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West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 8:40 pm
by windchimp
Hope you guys and gals are OK out there....sounds like this latest jolt was down in Baja, but that it was rockin' and rollin' up in LA and out in Phoenix!

Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:19 pm
by collin
Weakest quake ever. Bring it on....
Seems like we've had one a week lately.....big one's coming!
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:24 pm
by windchimp
Good to hear Collin. Heard this one was a long, rolling motion - sloshing water out of pools and stuff.
Being a flatlander from the east, having the ground move beneath me is unnerving...
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:50 pm
by collin
Yeah, it was really long, and so gently rolling that everone around me had to stop and be still to notice it when I told them we were having an earthquake.
It's the 6.0+ "jarring" quakes that get scary and destructive.
I bet they had some real damage in Mexico, though.
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:42 am
by doctorwho
collin wrote:Weakest quake ever. ...
Exactly the opposite in San Diego, where I was visiting my sister. (1) longest quake I've experienced, and (2) most ground movement (although not the most violent ground movement). I knew immediately that it was a big one close by. Everything is A-O.K., though.
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 1:05 am
by paologregorio
Alles ok in Long Beach!

Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 2:02 am
by rickenbrother
I was in Corona when it hit. It was shaking pretty good out there and for what seemed like a long time too!

Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:18 am
by Danotron
I felt it pretty good in Costa Mesa.
Like everyone seems to be saying, more of a slow roll than a jolt; but it seemed like it went on for some time.
A lot of water sloshed up out of the pool and a few new cracks in the concrete, but nothing too bad.
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:36 am
by collin
rickenbrother wrote:I was in Corona when it hit. It was shaking pretty good out there and for what seemed like a long time too!

yeah, me too....up on the hill (Upper st.). slow rolling that went on for almost a full minute!

Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:13 am
by ajish4
Ok.............OK....................I'll stop jogging now.
Glad everyone is doing well!
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:39 am
by cjj
So
that's what happens when I turn my amp up to 8...
Been through quite a few of them when I lived in CA, the ones that just rock & roll are interesting, when the ceiling tiles and everything starts falling (1989 "World Series Quake), it ain't so fun...
Glad to hear things weren't too bad...
Hmm, RIC seems to be off line, wonder if there's a connection to the quake? Hope everything is OK there...
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 11:10 am
by kennyhowes
paologregorio wrote:Alles ok in Long Beach!

+1.
I'm not a California native; as I never know what's coming next, those things scare the you-know-what out of me.
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:25 pm
by GATSBY
Nothing to bad out in Palm Desert. It was early 2000's maybe 02 at around 1:00 AM my bed started bouncing up and down , then the rolling started. Now that was an experience. think it was a 7.0 up in the high desert.
Henry
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 2:48 pm
by just_bassics
YES are in Mexico - New bass pedals, Chris?
Seriously, hope everyone is okay in the zone.
Re: West Coast Quake ***Roll Call***
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:11 pm
by 8mileshigher
I was sorta-napping, sitting on the couch .... in that twilight sleepy stage.
My wife was watching TV and at first she thought I was kicking the couch - with one of those leg twitches....
Then she realized it was no leg twitch and woke me up and we saw the blinds swaying on the window and the water sloshing around a little bit in the pool..... Surprising that we could see the effects so many hundreds of miles away.
And then the CNN announcers said there was also a 4-point something up in Northern California, by Santa Rosa, which is a long, long way from Mexicali. Not sure if the two Quakes were actually geologically connected....
And then they interview the scientists at Cal Tech Earthquake center .. and
these folks reassure us, with 100 % certainty, that there is nothing we can be certain about 
as to the aftershocks or the "next big one".... Say What ??