Posted on 05/17/2009 8:42:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hard quake shakes
What drives me nuts is that Harvey Milk lived in California for only 4 or 5 years. His highest achievement was to serve as a county supervisor for one year and worked on some gay causes. Because some guy ate a twinkie and decided to go postal and kill Milk/Moscone, he deserves a day in history to study him? What a joke!
There are so many other great Californians. I can even understand why the commie Chavez and MLK are honored, but Harvey Milk? I just don’t get it.
Yeah, they called him Blase de Portola before that.
It’s like the old story about Lake Elsinore being named for the reply of the Spanish soldier who was sent to taste the water. Or the state motto, Eureka, supposedly the first word from explorers when they saw the state. I’m still looking for a community called, Oh Damn We’re Lost, California. I figure it’d be somewhere between San Bernardino and Needles.
Um, you sure you want to hear?? I worked in college as a proofreader at a law firm defending insurance companies from paying out after a big earthquake. There were some cases where the house was destroyed due to flooding, and the flooding was caused by the earthquake breaking something, and the insurance company WON and did not have to pay because the destruction was not caused DIRECTLY by the earthquake.
Interesting little piece of Chavez trivia: when Saul sent him to Oxnard to organize Filipino farm workers, the Mexicans were driving him nuts because they undercutting his guys. He was quite active in trying to get them sent back to Mexico.
Thanks for the Ping, Ernest. It was a hard shake here for it only being a 4.7 Magnitude. There have been reports from people in Flagstaff, Arizona, Reno, Nevada and Santa Fe, New Mexico who reported that they also felt this 4.7 earthquake.
There have been reports of broken windows in Long Beach. KCAL 9 showed live news video of a Long Beach street with broken glass and debris in the middle. Also South Bay Galleria had broken windows, falling ceiling tiles in the AMC theater, and one report of a movie screen falling.
The fault line for this earthquake is the same as the 1933 Long Beach 6.2 Magnitude earthquake where 120 people, including five children lost their lives.
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People, remember the new places to go and stay during a quake, learned by rescuers crawling through the rubble after some of the world’s worst recent earthquakes:
Beside every large solid item there is a big pocket of safe space WITH AIR even after the roof has come down. So crouch in those spaces. Believe it or not, a BED is very solid (the mattress) and even when a roof caves in, next to a mattress is space. So lie NEXT TO a mattress, on the ground. A table or desk will crash right down, but a chest of drawers or a filing cabinet or fridge will leave a space next to it (though make sure you can keep said object from crushing you, too - maybe choose one that has not got a high center of gravity, like a low chest or cabinet).
Rescuers have found dead people in doorways, under desks in schools, and under furniture like tables, all while noting huge safe pockets of space next to mattresses and large solid objects.
1.8 2009/05/17 22:23:20 33.923N 118.337W 15.4 1 km ( 1 mi) ENE of Hawthorne, CA 1.6 2009/05/17 21:48:25 33.934N 118.379W 15.5 2 km ( 1 mi) NE of El Segundo, CA 3.1 2009/05/17 20:45:10 33.938N 118.356W 11.5 2 km ( 1 mi) NNW of Hawthorne, CA 2.5 2009/05/17 20:44:00 33.921N 118.383W 16.8 1 km ( 1 mi) ENE of El Segundo, CA 4.7 2009/05/17 20:39:36 33.940N 118.338W 13.5 3 km ( 2 mi) NNE of Hawthorne, CA
Good information, Yaelle...thanks.
For THIS one...I didn’t even get out of the chair. I didn’t know what was coming, so figured I’d be safer just staying there than running around...should it have been a dilly.
“Funny” thing..I was in the backyard and felt it. Brad was in the FRONT yard walking, and did not.
If you’ve lived in LA since the early 70’s then you’ll remember the Sylmar quake of ‘71. Until the Northridge quake, it was perhaps the biggest one LA had had in decades.
Well, I was about 17 at the time, and it came early in the morning. I remember my sister running into my room and screaming “earthquake!!!”
I opened my eyes, looked at everything moving in the room, rolled over and fell back to sleep.
Buddy of mine who was originally from Baltimore lived in LA for about 15 years, and had settled in permanently. He had become as much an Angeleno as anyone.
Well, the big '94 quake hit, and something about it "shook" him so badly, that he got on a plane and went to Tampa, Florida the next day. He's never been back.
Quakes really screw with some folks' heads.
No doubt. My wife and I both had to seek counseling after Northridge ‘94. Diagnosis: PTSD.
LOL!
I remember reading about that. What a racist! /s
Felt nothing in Canyon Country.
When Oxnard decided to give city employees the day off with pay for Cesar’s birthday, a local resident demanded that they do the same for Arnold Von Winkelried’s birthday, reasoning that favoring one ethnic hero over another was discriminatory. It didn’t go over well.
Those non-Swiss have no sense of humor.
Between Hollywood Park and I-105 (on a North-South line).
Earthquake is due East of LAX.
Not far from the intersection of the I-405 (San Diego Freeway) and I-105 Freeway.
Imperial Highway goes real close to the Epi-center... (East West road)
La Brea Ave (North-South road) goes real close to the Epi-Center...
Thanks for the ping, bd476. Your SoCal EQ ping list is very reliable:)
I felt it as one hard jolt in Palms, not far from the epi... also felt one aftershock. Unbelievable it could have been felt in Santa Fe, NM...??!
It seems we are getting EQs more often this year.
Hi La Dita...
Hi, CeeCee! We’re on at same time, imagine that!
Gosh, 3 quakes within one month time period. Hmmmm.....
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