Hey Baby, What's Shakin'?

[TravelGal]

Twenty years after the Northridge quake (plus 2 months), we're awakened by major rattling of doors. Meh, "that wasn't too bad" says I. They are calling it Westwood (which everyone has heard of because of UCLA) but it's really Encino, which almost no one has heard of. Only 4.4 so not so bad but a thriller anyway. Only one casualty noted so far. Our Masai man broke his heart (cracked through the chest) and lost his spear, which has been found and re-glued. Got off easy this time.

[Gnam]

They are calling it Westwood (which everyone has heard of because of UCLA) but it's really Encino, which almost no one has heard of.
http://s10.postimg.org/4n53nfym1/encino_man.jpg

Watch out for cavemen. ;)

[nrc]

I saw 4.4 in the headline and figure that nobody even woke up.

[indyfan31]

Um, yeah. I was on the 12 floor of our building uh . . . . "resting". :o

[Kiwifan]

Jeez Gal, take care over there, you don't need another big shake. You even made the news down here. :)

[TravelGal]

Jeez Gal, take care over there, you don't need another big shake. You even made the news down here. :)

Thanks, Rusty. No worries here at the Travel household but apparently the poor KTLA news anchor has gone viral with his reaction. What makes me :flaming: is the people who laugh at him. Try being in one folks. It's not what it looks like on TV or feels like on the ride at Universal. /rant

[indyfan31]

Thanks, Rusty. No worries here at the Travel household but apparently the poor KTLA news anchor has gone viral with his reaction. What makes me :flaming: is the people who laugh at him. Try being in one folks. It's not what it looks like on TV or feels like on the ride at Universal. /rant

To be fair his co-anchor Megan looked like she was going to read through the story she was on as the shaking was going on, she only got under the desk because he kind of wigged out.

He did however have a sense of humor about it, they were laughing about it the next morning, and he used a still image of his reaction on his FB page.

What was never mentioned was (diCarlo) the sports guy's reaction. when the camera zoomed out to show the shaking in the studio all we saw was his chair spinning in place. :rofl: I think he was probably in the parking lot by the time his co-anchors were getting under the desk. Kudos to the camera operator for staying with the shot.:thumbup:

[Anteater]

I slept through the 3/17 quake, but I was awake for the magnitude 5.1 quake that hit at 9:09 pm tonight. Heard it more than I felt it--much rattling of doors & windows. I'm guessing indyfan31 felt it pretty good; the experts are placing the epicenter pretty close to him (La Habra).

Apparently there was a magnitude 3.6 quake in the same area at 8:03 p.m. I did sleep through that one.

[Gnam]

Dang. It's not even earthquake weather.

[manic mechanic]

I slept through the 3/17 quake, but I was awake for the magnitude 5.1 quake that hit at 9:09 pm tonight. Heard it more than I felt it--much rattling of doors & windows. I'm guessing indyfan31 felt it pretty good; the experts are placing the epicenter pretty close to him (La Habra).

Apparently there was a magnitude 3.6 quake in the same area at 8:03 p.m. I did sleep through that one.

Long, slow shake out here Ant.. Lends creedence to the structural/seismic mods we are doing to our 60+ year old house... A good 40 seconds of s-waves and not a thing moved off a shelf!

This house might just make it through the "big one" once it's finished!! :D

BTW, LA media is saying 5.3...

[manic mechanic]

Geez, this one woke up everyone but Fausto... :rofl:

[Anteater]

Gnam, the funny thing about your comment is that the day before the 3/17 shaker, I was thinking "This is 'Earthquake Weather'"--that unseasonably warm weather we sometimes get in the spring. The one we had on Easter in 2010 occurred on a day like that.

Glad your place handled the quake OK, manic!

Yoo hoo, paging indyfan31...

[TravelGal]

I felt it up here da Valley. Long, then what seemed like the tiniest pause, then long again. I said, "Earthquake" twice to TravelGuy who was up fiddling with the TV at the time. Quite mild here. He didn't even feel it. No swaying or anything. Gnam, I think it IS earthquake weather. Unseasonably mild. That's the way it was in 1994 with the Northridge quake. I'm seeing everything from 5.1 down to 3.6. Sheesh.

Edit: Ah, two quakes. One at 8:03 and one at 9:09.

[TravelGal]

Gnam, the funny thing about your comment is that the day before the 3/17 shaker, I was thinking "This is 'Earthquake Weather'"--that unseasonably warm weather we sometimes get in the spring. The one we had on Easter in 2010 occurred on a day like that.

Glad your place handled the quake OK, manic!

Yoo hoo, paging indyfan31...

Anty, I was thinking the same thing about the same time. Was not surprised that the 3/17 quake happened. I *was* surprised tonight though. I thought Mother Earth had it out of her system for this year.

[Gnam]

Now I'm glad it's raining in NorCal this weekend. I don't need any of that noise up here. ;)

[Anteater]

Hope things quiet down--I'm supposed to attend something called "Shimmy Shakedown" in Buena Park Sunday night--not the best name for an event at this point! :eek:

I do hope indyfan31 is OK--I just read that there was a power outage in La Mirada due to the quake, plus there are reports of toppled items etc.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/habra-607482-quake-earthquake.html

[RaceGrrl]

Hope things quiet down--I'm supposed to attend something called "Shimmy Shakedown" in Buena Park Sunday night--not the best name for an event at this point! :eek:

I do hope indyfan31 is OK--I just read that there was a power outage in La Mirada due to the quake, plus there are reports of toppled items etc.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/habra-607482-quake-earthquake.html

:laugh: I was just going to post that it was probably Anteater's shimmies causing it!

[TravelGal]

Hope things quiet down--I'm supposed to attend something called "Shimmy Shakedown" in Buena Park Sunday night--not the best name for an event at this point! :eek:

I do hope indyfan31 is OK--I just read that there was a power outage in La Mirada due to the quake, plus there are reports of toppled items etc.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/habra-607482-quake-earthquake.html

Let's hope he's just out on a photography binge somewhere. AND, that the place is still standing after the shakedown Sunday. ;)

[TravelGal]

Annnnnnnnnnnd, here's another one. Aftershock or new one? We'll know in a couple of minutes.

Edit: CJ, who is basically at the epicenter of all this rockin' and rollin', says it was Rowland Heights, a 4.5 magnitude.

Double edit: Now downgraded to 4.1. I felt it more here than the one last night though.

[Kiwifan]

Take care and stay safe you guys and Gals.

Been quiet in Christchurch for some time now but as a result of the earthquakes some areas are now prone to flooding with the ground sinking up to half a metre! Insurance companies are starting to go "Hmmm."

Edit. Read news BEFORE posting, CHCH just recorded a 4 10kms deep. Spooky.

[indyfan31]

Geez, this one woke up everyone but Fausto... :rofl:
Hey there! As it turns out Friday night is Band night at my house. We were in the middle of a song when everybody stopped playing . . . and I didn't :D. This usually happens when I'm playing a different song than everybody else. That's when I noticed the walls moving back and forth. :eek: BTW, I'm about 6 or 7 miles from the epicenter.

Kinda wished we'd been playing House is a Rockin'.

[Anteater]

:laugh: Pretty funny, indyfan31! Glad you made it through the quake OK.

[Gnam]

LA and rural Northern California jostled, wild animals wandering out of Yellowstone National Park, and an 8.2 quake in Chile all in the same week.

When will mankind learn the error of its ways and come together once and for all to solve the problem of global shaking?


:tony:

[gjc2]

the problem of global shaking?


:tony:

As any "leading" scientist will tell you global shaking is caused by not high enough taxes & too much freedom.

[cameraman]

wild animals wandering out of Yellowstone National Park

Seriously W.T.F. is up with all of this Yellowstone caldera ********? The animals are moving, well it is ******* spring, of course the animals are moving. The caldera could erupt again, maybe in 10,000 years or so. All of recorded history is half of that. Why is anyone talking about an eruption?

[SteveH]

Yellowstone Volcano Eruption in 2014? Are Animals Fleeing Park As ‘An Alert’? (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/593833-yellowstone-volcano-eruption-in-2014-some-believe-animals-are-fleeing-park-see-it-as-an-alert/)

[cameraman]

Yellowstone Volcano Eruption in 2014? Are Animals Fleeing Park As ‘An Alert’? (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/593833-yellowstone-volcano-eruption-in-2014-some-believe-animals-are-fleeing-park-see-it-as-an-alert/)

It's annoying when bat**** crazy people learn html.

[indyfan31]

Seriously W.T.F. is up with all of this Yellowstone caldera ********? The animals are moving, well it is ******* spring, of course the animals are moving. The caldera could erupt again, maybe in 10,000 years or so. All of recorded history is half of that. Why is anyone talking about an eruption?

Because some dufus put it on his Facebook page and now it's officially "news".

[G.]

It's annoying when bat**** crazy people learn html.

Considering it's called "Epoch Times", it's actually a fairly well-balanced article - by today's standards. It states that the world is going to end (or something), then proceeds to debunk that with sciency guys.

Most of the crap you see on Yahoo and the like, will skip the second step.

[Gnam]

no way. Earthquake! 9:05pm magnitude 3.7 :D

[TravelGal]

I had to look that one up, which brings me to the page that lists them all, which truly gives one the willies. http://earthquaketrack.com/v/norcal/recent

[SteveH]

Scientists dismiss claims that Yellowstone volcano about to erupt
(http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-dismiss-claims-yellowstone-volcano-erupt-235751568.html)

Damn science takes the fun out of everything.

[TravelGal]

There are so many lunatic stories that I only investigate the ones mentioned here on OC. You can make any inference you want on that. ;) Sooooooooo, in reading about the bison I see that the ORIGINAL caption said something like, "I am so honored to see this every year as the bison run down the road, just because they can." That got 100,000 or so views. Some idiot retitled it, "Bison running for their lives." That went viral and got more than 1 million views and national attention. And we wonder why the news is as it is. :shakehead:

[SteveH]

Series of small earthquakes rock Oklahoma in record seismic activity
(http://news.yahoo.com/series-small-earthquakes-rock-oklahoma-record-seismic-activity-173349780.html;_ylt=AwrBEiLCQUBTDxwAIUvQtDMD)


One earthquake recorded at 3.8 magnitude by the U.S. Geological Survey rocked houses in several communities around central Oklahoma at 7:42 a.m. local time. Another about two hours earlier in the same part of the state, north of Oklahoma City, was recorded at 2.9 magnitude, USGS said.

Those two were preceded by two more, at 2.6 magnitude, and 2.5 magnitude, that also rolled the landscape in central Oklahoma early Saturday morning. A 3.0 magnitude tremor struck late Friday night in that area as well, following a 3.4 magnitude hit Friday afternoon.

[JohnHKart]

The one last Friday 28 scared me bad as it didn't just start then get bad it seemed to just start violent .,, Caught me totally off guard

[SteveH]

French scientists are working on an acoustic earthquake shield (http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/7/5589570/french-scientists-are-working-on-an-acoustic-earthquake-shield)

don't ask me to explain it :gomer:

[Gnam]

:D Earthquake! 7:53pm, magnitude 4.1, 9 miles away

Earlier this month there was a 3.6 about 30 miles South of here on a nearby fault.
May is full of Eggcite-ment.

[Kiwifan]

:D Earthquake! 7:53pm, magnitude 4.1, 9 miles away

Earlier this month there was a 3.6 about 30 miles South of here on a nearby fault.
May is full of Eggcite-ment.

Not to make light of your big quake but I can't wait for Gal to reply to this thread. :-) 3.6? I see a raised eyebrow or two, lol. :p

[dando]

:D Earthquake! 7:53pm, magnitude 4.1, 9 miles away

Earlier this month there was a 3.6 about 30 miles South of here on a nearby fault.
May is full of Eggcite-ment.

The Russian judge gave it a 10. :gomer:

[TravelGal]

Not to make light of your big quake but I can't wait for Gal to reply to this thread. :-) 3.6? I see a raised eyebrow or two, lol. :p

:D But remember, he's in the SFO area (I think) so he might have felt the big one in 1989. Assuming he was even alive then. :saywhat:

That magnitude is noticeable though. I've felt a few in the last few evenings whilst grazing around the internet in the late evening. I usually check earthquaketrack.com

[Gnam]

There was a magnitude 5.4 this afternoon in the wilds of Nevada.
It was felt in Las Vegas, 125 miles South of the epicenter.

Rock and roll.

[Gnam]

Quake! 7:35 am, magnitude 2.9, 3 miles away

It is earthquake weather: bright blue skies, warm temperature, no breeze.

[WickerBill]

2.9 sounds small - until you mentioned you're 3 miles away. That's a little unsettling.