Earthquake!

January 28, 2002

[Cinnamon Girl]

Wow. It's still going!

[dpwiener]

So I have to sit here in Illinois worrying about my grandparents in Simi Valley.

Don't worry about them. Nothing even fell over in our house.

[ZGuy]

12 quakes so far total. No power outages. I'm about 2 miles from the epicenters for the Simi Valley quakes so we even got a ride from the 2.3 quake that just hit a few minutes ago.

[timestax]

Looks like bill clinton's lie detector readings, except his would have broken the needle!

[Misterioso]

How does a map dated 1/28 @ 10:31 get a posted time of 9:51 PST?

[newsperson999]

a 2.9 came in..is this normal to have so many small ones in a short time? Would this classify as an swarm of quakes?

[Redcloak]

It updates everytime you refresh.

[calljack]

Northridge quake destroyed my kitchen and dropped all my block walls,seperated my chimney from the house and closed my job for two weeks. This one has done nothing except chase my daughter into my room with her air mattress. A real good shock would smack real estate prices for a couple months or so, so get ready to buy a house or two.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Is there any thinking out there that this might be a pre-shock earthquake? That is, do they think this might be a preliminary earthquake to a much larger one coming in the next 48 hours or so?

[calljack]

Redcloak, no way dude, I still work at litton in Northridge.

[Redcloak]

No. This looks like a main shock (not a Northridge aftershock) followed by its own aftershocks. Pre-shocks don't act like this.

[breakem]

Some one said earlier the center is in Colorado (not the epicenter, the lab).

[dpwiener]

During Northridge I was working at Litton in Woodland Hills.

I worked there too (and still do). I recall that some of the inertial measurement units we were testing in the lab were able to record the Northridge quake. Not that anyone was paying too much attention to them for the first few days...

[Joe Hadenuf]

a 2.9 came in..is this normal to have so many small ones in a short time? Would this classify as an swarm of quakes?

No, the big one is going to hit any second, brace yourself, and don't stand near the window, you could be thrown through it.

[Redcloak]

I was in the fiberoptics groups (FOG and ASW) from '90 to '96.

[FrogMom]

It's local time - PDT. 14 of them now.

[lizma]

I bet you could! I was in a 5.0 in Cleveland (of all places) and it's a bit unnerving.
We couldn't figure out what it was! Thought construction on the building at first.

[ZGuy]

Unfortunately you only know if something is a "preshock" after the "postshock" hits! I'm not concerned though.

FYI - Simi Police Dept. has received very few calls. One man had a few items fall from his shelves and some items broke.

[Redcloak]

A 5.0 anywhere back east would scare the crap outta me. They don't know how to build for quakes back there!

[FrogMom]

Correction, PST.

[dpwiener]

That is, do they think this might be a preliminary earthquake to a much larger one coming in the next 48 hours or so?

While that's always a possibility, it's highly unlikely. This is following the typical pattern of an initial quake followed by a series of aftershooks of decreasing intensity and increasing (average) separation in time.