<p>we just had a little jolt----Did any of you near the ocean feel it?</p>
<p>Correction-----it was a 4.7 Inglewood-Newport fault</p>
<p>There hasn’t been a 5.0+ quake (in LA) since the Northridge one.</p>
<p>I felt it near Santa Monica.</p>
<p>Just talked to all my friends and family in the area–thankfully everyone is okay! Mom is just a little bit of a mess–she HATES earthquakes. She also says no dial tone on the home phone, so possibly some downed lines.</p>
<p>I take back what I said before. I thought the Chino Hills Earthquake felt bigger, and it turns out it was 5.5.</p>
<p>We felt it. It was not super strong here, but it seemed to last a long time. There was about 3 seconds of “is that an earthquake?” and then Oh yeah, that’s an earthquake.</p>
<p>Felt it in Santa Monica. It was a roller, but not too bad. The neighbor’s kids were screaming, poor things.</p>
<p>Felt it here is northern San Diego county. No damage but it stopped everyone in their tracks.</p>
<p>Everyone knows that the San Andreas fault will some day deliver The Big One. But as far as LA is concerned the Newport-Inglewood fault can deliver The Bigger One. It’s a smaller fault, but it’s still plenty big and runs right through the middle of town. San Andreas, by contrast, sits a good 45 miles to the east of LA. Thus N-I fault actually has the potential to inflict more damage on LA. For San Francisco it’s another story. San Andreas runs right through the middle of the Bay Area.</p>
<p>Felt it badly on the coast, South Bay area. A lot of shaking with a racket going on upstairs. A few toppled items in the house. People were on the street. It was actually quite scary here.</p>
<p>I felt in in the movie theater. Everyone thought it was just part of the movie.</p>
<p>Felt it intensely in Irvine (Orange County).</p>
<p>I felt it fairly strongly, but then I asked a couple friends who were on campus (USC - I was away elsewhere in LA) and none of them felt it at all. USC is about 10 miles away from the epicenter in Inglewood, I was about 25 miles away. Odd…</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up, I’ll send an email to the folks, and they will be super impressed that I know what is going on in their hemisphere!</p>
<p>We had a fairly strong one last summer as I recall – anyone remember? I had a relative staying with us from France. When she first arrived she asked me, “Will we have an earthquake while I’m here?” and I laughed and said no, it was unlikely. Then one day we were getting out of the car and standing in my garage while the mailman walked up my driveway to hand me my mail. Just then a pretty strong quake hit – the kind that makes you wonder if you’re having a bad attack of vertigo. She froze and I grabbed her and pulled her out of the garage into open space. Afterward my mailman and I stood chitchating like the true Californians we are while she stood there white as a sheet and unable to move. It really took her some time to get over it, poor thing.</p>
<p>DS felt the quake in Pasadena. </p>
<p>mimk, I love quake stories so I’ll share one too. We fostered a dog from New Orleans 3 weeks after Hurricane Katrina. She came to us straight from an attic in New Orleans. Her first night with us an earthquake struck. We still wonder what she must have thought going from hurricane and floods to an earthquake.</p>
<p>We were at the theater in downtown LA, up in the balcony. The play had just ended, people were getting up, so at first I thought it was people movement. It kept on going for quite awhile, and I’d never felt anything like that in all the years I’ve attended that theater. The odd thing was that no one except our group thought it was an earthquake. Other people just kept moving towards the exit without any reaction or excitement.</p>
<p>The one thing that fell and broke at home was unfortunately a bag of CFL bulbs slated for hazardous waste collection. (*&#$.</p>
<p>The prelim read on the EQ was a 5.0 and then they updated to the 4.7 after analyzing the readings. How strong it felt has a lot to do with both how far away you are from the epicenter and the soil you are on. Alluvial soils, which are plentiful in the flat lands, are softer so you’re likely to feel the EQ more.</p>
<p>Yeah, people at movie theaters probably think an EQ is part of some new special effects.</p>
<p>I felt it north of North County San Diego, but it didn’t feel anything like an eartquake. I was on couch reading the thread about dogs and heaven. I was thinking of our dog who passed just weeks ago. He went in his sleep behind the couch. It felt just like when the dog would stretch his legs and push the couch. My husband was standing a few feet away, he felt and saw nothing. Husband thought I was crazy. I found out later about the earthquake.</p>
<p>We were in a movie theater at the Grove…Angeles and Demons…No one moved out of their seats despite the fact it was a real jolt. My daughter said that it could be God writing a review of the movie. Thumbs up or down?</p>
<p>Didn’t exactly feel it, but “heard” it in North San Diego county. Framed art above the couch started creaking and it continued far longer than one would exepct. We were sitting on the couch talking, and decided it must be a poltergeist until I checked the web.</p>