HOLY SHIT! It centered in chino hills which is in Los Angeles couny just north east of Anaheim and orange county.
It happened about 20 miles from where I live.
It knocked my tv off the dressor, all the pics off the walls, the mirror off of my bathroom and ripped the screws out of the wall.
If i wasn’t holding onto the wall in the doorway I would have fallen over.
I just got electricity and internet back. My phone came back about 10 mins ago. There are still sirens and stuff going off.
I guess it was measured at like 5.6 or something. The northridge earthquake from the 1990’s was a 6.6 or so I think. So that one knocked over bridges and killed people. I hope that everyTHING and everyBODY is fine.
That was the craziest thing I’ve ever felt, my adrenaline is still pumping! lol
i was sitting in a restaurant and we just shook from side to side - seemed like minutes!
had no cell signal for almost an hour. now back at the office, looking around to see how best to leave this not so safe building if a REALLY big one should hit…freaking stairs aren’t even attached to the wall!!!
[quote]masonator wrote:
I obviously know nothing about earthquakes, having never felt a big one, but it sure would have sucked if you were ME squatting when it happened…[/quote]
[quote]masonator wrote:
I obviously know nothing about earthquakes, having never felt a big one, but it sure would have sucked if you were ME squatting when it happened…[/quote]
i thought that too…i even joked with a few people in my apt complex about being glad I woke up late and hadn’t hit the gym yet. lol
I didn’t feel shit up here in SF yay area.
Was at preschool with the little one at the time.
SHit I remember well, the big one and the cyprus collapsing on all those people as well as the bridge taking a shit.
Now THAT was serious shit!
We had a few good tumblers right around then too, once I was walking down the street, and we had one and the whole street just up and waved big time like it was doing an asphalt centipede break move, lol.
Hope none of us get biffed up from the big one when it hits.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Jetric9 wrote:
I felt Hurricane Dolly last week.
when I first read that, I thought you meant you felt up a stripper named Hurricane Dolly
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That was funny.
One of my most memorable stripper names was luscious. She was able to put a cigarette in her vagina and blow smoke. No kidding, if only you can picture that…
[quote]DickBag wrote:
was any one lifting when it happened?[/quote]
I was!
I was in the gym at my office (really small, I’m the only one who uses it) when all the plates startled rattling on the racks and on my bar. I had some music cranked up pretty loud too so it was just an unreal experience. I actually thought someone had backed a truck into the building at first since the gym is close to the loading dock.
Apparently they evacuated the building but I just called my wife to see if she was ok then I finished my workout!
Up in North County San Diego it felt like being on a train – a pretty good shimmy and a little bouncing. It lasted about 15 seconds at my office and made chairs move. I was surprised when the UC Seismology group said it was up in Chino Hills (about 75 miles away) – it must have been quite a ride there.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I felt it, shook me pretty good. First thing I held onto was the flat screen, priorities first. Bones are stronger than LCD displays.[/quote]
[quote]InTheZone wrote:
I didn’t feel shit up here in SF yay area.
Was at preschool with the little one at the time.
SHit I remember well, the big one and the cyprus collapsing on all those people as well as the bridge taking a shit.
Now THAT was serious shit![/quote]
I’ll never forget that one or the Northridge quake. I did get to feel today’s one pretty good as I’m only 10 miles from Chino Hills these days. And no, Chino Hills is not part of Orange County.
I’m just glad that earthquakes don’t scare me at all anymore. No more racing heartbeats and irrational fear of aftershocks like when I was a kid. Tornadoes still look scary as hell to me though.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
analog_kid wrote:
I saw that big red banner on the MSN homepage and thought Brad and Angelina broke up! Enough with the real news, I need to know what’s going on with my celebs!!!11!1!1
I was at work and it was fuckin intense. Everyone was freaking out, was funny watching people get under their desks. It lasted for a good amount of time too. I’m in orange county, work in tustin. It was a 5.8. Was the biggest one I’ve ever felt, I’m usually sleeping whenever there is an earthquake.
