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:
Yeah he still nervous he keep looking up
Not really, because for each magnitude 30 times more energy is released.
This area contains faults capable of generating quakes up to M 6.7; such a quake would release well over 30 times the energy of this quake; you'd need perhaps 50 of these quakes to release enough energy to prevent a large damaging quake. The numbers just don't add up.
It is interesting how a 5+ can cause damage down there or up here and the next 5+ rearranges pictures and loose items on shelves.
where is that brick damage on CH 9? half the city will look like that if THE BIG ONE HITS>
Ooooooooo!!! It’s SO EXCITING when you talks durdy that dat!!! Phhhhhhhhhhht!!! (snicker)
The local TV Networks are working hard to find damage and there is some,...in the great scale of these things it seems to be mostly items getting knocked off of shelves,..although they have shown an older building that had bricks knocked off of the side...and an ice rink in Pomona has some cleanup going on that they show video clips of....sprinkler system seems to have come on...
Metrolink has slowed everything down and inspections are underway for all tracks within a 50 mile radius of the epicenter....
Mervyns Files for Bankruptcy because of earthquake.
She must have been the nice one I met, once.
:-)
Thanks for the info.
Lets hope that it was just a shaker and no real damage to people and buildings down there.
they said it was an older building /....,,probably dates back to the 1930's.....
Judging from the monitoring stations, I’m wondering if there’s any reports of damage in Walnut - the station there reported the strongest movement, more than twice that of Pomona/Covina.
I love California. I graduated from Cal Engineering (’90). I wound up leaving for back East, but I still have family out there.
I don’t miss the quakes one bit, though...
Bush’s Fault...???
It went on long enough .... that I wasn't sure it was going to stop....
San Fernando Valley — NW of L.A. — home of Northridge quake
Felt this one as a sharp couple of jolts, house “sounds,” then the rolling motion lasting awhile. Dogs around here did not bark beforehand which is odd. Only after it was well underway did they start in.
Nothing broken, few pics on walls moved a tiny bit. No other signs of trouble — pretty typical for a 5.4 felt miles away.
Had a 5. something days after Northridge and WOW, that was really something. It helps to be far away from the action.
The nice thing about earthquakes is they last for a sort time[measured in seconds] and usually have little damage [unless high magnitude]. Stringent CA building codes mean it’s not a third world total destruction scenario.
NO WAY!!! Really???
And dumb luck in not having any truly large earthquakes in the metro area during the time LA was explosively populated in the last century.
well, they filed. I was guessing they would work Earthquake into it.
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