Posted on 05/17/2009 8:42:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hard quake shakes
I am stranded on the beach having come from tornado country....I don’t like this nowarning stuff!
I think 12chachacha and I were right on top of it — Ernest a bit south.
Al baby — are you still in this area?
Where are you in Downtown — We’re downtown, too. Across the street from Ralphs.
HA! again. Years ago we had an earthquake in Illinois, felt here in Chicagoland. I was sitting in an easy chair and felt a slight bumping, and then again a moment later. I looked around, and decided in the absence of evidence that the cat had been under the chair!
I reminded myself of the Nordic myth of a series of challenges given to Thor, I believe it was. One was to lift a cat off the floor, but he was only able to budge one paw, much to his embarrassment. Later he was told that the cat was in fact the earth, which had trembled mightily when he moved it.
Hey Wayne,
It’s your old friend up at 3rd and Grand! ;-)
huh...got to dig out my HTML Manual...
5.0. Sure hope that wasn’t a pre-shock. Lots of smaller quakes in the area recently.
lennox over by santa monica.
I live in the state that has the most advanced early warning sensors in place for volcanic and seismic activity which predictably inform all of us within fifteen minutes after the fact.
Is that Hawaii?
My couch rocked slightly in Escondido.
They seem to show a fault line on the map...and I seem to remember something about an Newport - Inglewood Fault....might be the same that cause the Long Beach quake back in the 20 or 30....
I’m in Fullerton. At the moment of the quake, I was standing on a very thick slab of concrete and didn’t really feel it. I did however hear the thing loud and clear. Sounded like a rumbling train.
Although I was standing in a safe place when the quake struck, I had been coming down a staircase three seconds earlier. The same set of stairs I fell down last December. I’m grateful I was off the steps when the ground started to move.
Felt it in Lynwood I was with my 5 year old niece on the floor under a big furniture
glad everyone is ok Hopefully no lives are lost
My mom is in RPV and she said it was one of the strongest she’d felt. Probably because of the South Bay epicenter. Can’t imagine a 5 right under people by the airport/beach!
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TYPE OF FAULTING: right-lateral; local reverse slip associated with fault steps
LENGTH: 75 km
NEAREST COMMUNITIES: Culver City, Inglewood, Gardena, Compton, Signal Hill, Long Beach, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa
MOST RECENT MAJOR RUPTURE: March 10, 1933, MW6.4 (but no surface rupture)
SLIP RATE: 0.6 mm/yr
INTERVAL BETWEEN MAJOR RUPTURES: unknown
PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW6.0 - 7.4
OTHER NOTES: Surface trace is discontinuous in the Los Angeles Basin, but the fault zone can easily be noted there by the existence of a chain of low hills extending from Culver City to Signal Hill. South of Signal Hill, it roughly parallels the coastline until just south of Newport Bay, where it heads offshore, and becomes the Newport-Inglewood - Rose Canyon fault zone.
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I am just north of you a bit in Maywood. Have a couple of “earthquake virgins” visiting.
Got a chance to chat about earthquake tectonics, a rarity for me.
See note above....
Rocked and rolled here in Long Beach, sharp jolt and it knocked things out of the medicine chest and knocked some pictures off the book shelves. Miserable cats were proned out on the bed and took off like cartoon cats to see how fast they could exit, stage right. Dog didn’t do much either. Will check on the other two Garage Cats to see how they fared. No animals acted weird, all seemed to be lazier than usual, in fact.
I don’t have any trouble like that. I can consistently predict them in advance. It’s just a feeling that comes over me... I’ll wake up in the moening, and I’ll say “we’re gonna have an earthquake”, and I’ll right every time!
Of course, sometimes I’m a couple of years early...
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