1

Knock it off Deepak!

2 5.4 Quake Rattles Southern CalThat's what she said.

3 This will be used as an excuse for a bailout.

4 Fucking auto-formatting

5 I blame Arizona.

6

guess I should check on the in-laws....

2012 is right around the corner

7 If I was an Iranian scholar, I'd say that there's too many women showing too much cleavage.

If I was Hank Johnson, I'd say that SoCal's imbalanced and in danger of capsizing.

If I was a fear-monger, I'd say that the end is nigh.

If I was Lex Luthor, I'd say:  "Excellent - my plan to sell beach-front property in AZ and NV is going perfectly".

8 Shaken but not stirred here. Not a big deal by SoCal standards.  I've slept through bigger ones. 

9 Ocean Front Property in Arizona.

_{Get out while you still can.}

10 They will plug the San Andreas Fault with Obama's giant ego, or all the spilled oil in the gulf, or all the illegals since it's a job American's won't do, or somehow fill the vast expanse with all the IOUs issued by the government and municipalities.....

11

I've slept through bigger ones. 

That's what she said.

(It's the answer to everything!)

 

12 GLOBAL WARMING!!!

Help us Hugo... you're our only hope!

13 Dave in TX, you ain't kiddin.  my house on a hill in San Antonio is right across the street from a landslide that the builder didn't properly engineer against, and knew about when told about the soil, but didn't tell buyers.

14 My bad. I flashed my moobs.

15 Earthquake? I thought that was the folks downstairs "sweatin' to the Oldies."

16 5.4 is like a moderately harsh sneeze.

It doesn't make the news in California unless it's over 6, or if it's a slow news day.

17 In Hollywood it was feeble but long. (insert witty reply here).

18 Didn't feel a thing. Yeah, I've heard that phrase once or twice.

19

>> Yeah, I've heard that phrase once or twice.

 

Oh damn, now I'm depressed.

20 What was interesting here was the loud BOOM just before the house started to shake.

Went to the US earthquake site to see why there's a BOOM.  Short answer, they don't know.

But hey!  They've got the whole Global Warming thing figured out!

21 18 5.4 is like a moderately harsh sneeze.


Agreed.  I didn't even think to get outta the recliner.

22 Was driving and didn't even feel it.

23 I felt it pretty good, but I was on the 18th floor, so there was quite a bit of swaying.

24 23 18 5.4 is like a moderately harsh sneeze.


Agreed.  I didn't even think to get outta the recliner.

Posted by: Patrick S at July 07, 2010 10:03 PM (Y4cpV)

Back in '89 I was working at Shelby Automotive in Whittier when an aftershock for the original Whittier quake came rumbling through. The line I was working on had dual-post lifts in two assembly lines at the station behind me, my station, and the one in front. New Shelby Dakotas up on those racks, everyone working away underneath, getting the day's quota done. First aftershock comes through- the native SoCals step out from underneath, wait for the shaking to stop, then get back to work. Not the guy from New York- it takes the collective boot in the ass to calm him down, tell him it'll be OK, can you please get back to work? Not more than 5 minutes later, another aftershock. The locals are amused, the guy from New York isn't. He breaks into a flat-out run, runs out the assembly hall, takes a running jump off the loading dock, and runs home. Found out later that he moved back to New York less than a week later. 

25 It was enough to rock my ice cubes in my cocktail. I like that

26

My wife, here in CO, was on the phone to a bank call center in CA when that hit. The guy on the phone just asked her to wait a "second", then came right back and finished up the call.

 

Colorado also has "compacting" soil. This house was built in '78; when we bought it in '97 the front step was 13 inches above the sidewalk - about twice the normal distance. Most heating systems have a bellows that allows the house to move up or down without disconnecting the system

 

By the way, a cool, rainy, overcast day - so we went to the gun club! 

27 Didn't feel a thing in my part of LA, didn't even know we had one until it came on the news.

Well, it'll only be a concern for me for another week and a half.

No earthquake can do the damage to California that the leftists have done to it

28 I am proud that I voted for Barack Obama for Governor of the United Stakes. I will do it again in February 2011.

29 Boycott earthquakes!

Umm, never mind.

30 There have been too many 5.x quakes in that region to suit me.  I believe a big one is coming soon to Southern California.  Magnitude 5 quakes are generally a harbinger of things larger.  That section of the SAF hasn't had a major break in a very long time.  Mag 5 quakes don't really release enough stress to amount to much and you generally see them in the months preceding a larger quakes.

The problem is that it can take a long time ... or sometimes it doesn't.  The Landers quake had 4 Mag > 5 quakes with the last one being the Joshua Tree 1992 quake at around Mag 6.1

The 1989 Loma Prieta quake had two Mag >= 5 quakes shortly before the event.

Mag 5 quakes scare the bejebus out of me.

31 I was in the LA quake of 1971. It shook me out of bed. This one sounded like an 18-wheeler going by. Things rattled a little. No big deal. Believe me, earthquakes are the least of California's problems. Next to the Dem-dominated legislature and a zillion illegals flooding our town, I'll take the quakes.

32 We are currently in Corpus Christi tonight.

Mrs. Squibob reports that San Diego is still OK.

33 In other words, I will live with Mag 3 and 4 quakes all day long,  But when you get multiple Mag 5 quakes in an area with a big fault nearby, it is time to check the quake supplies because multiple Mag 5 quakes often mean a 7+ is coming.

34 I'm at a motel in Rancho Cucamonga.  Thought it was the people upstairs having very rough sex.

35 Clearly you people need to start covering your boobs.

36 I'm at a motel in Rancho Cucamonga.  Posted by: Buford Gooch

You have my pity.

37 Ok folks, that was not an earthquake it was Earth shifting on its axis.

This was greeted by hearty applause from a crowd that included Barbra Streisand and her husband James Brolin. “Depressing, but fantastic,” Streisand told me afterward, rendering her verdict on the session. “So exciting. Wonderful!”

38

San Diego, Sorrento Valley area - in a chemical research building. Felt like an unbalanced washing machine in the basement on spin cycle. If the washng machine were the size of a truck, I mean.  It started with a little pre-quake that elicited fate-tempting sneers, and that quckly segued into the main event which actually had us wondering for a moment whether to step out into the parking lot.

According to geologists, the movement that occurred during the big 7.3 Mexicali quake several months back freed up some strain that is propagating up north to other faults.

This quake was on a different fault than the Mexicali one.

Helpful web site; I always check it after a quake: http://tinyurl.com/yajsagj

As you can see - different fault.

The recent quake is the big square due west of the Salton Sea. The line of  numerous little quakes crossing the Mex/CA border are aftershocks from the original Mexicali quake. Need a better fence I guess. 

The fault that ends in Palm Springs, just north of theSalton Sea, is the southern tip of the San Andreas fault.

 

39 There's too many Marines in Camp Pendleton.  This earthquake is just a warning, one of these days California's going to capsize and you'll be sorry you didn't listen to me then.

40 The San Jacinto fault zone is a branch of the San Andreas, it meets up with the SAF at about San Bernardino.  There have been tiny quakes on the SJF for several years.  Several tiny Mag 1 - 2 quakes every day.

I still believe the Southern end of the SAF is less than 5 years from giving way.

41 Sure Texas gets earthquakes, just not as often and usually not as strong as in CA. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/texas/history.php

42 As a native of this state, I typically don't pay much attention to earthquakes unless they're at least magnitude 6 - 6.5. Anything lower is nothing more than an irritant, due to having to listen to all the non-natives get all worked up over the shaking.

43 The last 5 point, shifted 10 paintings on a 65 foot wall "3 inches to the left"
This time it straightened them "3 inches the right"...

(This is progress in the leftist-loony state.)

44 The weight of all the illegal aliens lining up in front of southern Cal's welfare offices has finally burdened the state to the point where is is beginning to snap off and tumble into the sea.  Its far worse than than the situation in Guam.

45 Hey California residents, Don't like the quakes? Move....sucks to be you.