Earthquake LA and San Diego

Subject: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 05:39 PM

Just heard on the news that there has been an earthquake in this area, hope you are OK Amos, and any other Catters affected by this. Please check in and let us know.
Giok

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Rasener
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 05:45 PM

Good luck you guys, hope it is not too serious.

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Rasener
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 06:10 PM

5.3 on the richter scale. seems to have shaken, but hopefully not too bad

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: GUEST,Mary Katherine
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 06:31 PM

This is the third one in CA in five days. I'm getting cranky. Here in Santa Monica it was quite substantial but no damage; radio reports shaking felt over a wide area but no significant damage anywhere and no injuries at all, so far.

Mary Katherine

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 06:32 PM

Good news
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Amos
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 06:38 PM

Yeah, we had a nice shakedown for about fifteen seconds, which made us all pay attentionin case the world was coming to an end, but it turned out not.

Our house-visitor from Bordeaux was very excited, he having never seen such a beast before.   The center was only about forty miles from here. As usual, the media carried on in frenetic tones.

It always interests me how these events seem to often come in clusters at opposite ends of the earth. The day after ours, there was a comparable shakeup in S. America, somewhere. I forget where. Oh, and our news people ran around like squirrels for a while warning everyone because someone figgered there was a risk of a tsunami as a follow-on. But that didn't happen. So everything is more or less normal here. Thanks for your concern, good folk!

A

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 06:40 PM

normal?? what's normal??

there was one in the desert by palm springs a few days ago, too.

not the BIG ONE (yet) i guess...

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: radriano
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 06:45 PM

Below is a link to a U.S. Geological Survey site that shows information on the most recent earthquakes. Quakes are tracked on a daily basis:

Most recent earthquakes

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Deckman
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 06:49 PM

Amos ... a hundred years ago I lived one half mile off the San Andreas (sp?) fault in the Santa Cruz mountains, Felton, California. We got VERY used to four or five earthquakes a week. It's strange what the body and mind can adjust to. CHEERS and glad everythings good! Bob

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 06:56 PM

When I lived in NYC I never paid attention to the shootouts in the streets unless my son wasn't home.

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Deckman
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 07:13 PM

Sins ... I'd prefer an quake to that HELL you went through! Love to you, Bob

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 07:23 PM

5.3?? Is that all, us Alaskans don't even put it on the news unless it tops 7.0. I'm glad all is well, my daughter is considering moving to San Diego this fall so I'd like it to still be there when I come for a visit.

Mike

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Deckman
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 07:27 PM

Mike ... Alaska to L.A. is about as FAR AWAY FROM HOME as possible!!!! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 08:25 PM

And with me, it's tornadoes...just can't be bothered much. Grew up in Tornado Alley.

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: sixtieschick
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 08:28 PM

Didn't even feel it. Dang!

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 11:25 PM

well here it is fire or flood--

it is pouring rain so fire danger is low today...

but as for floods...well,.....

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 11:30 PM

No "big shakes" - it has been officially registered below a 5.0 - only injury was slight cut/abrasion from a morris-dancers.

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Kaleea
Date: 17 Jun 05 - 12:18 AM

I'm getting ready to give up "tornado alley" for San Diego, hoping that the big one doesn't come till I'm at least somewhat settled in! If it does, I'll be sure to grab my baby neice, old Gibson & run out of the house. Coincidentally, a few months ago, I dreamed that I was living out there & there was a huge earthquake or something where the whole place was assunder & I managed to make it out to Ocean Beach where my kids were. Wierd, huh?

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Amos
Date: 17 Jun 05 - 03:01 PM

Come on down, Kaleea!! The city is bopping along normally! :D We'll have a do at Balboa Park and let your Gibson show its stuff!

A

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: jaze
Date: 17 Jun 05 - 06:57 PM

I read on the internet recently someone from Calif. said if the Big One hits, they expect pretty much everything east of Calif. to slide into the Atlantic! LOL

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: sixtieschick
Date: 17 Jun 05 - 10:27 PM

Associated Press, 6/17:

LOS ANGELES: After four significant earthquakes in less than a week, Californians are getting jittery, with some stocking up on water, food, cash and even insurance. The shaking began Sunday morning with a magnitude-5.2 temblor in the Anza area of Riverside County, about 90 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. That was followed by a magnitude-7.2 quake Tuesday night under the Pacific Ocean off Eureka--an unrelated incident that prompted a tsunami warning. Thursday brought two quakes that were 10 hours and about 700 miles apart: one of magnitude 4.9 in San Bernardino County and another late that night of magnitude 6.6, also centered off the Northern California coast.

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: GUEST, TheZenBanjoist
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 01:43 AM

That's the first time my bed shook in years. ;o)

H. W.

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 03:22 AM

Like I said earlier this year... Mother Earth is definately uncomfortable with her present position.... Ever have one of those eons when you can't get the bed right?!

Take care everyone.

LTS

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: annamill
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 02:52 PM

My condo shook a little but I thought that a truck was going by. Then I realized it might have been an earthquake. Honey didn't even feel a thing. He was down the street at work.

I hope all our quakes are this small!!

Kaleea, We're moving down to OB next month. Please let me know if you come out thru PM and maybe we can set up a meet. We're down there all the time because Honey surfs and my dog loves Dog Beach. I love the sun.

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 06:38 PM

In Maine we still have minor earthquakes resulting from the release of overburden pressure from them old glaciers which melted away some thousands of years ago. Every year or so we shift up a little higher in elevation. Sometimes it feels like a freight train is passing, which is mighty strange if you happen to be out on the water!

Of course the weight of melting glaciers has been somewhat comphensated for by the increased weight of incoming retirees with their Volvas and RV's.

Good luck on the west coast!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Biskit
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 02:23 PM

We in Arizona are preparing for the onslaught..(mass exodous) that happens every time California starts shaking, and drives our property taxes up. Glad no-one was hurt
Peace!(through Understanding)
Biskit

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Kaleea
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 03:28 AM

Thanks, Amos! I've been a bit delayed cause my father has been in the VA hospital since March. But, I think they're actually going to release him in a couple of weeks, so I may be there by July! My little baby girl is waiting for me!

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Melani
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 12:39 PM

Here in the SF Bay Area, we very much enjoyed the hour-long tsunami warning after the big Eureka quake the other night. When it was lifted, my son, who has a speech and language problem, said he was glad we weren't going to have a salami.

Subject: RE: Earthquake LA and San Diego
From: Franz S.
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 02:19 PM

I've been told that in California earthquakes are what we have instead of weather. Or alternatively that whereas earthquakes will come to you if you're patient enough, you have to get out and go visit weather if you want it. Want fog? Go to the beach. Want rain? Try North Coast. Snow? Go to Sacramento and turn right (just like most of our governors do). Living as I do four miles from the San Andreas Fault and within yards of several smaller ones, I cultivate patience. And Prudence.