt like it would just keep going and going...

[Kind of Blue]

15. Just checked and neither are ours.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Towrs, not that they will say it, must have come off line

Ah why I LUUVE my land line

[hyphenate]

3. I was on the phone to my sister

and it happened while I was on the phone.

It was evidently a 6.9. A very brief news item at CNN:

Strong earthquake hits Baja California By the CNN Wire Staff
April 4, 2010 -- Updated 2301 GMT (0701 HKT)


(CNN) -- A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Baja California in northwestern Mexico on Sunday, shaking the ground at least as far away as Los Angeles, California, the U.S. Geological Survey and witnesses reported.

The quake struck at 3:40 p.m. PT and was centered about 175 kilometers (110 miles) east-southeast of Tijuana, according to the USGS.

Chandeliers swung and water sloshed around in swimming pools in the Los Angeles suburbs, witnesses reported, while posters to Twitter reported feeling the quake in Phoenix, Arizona.

[Cleita]

4. It seems you still have your electric.

When we get quakes or storms up here the electric is the first to go and then the cell phone towers. All we are left with are the landlines telephones and anything we can run on batteries. LOL!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I actually checked on electric

and cell phones were mostly down

[Kutjara]

5. We felt it here in L.A.

It just caused long wavelength swaying by the time it got here, felt like being in a boat on a pond.

[Kind of Blue]

18. Yeah, my sister in Anaheim didn't

think much of it. Whereas down in San Diego, my parents ran into the streets :rofl:

[Kutjara]

20. A couple of Facebook friends in SD reported it was pretty intense.

The epicenter was near Mexicali, on the Baja peninsula. I hope those closer to the epicenter are all right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. In spite of the myth, building standards in Mexico

are pretty good.

In fact, I'd better ride a 7.5 in Mexico City than ANYWHERE in So Cal, mostly I have.

[Kutjara]

29. That's good to know, although a geologist friend emailed me to say...

...her ex (also a geologist) had done his PhD fieldwork around Mexicali and that a lot of the buildings in the area were poorly built. He was there in the 1980s though, so things have probably improved significantly.

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. You'll see

now in the Ciudades Perdidas you have no standards, like in Port Au Prince, but the buildings that are essential to survive (hospitals for example) are far better built or reinforced than people realize.

It is one of those myths that the US has the best standards in the world.

[lazarus]

8. I've felt two aftershocks

first one was really light, but that second one was pretty good.

That was kinda fun.

[WillyT]

9. Looks Like A Significant One...

:shrug:

[havocmom]

26. Here's another site for quakes

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

That was a pretty good jolt. San Andres feeling neglected lately?

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. The aftershocks seem to be going up the Fault

not that I'd be able to tell if that's important or not.

[havocmom]

30. With all the quakes around the Pacific Rim, I have been waiting for San Andres

Call it a hunch, but your area has been pretty damned quiet, in light of all the other shakin goin on.

Looks like it was time to let some pressure off the San Andres. Hope it keeps you all safe out there. Used to live in So. Calif. Seems like that primary quake rolled for a LONG time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. This is a secondary fault on San Andreas

according to CalTech... breaking on CNN

[SoCalDem]

10. My cats all did their Nixon imitations and slunk around ..no freaking out though

It was an odd one.. a vibrating roller.. not the boom-shake-a-shake-a jolt kinds we usually get :)

[kestrel91316]

12. My kitties just raised their heads and looked at me like it was MY FAULT.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. They are kitties, that is what they do!!!!

I got a conure on my shoulder getting very CLOSE.

The other one is doing a Kestrel Kitty Imitation, and actually starting to go, let me go to bed, DAMN IT.

[kestrel91316]

11. KOGO radio just said someone is revising it upward to a 7.3, which sounds

about right to me. Multiple callers from San Diego are saying the shaking went on for a full minute.

:wow:

Quake was 20 miles deep

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Minute sounds about right, I calculted 45 seconds

I was writing at the coffee shop, and just put the puter on hibernate and move into open ground, not UNDER any structure, I was OUTSIDE.

And here we go again

[Kind of Blue]

19. Good, it was not my imagination. Thanks! n/t

[haele]

14. Woohoo - #3 aftershock felt. This one actually rocked the house again.

I'm guessing a high 5 or low 6 on this one.

Haele

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. I gave up on cleaning up,

I did, and books are down again.

[thelordofhell]

16. Felt the roll here in Phoenix, AZ

Hope everythings o.k. down there.

[Odin2005]

23. Good that you are A-OK!

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. The two parrots are freaked though

and all my pictures are pointing in the same direction, in their not quite lined up correctly. You can almost tell the direction of shaking from them.