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Earthquake in California!
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Apparently the death toll is up to 3 in Paso now...
[Edit: My bad, it's only 2, CNN's headline was wrong.
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[Edit: My bad, it's only 2, CNN's headline was wrong.
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Your odds are very low in the SD area. At least due to this 'quake. The whole state is "earthquake country" though, just as a general rule.
A friend in San Luis Obispo said he ran out of the house during the quake and found his neighbors doing the same. No buckled streets or major damage that he could see. He felt a significant aftershock at 3:53pm.
Yeah I felt that one too. It's not like there are yawning chasms in the streets or anything, but downtown Paso looks pretty hard hit. So far no reports of damage at the castle. Probably some broken dishes and other small items, hopefully none of the art treasures they have there were damaged. I'm feeling pretty lucky so far.
I live in Oakland and didnt feel a thing either. The 2 people thats died, died because the old Clock Tower in Paso Robles callasped on them. The old tower was supposed to be earthquake retrofited in the spring of next year.
They are saying there is no structural damage to Hearst Castle, that doesn't mean no damage to the many art objects there.
The first reports on the news up here had it in Monterrey and it didn't make much sense that we didn't feel it to a greater degree. It makes a lot more sense knowing it was down by Paso Robles.
I hope there are no more fatalities. I've got friends down in San Luis Obispo, anyone hear of any damage down there?
You'll be fine. Take it from a San Diego native.
Doesn't mean we've NEVER experienced them, though. I've been in a couple here and there in my life...it's quite a strange sensation in the gut...takes a few seconds to really understand what's going on...but by that time, it's more than halfway over, usually. We get little tiny ones every once in a great while.
The law of averages says that we won't exprience anything "dramatic" for quite a while. We had headline grabbing fires this past October, so, <disclaimer start> keeping in mind this is, of course, completely unscientific thought, <disclaimer finish> our town will have nothing extraordinary happen for several years.
Yes, although I've often heard a "bang!" noise just as a quake starts, and wondered what the noise is from. You can't always tell when a quake is over, because if you are in a building that is swaying, it won't stop swaying instantly when the ground stops moving, and the fluid in your inner ear may continue to give you that dizzy sensation even when the building is still. People who are driving on a freeway during an earthquake usually say they thought their car was having trouble because it wasn't going where they were steering.
I just talked to a friend of mine, a teacher who was in Paso Robles (20 miles east of the epicenter) at 11:16 this morning. She was doing some shopping in a store and she felt the store shake. She ran outside thinking it would be safer away from shelves.
The roof of the Paso Robles clock tower building fell, and she's been near that building lots of times, but luckily she was not near there at the time of today's quake. At home, she reported that items fell from the east-west shelves but not the north-south shelves.
Has anybody noticed that U.S. authorities raised the terror alert level, and then we had an earthquake? Hmmmm...
The roof of the Paso Robles clock tower building fell, and she's been near that building lots of times, but luckily she was not near there at the time of today's quake. At home, she reported that items fell from the east-west shelves but not the north-south shelves.
Has anybody noticed that U.S. authorities raised the terror alert level, and then we had an earthquake? Hmmmm...
Yeah...but the terror alert level covers the entire United States...and a few days later there was an earthquake in California that killed 2, and caused structural damage in a town between LA and SF. To the rest of the nation, 'twas just another 'quake in California. No conspiracy there.
But what REALLY makes me suspicious is that popular and pretty movie and TV actress Hope Lange, best known for the 1968-70 NBC sitcom " The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" has died. The terror alert was raised, and Hope Lange dies?! Hmmmmmm.....
I'm alright, didn't even know about it until I read this thread, heh. Guess it didn't make its way all the way up to where I live at. Hope everyone else is okay though.
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The creaking gave it away. was on twentieth floor when it happened, knew right away it was an earth quake, as the heavy door closed though I've never been in a tall building during one before.
I heard the elevators made some nasty noises for the people inside them, but I actually leaned against the window and looked down from the middle of the quake until the building stopped swaying. The creaking was unnerving, but I enjoyed the excitement in my monday. No dizziness or nasea here ,but other people said that was the first thing they felt. Funny thing was when a third of the office evacuated down the stairs. I used it for an excuse to take an early lunch.
Earthquakes really aren't that bad here, I'm sorry for the families of the people that died, but if I had a pick of a natural disaster to have to suffer, I'd go with earthquake all the way.
The creaking gave it away. was on twentieth floor when it happened, knew right away it was an earth quake, as the heavy door closed though I've never been in a tall building during one before.
I heard the elevators made some nasty noises for the people inside them, but I actually leaned against the window and looked down from the middle of the quake until the building stopped swaying. The creaking was unnerving, but I enjoyed the excitement in my monday. No dizziness or nasea here ,but other people said that was the first thing they felt. Funny thing was when a third of the office evacuated down the stairs. I used it for an excuse to take an early lunch.
Earthquakes really aren't that bad here, I'm sorry for the families of the people that died, but if I had a pick of a natural disaster to have to suffer, I'd go with earthquake all the way.
Yeah we only had things fall from the east-west shelves too, thankfully not many of those here. It was interesting because this was my first major quake since I took an Earthquake class, and I was able to feel the distinct difference between the arrival of the 'S' waves very choppy and jarring motion followed by the 'P' waves with the long rocking sensation. Kinda cool in a way, but because the two wave types were so close together I knew the epicenter couldn't be far.
I live in SLO and the earthquake hit us pretty hard here. I didn't know what it was at first, but then the ground started rolling and I almost fell over while I was trying to run to a doorway.
It was a pretty good shake, no structural damage to my house or my office building either. My girlfriends parents live in Paso Robles and her dad was home at the time and said that it was really bad there, but their house is ok, just had dishes break and stuff fall off shelves.
I have never been in an earthquake before, so it didn't seem that log to me becuase it took me a while to realise what it was, I wasn't that scared. When I got out of my office building the only thing I thought about was where the epicenter of the quake was. If the epicenter was SF or LA surely they would be flattened and this would have been "the big one". But luckly that wasn't the case, and as sad as the 2 deaths are, really nothing too bad came out of this earthqauke. It could have been much much worse.
It was a pretty good shake, no structural damage to my house or my office building either. My girlfriends parents live in Paso Robles and her dad was home at the time and said that it was really bad there, but their house is ok, just had dishes break and stuff fall off shelves.
I have never been in an earthquake before, so it didn't seem that log to me becuase it took me a while to realise what it was, I wasn't that scared. When I got out of my office building the only thing I thought about was where the epicenter of the quake was. If the epicenter was SF or LA surely they would be flattened and this would have been "the big one". But luckly that wasn't the case, and as sad as the 2 deaths are, really nothing too bad came out of this earthqauke. It could have been much much worse.
Not really. This quake was much less powerful then either Loma Prieta in 1989 or Northridge in 1994. See what you have to look forward to if you stay in California?
I guess I wasn't clear. If the earthqauke epicenter was in LA or SF and we felt it as hard as we did here in SLO, then SF and or LA would be in bad shape. Basically not if this 6.5 earthqauke was in SF or LA but a 8.0 or larger in SF or LA, and us feeling that earthquake here, that's was I was trying to say.
I know it's hard to have a decent idea of time during a quake, but if you note the time between when the first initial shock hits with all it's random short jerky motions and the time when the long rolling motions occur you get an idea of how far away the epicenter is. I knew it was neither right under me, nor very far away because of this delay between different wave types. If you feel them both at the same time, it's under your feet or pretty close. If it's only 5 seconds or so, like this one, it's likely within 50 miles (unless you live on granite or some weird rock formation). If it shakes for 30 seconds or more before you feel that rolling motion, it's the big one (for my location anyway) in either SF or LA. Aren't earthquakes neat? Unless they flatten you or your house of course.