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Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:43 am
by Michael Palero
hey, earthquake, like right now
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Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:44 am
by Bob Beamesderfer
2 miles SW of Chino Hills, magnitude 5.6
Really shook here; Shaking, then a loud boom, the harder shaking, probably 20 seconds or so.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:46 am
by Kurt Rahn
Felt it too, though not as much as Bob.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:46 am
by Jeff Shyu
5.6 at chino hills
it's very entertaining at 21 floors up..
well, the shaking was so-so, but all the women freaking out, running around, screaming, is really entertaining.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:48 am
by Ashley Armstrong
they updated it to 5.8. Whee!
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:49 am
by Giovanni Jaramillo
Jeff Shyu wrote:5.6 at chino hills
it's very entertaining at 21 floors up..
well, the shaking was so-so, but all the women freaking out, running around, screaming, is really entertaining.
I'm on the 12th fl in Universal City.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:50 am
by Bill Schenker
Very strong here in the Newport Beach area.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:51 am
by Christine Grice
From the 9th floor in El Segundo it was really weird, kinda stopped and started 3 times.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:52 am
by Jeff Shyu
this high up, it never really felt like it stopped.
just swung really hard, then kinda slowed, and started again.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:56 am
by Michael Palero
My location was an estimated intensity of III according to the USGS website.
First one to post on USGS!
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Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:04 pm
by Bob Beamesderfer
Any body feel the aftershocks? I haven't. Mag up to 4.0
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:04 pm
by Jeff Shyu
oh, this is pure BULLCOCKY!
they've locked down the "highrise" elevators (floors 16-25), but locked down the fire exit stairs.
i've ordered my lunch, and now i can't get out of my f'n building..
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:06 pm
by Steve Coe
just a slight rock in San Diego
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:10 pm
by Giovanni Jaramillo
Jeff Shyu wrote:oh, this is pure BULLCOCKY!
they've locked down the "highrise" elevators (floors 16-25), but locked down the fire exit stairs.
i've ordered my lunch, and now i can't get out of my f'n building..
Same here. Elevators went into "safety mode". Good thing I exercise. Lots of people are gonna be huffing and puffing. Imagine those on the 34th floor
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/29/earthq ... index.html
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:23 pm
by Mako Koiwai
Must have been strongest for Seb? How was it?
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:25 pm
by Bob Beamesderfer
I'm a mile closer to the epicenter than Seb's house; where's his workplace? I wouldn't really want to be closer.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:34 pm
by Mako Koiwai
Within a mile of Corona
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:36 pm
by Jeff Shyu
food tastes better after you climb 21 flights of stairs..
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:40 pm
by Bob Beamesderfer
Seb and Shauna live about a mile east of me. This is the first quake I've felt since we moved in '99.
27 aftershocks; Kate Hutton of CalTech says it was a 5.4, so back down from 5.8.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:46 pm
by Kevin Price
Shook pretty good in Newport. Good enough for my assistant to bolt.
Now our clerk is a college student from out of state, this will be her first. We'll see if she shows up for work in about 10 mins.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:02 pm
by John Coffey
Go to Google Earth and enter these co-ordinates: 33.955°N, 117.765°W. That's the epicenter which is just east of Sleepy Hollow in Carbon Canyon.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:44 pm
by Sebastian Rios
Mako Koiwai wrote:Must have been strongest for Seb? How was it?
My office is right across the chino basin from chino hills (near the Corona Airport). It was pretty strong, but not enough to knock stuff of shelves.
The ladies screaming and running around was pretty funny though.
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:50 pm
by Christine Grice
What about the Robertsons? Anyone heard from them? They live in Chino Hills. Would hate to have anything fall on one of the corvettes
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:55 pm
by Michael Palero
I'm so mad... campus was closed and I had 2 big tests and a paper due...
Re: Earthquake
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:56 pm
by Jeff Shyu
Michael Palero wrote:I'm so mad... campus was closed and I had 2 big tests and a paper due...
first day of the bar exam..