<p>4.4 earthquake centered in Pico Rivera. Back to bed…</p>
<p>You are a true Californian.</p>
<p>Anyone felt the earthquake? </p>
<p>USC students how are you doing? Wishing you well!</p>
<p>I felt it in northern San Diego County, perhaps 80 to 100 miles away. It rattled the lamps next to the bed.</p>
<p>Whenever one of those mild earthquakes wakes me up I always lay there and wonder was that a little one nearby or a big one far away?</p>
<p>Hi Coureur…how often do you experience the earthquakes? </p>
<p>Are you near downtown LA?</p>
<p>I’m not in LA. I live in northern San Diego county, nearly 100 miles south of downtown LA. We have earthquakes strong enough to feel perhaps a couple of times a year. The big San Andreas fault is about 75 miles east of San Diego out in the desert. We have only much smaller faults here in town, so earthquakes strong enough to do even light damage are rare in San Diego. Perhaps once every 20 or 30 years.</p>
<p>Two more earthquakes in Chile–one yesterday and one today. Maybe we should create one single earthquake thread to keep up with all the earthquakes happening.</p>
<p>The local news is hilarious. No damage reported, so they are desperate to make more out of this than is rational. Just saw a news reporter interviewing someone(obviously mentally ill) at the supermarket buying “emergency supplies”. Emergency supplies after a 4.4? In my house that would be Cheetos and vodka.
We are about 20 miles from Pico Rivera. When I woke up to the shaking, I would have guessed we were right over it and that it was a 3…
Usually with a quake that far away there is more rolling than shaking.</p>
<p>I’ll have to ask my daughter what’s shaking in Hollywood?</p>
<p>The reason to buy supplies is that ~5% of quakes around this magnitude in California are foreshocks for larger quakes. A little quake which rattles your nerves in the wee hours is also a great reminder if your long-term earthquake supplies need renewal. Prescription medication and fresh water are the big regular needs, but we try to rotate through our earthquake supply of canned foods once a year or so. One of these days, the big one will hit, leaving a Road Warrior scenario in its wake for a week or so ;).</p>
<p>^With a garage full of camping supplies and a pantry full of food and water, flash lights and shoes under the bed, house bolted to the foundation and shear walling throughout, I am more than ready. We were directly over a 5.9 in '91. <a href=“http://www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/sierrama.html[/url]”>http://www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/sierrama.html</a>
However, if you are running to Ralphs at 5am…you are a little behind the curve.</p>
<p>Is your furniture bolted to the wall? A lot of our heavy pieces are after we were within a few miles of ground zero in the Northridge Quake. The darn flashlights are forever disappearing and then being put back where they belong. I think the small quakes are good reminders though to check around and to stock up and refresh supplies. Especially water. We had no running water for 9 days after the Northridge quake.</p>
<p>When DD moved into her freshman dorm room back East, we looked at the large shelf on that extended below the ceiling – meant for things like suitcases and big items. We looked at each other and said, “Well, you’d never see THAT in a California dorm.”</p>
<p>Bolted furniture and we also have an automatic shutoff valve for the natural gas. I also keep walking shoes and a Red Cross emergency backpack in the car. Since we lost our masonry fireplaces in the S.Madre quake, we replaced them with stucco chimneys.</p>
<p>there are almost never (like 1 a year that you can actually feel) earthquakes (in san diego) greenery, and when there are you’re not sure if it was just your imagination until you look it up on CNN.</p>
<p>We have that automatic shutoff valve as well. Sometimes it’s a little oversensitive and decides to shut off the gas, but I’m glad we have it. We heard the explosion from the gasline that blew up and destroyed several homes in the Northridge quake.</p>
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<p>ahaha, I remember turning on the TV after the Chino Hills quake a couple years ago (which was actually the strongest earthquake in my memory) to see the mid morning news interviewing panicking teenagers on the street. Infotainment at its finest…</p>
<p>A couple weeks later I went on a tour of Caltech, and a family from New York brought up the quake, only to be laughed at by the student guide.</p>
<p>Truth be told, as a young hipster in Hollywood, minutes after my first quake experience----I DID rush to the store to get the “essentials”( batteries and water and God knows what). And rather than the “essentials” I came back to the apartment with chocolate, cheetos, and vodka. Not the emergency essentials, but true lifesavers.</p>
<p>Let’s not jump to conclusions that there wasn’t any damage. My daughter has reported that her dishes seemed to shift in the cabinet and out fell a martini glass when she got out her cereal bowl.
She is out $1.99.</p>
<p>There was a little damage. On the local news they were showing a crack that had appeared in the asphalt of the I-5 freeway near the epicenter. Traffic was being diverted around it. I looked like a big pot hole.</p>