Posted on 04/04/2010 3:43:44 PM PDT by cabojoe
Very large Earthquake in San Diego...lasted a long time.
It will be shakey for most of the next week for sure.
That one was bad and lonnnggggg, things popping off of shelves, lost my computer connection when it came unplugged, stuff on the floor around the house.
Just got another after shock.
I think we are having an aftershock. My lamps are moving again.
Earthquake party, someone bring the beer!
Just had a 4.1 hit the Geysers area
A very long roller here in Yorba Linda. I don’t think I’ve ever felt one go on that long. The doors swung back and forth on their hinges for a full minute or two. Nothing fell over here, however, so we feel lucky!
35 to 40 seconds per news.
Usually, a) the quakes I've felt were more jolting, and b) they made a lot of noise because the house creaking around and rattling is noisy. The Northridge one sounded like about 5,000 freight trains heading straight toward me. Woke me up out out of a sound sleep right before it hit.
I’m in San Diego. Felt like about a 5.0 from where I am.
Went through Whittier (5.9), Landers (7.1) and Northridge (6.9).
Moderate shaking for about 30 seconds.
Where are you that you had stuff fall?
I think I felt another movement just a sec ago too.
Change the title, it was in Mexico, south of Mexicali.
The scary thing is that epicenter is in line from the Sea of Cortez to Palm Springs. and half of that distance in CA is all way below sea level. If the marsh flats and lower elevation flat areas are penetrated in the south near Mexicali, there really isn’t anything preventing a tsunami from the Sea of Cortez from coming all the way up to Indio and Indian Wells and Palm Desert. Its somewhat of an extension of the lower San Andreas and Salton Sea has been a hot spot for seismic swarms and volcanic activity within 3 mi the surface for the last decade or two.
Here in Rancho Mirage I felt 3 large crests of the ground wave 10 seconds after first tremor perceived, and I’m protected in a wash in the mountains adjacent to bedrock.
Me too - this was the longest I’d felt too. And creepy because not shaking but an insidious rolling.
(My one son barely left his XBOX for the doorway. The friends he’s playing with, same thing. They only stop to eat and pee. LOL.)
Where in Vista? My daughter lives off South Santa Fe & Escondido Ave.
DAM# felt it here in north orange county
Reminiscient enough of Northridge to run and get the garage door opened in the event of power outage.
I felt that I was dizzy too. We’ve not been well this week and I thought it was ME, until I saw the Arrowhead water in the jug moving.
Very good way of putting it....rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ but nothing hurt, nothing falling off shelves and we’re in North County. LONG ONE THOUGH!
you ok?
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