Los Angeles hit by quake...

[p_p_man]

just heard it on the BBC 4.00 am news...

Anyone know anything?

 

[p_p_man]

Just heard a bit more...

apparantly it was a mild tremor...

 

[Gilly Bean]

Mild tremors hardly effect anyone over there anymore. More like a mild inconvience, unless they knock something over, or make them miss a hair or nail appointmen.

 

[p_p_man]

Just a bit more info...

it registered 4.2 on the Richter scale and the epicentre was 1 mile south of Hollywood.

No reprted casulaties.

Looks like it wasn't serious...

 

[PacificBlue]

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A 4.2 magnitude earthquake shook northern Los Angeles Sunday evening, knocking dishes off shelves and setting off alarms but failing to cause major damage or injuries, officials said.

The "light" earthquake, centered a mile east of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, happened at 4:59 p.m., the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The California Institute of Technology said a 2.8-magnitude aftershock, centered one mile northeast of Beverly Hills, rattled the area one minute later.

Residents from the San Fernando Valley south to Orange County reported feeling the quake.

"The only reports we have are of some broken dishes," said Lt. Kathy Pattullo of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, West Hollywood station. "We have no injuries reported and no significant damage."

Pattullo said the department was inundated with calls from concerned residents. Burglar alarms activated by the quake sounded all over the city, she said.

The shaking from the initial, larger earthquake lasted about 20 seconds, Pattullo said.

"This is a good waker-upper," said Jim Wells with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. "It will shake the nerves and the dishes, but not do any damages."

 

[PacificBlue]

I think it would be a good thing for those of us on the west coast to be prepared...ie: flashlights, candles, matches, bottled water, non-perishable food, first-aid kit, etc.

It seems as if there has been an increase in "small" tremors up and down the coast as of late. Makes one wonder if we are gearing up for something larger.

Never hurts to be prepared.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Cal State said the epicenter was pretty much under my coffee table.

Well, it wasn't that close -- but it was close. I felt it this afternoon. A big rumble and a vibration, kind of like if you were a fly on a tuning fork. It lasted about 3 seconds and it was done. No damage anywhere as near as I can figure.

I guessed it to be a 4.0, and a few minutes later the local news was reporting it as a 4.2, so I won the neighborhood pool.

Honestly, it was nothing. The local news went right onto some story about eating chocolate ants in Santa Monica or something equally stupid. A 4.2 in LA isn't news.

After the North Ridge quake 6 or so years ago (which was a 6.8) there were after shocks every half hour for the next six months, many of which were in the 4.0 to 5.0 range. After a while it became unnerving, but it did become a part of our life. So today's jostle was more like a quickie Vietnam flashback to those days -- unnerving, but not unexpected, and quickly brushed off.

Still -- Tonight I don't sleep naked, and I put my shoes right next to my bed.

 

[Rosebud]

<note to self> turn off camera in DCL's room...no show tonight> damn now what am i supposed to tell all my subscribers?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Run last week's episode, and tell them that the girl in the basket is doing just fine at Cedars Sinai, and with a little physical therapy will back on her back in no time.

 

[PacificBlue]

 

[bluntforcemama]

It was just the result of everyone in China jumping up at the same time.

 

[Rosebud]

Run last week's episode, and tell them that the girl in the basket is doing just fine at Cedars Sinai, and with a little physical therapy will back on her back in no time.

damn DCL...i think i love you...heehee

 

[Dhalgren]

It was a piece of cake...

Nothing like the 500 gallon fish tank with 100 tropical fish crashing over into a million pieces onto a persian rug in 1994.


This was more like a bit of pressure valve releasing...1 in 20 it will lead to something bigger within the next week.

We shall see...



PacificBlue is right, though...the local supermarket is already out of candles, water and batteries.

 

[curvacious]

I think it would be a good thing for those of us on the west coast to be prepared...ie: flashlights, candles, matches, bottled water, non-perishable food, first-aid kit, etc.

It seems as if there has been an increase in "small" tremors up and down the coast as of late. Makes one wonder if we are gearing up for something larger.

Never hurts to be prepared.

Pacific---I think you have something there. I've been wondering too what's up with all the shaking in the Pacific. Also, the rest of the world seems to be a little extra seismically active too. --Not to mention the eruptions happening. I'm leaning towards a big blow in one of the Cascade Mountains--either Mt Hood or Rainier, precipitated by a string of tumblers (they have increased the last few years in that area).

 

[shadowsource]

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[April]

Piffle! A 4.2 is next to nothing for a native. A run on candles and batteries? Amateurs.

There are earthquakes there every day, mostly so small you wouldn't feel them. IMO, if you're hearing more about earthquakes, it's likely the media doesn't have anything else to talk about. It's all about public perception. The newsies in L.A. do love to scare people.

 

[RisiaSkye]

Much ado...

My evil-in-laws (tm) moved here from Hawaii last week. They worry about earthquakes. After living on an active volcano, fercrissakes!

I'm a San Francisco girl, veteran of dozens of quakes, including the '89 one that actually mattered. My college roommate moved to Iowa, where she's been in a couple of tornados. We've compared disaster pics. Believe me, I'll take the quakes anytime.

BTW, today's quake couldn't be felt at all south of Orange. If nobody feels it here in San Diego, LaLa doesn't even skip a beat. It's just a rumble from the belly of the beast.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

It was just the result of everyone in China jumping up at the same time.

Or Chyna jumping all by herself. Alone. Just her. No one else. Get it? She's BIG. Good-night everyone. Tip your waitress.

 

[PacificBlue]

I'm leaning towards a big blow in one of the Cascade Mountains--either Mt Hood or Rainier, precipitated by a string of tumblers (they have increased the last few years in that area).

I think the general scientific opinion is that it will be Rainier that goes next. Since when did nature ever listen to the scientists though. They did a news story on a town that lives right under Rainier a few weeks ago. The town has been doing evacuation drills for months now. Apparently, if the mountain goes they have 45 minutes to get everyone away. Hmmm....seems to me when St. Helen's blew there wasn't time anywhere in the perimeter to move anywhere. Either way Rainier or Hood blowing would cause severe damage to say the least.

If your interested...here's more information. The first two links show recent earthquake activity in the Pacific Northwest and California, the third link is to the Oregon Red Cross, a listing of things to have on hand in case of any major crisis. I'm not trying to be an alarmist but just because it hasn't happened doesn't it mean it won't and I still think it never hurts to be prepared for earthquakes and other types of disasters.

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/recenteqs/

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

http://www.redcross-pdx.org/ <--- then click on disaster preparedness

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

And we could also be hit by one of them plague of frogs, too. Don't forget the plague of frogs. Could happen. Not saying it will. Just that it could. Frogs. *Shiver*.

 

[p_p_man]

Has anyone ever thought...

about moving somewhere else?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Yes. But they don't all that many movies in Vermont.

Let's see, the United States of America. More tornados than anywhere else in the world. That takes care of the mid-west. You've got 100 year flooding every 5 years in the Mississipi region. Alligators eating dogs and children in the deep south, not to mention Hurricanes. There's the hotest place on earth in the American West. Alaska has no women. Hawaii is a fucking volcano. The Great Lakes Region might as well be Antarctica with good pizza. New England is under snow 363 out of 365 days a year. And there are Nazis and Milita morons all over the Pacific Northwest.

Which leaves Trenton, New Jersey.

Frankly, I'd rather die crushed by rubble in a massive earthquake.

 

[PacificBlue]

And there are Nazis and Milita morons all over the Pacific Northwest.

Why did they choose to settle here anyway?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Lots of white people. Lots of (alleged) "Frontier Type" land. Canada is to their back. It's very Feudal. They very much want to feel that they're in a White People "Keep", cut off from the rest of the country. You can't do that anywhere else in the U.S. The "upper left hand corner" of the country is their supposed last stand.

Totally stupid, of course, but, hey, we're not dealing with true patriots here, but big ol' dopes.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Them's fightin words, bubba. You'n me's about to throw down here. I'm FROM Alaska. I wasn't whelped by a moose and I am NOT a man. Admit it, you're just afraid of freezing your bollocks off.

I cannot believe that you Dixie Carter Lee Sugarbaker, of all people, think that I am a man. Of all the nerve.

No women, in Alaska. Huhmph.