Earthquake

[Impy]

6th floor of big concrete hospital on rollers in long beach...

woo mamma that was a good one...god I hate that loud creaking sound as the building shifts around you...and when it keeps going and going...

flashbacks to loma prieto. I had to go outside and take a deep breath before I returned to work, and I was all jello-y.

[OTHRIDER]

Yeeeehaaaaa!

I was in north Brea getting some PT done on my bum knee. The therapist attaches the Tenz electrode pads and says let me know when you can feel it. Two seconds later the earth started moving. We both cracked up at the timing.

I stopped by the house 1/2 hour later and LOTS of the wife's crapola was on the floor and all of the kitchen drawers were open.

[JoeTruth]

Someone's bike got dropped and the stampede ensued. Funny how people panic and run for the door during earthquakes, including myself. Shot at Incycle in San Dimas. Credit Zerordl from this post...
Incycle earthquake vid

[r3dman15]

haha, today i was shuttling telonics (aliso woods area) and as we were getting drivin up the hill i felt it and saw other cars wobbling.. i yelled earthquake like 3 x's ahah

[tkblazer]

Originally Posted by r3dman15

haha, today i was shuttling telonics (aliso woods area) and as we were getting drivin up the hill i felt it and saw other cars wobbling.. i yelled earthquake like 3 x's ahah

nice i usually climb that trail

[duke777]

Now I really want to go home to check out my bikes....huumm.....

[Pain Freak]

I almost always feel these damn things and the scare the bejeezus out of me. My work was only 9 miles from the epicenter and I personally didn't feel a damn thing. Very thankful for that. Now the rest of the company kind of went ape-shit....

[Zippy]

Felt it in La jolla. Pretty unique sensation when standing on a lifeguard tower 8' off the sand. People came up asking if there was going to be a Tsunami. Ha!

[dirtvert]

Originally Posted by tkblazer

nice i usually climb that trail

you climb telonics? sweet. i can only hike that trail. and i have to crawl the technical sections.

[bighit8]

what time was this?I did not feel it here in Orange.

[kdog4130]

I just Google earthed the exact coordinates, and it looks like the exact location in right off the 142, and Low Lane, right next to some houses! Must have been a hell of a ride for those people!

[ladera Dave]

Ladera was rocking

[KTMRDR]

It rocked my office really good in Yorba Linda. I was in meeting when it hit and then I heard the fire sprinkler alarms sound. I rushed outside to my production area and water was dumping from the fire sprinklers. The the jolt was so severe that it slammed the sprinkler heads into the steel trusses and sheared three of them off. We had about 2 inches of water in the 10k sqft shop. Needless to say it was alot for us to cleanup. On the bright side of things at least no one was injured.

[faded1004]

how many of you guys are using emergency kits? like water and basic needs?

[art23rockpile]

When it happened, I was in my truck leaving Carls Jr... didn't even feel it!

5.4 is pretty mild, as far as earthquakes go. Sylmar (1971) and Loma Prieta (1989) were right around or just over 7.0... serious shakers (with serious destruction)!

[maxxisracing]

was anyone riding, that would be cool. Your like goin down hill and all the sudden u start shaking

[slowrabbit]

I had a Ford truck 6ft. in the air on a rack then brought it down 10 Sec. before It hit. Just won of those lucky things.

[jasonmason]

A day or so after the fact but...

I was in Paramount when it happened, dropping off lab samples. The lab guys freaked out and ran outside; I was loving it. Haven't felt a good earthquake since '94, and being outside could actually see the waves moving along rosecrans toward me and then pass on by - it was pretty incredible. Being in the middle of the LA basin we shook a good long time out there, substantially longer that the 15-25 seconds people in east OC felt. That whole shaking bowl of jello thing really applied here...

Once i figured out where it was i blew off the rest of the day of work, ran home to get by pack and camera, and headed out to Chino Hills SP. Figured that this was one of those opportunities that if there was anything worth photographing - landslides, rockfalls, surface rupture (even though it was a little quake) - this was the time to do it. Besides, when you're a geologist, you all get excited and take the day off when there's an earthquake!

I'm sure you'll all be glad to hear that Chino Hills came through unscathed. No rockfall, landslides, or anything really to be seen, at least not in the west side of the park close to the epicenter. A few small (5-10mm) surficial cracks up on North Ridge was about all the evidence i saw that anything had happened, and these by now are undoubtedly gone. There were definitely a few planes up looking for the same things I was. Felt a few small aftershocks while i was out there, but being out there was about the safest place to be. Earthquakes don't kill people, it's the buildings falling on them that does!

Anyway, just another fun little earthquake. These little ones are good to keep everybody on their toes and prepared for when we have a 'big one'...

[OTHRIDER]

Originally Posted by jasonmason

.......and being outside could actually see the waves moving along Rosecrans toward me and then pass on by - it was pretty incredible.

I had the same incredible view back during the Whittier quake. We scrambled outside the shop to witness "asphalt waves" rolling down Leffingwell Road. My old Audi 5000 actually had the rear wheels leave the ground. Cool & frightening at the same time.

[faded1004]

the jello asfault is what someone needs to take a video of... soemthign like in HD on discovery channel...