Earthquake in SoCal!!!!!
 

Whoa..........

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/121-36.gif

That is why I will NEVER live there.

Everything O.K.? What did it measure?

Saw it on the news. Didn't feel anything in Huntington Beach.

We LOVE that attitude here.

CNN says 6.4 that is a biggeee..But north of Santa Barbara

Just one step closer to falling off! :D

Damn Nort,
OSO is 6 minutes faster at reporting the news than CNN. I told everyone in my office about it and they turned on CNN. They were telling me that I was full of it!!:D :D I told them all never to doubt me again.:D :D


Hope everyone is OK:)

Yeah.....office door was swinging about 5 inches and so were the blinds. Just a rolling feeling like I was on a boat. I guess it's near SanSimion where the Hurst Castle is.....about 300 miles away @ 6.5 on the Richter scale. Aftershock 4.7.

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/121-36.html

We? I don't like the ground moving under my feet and WE love that attitude around here? Whatever.

Magnitude 6.5 - CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
2003 December 22 19:15:56 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
U.C. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, California

A strong earthquake occurred at 19:15:56 (UTC) on Monday, December 22, 2003. The magnitude 6.5 event has been located in CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 8 km ( 5 miles). (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)





Magnitude 6.5
Date-Time Monday, December 22, 2003 at 19:15:56 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Monday, December 22, 2003 at 11:15:56 AM
= local time at epicenter

Location 35.706°N, 121.102°W
Depth 7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Region CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Distances 11 km (6 miles) NE (49°) from San Simeon, CA
17 km (10 miles) N (356°) from Cambria, CA
20 km (13 miles) W (260°) from Lake Nacimiento, CA
39 km (24 miles) WNW (283°) from Paso Robles, CA
195 km (121 miles) SSE (158°) from San Jose City Hall, CA

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.8 km (0.5 miles)
Parameters Nst= 46, Nph= 46, Dmin=5.4 km, Rmss=0.05 sec, Gp= 83°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=3
Source U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
U.C. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Event ID nc40148755

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LOL :D

You're right, it's horrible.
Whole sections of several states go under water for days at a time. High winds and seas force thousands to evacuate their homes. Dozens of people die. . . . oh, wait, that's a hurricane. Southeast US. . . my bad.
OK, ok, the sky turns black, then the hail starts, and the high winds. Entire trailer parks are scrubbed off their foundations and deposited several counties away. Dozens of families die, and hundreds more are left homeless. . . DAMN IT ! !! that's a tornado. Midwest U.S. Crap. . . . Sorry.
All right. several feet of the crap falls over several states for days. Several states are paralyzed. business shuts down. Schools close, people die. . . . wait a minute, thats a blizzard. Northern US. . . . SH#T !!!! Why can't I get this right ? ? ?!!!!
OK, the earth shakes for maybe thirty seconds, people like Nort and myself go "whoa". We are so shook up, we go boating.

Right along that red fault line...... :D

I should buy some land in parkfield. In a couple of years I'll make a killing selling oceanfront property.:D

lol rouxsterre, unfortunatly i'm in tornado alley and get play with winds and hail.

Ouch, my cousins live over there, hope everything was alright.

That'll be the day I go back to Annandale:D :D

===Those two bodies of water you see in the area are Lake Naciemiento and San Antonio...Great camping and water sking/boating areas.

It's more central Cali than SO Cal.. I went thru the 6.4 Northridge quake when I lived in Norts territory, Woodland Hills.. It completely trashed my apartment at Oakwood Apts..

CNN is overstressing the area and the concern of the atomic energy plant..

Big rollers in Santa Barbara.

We lost all power for 20 minutes, still have no 3 phase power.

3 dead so far.....
 

Just talked to some friends close
to the Quake and they said there
was a Major Spill in the area.
10 barrels of wine fell over....
True story.
Thats why I only buy mine in a Box
Mike J.

ROUXSTERRE, I think I would rather have the blizzards and , soon, hurricanes. At least you know they are coming well in advance and can prepare for them. Earthquakes are a little sudden and unannounced. Not to mention, a good strong one will do more damage than a blizzard or hurricane. Glad you've faired well so far. Be carefull out there guys. Hope everybody is safe.

Mike, Nort, Tank, and the rest of the Cali Crew I hope you are all ok and just had a little roller coaster ride there.

Jon

Born and raised in So.Cal. and I will take an earthquake over a Tornado.....

I was caught in a couple while in the Military down South, and that was some F@#ked up $hit.

Never been in a hurricaine, but they don't look like to much fun either.

BTW: We felt nothing down here in San Diego.

I spent four years in San Bernardino while in the Air Force. I got shook around a little but never worried about earthquakes. I`ll take earthquakes over tornadoes any day.

over 180 measurable quakes in that area just today!

Sad story this time of year!
Hope everyone is ok out that way