5.3 Los Angeles Earthquake

[Dan_Ashley]

No damage anywhere. Yay!
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/e...#axzz2xK6IfwlX

[rev.rr]

Glade your all right we where down there about 2 weeks ago right after the 4.4 quake

[Blue Star]

No damage anywhere. Yay!
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/e...#axzz2xK6IfwlX

I live 72 miles away, and it shook the house pretty good.

[Bob Denman]

Isn't a 5.3 magnitude starting to get up into the "Pretty decent-sized" category?
Glad to hear that there were no injuries or serious damage!

[Dan_Ashley]

I was visiting my sister who lived in Encino during the Northridge quake.
For those who don't know Northridge was fairly close by.
I have never, ever been so scared in my life.
It was the single most terrifying thing I have ever been through.
My sister, having lived there for many years, was incredibly calm and composed.
I then realized that she had completely lost her mind.

The damage from major quakes is usually highly localized. They don't destroy as much geography as tornados or hurricanes. But they strike suddenly, without warning and can scare the bejesus out of you.

[Dan_Ashley]

Isn't a 5.3 magnitude starting to get up into the "Pretty decent-sized" category?
Glad to hear that there were no injuries or serious damage!

it is pretty big. Not the biggest, but pretty big. I was in an office building on the third floor in 1986 right at the epicenter during the Whittier quake. It was 6.1. It scared the bejesus out of me. But there was only minimal damage to the office building. It was three days before the engineers cleared the building for occupancy, and the only damage was some cracked plaster in one of the stair wells. They can scare you, but there is very little to actually be afraid of.

[Bob Denman]

Thank Goodness, for some VERY strong building requirements!

[Dan_Ashley]

Thank Goodness, for some VERY strong building requirements!

They raise the cost of construction, but they are worth it. For example, I have three big earthquake straps on my water heater in the garage. Some places even require automatic gas meter earthquake shut off devices. This isn't free. But I guess tornado cellars and hurricane shutters are not free either.

[garb55]

No damage anywhere. Yay!
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/e...#axzz2xK6IfwlX

Grand kids and I were in Disneyland and you could actually here the quake
All rides were shut down for inspection
Don

[Dan_Ashley]

Grand kids and I were in Disneyland and you could actually here the quake
All rides were shut down for inspection
Don

It is really scary. I am glad the fear is nearly groundless (heh).

[ARtraveler]

Isn't a 5.3 magnitude starting to get up into the "Pretty decent-sized" category?
Glad to hear that there were no injuries or serious damage!

Five and over and you do notice them. We get the "small" ones all the time here (Alaska)--sometimes 50 or more a day. The two "big" ones I have experienced, shook the house, re-arranged the pictures on the wall, etc. The biggest, sounded like there was a freight train running right under the house. It has been about 6 years or so since any happened that re-arranged roads or anything like that.

The upside: small quakes are good. They relieve pressure on the system.

[Bob Denman]

Lots of little ones, prevent the BIG ones from building up a head of steam!

[Jeriatric]

No jolt or sounds here. Imagine setting atop a bowl of jello and having something shake it. To date (over the last 10+ years) that's typically how they feel here in the desert.

Thats why some of us in the desert have 'post tension' concrete slabs.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JsuNg5r4Is

[Bob Denman]

Thanks Jer! That was pretty interesting!

[garb55]

It is really scary. I am glad the fear is nearly groundless (heh).

Grand kids thought the earthquake was cool
What really scared them was the rollercoaster

[Blue Star]

No jolt or sounds here. Imagine setting atop a bowl of jello and having something shake it. To date (over the last 10+ years) that's typically how they feel here in the desert.

Thats why some of us in the desert have 'post tension' concrete slabs.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JsuNg5r4Is

My last two houses had post tension foundations. Only bad thing about them is you can't cut into them if doing a room addition.

[Netminder]

Hope everyone is fine and no major damage occurred!

[ARtraveler]

Today must be earthquake day. We got a 4.76 at 5:32 PM our time. Epicenter was 86 miles NW of my location. The whole house rocked and rolled for about 20 seconds. No damage.

[Jeriatric]

The first video is what the guy narrating the second video was feeling.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsq1FLcd94A

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IhrSoL6D0jA

Same quake....two locations.

[ARtraveler]

I really don't know how all you people living in the Earhquake Zone do it.

Yes, I know no place on earth is really exempt but the places where The Big One is bound to hit is fairly well boundaried.

Yes spell check I want the word boundaried.
I don't care if you don't happen to think it's a word.

Here in the east we put up with snow and some tornadoes but the earthquake thing seems to be like living through the Old Testament.

There must be a reason why you or your forebears moved to out there.
I salute your perseverance, applaud your fortitude, envy your lifestyle and believe you are certainly nuts.
In the nicest possible way, of course.

It is turning out that pretty much no place is safe any more. There is a fault zone that runs through Missouri (New Madrid). Washington DC was not even exempt from a big one a little while back.

I ended up here because it was the work that brought me. It's not looking like I can "escape" to the lower 48 any time soon. My dream retirement plans came to an end three and a half years back.

Guess that I am now doing my best with what I have.

[Bob Denman]

Aren't we all??

[Spyder_Cowgirl]

it is pretty big. Not the biggest, but pretty big. I was in an office building on the third floor in 1986 right at the epicenter during the Whittier quake. It was 6.1. It scared the bejesus out of me. But there was only minimal damage to the office building. It was three days before the engineers cleared the building for occupancy, and the only damage was some cracked plaster in one of the stair wells. They can scare you, but there is very little to actually be afraid of.

Spydercowboy (aka hogcowboy) and I lived about 40 miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake in 1989. I grew up within 1/2 mile of the big San Andreas fault that runs up the San Francisco peninsula, so earthquakes are nothing new to me. The '89 quake was the only one I didn't hear first and it started off with a slow gentle rocking motion that was followed by 15 seconds of sheer terror! I was in the kitchen when it hit, calmly turned off the stove, and headed for a nearby doorway .... the first big jolt knocked me to my knees and I crawled the last few feet to the doorway. This was a 7.2 quake that lasted a very short amount of time, but there was a lot of damage over a widespread area -- from San Fran, to Oakland, down south to Hollister (where we were), and over to the coast in Santa Cruz. The silver lining for us? Since we were without power for several days, and since a 55 gallon aquarium had been shattered in the living room, we decided to just rip the carpet and padding up rather than loose the subfloor underneath. When we started this (about an hour after the quake), we discovered hardwood floors that looked BRAND NEW because they had been covered with carpet since the house was built.

Modern building codes saved a lot of lives, but the SF - Oakland by bridge was damaged and the Cypress Freeway collapsed in the East Bay (I think most of the deaths were because of the freeway collapse). There were also many old masonry building that fell apart, so many deaths there too (SF and Santa Cruz come to mind) -- something like 60 to 70 were killed overall.

BTW ... earthquakes are NOT why we left CA. Got transferred to Texas and haven't looked back!

Be safe where ever you are ..... Ann

[Dan_Ashley]

I am hoping for the really big one where everything west of the San Andreas falls in the ocean--it's the only way I'll be able to get beach front property!