Easter Earthquake

[+ Lucky]

It was centered in Northern Mexico, yet it had our house shaking really good. If it had happened one week ago, at Oliver's Pool Event, then it would have given guys a story to tell..if they noticed it among all that activity!

The quake was 6.9...and we're over a 100 miles from the center, so wonder what happened closer in.

[JackTwist]

Felt it here in West Hollywood. My condo was shaking. Thought it was the Bloody Mary’s from Easter Brunch wreaking havoc… Just felt a significant aftershock about 5 minutes ago, too.

 

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[+ deej]

Interesting. Didn't feel a damn thing out here in the valley beyond The Valley.

[rvwnsd]

This is the first time I was outside when I felt an earthquake. Some pretty good shaking for about 30 seconds.

[+ Charlie]

I was sitting on the ground next to my pool with my feet in the water, and everything just kept rolling. It has been upgraded to a 7.2.

[Guest greatness]

oh my

 

Be careful guys.

[ShaunRoss]

.......and here I thought that I was being Top of the century....and it was the earthquake making the bed move??!!........depressing!

[Epigonos]

It is interesting how various people react to earthquakes. Native Southern Californians over a certain age are usually rather blasé about them. I for example am 69 and have lived through some of the larger area earthquakes. I vividly remember the Tehachapi, Sylmar, and Whittier Narrows earthquakes.

 

In my home I have an antique wall clock I treasurer. My first reaction is always to run to the living room and make sure it is secure. This time I was at the home of a family member for Easter dinner and my first reaction was to reach for their wall clock. The only unusual feature of this quake was its length. It seemed to last much longer than those of the past.

 

Just the idea of hurricanes, tornados, twisters, or floods terrifies me. I have learned to live, rather easily, with earthquakes. Isn’t it interesting how we all adapt to our individual environments!

[seattlebottom]

These quakes are getting closer and closer to the northwest...hope that the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault stays dormant.

[+ deej]

It is interesting how various people react to earthquakes. Native Southern Californians over a certain age are usually rather blasé about them.

 

Eh, yeah. But longtime Florida residents are blasé about hurricanes. I grew up in tornado alley and we all knew it would be A Bad Thing if a tornado hit you but that darned few of them would.

 

Just the idea of hurricanes, tornados, twisters, or floods terrifies me. I have learned to live, rather easily, with earthquakes. Isn’t it interesting how we all adapt to our individual environments!

 

That's just a good healthy fear of mother nature. If she really intends to squash you like a bug she'll do exactly that.

[+ ArVaGuy]

Eh, yeah. But longtime Florida residents are blasé about hurricanes. I grew up in tornado alley and we all knew it would be A Bad Thing if a tornado hit you but that darned few of them would.

 

 

 

That's just a good healthy fear of mother nature. If she really intends to squash you like a bug she'll do exactly that.

 

 

I'm traveling to Baja California Sur later this week on business. This should be just enough to send panic through my office colleagues. Looks like I'll be spending a good bit of my day tomorrow dealing with freaked out environmentalists. We can control many things in this world but Nature is not one of them.

[+ deej]

I'm traveling to Baja California Sur later this week on business.

 

Probably a fabulous time to go! Think of all the tourists who won't be there!

[rvwnsd]

... Native Southern Californians over a certain age are usually rather blasé about them...

 

That depends on where in Southern California they live. In San Diego, where we don't feel many earthquakes, many natives (including some older Baby Boomers) were marveling at the fact that we had a 7.2 earthquake. Per the news, it was the strongest to hit this area since the 1940's.

[NYTomcat]

What I find funny is how much fear we place in earthquakes just by the nature of them. When I lived in the southland we survived northridge which was a bad quake but on return to NY I found out three times as many people had died in the string or Noreaster blizzards that year than in Northridge. But no body in the northeast would even think twice about a good snow.

[instudiocity]

Just the idea of hurricanes, tornados, twisters, or floods terrifies me. I have learned to live, rather easily, with earthquakes. Isn’t it interesting how we all adapt to our individual environments!

 

First, I grew up in a tornado alley, then I lived in Florida for 10 years, now I live in Southern California. Given the choice, I prefer earthquakes. Mainly, it's because you don't sweat earthquakes. With tornados and hurricanes, whether they hit you or not you're sweating them, wondering what should I do, where should I go?

 

But with earthquakes all you do is go, Oh Shit! That was an earthquakes! What do I do now?

 

You don't sweat them till after they kick your ass.

[instudiocity]

.......and here I thought that I was being Top of the century....and it was the earthquake making the bed move??!!........depressing!

 

And boy would I like to be a judge of that!

[+ Lucky]

4:15 in the morning, more shaking. Not Shaun Ross this time either, but a 5.1 quake or aftershock. Hard to get back to sleep after that.

[+ Lucky]

2:15 in the morning the house is shaking again. they say that aftershocks can happen some time after a quake, so I don't know if this was a new one or just an a.s.

 

We read about how places where a big quake hit were having small quakes first, so I wonder. The San Andreas fault is literally less than 2 miles from my house. It's a tourist spot as it has a genuine desert oasis where water has been pressed up by the fault...or something like that!

[Guest greatness]

oh my

 

Lucky be careful...

 

2:15 in the morning the house is shaking again. they say that aftershocks can happen some time after a quake, so I don't know if this was a new one or just an a.s.

 

We read about how places where a big quake hit were having small quakes first, so I wonder. The San Andreas fault is literally less than 2 miles from my house. It's a tourist spot as it has a genuine desert oasis where water has been pressed up by the fault...or something like that!

[+ Lucky]

No one else felt it, so it must have been a neighbor's escort getting off.

[+ Charlie]

Well, today the local paper says there really was an earthquake at 2:12am yesterday, a 4.5 near Calexico. You must be unusually sensitive to have felt it when no one else around here did.