Magnitude 6.5 Quake near San Simeon (CA coast, about midway between LA and SF)

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[Yossarian]

Anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area just feel that earthquake? I'm in Sunnyvale, and it felt like a 4....

[Dog Gone]

There have been at least 9 aftershocks, so far, although none are really all that big. But the 6.5 event almost certainly caused some local damage.

[John H K]

I believe that's the 7.7 Kern County Earthquake of 1952, which was just south of Bakersfield, not near San Simeon.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

I wonder if gerbils, like other creatures, can sense a quake before it happens and panic. I'm sure the fruit loops have figured this out.

[BurbankKarl]

SANTA MARIA FIRE DEPARTMENT IS REQUESTING ASSITANCE FROM MUTUAL COUNTY AGGENCIES TO RESPOND. THEY HAVE MULTPIPLE CALLS BACKED UP. SANTA BARBARA COUNTY IS DISPATCHING FULL ASSIGNMENT UP NORTH.

[mhking]

KNBC: Now beginning to receive damage reports from that area.

[commish]

CURRENT LIST

3.4 2003/12/22 11:41:04 35.547N 120.853W 0.9 12 km ( 8 mi) NNE of Cayucos, CA
3.3 2003/12/22 11:39:58 35.667N 121.051W 0.1 13 km ( 8 mi) E of San Simeon, CA
3.6 2003/12/22 11:37:44 35.589N 120.971W 5.6 11 km ( 7 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
2.5 2003/12/22 11:37:24 35.736N 121.114W 5.4 12 km ( 8 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA
3.3 2003/12/22 11:35:28 35.563N 120.878W 4.4 14 km ( 9 mi) N of Cayucos, CA
2.9 2003/12/22 11:33:58 35.602N 120.930W 0.1 15 km ( 9 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
4.0 2003/12/22 11:31:05 35.541N 120.853W 5.4 12 km ( 7 mi) NNE of Cayucos, CA
4.4 2003/12/22 11:30:10 35.597N 120.982W 0.0 11 km ( 7 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
3.9 2003/12/22 11:29:39 35.557N 120.842W 2.5 12 km ( 7 mi) W of Templeton, CA
4.7 2003/12/22 11:26:07 35.627N 121.020W 0.0 10 km ( 6 mi) NE of Cambria, CA
6.5 2003/12/22 11:15:56 35.706N 121.102W 7.6 11 km ( 7 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA

[BurbankKarl]

Large cracks in SR46 at Summit

[mhking]

KNBC: Hearst Castle has been evacuated.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Please people, calm down!

Too late, I just looted a TV. It's a California thang. ;-)

[MattAMiller]

Didn't feel anything here in Sacramento, which would scarcely need mentioning if people didn't report feeling earthquakes from ridiculous distances.

6.5 is big. The stately home of Charles Foster Kane (price no man can say) is going to take some damage.

[commish]

2 MORE TO ADD TO LIST

3.2 2003/12/22 11:43:50 35.722N 121.079W 0.8 13 km ( 8 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA
3.4 2003/12/22 11:42:33 35.671N 121.034W 6.4 14 km ( 9 mi) NNE of Cambria, CA

[FeliciaCat]

"KNBC: Hearst Castle has been evacuated."

Not good...

[diamond6]

Oh, okay.

[Psycho_Runner]

about a 4% chance that this is a FOREshock.
That's it. I'm moving to Iowa.


It's cold there.

[two23]

[Dog Gone]

I was taking a shower about 25 years ago in California when a 6.1 hit with an epicenter about 8 miles away.

I fell on my butt. A 6.5 would be far worse.

[shellylet]

As long as the Fogcatcher Inn is still standing! That's where we stay in Cambria!

[commish]

3 MORE TO ADD TO LIST

3.6 2003/12/22 11:45:37 35.650N 121.051W 3.9 11 km ( 7 mi) NNE of Cambria, CA
3.2 2003/12/22 11:43:50 35.722N 121.079W 0.8 13 km ( 8 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA
3.4 2003/12/22 11:42:33 35.671N 121.034W 6.4 14 km ( 9 mi) NNE of Cambria, CA

[Ichneumon]

LOL -- love the animated pic.