Earthquake Today in California!

Muffit · December 22nd, 2003, 01:28 PM

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Muffit · December 22nd, 2003, 03:59 PM

Update - 2 women confirmed dead, one missing, possibly more in the rubble. Primary damage was the collapse of an 1850 clock tower onto a downtown jewelry store in Paso Robles.

A coworker of ours has children there, will try and find out more later...

jewels · December 22nd, 2003, 04:14 PM

Glad to know you are safe, Muffit. Hope the rest of the CA dwellers chime in that they're OK.

thomas7g · December 22nd, 2003, 04:19 PM

I'm glad you are safe Muffy.

I hope Ojai is too. And any other CFers we got in CA.

I didn't even feel this one. I'm fairly far away this time. When you hit 6 on the Richter you are getting strong enough to take down buildings near the epicenter. The Northridge Quake which messed up my life was actually weaker than this I think.

Gemini1999 · December 22nd, 2003, 04:35 PM

No problems here in Sacramento....

I didn't even know about it until I was driving home and heard about it on the news. I was talking to my mom in SoCal after lunch and she didn't make mention of it either. I hear that there are a lot of strong aftershocks as well and a few thousand are without power. It will make for a hectic holiday weekl even more hectic for some...

My sympathies to the families of the 2 that were killed.

Bryan
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Muffit · December 22nd, 2003, 06:29 PM

Thank you Jewels, Thomas and Bryan

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Tom, the '94 Northridge quake was actually slightly bigger - 6.7. The reason it was so devastating was because it was so close to a highly populated area, and it was the type that thrusts upwards - someone on the news said that kind can be pretty terrible even if the Richter level is lower. This one just kinda swayed back and forth. So sorry to hear that quake messed up part of your life

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I remember one quake long ago when I watched the floor actually roll like it was a wave on a waterbed! Like turning solid surfaces to liquid. Weird!

Thanks all for your thoughts.

Muffit · December 22nd, 2003, 06:33 PM

Ooh, one odd memory...

During the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, 5 minutes before the quake hit I was actually in the crawlspace under our home (the kind that sit on pillars) - and the news that night showed many homes that fell off their foundation/pillars not far away. Hmm, just think, I coulda been a REAL mushy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gemini1999 · December 22nd, 2003, 07:27 PM

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Originally posted by Muffit
I remember one quake long ago when I watched the floor actually roll like it was a wave on a waterbed! Like turning solid surfaces to liquid. Weird!

Muffitt -

Your description of this is what I experienced during the Northridge quake. I was staying with my mom in the high desert near Victorville that night. While we were standing in doorways waiting for the shaking to stop, I noted that there was a "rolling motion" that continued for a few seconds. It felt like the house was at sea, rolling on the waves.....truly a weird experience!

Bryan
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Muffit · December 22nd, 2003, 07:40 PM

That's cool Bryan! Yeah, that's what it feels like for sure. The wierd thing for me was I just happened to be at the right angle and could see the floor shape itself into waves... too weird!

Glad we share this in common!

thomas7g · December 23rd, 2003, 01:20 AM

My experience with the Northridge quake was a little bit rougher.

When the earthquake started, it was a low rumbling waterbed kinda shaking. I remember lying in bed after an all nighter. I remember being ticked that I finally got to go to bed, and the earth started to move. I remember thinking god, I'm so tired and that I really don't want to have to run to shelter. I remember my last thoughts distinctly. "I AM NOT MOVING!"

The next second the earth picked me up and threw me across the room. Literally, I was flying across the room!

Which was better than my roomate who was buried under heavy furniture. I had tons of stuff fall on me, but nothing heavy. He got a concussion. He's doing fine now though.

it was a rough ride.

bsg1fan1975 · December 23rd, 2003, 04:12 AM

these stories make me glad that I live on the east coast. The only things that I hjave to worry about here are blizzards and hurricanes!

Starbuck · December 23rd, 2003, 05:57 AM

I didn't know we had an earthquake until I got home from work yesterday.

thomas7g · December 23rd, 2003, 01:07 PM

yup! Its always best when you don't know a earthquake happened.

One good thing, such a big quake expended in a relatively sparse area makes the rest of our cities alot safer. A lot less tectonic stress.

cobrastrikelead · December 23rd, 2003, 02:33 PM

about an hour after it happened. Hope everyone from Fleets is OK.

emerita · December 27th, 2003, 05:31 AM

I felt an earthquake once when I was in LA in 1975. It was a 4....I am glad that I live in Florida. Although there have been little quakes here in the past. I think there are fault lines all over the US....I would rather live though a hurricane....You can see them coming and can prepare for them. An earthquake is so sudden....

thomas7g · December 27th, 2003, 06:13 AM

I remember that one! I think that was the Sylmar quake. I remember seeing a picture of the hospital that had sunk into the ground so that ground level was about outside the 3rd floor window. That was a strong shaker!

I actually don't mind the main earthquake. Provided I don't fly of course. Its all the aftershocks that keep going a month or two later that stresses me. Its like the gift that won't stop giving.

thomas7g · December 27th, 2003, 06:19 AM

Oh! I remember this one girl who lived down my hallway in the Northridge quake. Poor thing. She had come from Iceland and had never even felt the smallest of quakes yet. I remember seeing her the day after the quake. The ground was still shaking every half hour or so. And she was like insane. She was crying uncontrollable in that sheer terror kid of crying. Her roomate was trying to comfort her.

That was really terrible.

Flamingo Girl · December 28th, 2003, 08:48 PM

The Sylmar Quake was in Feb. 1971, the 9th if I'm not too off. It was my first, I was 5 1/2, and sleeping when I was awakened by the sliding closet doors banging together. I worked out that we were having an earthquake and prepared to go back to sleep. Then my father an into the room, slammed the door open, and yelled "It's an earthquake! Get on the floor!" and ran back out. He scared me so bad I fell out of bed, then wouldn't let me go back to bed for several hours.
My mother's story is pretty good too, her bed actually moved across the room, then moved back, and Dad went to the door and asked her if she had felt it. She looked really innocent and said "Felt what?".