Earthquake

[Berlioz]

Anybody else feel it? That was probably the largest one Ive felt in a long time.

[deputy x 2]

Per USGS 5.8 whooo hooo...hang on!

here's their link: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/33.35.-119.-117.php

I love it...not even an earthquake can pry o.commers away from their computer.

Your tele is going to ring next.......and it will be work.

[LA DEP]

Up to a 5.8 now.....felt some good shaking here in my office (downtown LA)

Epicenter was Chino Hills.....29 miles s/se of LA

[Ricky_G]

I'm here in Corona and it shook pretty good!!!!!

[L-1]

Lots of shaking in Newport Beach, but no tsunamis have swamped the house. :D

Family in Santa Monica say they had a lot of shaking as well.

Phone lines to Topanga appear to be down so I can't get a status report from my G/F.

[Berlioz]

Up to a 5.8 now.....felt some good shaking here in my office (downtown LA)

Epicenter was Chino Hills.....29 miles s/se of LA

Thats just a few miles north of my city, and it wasnt too bad in terms of things falling off the shelves and braking or anything like that. The damn cell phone doesn't work though.

[deputy x 2]

10 aftershocks so far..3 at 3.8......

L-1 ...Do you have an out of state contact person??? Kind of late now...the loma prieta quake I couldn't call my folks in SF...so our contact person is in Colorado.

[Copp'rPenny]

I love it...not even an earthquake can pry o.commers away from their computer.



No kidding! I was in the middle of writing a post on another thread ... and I finished it!

Down here in South OC, I'd say it was like a 4.0 at most. For me, the "big one" was the Sylmar quake of 1971. I lived in Sylmar. :(

[mtxpro752]

It woke me up, two hours before my alarm... Strongest one I have felt since I moved here in 05. I immediately knew my fellow o.com folks would have a thread started before I could get the computer fired up!

[LA DEP]

Cell sites are down for the count.....not sure if they were knocked out, overloaded, or shut down for use by EMS.....

[deputy x 2]

circuit boards probably overloaded...everyone calling to see if their okay

[rubyrose]

My sister lives in Chino Hills but works in Riverside. Guess I'll wait till later to call her.

Most interesting earthquake experience I ever had was back in the late 60s when a series of 5.0 or so quakes hit Santa Barbara. During one of them I was on the beach. Really weird because there wasn't a sound, since there wasn't anything to rattle. Being on the sand was a bit like being on water with it rising and falling in gentle waves.

[Retired96]

In Upland 8-9 miles north of Chino Hills it shook good for about 5 seconds, dogs went crazy, but it wasn't that big of a deal..

[SoKalCopKid]

It wasnttt an earthquake....

It was just Chuck Norris doing pushupsss....lol :)

[natejpg]

not bad south of san bernardino nothing fell in the house. gotta love the cell phone thing. how long will that be? it's my first.

[deputy x 2]

Welcome to Cali...reminds me of the happy cow commercial...ohhhh foot massage!

What You Need To Know About Your Phone
In an emergency long distance phone lines often begin working again sooner than local phone lines. This means that your out-of-state contact is a great way to see if your family is okay. If everyone calls and reports to the contact then they can call the people you want to keep informed of your situation. Make sure everyone in your family knows the number of the out-of-state contact.

Don't count on your cell phone. The increased traffic on cell phone networks can quickly overload wireless capacity.
But text messaging uses a different part of the cell phone network and it may be possibler to send and receive text messages even if phone lines are jammed.

If possible avoid making non-urgent phone calls after a disaster because the increased trafrfic can jam phone circuits.

Make sure you have phone in your house that does not require electricity

Keep coins in your go bag in case you need to make telephone calls on a pay phone.

After an earthquake, check all your telephones to be sure they have not shaken off the hook and are tying up a line.

[natejpg]

Thanks for the welcome and advice. That reminds me i was offically welcomed to the CITY of California a few days ago and she was completly serious. Thanks for being smart enough to welcome me to the state and not the city.

[DOAcop38]

was late for work( what else is new?) and had just got out of the shower- started dancing and turned the radio up, when all of a "sudden",my unit started shaking- damn ,i thought- "did i do that"????......

[deputy x 2]

was late for work( what else is new?) and had just got out of the shower- started dancing and turned the radio up, when all of a "sudden",my unit started shaking- damn ,i thought- "did i do that"????......

Drip dry and get over and inspect the AOA.....watch out for those blinking red lights on the plane...oh yeah and the fumes.:D:D:D:D

[DOAcop38]

Drip dry and get over and inspect the AOA.....watch out for those blinking red lights on the plane...oh yeah and the fumes.:D:D:D:D

the lights - the "bedazzle me", they BLIND me"-LOLOLOLOLOL!! apparently, the control tower held up a few flights during the "shake" from immediately landing-naaahhhhh,no AOA from me( actually after all these yrs, still scared of running into a plane! I'm THAT bad a driver) funny but just went over to an abandoned apt complex near my substation- some local crackheads got scared that their "acquired housing" was gonna' fall down on them!:rolleyes::D

[hankido2000]

I'm originally from Minnesnowta so I'm not accustomed to the ground shaking. My pets went crazy. By far the largest I felt in the 8 years I've been here.

[natejpg]

the lights - the "bedazzle me", they BLIND me"-LOLOLOLOLOL!! apparently, the control tower held up a few flights during the "shake" from immediately landing-naaahhhhh,no AOA from me( actually after all these yrs, still scared of running into a plane! I'm THAT bad a driver) funny but just went over to an abandoned apt complex near my substation- some local crackheads got scared that their "acquired housing" was gonna' fall down on them!:rolleyes::D

If we were only that lucky huh. :eek:

[McGruff]

Our 911 dispatch only received 10 calls due to the quake. I don't have to go in. Whew!

[gonzo1510]

I'm in La Mirada and we were rocking real good. My parents are out in Chino and they got ROCKED ! The only thing that worked for me right after was the internet. no cell, no landline, no text.....good times

[gonzo1510]

Keep coins in your go bag in case you need to make telephone calls on a pay phone.



I can't remember the time I saw a working payphone....

[pulicords]

So long as the skeet houses at Prado (in Chino Hills) are okay, it's no big deal! Seriously, why are we even talking about anything below 6.0???? The news on the radio (or was it Chicken Little) was describing us as, "dodging a bullet!" No significant damage, no injuries, must be a slow news day.:rolleyes:

[Berlioz]

Your tele is going to ring next.......and it will be work.

Lol, thats probably the one positive to not having a landline....hehehe, although I do need to fix that. Not being able to call the wife was a tad scary.

[CalPolyGrad]

It wasnttt an earthquake....

It was just Chuck Norris doing pushupsss....lol :)


hahaha :D

[Showboat]

So long as the skeet houses at Prado (in Chino Hills) are okay, it's no big deal! Seriously, why are we even talking about anything below 6.0???? The news on the radio (or was it Chicken Little) was describing us as, "dodging a bullet!" No significant damage, no injuries, must be a slow news day.:rolleyes:

It probably was a slow news day, but it happened right in the middle of the Channel 4 newscast...kinda funny actually. Saugus rocked pretty good for like 15 seconds though. No real damage but it did knock some stuff off of the dressers and sent me back to '94 for like 5 seconds...:eek: Called my mom at work in Valencia and she said the ground rolled underneath her; more of a jolting, lateral shake here. I guess it depends on where you were and what the soil composition is like.

[pulicords]

Newhall: I was working out and it felt like someone was shook my exercise bike from behind. My wife said we had to pictures fall off their hooks. She put them back up. No further problems.

[Copp'rPenny]

Even worse is the (unrelated) news that Sammy's Wood-fired Pizza in Carlsbad burnt down this morning. Now that's a sad story (to me)! :eek:

[LAschoolCop]

LOL I was just about to handcuff a subject for possession of a knife on school grounds when the ground started to shake...my subject yells out "See god is telling you to let me go!" LOL i was cracking up!

The wife was in Valencia driving and she thought someone was shaking her car. These are great when I am awake. '94 sucked being asleep and not knowing where I was at!

[IMachU]

My station is on top of the Whittier Narrows fault. I'm SO GLAD that one didn't let go this time! :D But it was good enough to get me to fly outta this 100 year old substation FAST. That was the quickest I've moved in a while :D :D No injuries, thank God, and no real damage.

[gonzo1510]

Hey Sarge, when did you transfer ?

[IMachU]

Great. THe fault system this quake happened on is part of the same system as the Whittier Narrows quake in 1987. That explains why I fely it so strongly....my substation is IN WHITTIER NARROWS ON THE FAULT!! Where's that transfer request form at.....

I was transferred here about 5 months ago.

[hankido2000]

Sarge, are you stationed out of that really small building about the size of a garage?

[gonzo1510]

it seemed that everything was ok at first. but little by little damage is popping up all over the place.

[IMachU]

Sarge, are you stationed out of that really small building about the size of a garage?

Yeah....rub it in why dontcha :D It's a converted 1 bedroom house, and we have 18 officers working out of here.

[willowdared]

Didn't feel it down here.

Glad everyone is okay.

[IMachU]

Did your officers (Whittier Narrows) go check on the park patrons?

No.

[scout987]

North San Diego County-

Was in a mall out here when it happened. Floored rolled felt two really big jolts and all the huge like 500 lb planters in the mall were moving. Biggest one i have felt in a long while thats for sure.

[Badkharma]

Hey everyone, I really apologize for all of this.

I just couldn't avoid the taco bell for lunch today. Those gorditas are damn good!

[DagoStar]

Didn't feel it down here.

Glad everyone is okay. this coming from a gal who works in a building with giant shock absorbers :cool:

[willowdared]

this coming from a gal who works in a building with giant shock absorbers :cool:

I wasn't at work! :p

Our building shakes when they move the servers, I can only imagine what would happen in a real earthquake! :eek:

[avalon42]

I was at work taking a few phone calls. The ground started shaking and people went straight for the door. I just kept on talking as there was screaming and shoving behind me. The guy on the other line finally asked me what was going and when I explained what was happening, we both had a good laugh.

I honestly expected it to be a little bit bigger...they swear that the "Big One" is on its way any day now...

[El Coppo Loco]

I actually found it to be fun.:D

[CHUCKnmnV]

I didn't feel a thing. My daughter and I were still asleep.

[tony84]

That was my first earthquake since Ive been in cali about 4 months now. Pretty scary for me being that im from Hawaii and dont experience these sort of events. Experts say that this quake is just a taste of the big one thats gonna hit us soon. Hold on boys... this is gonna get ugly.

[tony84]

Dont know why this posted 4x... wish I could delete these.

[tony84]

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