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EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
USGS ^ | 7/29/08

Posted on 07/29/2008 11:43:21 AM PDT by ZGuy

An earthquake is now rocking the Southern California area. (I'm near Dodger Stadium)
As I post this, the USGS has not yet determined the epicenter so click on the link above for the exact location and magnitude from the USGS.

Here are the maps for California and Los Angeles:

California:

Los Angeles:

Here's the historical review of the last seven days:


TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; chinoquake; earthquake; firstpost; losangeles; quake; socal; socalearthquake; socalquake; usgs
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To: Retired Greyhound

Down here by the beach....it seemed to just keep shaking....much more than 30 seconds....


101 posted on 07/29/2008 12:04:12 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: monkeyshine
what if that was just a pre-shock?

Not likely. The first one is the main event, then come aftershocks of lesser magnitude.

102 posted on 07/29/2008 12:04:19 PM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: LikeLight

Fresno is on a big old plain of dirt, we are fine.


103 posted on 07/29/2008 12:04:39 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Our prayers are with you, yours, and your desk.


104 posted on 07/29/2008 12:04:41 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: RightWhale

I believe it was 8.9 and I meant to say 1994 (not 2004). January 17, 1994 at 4:31am. I had to get 19 stitches from lacerations I received while trying to escape the building. Ugh. I don’t like earthquakes.


105 posted on 07/29/2008 12:04:45 PM PDT by Lucky9teen ("One who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it.")
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To: dragnet2
LA Times: 5.8 earthquake rocks L.A. area
106 posted on 07/29/2008 12:04:49 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("It's not my fault if McCain loses - it's his own damn fault!" - Mark Levin)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

3 3.8 aftershocks in Diamond Bar area..

should be OK,, some shaking may ensue. :-)


107 posted on 07/29/2008 12:04:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: djf

It won’t be too much longer until I am antagonizing leftists south of Seattle.


108 posted on 07/29/2008 12:04:57 PM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: ZGuy
Perfect timing. My plane leaves for San Diego at 3:17 MDT.
109 posted on 07/29/2008 12:04:58 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: JRios1968

I live in Ontario as does my Mom, my best friend lives in Upland. Glad to hear that there is no damage there. We were in Brea and the shaking was quite intense and very long. Worst I have felt since the Upland quake in 90.


110 posted on 07/29/2008 12:05:05 PM PDT by Smogger (It's the WOT Stupid)
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To: gridlock

Well see if the moderators put up with AHs like you here.


111 posted on 07/29/2008 12:05:08 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: HiJinx

LOL


112 posted on 07/29/2008 12:05:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I'm a non Soros non lefitst supporting maverick Gang of 1, who won't be voting for McCain.)
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To: calcowgirl
Pretty strong shake down here (Orange County, North Tustin Foothills).

Man, I hate these things.

Our doberman was not amused...

Fires last year, very close to us, fires all over the place again this year, and now--a real shaker.

113 posted on 07/29/2008 12:05:32 PM PDT by Czar (* ping)
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To: ZGuy; All

Be careful out there..............

The Elsinore Fault Zone is a large geologic fault structure in Southern California.

The Elsinore fault zone runs from the mountainous region between El Centro and San Diego, northwest to Chino Hills. On the southern end of the fault zone is the southeastern extension of the Elsinore fault zone, the Laguna Salada Fault. At its northern end, the Elsinore fault zone splits into two segments, the Chino Fault and the Whittier Fault.

The Elsinore fault zone, not including Whittier, Chino, and Laguna Salada faults, is 180 kilometers (111 miles) long. Its slip rate is 4.0 millimeters/year (0.15 in/yr). It is estimated that this zone is capable of producing a quake of MW6.5 - 7.5 on the moment magnitude scale. The projected interval between major rupture events is 250 years.

The main fault zone is one of the quietest in California, producing only one quake above a magnitude of 5.2 in known history, an estimated magnitude 6 on the Richter Scale in 1910 but the quake did little damage and produced no surface rupturing.


114 posted on 07/29/2008 12:05:36 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (I almost lost my religion last night - Martha Earnhardt to her pastor after Richmond)
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To: finch
Here in the eastern Coachella Valley, I'd guess we're 90 miles or so from Chino Hills....but we heard a snap (like a dove flying into the sliding glass door), followed up by a good thump about 6 or 7 seconds later.

Checking the USGS site, we were surprised that this wasn't just one of those little Anza-Borrego 4-pointers.

115 posted on 07/29/2008 12:05:41 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: Retired Greyhound; tiredoflaundry; SoCalPol

stong? Is that like hugh? And series? You had me chickling at that one, like Tony Snoq said on the Marl Levin thread.


116 posted on 07/29/2008 12:05:46 PM PDT by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to bring us to the one place in the ME with no oil.)
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To: Lucky9teen

Um... if there was an 8.9 in the San Fernando Valley four years ago, more of us would remember it. And the SFV wouldn’t be there anymore.


117 posted on 07/29/2008 12:06:09 PM PDT by lainie ("Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: LikeLight

I never felt a thing, and I’m 60 miles closer than JimRob.


118 posted on 07/29/2008 12:06:12 PM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: sofaman

LOL, your post on the Rush thread scooped Fox News. Glad that everyone is okay


119 posted on 07/29/2008 12:06:26 PM PDT by Sammie42
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To: RightWhale
I was there for the 8.9 one in 2004

What was the magnitude?

The 2004 Parkfield quake was a 6.0

120 posted on 07/29/2008 12:06:28 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
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