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:
Arnold is holding a press conference at 2:15 I think....
Hope you and yours are OK.
One of my customers was from Yorba Linda. She is having work done at her home - guys on scaffolding. Unable to contact anyone at the house, so her husband -who works closer to home was going to check on things. His office received quite a jolt - things flying off shelves etc.
Still cannot believe this was only a 5.4
You're near the beach, so there was probably some liquifaction - like jello down below...
Yes, that’s it. Thanks for the info.
Work in Kearny Mesa, didn’t feel a thing. *Shrug.*
Basement? I’ve only felt a 3.2 baby quake and the last thing I’d want to do was run down into the basement. More like run the heck outside? Give me a hurricane over a big quake any day.
some Pomona alley if it’s the same one they showed on KTTV
Down here in Encinitas visiting kids and grandkids - embarrassing to say, none of us felt a thing!
They say that Eagle Rock is becoming one of those up and coming places now. If I were to move back to that area (I live in Orange County) I would look in Eagle Rock. In appearances, it really hasn’t changed since I was a kid there 30 years ago. And it has a great location.
Arnold is going to tell the response workers they are working for $2/hr.
Culver dittos. It was over before I even got out of bed.
At 4:57 a.m. on June 28, 1992, a very strong earthquake occurred in the High Desert of Southern California. The 7.3 earthquake was centered on the eastern side of the San Bernardino Mountains near the town of Landers in Homestead Valley.
I woke up probably 2 minutes before that one hit.
No, I didn’t feel that one. I was in Moorpark, CA at that time. Hmmmm
Dr. Kate Hutton
"That Earthquake Lady"
Current Work
California Institute of Technology
Seismological Laboratory
Scientific Support
Staff Seismologist
SeismoLab CalTech Dr. Kate Hutton
* Operations, Southern California Seismic Network
* Data analysis supervisor
* On-the-spot Public Information Person
* Lead Duty Seismologist & Duty Operator
* Moldy oldies: 1932 - 1959 earthquakes
* Data processing backlogs
* Earthquake catalog clean-up
Education
* Pennsylvania State University
B.S., Astronomy, 1971
* University of Maryland
M.S., Astronomy, 1973
Ph.D., Astronomy, 1976
Dr. Kate Hutton CalTech
Lucy Jones: Living with Earthquakes in Southern California
Dr. Lucy Jones is married and has children.
Lucile M. Jones is Scientist-in-charge for USGS earthquake activities in southern California, including leading the Pasadena office of the USGS, serving on the National Earthquake Program Council and coordinating all earthquake research funded by the USGS in southern California.
Dr. Jones is actively involved in seismological research and has authored over 50 papers on seismology, primarily in earthquake statistics and hazard assessment.
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chinese Language and Literature, Magna Cum Laude, from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1976 and a Ph. D. in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981.
She has been a seismologist with the US Geological Survey and a Visiting Research Associate at the Seismological Laboratory of Caltech since 1983.
As a graduate student, Dr. Jones was the first American scientist to work in China after normalization of relations in 1979, and spent twelve months at the State Seismological Bureau in Beijing from 1979 to 1983.
She is the Secretary of the Seismology Section of the American Geophysical Union and past Director of the Seismological Society of America.
Video of Dr. Jones (37 seconds)
Real Player: Living with Earthquakes in Southern California
Did you see Kate Hutton telling the viewing public at large they need to lobby the state for $$$ for responders and emergency? She was asked about the earthquake warning system and said we have all the ability and knowledge — just no funding. And it ain’t gonna happen this year, no way would Schwarzenegger allow it. I can’t stand the guy, but like it’s HIS fault there’s no money in California.
All of this was at the same time she admitted that the early warning system wouldn’t have done any good with today’s quake.
We live in Encinitas (Cardiff) and my son said if lifted two legs off the ground. He was a in a hi-chair that sits up at our garage computer, and thought someone pushed him.
I felt it down around La Jolla, but my wife was in the car and didn’t feel a thing. I was rocked fairly good.
I was living in Palm Springs at the time..I had attended a wedding the night before and was nursing a Champagne hangover and when the landers quake hit I was so concerned about my pounding head the shaking did not seem to phase me~ LOL...
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CHN:
| Chino | Agency: Southern California Seismic Network | ||||
| Lat: 33.9988 Lon: -117.6804 Distance: 7.8 km from epicenter | |||||
| Location: Chino, Benson Ave and Schaefer Ave | |||||
| Station Comp | Max Vel (cm/s) | Max Acc (%g) | PSA: 0.3 sec (%g) | 1.0 sec (%g) | 3.0 sec (%g) |
| HHE | 0.2931 | 0.8549 | 1.2417 | 0.0693 | 0.0077 |
| HHZ | 0.0981 | 0.7077 | 0.1385 | 0.0109 | 0.0010 |
| HHN | 0.1453 | 0.4659 | 0.6882 | 0.0461 | 0.0051 ************************************* WLT: |
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Walnut |
Agency: Southern California Seismic Network | ||||
| Lat: 34.0095 Lon: -117.9508 Distance: 21.2 km from epicenter | |||||
| Location: Hacienda Heights | |||||
| Station Comp | Max Vel (cm/s) | Max Acc (%g) | PSA: 0.3 sec (%g) | 1.0 sec (%g) | 3.0 sec (%g) |
| HHE | 0.0365 | 0.1506 | 0.1978 | 0.0207 | 0.0019 |
| HHZ | 0.0275 | 0.2167 | 0.0608 | 0.0093 | 0.0005 |
| HHN | 0.0577 | 0.1675 | 0.1868 | 0.0169 | 0.0012 |
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