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EARTHQUAKE in San Diego? [UPDATE: Fox reporting 5.6 mag 20 miles south of Palm Springs]
Vanity | June 12th, 2005

Posted on 06/12/2005 8:43:45 AM PDT by missyme

Loud shake and rumbling this morning...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: earthquake; sandiego
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To: djf
djf wrote : "So... I'm goin back to sleep. (djf yawns)
Actually, I'm in central Calif right now, still didn't feel anything."


How nice. /sarcasm

:P LOL
161 posted on 06/12/2005 9:32:56 AM PDT by bd476
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To: ErnBatavia
Mild my ass!

ROFL! I didn't consider it mild down here either.....

162 posted on 06/12/2005 9:33:27 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: truthkeeper
Now the '71 Sylmar quake and '87 Whittier Narrows...THEY were something else.

Yeah, most of my wife's family lived in Whittier at the time. Their house wasn't badly damaged, but a number of wonderful old downtown buildings were. Whittier lost a number of businesses and residents after that, as people learned that insurance didn't cover the damage and they decided to pack up and move. Very sad.

163 posted on 06/12/2005 9:34:58 AM PDT by macbee ("Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It woke me up at least in Orange County. I was sleeping in late.


164 posted on 06/12/2005 9:35:29 AM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: paulat
Praying for my fellow FReepers out in California! Hope everyone is ok there! Keep the news coming!!!


165 posted on 06/12/2005 9:37:47 AM PDT by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: itsamelman
I'm in Glendora, too. Felt it real good. Of course it was my morning to sleep in, but now the kids all riled up and running up and down the hall hoping for another one and playing "earthquake". Now the real shaking has begun...

Nothing gets the blood running like a nice little jolt in the morning. Ahh well, had to get up to go open our store on Arrow Hwy anyway. Time to go sell the Indians (and others) some beads and turquoise.
166 posted on 06/12/2005 9:37:48 AM PDT by kingu
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To: ErnBatavia

Not having been in an earthquake, you would know about the magnitude far better than I (or Fox for that matter).

We don't usually have quakes around here (closer to the Atlantic). I do remember one mild tremor that hit my area, but only certain towns -- mine wasn't one of them. I still remember the interview with a football fan right after the quake who was watching the game on his portable set, when he saw the set and the rollaway stand move across his living room floor. The guy said he knew he had had a couple of beers, but he didn't think he was that drunk. :)


167 posted on 06/12/2005 9:38:22 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Walkingfeather

" The sound is the best surround sound THX you have ever heard."


Very True. We are in flight path for 29 Palms, and sometimes you can't tell if it is an earthquake or a jet flying through the house until the shaking starts.


BTW, I'm spending the week at my ranch outside palm springs (right next to the san andreas), and this was a nice roller with some rattling. The quake was on the San Jacinto fault that runs through idyllwild and anza, but the worst reports are coming from La Quinta in the Coachella Valley. They closed the new Wal-Mart due to damage and there was some pretty bad damage to a trailer park down there.


168 posted on 06/12/2005 9:39:26 AM PDT by reaganaut (I study death for a living (thanatology)....and I'm pro-life.)
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To: redheadtoo
The Hector Mines quake was bigger than all of those quakes but it was so far out in the desert that it did no damage. I recall a news cast about that quake.

We were living in Victor Valley when that happening, master bdrm on second floor a nd it shook us real good, and then we continued to have very good shakes for several months after that. The Film crew didn't look in the right places, I checked out a Highway bridge over the 40 out near there , east of Barstow and it had been damaged and twisted pretty good, ,,,,

169 posted on 06/12/2005 9:40:53 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Marcellinus

Are you okay then? Was a hard shaker here.


170 posted on 06/12/2005 9:41:22 AM PDT by bd476
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To: Dallas59

There are really 2 types of quakes .. the shakers and the rollers.

The shakers - what we had today - are the worst (personal opinion). They always seem to be the roughest and usually the deepest - this one was 8 miles deep. In this type of quake - the ground shakes back and forth. If you put an open top box on the gound - place some items in it - and then move it across the ground in short back and forth motions (like you were moving the pan for popping corn on top of the stove) - you'll find out everything within the box will tip over. The amount of damage will depend on the strength of the jolt.

The rollers - if you put a baseball under a blanket and move the ball around, you will see how the earth would move up and down - the size of the ball will indicate what the damage might be. However, in my experience of living a lot of years in CA - the rollers are usually smaller in size and cause the least amount of damage.

Quakes can startle you .. and when the room doesn't stop moving .. your adrenalin kicks in and it can seem freightning. The only thing to do is get in the safest place you know - under a table or desk with strong legs, etc., stay away from bookcases which can tip over, stay away from windows, stay away from TV's which can explode it there is an electrical surge. A plain, common sense plan on what you should do - can keep you calmer and help you to survive serious injury.

My mom is 92 - and we already have a plan on what we're going to do. I guess that's why it doesn't worry me.


171 posted on 06/12/2005 9:41:31 AM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I didn't consider it mild down here either.....

You're not in Kansas anymore Ernest ;)

Not sure a gentleman should tell this story, but what the heck, I'm no gentleman.
My GF at the time (83) and I were visiting her folks in LA. Turns out my sister and her family were in town from NJ and we arranged to get together for dinner. Well my gf and I were consenting healthy adults and we decided to get a little rest and recreation before meeting up with my sister. Of course we didn't notice the earthquake while we R&Red. Anyway later that day when we got together with my sister, the first thing she said was "Did you feel the earthquake?" Oooopsss. What earth quake. Duh.....
172 posted on 06/12/2005 9:42:17 AM PDT by ProudVet77
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To: bd476

There was a show on PBS in Seattle about a month ago talking about the Cascadia subduction zone. It was fascinating, some really good detective work.

Turns out the zone (which stretches from north Vancouver Island almost all the way to Sacramento) is capable of great quakes, we're talking Indonesia size tsunami events.

The last GREAT quake was a 9.0+, and it was recorded in 1698? or thereabouts in the records in Japan (tsunami).

The biggest question has been whether it is the "minute of terror" or the "decade of terror" scenario, in other words, does it give a little here, the a while later give a little there, etc. Or does it just simply give a whole lot all at once.

Studies of core samples of the sediments on the sea floor off of BC, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California have answered that question.

When it goes, it does it all at once. A 9.0+ that stretches from North of Vancouver all the way to Redding or so...

And we're overdue.


173 posted on 06/12/2005 9:42:41 AM PDT by djf ("Stop quoting the law. We have swords!" - Roman general Sulla)
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To: ErnBatavia

CNN on their morning show, just broke in and reported the Earthquake as a MODerate quake near Palm Springs.


174 posted on 06/12/2005 9:42:59 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Walkingfeather
She has a masters in public policy from Pepperdine University and training in conflict resolution, Which would be helpful working with thousand oaks city council that is for sure.

LOL! Yes, conflict resolution's a "must" for that job! I hope she goes for it.

176 posted on 06/12/2005 9:43:46 AM PDT by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: lainie
lainie wrote: To drive to Palm Springs from here is something around 120 miles. If I felt as much as I did, they must have been rocking & rolling!"

Driving during a quake is very scary - worse than being at home.

177 posted on 06/12/2005 9:44:29 AM PDT by bd476
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To: reaganaut

I was the EQ relief coordinator for our church for the northridge quake and saw many trailer parks. Those coachs are just set on those jacks and tip over with a big shaker. It is sad because that amplifies the experience just that much more for those that can not handle it.... the seniors of our communities.


178 posted on 06/12/2005 9:45:17 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: ErnBatavia
Mild my ass!

LOL.

Everyone always says it's mild when they are 50 or 100 miles from the epicenter. When your close to a 5.5 or 6.0, it's totally magnified.

179 posted on 06/12/2005 9:45:31 AM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: fatnotlazy
No damage reported that I've found yet, though I'll wager we'll be seeing images of damage on the evening news. The closest populated land would be the Santa Rosa Indian Reservation (no casino). I'm also curious to find out how it felt to ride this one out in Temecula's Pechanga and Morongo's towers.

Being in a casino during a major earthquake has always been one of my fears.. Far too many armed paranoid people for my tastes.
180 posted on 06/12/2005 9:45:40 AM PDT by kingu
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