Posted on 05/17/2009 8:41:59 PM PDT by reformed_dem
Earthquake in southern California. Felt it pretty good in Fullerton
“My dad was in that quake.”
We have a lot of pictures that my dad took of the Long Beach quake damage.
Did a lot of building repair in L.A. after rhe quakes od 52 and 71.
Repaired the same 13 story after both those quakes and rhe 52 Tehapachi quake did a lor more damage than the 71 quake.
In fact in the 52 quake I fot out of bed and missed the floor!
I thought it was Bush's fault.
Sorry.
Thanks for clearing it up. I was just wondering about that. :)
That was a strong and jarring one.
How in the hell did you grab that picture?
husband felt it, in a vague, nondescript, ‘did I just hear something’ way. We’re northeast of L.A. about 75 miles.
Hiya JJ :) Thanks for the ping
Those 3D quake videos are perfectly terrifying. Yeah, they magnified the amplitude of the waves by 1000X so you could see them at the scale of the ground maps, but — YIKES!!!
I watched the Buena Park video, and it takes about 35 seconds for the first shocks to reach there from the epicenter, but after that it just keeps getting stronger and stronger and stronger, and it keeps going on, and on, and on, and a full two minutes later the ground is still rockin’ and rollin’ and the video ends before the actual shaking stops. It probably wouldn’t actually “settle” for another full minute or so.
That’s just FREAKY!
Google has everyone’s house. I can even see me walking dogs.
It’s earthquake weather up in San Jose, but you got it down there.
OH yes redheadtoo!! I have many stories! I am 67 and lived in Highland Park in the 40’s...I remember well the Tehachapi, Sylmar, Whittier Narrows. We have lived in Eagle Rock since late 50’s In the Northridge quake we lost our fireplace, part of our porch and waterpipes .We have a two story home and we can really feel the swaying upstairs.Things have quieted down so manybe we can rest now....hopefully.
On the USGS quakes page:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
I picked “MAP” to the left of the event I wanted to sew, which brought up a large area map with colored squares showing where the recent quakes in that region had been.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/240_35.php
I clicked on the square that indicated the epicenter of the quake I wanted to know about, which pulled up the details page for that quake.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/ci10410337.php
There are tabs on the details page, and one of them is this “Maps” tab, which has nine different maps displaying the quake data in various forms.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/ci10410337.php#maps
One of the maps available pulls up a Google Map with a marker for the epicenter at the relevant Lat/Long coordinates.
At that point, all I did was zoom all the way in to the “street” level, and copy/paste the page link from the little “Link” icon located at the top, right corner of the map. [Right-click and “Copy Shortcut” (or “Copy Link Location” for Firefox), then “Paste” into the your HTML-formatted Post as usual.] It’s a cool little feature Google has provided to allow users a way to easily give others an identical map view to look at; sorta keeps everyone “on the same page”, in a virtual sense.
I use it whenever I need to endure that someone else in cyberspace sees the same map that I saw.
BTW, you’ve got FR Mail.
I felt the same way after watching. Yikes!
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