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Magnitude 2.9 - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
USGS ^

Posted on 07/16/2009 9:01:46 PM PDT by Pelham

Earthquake Details

Magnitude

2.9

Date-Time

Friday, July 17, 2009 at 03:51:17 UTC

Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 08:51:17 PM at epicenter

Location

33.860°N, 117.802°W

Depth

0.9 km (~0.6 mile)

Region

GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA

Distances

3 km (2 miles) SSW (203°) from Yorba Linda, CA

5 km (3 miles) ESE (117°) from Placentia, CA

5 km (3 miles) N (9°) from Villa Park, CA

7 km (4 miles) NNE (24°) from Orange, CA

15 km (9 miles) NNE (29°) from Santa Ana, CA

46 km (29 miles) ESE (118°) from Los Angeles Civic Center, CA

Location Uncertainty

horizontal +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.5 km (0.3 miles)

Parameters

Nph=086, Dmin=4 km, Rmss=0.39 sec, Gp= 22°,

M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=1

Source

California Integrated Seismic Net:

USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR

Event ID

ci10439121


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: earthquake; losangeles; usgs
I felt it!
1 posted on 07/16/2009 9:01:46 PM PDT by Pelham
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To: Pelham

Although as quakes go this was nothing to get excited about.


2 posted on 07/16/2009 9:02:33 PM PDT by Pelham (California, formerly part of the USA)
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To: Pelham

A batch of those IOUs must have bounced!


3 posted on 07/16/2009 9:02:43 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Pelham

2.9? Wake us up when it’s 5.0 or greater.


4 posted on 07/16/2009 9:04:00 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: Pelham

There has been an earthquake somewhere in the world almost every day for the last month or so. Reminds me of Revelation.


5 posted on 07/16/2009 9:09:04 PM PDT by kingpins10
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To: hedgetrimmer

If it’s 5 or greater no one’s going to have to wake you up.

The Sylmar quake back in 1971 nearly threw me out of bed, and I was 50 miles away. 6.6. That was one scary quake.

I appear to be within 5 miles of this little roller and it was about like having a large truck rattle the house.


6 posted on 07/16/2009 9:10:47 PM PDT by Pelham (California, formerly part of the USA)
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To: Pelham

Michael Moore sitting down onto a toilet would cause a bigger tremor.


7 posted on 07/16/2009 9:13:21 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: kingpins10

There’s little quakes every day in some parts of California.


8 posted on 07/16/2009 9:13:34 PM PDT by Pelham (California, formerly part of the USA)
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To: Pelham

Conservative, LEAVE California!

I want California to disappear

but

not take conservatives away.


9 posted on 07/16/2009 9:17:23 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Pelham

How does a 2.9 quake even warrant a post? That’s hilarious. But now I’m posting about it. Let’s make this the longest thread ever!!!


10 posted on 07/16/2009 9:17:25 PM PDT by Junior_G
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To: kingpins10
There has been an earthquake somewhere in the world almost every day for the last month or so. Reminds me of Revelation.

It's business as usual, like it's been for eons on this planet. Welcome to FR.

Now if you want to talk about 0bama and his cast of Congresscritters...

11 posted on 07/16/2009 9:17:45 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: NautiNurse

Or Pelosi and Boxer unloading in the bathromm ... .


12 posted on 07/16/2009 9:18:22 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Pelham

I didn’t know the quakometer went that low.


13 posted on 07/16/2009 9:19:47 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport and school records.)
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To: mplsconservative

The rapidity of the earthquakes are accelerating. We obviously disagree.


14 posted on 07/16/2009 9:21:45 PM PDT by kingpins10
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To: Junior_G

In Thinveller, Iceland, magma emerges from under the European tectonic plate, and solidifies, as the Easternmost edge of North America.

In California, the North American plate dives under the Pacific plate, and is ground into dust, amid various earthquakes.

About a thousand years ago, the first representational republic was formed on the North American continent - ironically, by a bunch of Vikings, at - you guessed it - Thingveller, Iceland.

So, in many ways, it is true that America is bjorn in the middle of Iceland, and dies in California.


15 posted on 07/16/2009 9:25:45 PM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: kingpins10
The rapidity reporting of the earthquakes are is accelerating.

Fixed!

16 posted on 07/16/2009 9:26:43 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: kingpins10

Yes, I guess we do disagree. I’m not even a Californian, I’m in Minnesota, so I’ll let them debate that with you.

I studied enough about plate tectonics to know things are constantly shifting on this planet. I worry more about the shift occurring in Washington than a 2.9 in California regarding Revelations.


17 posted on 07/16/2009 9:28:46 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: Pelham

That’s what I was thinking...nothing major, just a mild rumble.


18 posted on 07/16/2009 9:30:16 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: kingpins10
There has been an earthquake somewhere in the world almost every day for the last month or so.

I believe the world averages about 8000 earthquakes per day.

19 posted on 07/16/2009 9:32:57 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: mplsconservative

Yup, why get up in arms over a text that wasn’t written to us, most of which has already happened over 1900 years ago, and read every little world event into a sign of the end. Jack Van Impe does enough of that for the whole world.


20 posted on 07/16/2009 9:38:08 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: Doe Eyes

I’m aware of the 8000 earthquake #. There was a major one in New Zealand. Italy. They are getting more frequent and more intense.


21 posted on 07/16/2009 9:43:06 PM PDT by kingpins10
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To: Pelham
yep! Yawn. Get em once or twice a year in Gilroy/Hollister.

felt a beaut! in 2007 in San Jose that was in the 5 range. After shocks went on for days.

Had one earlier this year in the 4 range.

Other than that the rest you pretty much don't pay attention to.

Unless you were sitting right on top of it.

22 posted on 07/16/2009 9:43:31 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

Who is Jack Van Impe? Doesn’t matter. If you’re talking the Bible, it speaks to me. On that note, bedtime.

Hope you all are fine in California.


23 posted on 07/16/2009 9:43:52 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: Junior_G

This post can’t go much longer. It’s boring. lol


24 posted on 07/16/2009 9:44:52 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

Jack Van Impe is a fraud who just wants to sell DVD’s.

There are a lot of other things happening, like the Euphrates drying up, not to mention America being given over to immoral rulers.

The events of Revelation have not happened yet.


25 posted on 07/16/2009 9:45:01 PM PDT by kingpins10
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To: Pelham

2.9????

Ohhh, I’m shakin!!!!

NOT

;-)


26 posted on 07/16/2009 9:48:17 PM PDT by djf (Man up! Don't be a FReeloader! Make a donation today!)
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To: KoRn

A batch of those IOUs must have bounced!

LOL!
Gonna be trouble in the public housing sector, bet on it!


27 posted on 07/16/2009 9:49:40 PM PDT by djf (Man up! Don't be a FReeloader! Make a donation today!)
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To: djf

Watts?!


28 posted on 07/16/2009 9:50:46 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: kingpins10
You do realize there are 3 other major points of view for interpreting Revelation, all of them predate the Futurist one you are subscribing to?

Who does John tell us it is written to in the very first chapter after he tells them "what must soon take place" and "because the time is near" in his introduction?

There is no good reason to twist plainly written scripture.

29 posted on 07/16/2009 9:59:47 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: Pelham

2.9 is not going to cut it.


30 posted on 07/16/2009 10:00:17 PM PDT by BigCinBigD ('When a man believes that any stick will do, he at once picks up a boomerang,')
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To: Junior_G

Hey, when you’re sitting on top of the next 2.9 killer quake it will be your turn to start the thread, laughing boy.


31 posted on 07/16/2009 10:02:12 PM PDT by Pelham (California, formerly part of the USA)
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To: djf

You know, this poor quake is becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of earthquakes. Tough crowd tonight.


32 posted on 07/16/2009 10:05:54 PM PDT by Pelham (California, formerly part of the USA)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

“What must soon take place” is in the time table of the Lord. Revelation has to be pieced together with Daniel and Ezekial, that is the difference.

Israel was not a nation from about 500 AD to 1948. Dry bones, etc etc. Israel used to be barren, not it is lush. Anyone who has been there knows this.

Then there is the church of Laodicia in Rev, the lukewarm church. That refers to the Christians of today. Post-modern Christians do no soul-winning, just go to church and go home for the rest of the week. This does not describe the Christians from earlier centuries. There are so many things that are coming together it isn’t funny. I could go on and on about the things that have not happened yet.


33 posted on 07/16/2009 10:08:52 PM PDT by kingpins10
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To: Pelham

Lol


34 posted on 07/16/2009 10:09:52 PM PDT by kingpins10
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To: BigCinBigD

I prefer my quakes to be in the 2.9 range, if they insist on showing up uninvited. Which they mostly do.

Although a really big quake is usually good for thinning out the herd. I’ve had neighbors move out of state after some of the bigger ones.


35 posted on 07/16/2009 10:09:54 PM PDT by Pelham (California, formerly part of the USA)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

Should’ve said Israel was not a nation from “500 BC” not AD


36 posted on 07/16/2009 10:11:11 PM PDT by kingpins10
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To: Pelham

I’ll be glad to hope for a bigger one if it makes you feel any better!


37 posted on 07/16/2009 10:13:31 PM PDT by djf (Man up! Don't be a FReeloader! Make a donation today!)
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To: Pelham

Every decent human being should move out of California. All Thirty Three of you. ;O)


38 posted on 07/16/2009 10:15:55 PM PDT by BigCinBigD ('When a man believes that any stick will do, he at once picks up a boomerang,')
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To: Pelham
33.860°N, 117.802°W
39 posted on 07/16/2009 10:18:37 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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To: Pelham
The Sylmar quake back in 1971

That was my biggest. It was a shaker, not a roller.

40 posted on 07/16/2009 10:19:55 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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To: Jeff Chandler; Pelham

This is the part of the world I’m worried about.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/region/S_America.php

Site of the largest quake ever recorded, a 9.5 in May, 1960


41 posted on 07/16/2009 10:24:52 PM PDT by djf (Man up! Don't be a FReeloader! Make a donation today!)
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To: djf
9.5

A couple of those and it will be the Island of Chile.

42 posted on 07/16/2009 10:28:40 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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To: Jeff Chandler

I worked in a build that was at that site ahown on Google map.

How can they give a center point of an earthquake when it happens along a fault line?


43 posted on 07/16/2009 10:36:32 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (I eat Cheerios's with out a Prescription!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

That’s walking distance away. No wonder it caught my attention.


44 posted on 07/16/2009 10:38:07 PM PDT by Pelham (California, formerly part of the USA)
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To: Pelham

I don’t care if it’s a 2.9. Baby earthquakes make my hair stand up, too.


45 posted on 07/16/2009 10:44:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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To: Jeff Chandler

And violent shaking at that.

I know someone who lived in Fullerton, in the hills. The Sylmar quake lifted the water out of her swimming pool and sent it through a sliding glass door and into her house. She had just walked past that door and into the kitchen. It did all sorts of damage and she probably would have been severely injured by the glass shards if she had been in front of the door. They took the pool out.


46 posted on 07/16/2009 10:48:48 PM PDT by Pelham (California, formerly part of the USA)
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To: Pelham

I remember the Sylmar quake waking me up. It seemed like the house was a box of Cracker Jacks that someone was shaking laterally. It was shaking so bad I couldn’t stand up so I went back to bed. The dogs were sure freaked out!


47 posted on 07/16/2009 10:56:48 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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To: hedgetrimmer; Pelham
2.9?
The fat lady upstairs bounces the needle more than that.

We just had (35 minutes ago) a 4.0 here in Tainan, Taiwan....pfffft!
48 posted on 07/17/2009 4:49:48 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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