<p>I’d rather stay in California instead of experiencing tornadoes, floods, and hurricanes.</p>
<p>I felt it here in San Diego but it wasn’t much.</p>
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It depends on where you live. If it’s in San Diego, the answer is yes. There’s an occasional earthquake that rarely causes any damage (the San Andreas fault doesn’t run through here like it does LA, San Jose, San Francisco). We also don’t have hurricanes, tornadoes, snow and ice on the roads, bad thunderstorms, bad hailstorms, etc. all of which cause a lot more damage and death on a regular basis than most occasional earthquakes cause. We do have brush fires though that have wiped out lots of homes and taken some lives.</p>
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<p>I work in Brea and we JUST got the power back. We are about 1.5 miles from Chino Hills the center. woooooops another aftershock. Cal Tech says it was just a 5.4------but yikes, for as close as I was to the center, it sure rolled for a long time. Still no cell service…apparently 4 verizon towers are knocked out.</p>
<p>Mudd’s only 15 mi. from the epicenter…yikes!!</p>
<p>Just came home, though we’re in northern California. No we didn’t feel the earthquake here but I was so happy that there was an automated phone message from Caltech (DS attends Caltech & is home for the summer.) saying there was an earthquake and some minor damage on the campus and no injuries. Just thankful that their emergency notification system works.</p>
<p>Called home in Santa Barbara, they felt it there as well.</p>
<p>cel service will probably be spotty for a while…combination of towers out and too many people on them. If phone calls won’t go out on your cel, likely blackberry messenger and text won’t work either. IM works great but only if you are near a computer.</p>
<p>Our IT service is outsourced to a company in New Jersey. Our system went down and when I called NJ ,the service jerk chastized us for not at least writing down what processing each one of us was doing before the shut down. I told my employees—next time when you are running out of the office screaming, be sure and take just a moment to backup your data. oh ya</p>
<p>musicamusica…LOL here. Yeah, next time stop…backup your data…what’s wrong with you people?</p>
<p>Shame on NJ - and this from South Jersey. Watching Schwarzenegger on CNN- now- must say you Californians do seem to take this in stride.
Worried for everyone in Calif, unlike the NJ IT outsource folks !</p>
<p>^We’ve had too much practice not to. :)</p>
<p>Well SJCM—if its any consolation, the FIRST person to call me from out of state and check on me was a customer from NJ.
Ive been in the epicenter of 2 Equakes of 5.5+, Ive been evacuated twice from my house for wildfires,a mudslide in 04 washed a boulder into my back room and my DD lost her apartment to Hurricane Katrina. Im still in so-cal waiting on the rain of frogs. Im wanting to get that one off my check list of “Dumb disasters I gotta do”.</p>
<p>My UCLA D, who’s back east right now, received an automated text message and some automated email alerts from UCLA regarding the earthquake. It seems as if the automated alerts arrived about 30-60 minutes after the quake. I don’t know if this was due to them sending it late or the cell system delivering it late. When we had the big fires here last October my UCSD D received automated text alerts from UCSD as well. It’s great that these schools have and are using these automated alerts systems but we need to remember that in an large area-wide impact, like an earthquake, the cell system might delay the actual delivery of the alerts.</p>
<p>ucsd…probably the cel system sending late…my blackberry experienced some delays and hiccups for about an hour and a half after the quake. </p>
<p>But I agree it’s great they are using them…when DS’s school first starting using them they accidentally called all the parents cel phones due to a snow closure…oops…thanks for the 3am wakeup call which scared the pants off me…they have since fixed the problem and only alert parents in the event of a true emergency.</p>
<p>^I was FINALLY able to get some texts out about half an hour ago.</p>
<p>From what I know, Verizon had some towers knocked out, which is what I have, so my service is still a little spotty. Getting better though. :)</p>
<p>This is from ‘kimx’ at UCLA (from the UCLA board) regarding whether anyone felt the earthquake and the fact that orientation sessions are taking place now - kinda funny about the OOSers -</p>
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<p>XD awesome.</p>
<p>I remember in 10th grade, my science teacher had moved here recently from Chicago and we had an earthquake (small one, nothing like today’s) during class. We all just sat there and continued our work, except for a couple people who paused, turned to their neighbors and asked, “Did you feel that?”</p>
<p>Our teacher flipped and like…JUMPED under her desk. It was so funny.</p>
<p>I also recall her asking us what “earthquake weather” was at some point during the year.</p>
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<p>I shouldn’t have laughed (others’ terror is not funny), but I did…guess I’ve been living in CA too long.</p>
<p>ellemenope…same here. :)</p>