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Location: Bluffton, SC | Hope all is well with our LA members and their familes. Not a huge one by some standards but sizeable enuff... |
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Location: SoCal | Hey, it was fun! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Just heard about this on the News. Ditto on the
Concern. Hope all are well. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ..all ok here... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Did someone hand Mario a Magnaum Bass maybe?
Hope all is well, we are probably next. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I'm thinkin' maybe it was Damon trying out a new Fender amp at the factory located in Corona, within a few miles of Chino Hills. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I was in LA years ago when an earthquake hit.
I don't remember how big it was but I do remember it was a bit unsettling! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Yeah, whatever.
And it's raining here, an' seven people were mugged in New York.
Next in the news...gravity...does it still suck? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I was in a teeny 4.8 once...
You could tell I was a Tourist... All the locals we diving under tables.
Some New York dude and me just stood in a doorway watching the show...
hoping to see the ground open-up, like in the movies.
Glad to hear that it wasn't tooo bad. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Next in the news...gravity...does it still suck?
No but it will hold you down. |
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| I was in LA when there was a tremor - I thought the End of the World had arrived, the locals didn't even mention it. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Lived outside of L.A. until I was 27 and recall many earthquakes. I was taking a geology class in college when the big Sylmar earthquake hit in 1971. As a class field project, we used some sophisticated instruments to measure the shift in a new track of homes which had not yet been moved into. We measured a six foot vertical and a seven foot horizontal shift right in the middle of a kitchen. Within two months, the destroyed homes were replaced with some nice looking bilevels and I'm sure the new owners were clueless that they were living directly on top of a major fault line. Amazing. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | This just in . . .
AP News bulletin: "Building that houses Guitar Center shakes . . . Dozens of fallen guitars are destroyed . . . Damage estimated at nearly $400." |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I'm thinkin' maybe it was Damon trying out a new Fender amp at the factory located in Corona, within a few miles of Chino Hills. I'm innocent, I swear. :rolleyes:
Living in the Bay area half my life, I've been through some fun ones. The sacriest was the '89 quake though. I drove over the Cypress Street Viaduct just a few minutes before it hit.
"It's amazing what a minute can do" - Dave Matthews |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Oh, the high end room was destroyed. |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by Damon67:
Living in the Bay area half my life, I've been through some fun ones. The sacriest was the '89 quake though. I was living there then myself, and yes, it was a completely different animal. The 4's and 5's are a great way to meet your neighbors. Everyone heads out to the middle of the street, chats a while, and goes back home.
The '89 quake on the other hand, left some of our neighbors homeless.
Wife and I were blessed... didn't break a glass. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Well, at least you can see a hurricane coming. Tornadoes and earthquakes scare the hell out of me. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | AP News bulletin: "Building that houses Guitar Center shakes . . . Dozens of fallen guitars are destroyed . . . Damage estimated at nearly $400."
Now Brad, thats a good one! All too true... 
Very glad to hear everyone is OK... |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Damon67:
The sacriest was the '89 quake though. I feel a bit responsible for that one. My wife and I were on our honeymoon and had just left the bay area when it hit. I'm pretty damned certain that the seismic bouncing we did probably triggered that quake.
Ah, the things you can do when you're young..... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I'm sitting in LAX right now. We drove down from Santa Barbara and we were just north of Malibu when it hit.
It was cool! I'm glad it wasn't a big one. My first one in California - I've felt two in NY. |
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Location: Tennessee | I was on the outside escalator at Candlestick when the '89 quake hit. Like Damon, I lived in Alameda had had a number of neighbors who were on the Cypress structure that pancaked, and also on the Bay Bridge that had a section drop. Our house was just fine, but getting home back across the Bay that night was quite an adventure. The power got knocked out most places, including cell phonetowers, and it was tough communicating with home.
There was some seismic activity in a "swarm" directly underneath my house. Happened about two years ago, and we had several quakes a day and lasted for about three weeks. All the quakes were between 2 and 3, so we could feel the vibration but it was not strong. Sort of like a short burst of the magic fingers machine in cheap hotel rooms. Much easier to deal with than hurricanes, tornados, and killer thunderstorms. But definitely not for the faint of heart.
CL - 5.8 is pretty strong. In reality, you only get something that strong every few years. I agree - once the shaking is done, you look back on it and it really is pretty fun. |
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Location: Jet City | You know bobbo, we have a viaduct just like the Cypress here in Seattle. I won't drive on it.
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Sounds like we missed all the fun.
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Location: Vernon CT | I had just moved from Dublin ,Ca a year earlier back east when the 89 one hit. I allways wondered when I drove on the bottom off the doubledecker highway if it would hold up during an earthquake. Damn, I love Snow and Ice storms!!!!!!! |
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Location: Jet City | I went to Dublin High for a short time during my freshman year. The Gaelics... (Not that there's anything wrong with that) |
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5.8 Earthquake in LA
