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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 68Wooley on April 04, 2010, 09:06:53 PM
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Strongest earthquake I've felt in five years in Cali. Was pretty weird - like being on a boat rather than the usual jolts. Lasted about 30 secs or so and had my UK visitors well freaked out.
Sounds like everyone came through OK thankfully.
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7.2
:eek:
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Dang, big 'un. :eek:
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I think the rapture is coming...
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i have an aunt in the southern part of cali needles cali to be exact .Poor woman has been through a lot this week with a dieing sister and as soon as the first quake hit she broke down and cried. I used to live in arizona and felt some shakes my self but 7.2? damn....
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Strongest earthquake I've felt in five years in Cali. Was pretty weird - like being on a boat rather than the usual jolts. Lasted about 30 secs or so and had my UK visitors well freaked out.
Sounds like everyone came through OK thankfully.
ill say. Wierd with a rolling motion.
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We felt this one in Tucson. it was mild and only lasted for a few seconds.
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Hope everyone is ok! We don't need another Haiti.... lol
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I was in the heart of L.A. all day and didnt feel a thing... :headscratch:
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I was in the heart of L.A. all day and didnt feel a thing... :headscratch:
Earthquake proof building? :neener:
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I was in my Aunt's one story apartment... :confused:
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just had another big jolt. all afternoon, every 5 min jolts rocking homes, sometimes they are they big and slow rolling kind, sometimes like a quick hammer hit. the first one was heard coming by a few seconds and was very difficult to walk with the amount of rolling occurring. power went out, glass shattering, furniture ripping from walls, cars vibrated and shifted out of place, gas leaks all over, gas stations all closed for repair, stores can be seen a mess through windows. posting with cell phone, sleeping in rv.
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Got any pics Dave?
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5.1 woke us at 4am. +3.0 continue to hit every 5min. i can post pic by tomorrow. gas company stopping by soon to turn gas back on. a bog sinkhole and rockslides affecting traffic along i-8 to san diego.
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5.1 woke us at 4am. +3.0 continue to hit every 5min. i can post pic by tomorrow. gas company stopping by soon to turn gas back on. a bog sinkhole and rockslides affecting traffic along i-8 to san diego.
Bog sinkhole = new living space for a handsome Frog?
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I meant "big" sinkhole. :furious
I was in the Imperial Valley, 12 miles from Mexicali, Mexico during the 7.2 temblor.
I was on the floor when I could hear the low rumble for a few seconds, then a small and quick vibration began. It was at that point that we all knew it was going to be a big one with the amount of warning we were getting. The house swayed vastly with the first big jolt, then the ground rocked one way, and the house swaying in the opposite direction, everything starts shaking, glass breaking and flying everywhere, power goes out, lamps fall down, large furniture dance across the room, the rumble is very loud and you have to yell to talk, you're unable to walk without using a wide stance in your steps and all you care about is getting everyone out. When the book shelves that were nailed to the wall began to break apart, we all moved away from the door frames and out of the house to the front yard. Car alarms were going off as all the cars were shifting out of place. The sound of water rushing to the streets from the swimming pool in the backyard spilled gallons of water in a few seconds. After what seemed to be a lifetime in 60 seconds, we try to slow down our hearts and minds and make sure we are all ok. My father was barefoot in the kitchen with glass flying all around him, so he went out through the back and meet us in the front yard. We all knew to expect aftershocks. We've all experienced many many earthquakes before, and this was the largest of them all.
Most of the doors will need to be readjusted as they no longer close all the way, lots of tile will need to be grouted again as they cracked and came apart, new cracks in your driveway and walls are exposed and the smell of gas comes from nearby homes. Going back inside to see the second floor with every piece of furniture moved or tipped over, with all your contents and belongs thrown around the room. Anything made of glass is broken, and then the 3-5 magnitude aftershocks rocking the house every few minutes for hours on end make the clean up process very difficult as you evacuate the house with each shake. Moving the dinged up cars out of the garage to prevent further damage was done once we could open the garage door without power. No calls were nearly impossible to make, but text messages seemed to get through 50% of the time, requiring only 2 or 3 retries. Seeing neighbors come together to help each other was a nice sight to see.
Most gas stations were closed, looting was reported in isolated downtime areas and no electricity for hours for the city, with some parts of the city with no power until the next day. Most places were closed for Easter, but the few that were open were jammed with people once they quickly restored power and cleaned up. Stores could be seen through the windows completely trashed as products are all thrown to the ground. Sitting in traffic, you could feel the ground shaking still late in the night. Brick walls can be seen crumbled, gutters barely hanging onto roofs, large city water tanks damaged from the water thrashing around violently ultimately spilling over with high velocity. The entire city had lawn chairs in their front yards, many sleeping in their garages, living rooms or any other rooms with easy access to the outside in case another shake occurred in the night, which it did with a +5, waking everyone in my family. You become sleep deprived, experience some dizziness, nervousness, heart burn and other stressful symptoms.
Sinkholes and rock slides were reported along Interstate 8, but driving back to San Diego, I did not see any signs of these events. Even now in San Diego, 100 miles away from where I was, I can still feel a few shakes, mostly the 4.0's originating from the Imperial Valley and Northern Mexico. Again, we will all be sleeping with shoes, clothes, keys and whatever we can quickly put on in the event we have to get out of the house.
I'll post pics tomorrow once I get them via email.
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Wow Kermit, this is tough experience, i've been driving last week on I-8 to San Diego, and i was surprised to see negative elevation on my GPS, in El Centro, Calexico area. I didn't know the populated area around Salton Sea is under sea level.Another earthquake was shaking Alaska yesterday around a volcano mtn: lots of seismic activity this year, all over the world , somehing is going on; 2012 movie comes in my mind. :lol
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:salute to you and your loved ones Kermit, hope all is well and settling down there. I didn't know you were all the way out that way, I should try to get in touch with you before my next El Centro airshow day-trip out there.
Felt it real good all the way out here in the west-end of the SF valley where I live. Was just strong rolling for at least 40 seconds after an initial light-hammer. (I was really impressed for being that far away, it felt like a 4.5-4.8 where I lived) Sloshed a little water out of pools and fish tanks, cracked a few old pipes in the street, and generaly was overal mild in damage and severity because of that steady rolling motion being pretty much all we got out here this far. My guess is you guys have the best feeling for how strong and violent it really was being that close, but I don't think it was very violent as far as quakes out here go, and the steady rolling motion of this quake is what minimized damage, compared to a more violent shaker like I experienced with Northridge (now that was a quake!).
Edit: I spent yesterday in Loma Linda and Whittier checking out a couple job sites under construction that we just had decorative concrete paving poured and installed 16 days ago and 10 days ago. All our paving came through fine after the quake this weekend and any cracking that did occur went right down the expansion joints and score lines as it should of. I talked to another client today that we recently finished a project for and they're telling us our paving looks great, but some parts of paving the civil put in on some ADA Handicapped accesses from the parking lot cracked real good. Their grounds dept. is repairing it tomorrow but they wanted to consult with us to try and match our paving and avoid further repairs from future quakes in the future.
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I go down to there about 8 times a year. I thought it came from your area, but found out it was South of the Border. Lots of aftershocks are coming from the US side with 5.2s and lots of +4.0s every couple of hours with +3.0s every 10 min or so. I woke up this morning as I felt the 4.2 all the way in San Diego.
We here are all using these aftershocks as reminders to prepare to some degree for the big one.
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Aftershocks continue to hit Southern California:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_big.php (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_big.php)
San Diego can feel those originating from the Imperial Valley and Northern Mexico. These aftershocks mostly cause the buildings to sway, but no shaking or visible damage.
The Imperial Valley county I think is asking for a few million from the broke state of California to repair their water systems.