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> You guys feel it?, Earthquake
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post Dec 22 2003, 03:06 PM
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I've lived in California since 1990.

After my first exposure to earthquakes, they became pretty routine. But the Northridge one scared the crap out of me. I was in Anaheim Hills at the time and it felt like the house was gonna collapse on me.
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post Dec 22 2003, 03:27 PM
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Kinda puts everything in perspective. Make ya feel like a very small part of the universe

Hope everyone is OK

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post Dec 22 2003, 03:33 PM
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I didn't even know we had a earthquake, but then again I slept through the 89 quake.
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post Dec 22 2003, 03:37 PM
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I felt it up here at work. It was my first and at first I thought I was just dizzy.

Here are the details on the location:

Earthquake

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post Dec 22 2003, 04:07 PM
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I had a few things fall off of shelves, all my pictures got wonky, and one broken lampshade - but no real damage, thank dog.
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post Dec 22 2003, 04:08 PM
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been through 2 earthquakes when i lived on the west coast and one on vacation in mexico. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/boldblue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/boldblue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/boldblue.gif)


i will take the east coast blizzards any day.....
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post Dec 22 2003, 04:24 PM
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QUOTE(SirAndy @ Dec 22 2003, 12:01 PM)
wow, just looked it up on a map. bunch of aftershocks too

the way Lucy Jones explained it after the Northridge quake (10 yrs ago next month...) was that typically, for every magnitude 'n' quake, there are 10^n aftershocks of magnitude n-1. so for a 6,5 event, you'll have 10 5,5's, 100 4,5's - like that
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post Dec 22 2003, 04:29 PM
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You must have been scared (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads/av-32.gif) less....
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post Dec 22 2003, 09:19 PM
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Felt it in Modesto. Wasn't much left of it by the time it got here. I just happened to be sitting in a chair that easily moved. I thought I was having 'spells'. When I first saw it on TV, I thought, I wonder if it was around 11am?
I guess I'm just the sensitive type.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Edit: This was Dan, not Andrew. (He needs to tell me when he signs in on my computer). Be glad you guys don't have to tension timing belts. What a pain...
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post Dec 22 2003, 09:29 PM
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Felt it in Woodland Hills. This one was kinda weird - back to back motion that made everyone in the office sea sick.

TV news says 2 people dead in Paso Robles.
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post Dec 23 2003, 10:24 AM
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I felt it pretty good at work, in Santa Maria. It was almost exactly like being on a boat in rough seas. The ground had to be shifting at least 3". (maybe more?).
It was a little gentle rolling - I thought it was a truck outside at first, then I saw the guy in the cube across from me, scared shittless look on his face, jump under his desk. By then the first bit had settled down. Then it came back bigger, still gentle waves, then kind of a quick, severe jolt. That's when I ran for the emergency exit. To stand in the doorway. Then it was just gentle rolling which slowly died down for about another minute. I could still feel it after we got outside. Like standing on a boat.

Lost power right afterwards, but no damage.
I drove home to AG, because my parents are here from Illinois, watching the kids - their first day home for Christmas break. . . but no damage at home. Some stuff knocked off the shelves, nothing broken except the side mirror on my toy Karmann Ghia. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)
Mom and Dad are in their 70's, and this was their first earthquake too.
Kids (7 and 10) thought it was "fun". Seemed to handle it okay. But they crawled into bed with us last night.


Like I said in another thread - this was supposedly "the big one" - last one in this area was 47 years ago, wasn't even as bad. I'll trade this for tornadoes any day. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif)
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post Dec 23 2003, 10:40 AM
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Wasn't the 7.0 quake in 1994?
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post Dec 23 2003, 10:47 AM
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QUOTE(SP9146 @ Dec 23 2003, 08:40 AM)
Wasn't the 7.0 quake in 1994?

the Northridge quake, which was somewhere between 6,8 and 7,0 depending on who you ask, was January 9 (IIRC) 1994.

i lived in North Hills, just off Devonshire, between Sepulveda and Balboa. i've mostly got my life back together from the back-to-back events that week - first my ex- moved out, then the quake ...
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post Dec 23 2003, 03:07 PM
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Mark Brittel works at the Hurst Castle in San Simeon. Haven't seen him check in anywhere yet.

My sister lives in Paso Robles. All is well. Last Saturday I ate killer pumpkin bread from the bakery (they brought it down) that was demo'd. They pretty much know everybody in town, it's that kind of town.

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post Dec 23 2003, 03:23 PM
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Malmz......Glad to hear your family is OK. I have been going to Paso for the last 10 years, on Memorial Weekend, for the big custom car run they have there. Lotsa great cars every year. Really nice lil town. Sorry to hear bout the damage and the deaths............Dad
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post Dec 24 2003, 02:00 AM
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597 aftershocks!!!!


check it out:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/121-36.html
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post Dec 24 2003, 10:44 AM
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Everything fine at the Castle, from what I've been told. Glad I wasn't at work.

Julia Morgan (Hearst's architect) lived in SF during the '06 quake. They made very sure the Castle (or the Ranch, which is what Hearst called it) would be quake resistant. The whole mountain is rock, so it dosn't move much.

I was under a car on the lift at the shop. Things started moving, thought it was an acid flashback, but then I remembered I never did acid.

Stood by a cement support for about 30 secs, then decided since it hadn't stopped that I should hustle out the door. It was interesting to watch the power pole in the alley behind the shop sway back & forth, and watch the shop lights ficker on and off in time to the swaying.

'Twas an interesting event. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
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