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achtungbaby
12-22-2003, 12:35 PM
CAMBRIA, Calif. - An earthquake rocked the central coast Monday and sent tremors across a wide swath of Southern California. The quake was felt as a sustained but gentle rolling motion in downtown Los Angeles. The U.S. Geological Survey (news (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22U.S.%20Geological%20Survey%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw) - web sites (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=U.S.%20Geological%20Survey)) gave it a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 and said it was centered north of Cambria, a coastal town 35 miles northwest of San Luis Obispo
Chester
12-22-2003, 12:38 PM
I was just sitting here at work, in Santa Clara, typing an entry about a couple meals from this past weekend, discussing how some details regarding a particularly crazy-good chocolate dessert were foggy to me, due to my being somewhat drunk at the time...
...and, all of a sudden, I noticed that my body was swaying. At first, I thought that it was some weirdo psychosomatic, memory-induced drunken-swaying, but then I realized it wasn't me.
Quake?
I stood up to ask other people, when we got another wave. Neither were dramatic, just a bit of swaying/unbalance.
Anyway, I'm not crazy. There was just a 6.5 centered right near San Simeon. (http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/121-36.htm) Supposedly, you LA folks should have felt it too.
achtungbaby
12-22-2003, 12:40 PM
Merged with the other thread.
Ogumo
12-22-2003, 12:50 PM
There have been many earth quakes as of late. Japan (not surprising), china and now america seems to be having alot. Not so good.
DragonKnight
12-22-2003, 12:52 PM
Man, I missed out?! :biggrin: Been through 2 major quakes. Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989. Then the 1990 Luzon Earthquake in the Philippines.
hooligan
12-22-2003, 01:19 PM
wow, i slept through it. go me. "it's the end of the world as we know it..."
Chris
12-22-2003, 02:02 PM
I felt it on the 22nd floor in my office in SF.
tazadar
12-22-2003, 02:27 PM
I felt it too. 6.5 that's pretty big. We haven't had earthquakes for a long time.
AngryABCGirl
12-22-2003, 02:53 PM
wow, slept right through it, and am glad, earthquakes scare the shit out of me,.
bluemonq
12-22-2003, 02:58 PM
weird, didn't feel a thing.
tazadar
12-22-2003, 03:00 PM
Damn, 1 person dead from the quake.
PASO ROBELES, Calif. - A powerful earthquake rocked California from Los Angeles to San Francisco on Monday, collapsing downtown buildings in this coastal town, killing at least person and knocking out power to a wide area, authorities said.
The quake struck at 11:16 a.m. The U.S. Geological Survey (news - web sites) gave it a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 and said it was centered north of the tiny coastal town of Cambria.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031222/ap_on_re_us/california_quake_14
Didn't feel anything, either, but two of my co-workers did. Earthquakes freak me out, too. I literally freeze and go numb if I think there's an earthquake - but in fact, it's usually just someone accidentally kicking the table or something.
Hiroshi2
12-22-2003, 03:33 PM
I tried to get on Yellowworld a few minutes ago and then I heard about the quake..............I guess that's why the site was down?
Hope y'all are OK. You know I didn't feel anything...............:wink:
bluemonq
12-22-2003, 03:53 PM
the thing is, the midwest's supposed to be due for a big earthquake. there was one a couple centuries ago, i think, new madrid quake?
Damn, 1 person dead from the quake.
PASO ROBELES, Calif. - A powerful earthquake rocked California from Los Angeles to San Francisco on Monday, collapsing downtown buildings in this coastal town, killing at least person and knocking out power to a wide area, authorities said.
The quake struck at 11:16 a.m. The U.S. Geological Survey (news - web sites) gave it a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 and said it was centered north of the tiny coastal town of Cambria.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031222/ap_on_re_us/california_quake_14
Geez, the death toll is at three now... :(
Hiroshi2
12-23-2003, 02:47 AM
the thing is, the midwest's supposed to be due for a big earthquake. there was one a couple centuries ago, i think, new madrid quake?
Yep.
I remember Alabama got a 4.5 earthquake not too long ago and even though I didn't feel it (I can sleep through a hurricane) everybody else felt it and talked about it as if it were a 7.0 or something.
Living here, I've been through almost every type of natural disaster- tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning storms, even blizzards- but never an earthquake. I don't even know what you're supposed to do in a quake. Like you know how they teach you in school what to do in a tornado, hurricane, fire, etc.? I have no idea what you're supposed to do in a quake.
Rogmok
12-23-2003, 06:32 AM
y'know.. i was on the phone w/ a lawyer in LA when it happened..
he was like.. 'uh, i think we just had an earthquake, i'll have to call you back... '
... to me, the nice weather is not worth it. :)
mr. x
12-23-2003, 10:54 AM
y'know.. i was on the phone w/ a lawyer in LA when it happened..
he was like.. 'uh, i think we just had an earthquake, i'll have to call you back... '
... to me, the nice weather is not worth it. :)
u mean the smog?
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