Earthquake in SoCal 4:04am PDT

[EXPAT]

USGS: Magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattles Southern California. http://on.cnn.com/bZZJIF

[Romann]

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning southern California!

[Epigonos]

No big deal!!!!! I was just about to get out of bed to head for the gym. It was quick. As a native Californian I'm far more afraid of spiders than earthquakes.

[Romann]

I can deal with hurricanes and tornadoes living in two states that specialized in those disasters and feel I have a good handle on natural disasters but earth quakes? Not so sure about that one!

 

What does a 4.4 magnitude even feel like?

[KMEM]

Romann-

 

According to your reviews, just another organism.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[+ deej]

What does a 4.4 magnitude even feel like?

 

I slept through it.

 

Honestly, 4.4 is relatively mild. This one was a quick hit, too. No prolonged rolling.

[Guest greatness]

oh my

 

I'm glad that you and others are ok. I would totally panic. I heard dogs and cats act strangely right before an earthquake. Is that true?

 

No big deal!!!!! I was just about to get out of bed to head for the gym. It was quick. As a native Californian I'm far more afraid of spiders than earthquakes.

[+ deej]

I'm glad that you and others are ok. I would totally panic. I heard dogs and cats act strangely right before an earthquake. Is that true?

 

They get a lot of practice here. There's at least one earthquake somewhere in CA every day of the year, but most of them are too small (or too remote) for humans to notice.

 

I've seen my cats dead asleep curled up on the floor suddenly jump 3 feet in the air, landing in battle stance, fur all puffed up. They spend the next 30 minutes wandering around sniffing the air trying to figure out what just happened. If I check the USGS website I'll invariably find there was a really minor earthquake in the area.

[Romann]

I believe they do!

 

I heard dogs and cats act strangely right before an earthquake. Is that true?

 

It's actually a very popular belief and one that I certainly put stock in. Some, not all animals seem to have an extra tool for sensing sudden danger before the event actually happens. For example, the tsunami that struck Christmas Day some years ago people actually reported that 15 minutes prior to initial waves hitting some islands, wild animals were already on the run for higher ground long before the human population took notice and ran.

 

I can usually tell without having to view the weather channel or local news if there is a severe thunder storm about to blow through Dallas. My beloved Beagle will start to pace and lightly howl at the sky through the living room window with has a slight undertone of a growl. It's not long till the hair on his back and neck start to point up like a hedge hog and then I hear the first claps/snaps of thunder and lightning. Ever since he was a puppy, Buster seemed to have a pretty good way of predicting coming storms and I've read on-line before and some animal magazines that dogs especially are highly sensitive to approaching storms due to the change in static electricity throughout the locally affected atmosphere causing many dogs and other animals species to react defensively.

 

One article related this extra sense that many animals appear to exhibit as something very similar to Déjà vu for humans which people claim is an advanced perception of an event or series of events from the mind. I didn't really buy that statement though, so.. but it's a very interesting correlation.

 

Interesting stuff and another reason to have an animal in your life.

[Guest OCBeachbody]

Well it woke me up. I just felt the jolt, it was north of us. I haven't felt the earth move like that in a bit. One of my friends on the Whittier Narrows area said she felt the ground swirling a bit with a low grumble then a jolt and it was over. She stayed home.

 

Well here is to the earth staying a bit still now

[instudiocity]

I've felt worse Stijl at a rail crossing wait on the freight train to passby.

[Guest ryan2552]

 

I've seen my cats dead asleep curled up on the floor suddenly jump 3 feet in the air, landing in battle stance, fur all puffed up. .

deej can you grab your camera and post that to youtune next time it happens? The image of this has me seriously LOL.

 

[HoseMaster]

They get a lot of practice here. There's at least one earthquake somewhere in CA every day of the year, but most of them are too small (or too remote) for humans to notice.

 

Actually there are more than that. Our Fire Department dispatch center that I promoted out of has the CUBE (Caltech / USGS Broadcast of Earthquakes) computer. I remember playing around with it, and how it showed anywhere from 10 to 30 earthquakes per day on it throughout California. However most of these were in the 1, 2, and 3 magnitude range, so that they couldn't be felt.

[rvwnsd]

What does a 4.4 magnitude even feel like?

 

Usually, I sleep through them. This time I was staying on the 24th floor of the Westin Bonaventure in downtown LA and I woke up feeling like someone was shaking the bed. It was over pretty quickly, so I went right back to sleep.

[+ purplekow]

I have been in 4 earthquakes which made me aware if their presence. One in California, One in Mexico, A recent one here in NJ and one about 20 years ago in NY in which the epicenter was about 1 mile from my apartment. That was the smallest on the Richter scale but due to the proximity of the epicenter, it was the one I felt the most. It happened at 6 AM shook the bed for a good 90 seconds. Now for those of us hiring escorts, 90 seconds of bed shaking is not such a big deal, but back then, it was intense.